SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The packed mobile search playground got even more crowded as digital marketing company iCrossing Inc. unveiled a new business unit. The company launched mCrossing, which it said will use text messaging and wireless search results to deliver advertising campaigns on wireless phones. ICrossing...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc. hopes to boost text messaging with a series of new personalized services.The services include an offering that allows members to insert a predetermined signature at the end of messages, and a "private network" wherein members use shortened four-digit codes instead...
WASHINGTON-Public-safety, communications and special-interest group representatives came together last month to tell the Federal Communications Commission what worked and what didn't during last year's hurricane season-specifically Hurricane Katrina, which devasted the Gulf Coast. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin welcomed the group, noting it was the...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched a new iteration of its prepaid phone service, dubbed "U." Users of the U prepaid service can pay by the minute, day or month. Pay-per-minute customers are charged 15 cents per minute for weekday, night, weekend and mobile-to-mobile calls....
This is a somewhat official update on the other war: the war on spam. Like the other war, this one is global and asymmetrical in nature and involves spying. Just for the record, we're winning this one, too! Whoopee!"We're using technology and teamwork in...
WASHINGTON-Securities industry regulator NASD is warning investors to be cautious about text messages they receive on their mobile phones that claim to provide hot stock tips. A new version of a "pump-and-dump" scheme has emerged in the mobile environment, the agency said. Such schemes...
LONDON-Staellium U.K. Ltd. launched a text messaging product sure to please all those amateur spies out there. The company's StealthText service allows users to send text messages that "self destruct," or automatically erase themselves after 40 seconds. The service is reminiscent of the 1960s/1970s...
LOS ANGELES-Supporters of a death-row inmate in California are using text messaging to urge Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to commute his death sentence. Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed Dec. 13. He has been on death row for nearly 25 years after being...
WASHINGTON-Colorado authorities last week were expected to limit charges to a misdemeanor against a teenage driver who investigators said was text messaging on his cell phone when he crossed over into a bicycle lane, where his car struck a cyclist who later died. In...
When it comes to using their phones to vote, U.S. wireless subscribers are generally limited to American Idol contestants like Ruben Studdard or Clay Aiken. But that may be changing. SMS has become a vital campaign tool for grass-roots organizations, political parties and candidates...
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association tapped VeriSign Inc. to power its text messaging service. The industry association, which represents 10 carriers, will use Metcalf Inter-Carrier Messaging, a joint offering from VeriSign and WiderThan Americas, to deliver text messages among its members' 15.5 million subscribers....
MOUNTAIN VIEW-The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association tapped VeriSign Inc. to power its text messaging service. The industry association, which represents 10 carriers, will use Metcalf Inter-Carrier Messaging, a joint offering from VeriSign and WiderThan Americas, to deliver text messages among its members' 15.5 million...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Mobile messaging revenues from U.S. mobile subscribers more than doubled in 2004 from the previous year and will account for 10 percent of total wireless service revenues by 2008, according to new research from Analysis. Mobile data accounted for less than 5 percent...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Mobile messaging revenues from U.S. mobile subscribers more than doubled in 2004 from the previous year and will account for 10 percent of total wireless service revenues by 2008, according to new research from Analysis.Mobile data accounted for less than 5 percent of...
LOS ANGELES-Fans of NBC's reality series "The Biggest Loser" can get weight-loss tips from the show with a new text messaging service. The subscription service, which is available for $3 a month, delivers diet tips and exercise information handsets every weekday to users who...
WASHINGTON-NeuStar Inc., together with Equinix Inc., announced a suite of services called SIP-IX for direct network-to-network peering between trading partners for voice, video and content services using Session Initiation Protocol-based technologies including IP multimedia and VoIP. Telehouse and Amsterdam Internet Exchange are also participating...
Prepaid services are continuing their march up the feature-rich ladder with an increasing number of operators beginning to offer wireless Web browsing services to their noncontract subscribers. Many operators offer basic text messaging or even more advanced access to downloadable content to their prepaid...
Wireless carriers certainly take their fair share of abuse from consumers and lawmakers. Consumer and other complaints range from billing to early termination fees to coverage issues.But carriers should receive notice for the positive too, and the nation's operators should be commended for outstanding...
SAN FRANCISCO-The wireless industry reported 25.2 million new subscribers, its largest one-year addition of new subscribers in its more than 20-year commercial history, according to CTIA's semi-annual industry survey released this week at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment Show. Steve Largent, president and...
The wireless industry reported 25.2 million new subscribers, its largest one-year addition of new subscribers in its more than 20-year commercial history, according to CTIA's semi-annual industry survey released this week at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment Show. Steve Largent, president and chief...
Leap Wireless International Inc.'s service expansion continues, as the carrier announced plans to launch high-speed wireless data capabilities and WAP-based browsing. The carrier also plans to loosen the rein on its Jump prepaid service to better target the youth demographic. Leap's high-speed wireless data...
Wireless carriers continued the arduous task of repairing networks in the Gulf Coast region hit hard by Hurricane Katrina last month, though few operators have released financial details of the repairs. The federal government noted last week that it could cost a total of...
Verizon Wireless President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Strigl sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin updating the commission on the carrier's progress in restoring services to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. Strigl said the carrier has restored service to more...
Sprint Nextel Corp. kicked off its "Day 1" operations as a new company last Friday just three weeks after Sprint Corp. completed its $35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. The introduction of combined operations was backed by the launch of a wide-ranging advertising...
