LONDON-Arttu Harkki, who set the Guinness World Record for texting in 2001, helped PalmOne Inc. launch its Treo 650 smart phone in the U.K. market by attempting to break the record for typing an e-mail on a phone using a QWERTY keyboard.Harkki set a...
ATLANTA-Fans of the WB Network's "One Tree Hill" can influence one of the show's storylines with a new promotion from Cingular Wireless.Cingular subscribers watching tonight's episode are encouraged to vote via text messaging on whether one character should kiss his sister-in-law while his wife...
Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. filed plans for a $690 million initial public offering last week, a further sign that the financial drought of the past few years is slowly washing away. Indeed, companies across the economic spectrum are seeing the light at the end...
Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. hopes to raise up to $690 million in an initial public offering, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company filed for the ticker symbol NSTR. NeuStar manages telephone area codes and numbers and enables the...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless together with Telescope Inc. announced a new premium short message service chat function for fans of the television show "American Idol." The companies are offering two chat services during this season of "American Idol." The first, Idol Chat, allows fans of the...
ARLINGTON, Texas-The University of Texas said it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 14 electronic manufacturers.The university claims the companies infringed on a patented method that allows text messaging through a standard telephone keypad.The lawsuit, which charges players such as Kyocera, the Sanyo...
TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, or more than 3.4...
NEW ORLEANS-Carriers' efforts to increase wireless data revenues took a big step forward this week at CTIA Wireless 2005 as the nation's two largest carriers quietly confirmed their networks are multimedia message service interoperable.Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless said they've been MMS interoperable for...
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile is hoping to drive text-messaging use by touting a Thumb Wrestling Championship next week in Miami.The contest, which kicks off Tuesday, is part of a month-long promotion including free text messaging for Virgin subscribers between 8 p.m. and midnight in March....
In the world of digital marketing, Will Hodgman sees himself as a kind of safe-cracker. Hodgman was the marketing savvy behind AdRelevance, a Seattle-based firm he co-founded with University of Washington computer science professor Dan Weld. AdRelevance quickly established itself as a leading online...
Device news continued at a flushed pace with Motorola Inc. releasing details on its iTunes phone, Hop-on announcing a $36 handset, Sanyo Corp. offering an innovative new messaging product, and U.S. mobile virtual network operator Boost Mobile going "old school" with a vintage telephone...
WASHINGTON-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly will ask the country's top health official to investigate whether cell phones pose health risks to consumers.According to news reports circulating in the Indian press, Congress Member of Parliament Murli Deora recently met Singh on the cell-phone health...
Starting Thursday Cingular Wireless will send text messages to all of its 46 million customers, giving them a chance to make $1 or $2 donations to the Asian tsunami disaster relief effort, charges that will appear on their monthly bills.Cingular's offering mirrors that of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission declared the outage reporting requirements and the changes to the telemarketing rules to be in effect Dec. 30. Under rules adopted in 2004, carriers must report service outages impacting at least 900,000 user minutes. The wireline industry has been subject...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corp. said it plans to launch a fixed short message service early this year. Telstra has a branded SMS-capable phone on sale in Australia for the service, it said. "Next year's launch of fixed SMS is set to revolutionize the way Australians...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corp. said it plans to launch a fixed short message service early next year. Telstra has a branded SMS-capable phone on sale in Australia for the service, it said. "Next year's launch of fixed SMS is set to revolutionize the way Australians...
WASHINGTON-Airplanes soon could lose their distinction as being one of the few places where a person cannot be reached by a wireless device due to decisions last week to re-auction 800 MHz band air-to-ground spectrum and a proposal to allow cell-phone use in airplanes....
WASHINGTON-Cable TV channel Speed said it will offer an interactive promotion campaign using mobile phones that will allow viewers to guess at the value of various classic cars. The channel is offering the service through a deal with wireless technology vendor Proteus Inc. "Speed...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. launched its TXT 2 Landline service, which will allow customers to send text messages to landline phones anywhere in Canada and the United States. The messages are then converted to voice and can be delivered in English...
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) announced Wednesday that Cingular Wireless, Sprint PCS and France Telecom have joined its efforts to fight spam and viruses.The nonprofit coalition was founded last December by a group of communications and technology companies to fight messaging abuses and...
WASHINGTON-Japan and South Korea lead the world in mobile multimedia usage, according to a report from Telecommunications Management Group Inc. titled "Superstars of the Mobile Internet," while the United States did not make the list. The report examines which countries lead the world in...
Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. launched its TXT 2 Landline service, which will allow customers to send text messages to landline phones anywhere in Canada and the United States. The messages are then converted to voice and can be delivered in English...
Recurrent Software Solutions Inc. introduced its VersaBill automated bill formatting system. The product allows companies to streamline their electronic billing in a format that meets their specifications, said the company. Once the electronic format is established, VersaBill creates code to parse the format for...
Mobile instant messaging is expected to take another step forward this week with an announcement that Nokia Corp. will expand its offerings of IM-friendly handsets. The world's largest handset manufacturer will build on a two-year relationship with Oz, a Canadian software developer, to embed...
