STOCKHOLM, Sweden-MmO2's Ireland business will offer text messaging access to Microsoft Outlook through a new deal with General Wireless. The offering, dubbed Desktop Text, will be available to both prepaid and postpaid customers through a software download.In other text messaging news, Ericsson announced it...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced its TXT-411 text messaging-based directory assistant service that the carrier said provides text-access to the White and Yellow Pages. The carrier said the service will allow customers to send a text message with a directory assistance query to...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-MmO2's Ireland business will offer text messaging access to Microsoft Outlook through a new deal with General Wireless. The offering, dubbed Desktop Text, will be available to both prepaid and postpaid customers through a software download.In other text messaging news, Ericsson announced it...
WATERTOWN, Mass.-The wireless data industry continues to expand, with several content companies announcing new strategies and applications.One of the most interesting comes from Mobile-Mind Inc. and Xap Corp., which announced a mobile phone application designed to help students study for the Scholastic Assessment Test...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In the event of a terror attack on London, the government said it is planning to swamp cell-phone users with short message services (SMSs) in the style of a high-tech air raid warning. According to a civil servant, the technology exists to...
LONDON-Arabic news network Al Jazeera said it will offer a breaking news service to mobile-phone users. The text messaging service, operated through content company PervasiveEdge, will feature around 60 news alerts per month and will cost US$6 per month.Al Jazeera has rapidly gained international...
Arabic news network Al Jazeera said it will offer a breaking news service to mobile phone users. The text messaging service, operated through content company PervasiveEdge, will feature around 60 news alerts per month, and will cost $6 per month.Al Jazeera has rapidly gained...
WARREN, N.J.-Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA is looking to tap into the hype surrounding the Fox TV show "American Idol" with its own text messaging campaign.The move is a response to AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which has a major deal with Fox...
DALLAS-MetroPCS Inc., which provides flat-rate unlimited local calling service in Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., expanded its text messaging service offering to provide nationwide interoperability and introduced changes to its long-distance service plans.The carrier's text messaging service now allows customers to send...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-A new report finds that text messaging could present a significant opportunity for fixed-line telephone providers.According to Frost & Sullivan, fixed-line operators should emulate mobile service functionality and maximize use of their fixed network assets to compensate for diminishing revenues."By generating only...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Wireless interoperability company InphoMatch said T-Mobile customers in the United Kingdom will now be able to send text messages to non-GSM wireless subscribers in the United States.InphoMatch manages the text messaging interoperability agreements for T-Mobile USA Inc., as well as a variety of...
CANNES, France-ICQ, an instant messaging and online community owned by America Online Inc., announced it is working with wireless carriers across the world to extend its services to mobile users.ICQ (pronounced "I seek you") said it is working with Cellcom in Israel, E-Plus of...
LONDON-LogicaCMG, which offers information technology services and wireless messaging products, said its merger and integration process is "progressing well and to plan."The company said performance for the combined business was in line with expectations and that margins have been maintained on lower revenues.In the...
WARREN, New Jersey, United States-Virgin Mobile USA said it has added more than 350,000 net subscribers since it launched its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service on Sprint PCS' network in July and is currently reporting more than 2,000 net customer activations per day.The...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said its subscribers will be able to vote on the NBA's Most Valuable Player using the carrier's text messaging services during the 2003 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday.The exclusive offering is the first application from Verizon's new deal with ESPN and...
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. said it has added more than 350,000 net subscribers since it launched its mobile virtual network operator service on Sprint PCS' network in July and is currently reporting more than 2,000 net customer activations per day.The company reported 245,000...
MANILA, The Philippines-Experts expect the cellular industry in the Asia-Pacific region to generally fare better this year than last year. While the telecom industries in Europe and the United States are expected to face difficult years, with markets already overcrowded and requiring consolidation, many...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. signed deals with Vodafone and Bell Mobility to offer its range of wireless content services, further moves by the company to expand its MSN services into the wireless world.Under the Vodafone agreement, MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger will be available to...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it will unify its range of wireless Internet, e-mail, text messaging, picture sharing and games under the Axcess brand, which will be available in all of the carrier's digital markets beginning Jan. 26.Alltel said the Axcess service will be...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless service providers have been launched.Participating are Canadian service providers Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido),...
CHANTILLY, Va.-The march toward global interoperable text messaging took another step forward as messaging giant LogicaCMG Wireless Networks and InphoMatch Inc. announced they will connect their inter-carrier text messaging systems.Text and multimedia messaging providers have recently begun harping on the need for global messaging...
LONDON-MSN Mobile in the United Kingdom launched a new picture text messaging service through a partnership with FunMail Inc. and conVISUAL.The service will be available to subscribers of Orange UK, Vodafone UK, MmO2 and T-Mobile UK."We think FunMail is a great application that will...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-About 7 percent of all text messages in the United States do not reach their destination, according to a new study from Keynote Systems, a finding that comes as many operators have installed text messaging interoperability and are looking to boost usage...
BEIJING, China-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a $70 million contract to expand Beijing Mobile Communications Company Ltd.'s GSM network. It also will provide services that will enhance the capacity and features of the short message service centers, provide GPRS core network and technical...
