SAN FRANCISCO-Two new reports peg wireless messaging as an important and growing application, one that could contribute significant revenues to the wireless market.According to a new study from Telephia Inc. and Harris Interactive, the holiday season could drive greatly increased messaging among young adult...
Wireless messaging gets positive reviewsSAN FRANCISCO-Two new reports peg wireless messaging as an important and growing application, one that could contribute significant revenues to the wireless market.According to a new study from Telephia Inc. and Harris Interactive, the holiday season could drive greatly...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Mobile marketing company Avesair Inc. reported the results of its advertising campaign for the grand opening of New York City sport store Champs Sports, with hundreds of thousands of viewers and a click-through rate of almost 4 percent.The campaign, first announced...
OTTAWA, Canada-The volume of text messaging in Canada has increased 98 percent since April-when the nation's wireless carriers set up interoperable text messaging services-increasing the number of text messages sent in Canada to 20 million last month.According to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, interoperable...
LONDON-Mobile commerce company Magex Ltd. released its new mobile payment platform that supports mobile-phone payments through interactive voice response systems, text messaging and WAP technology."This new capability gives users the ability to send funds, make payments and complete purchases all with the tap of...
FARGO, N.D.-IDA Corp., Fargo, N.D., has made commercially available Know-it NOW, an interface that lets cell phones enabled with text messaging to query the company's Global Trakit Data Center for the address locations of vehicles or equipment units anywhere in the United States."The cellular...
PARIS-Mobileway, which manages and monetizes mobile transactions, announced it will collaborate with French radio station SkyRock to offer premium text messaging services to the station's listeners."To help us interact with our increasingly mobile listeners and to take advantage of the ever-growing popularity and enormous...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-FastMobile announced it scored $4 million in first-round funding, enough to pay for the launch of its wireless instant messaging service in the United Kingdom and South Korea.Leo Capital Holdings, BlueStar Ventures and Red Barn Investments led the financing.FastMobile's fastxt instant messaging service...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. reported a deal with FoxSports.com to deliver sports news through Verizon Wireless' vtext.com text messaging service. Customers who sign up for the service will be charged 2 cents for each text message received or 5 cents for each prepaid message...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless application and entertainment company Aspiro announced it has applied for protection from its creditors through bankruptcy, and as part of its restructuring efforts will sell its text messaging network business to mBlox. The company said it will continue its operations during the...
WILMINGTON, N.C.-ComScape Telecommunications Inc., which owns a number of C-block and F-block spectrum licenses, launched its Kiwi PCS service in Wilmington, N.C., offering customers flat-rate unlimited local calling for $35 per month with no contracts or deposits. Customers also can add voice mail, caller...
WASHINGTON-U.S. wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent, and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)."Wireless technology continues to show robust growth, defying the downward trends in the...
WASHINGTON-Wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association."Wireless technology continues to show robust growth, defying the downward trends in the tech and...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, the United States and Latin America.CMG provides intercarrier text messaging services to Bell Mobility,...
SEATTLE-Billing and content management company Qpass Inc. released a new version of its software platform, dubbed Prosperity Series, which the company said allows carriers to change way they sell and charge for wireless data, from text messaging to Java-based application downloads.Tom Trinneer, vice president...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is running a customer trial of Binary Runtime for Wireless Environment in its Knoxville, Tenn., market, will offer those customers two new BREW games distributed by Summus Inc., Nineball and the
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless said it will make Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service available to its text messaging and mMode users.With the service, AT&T customers can send text messages between wireless devices and PCs as well as extend their online IM contact lists to their...
SAN DIEGO-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile said it will begin selling its new high-end SX56 Windows-powered Pocket PC Phone through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. starting this month.The GSM/GPRS device features a color screen, text messaging capabilities, an MP3 stereo player and an infrared data...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Romanian GSM operator Connex and Zapp Mobile, the country's CDMA 450 MHz operator, announced that users of the two networks now can send each other text messages.The new service is an extension of the text messaging services offered by the two mobile-phone operators...
TORONTO-Canadian and U.S. wireless carriers are planning soon to offer text messaging services across all their networks.Since April, Canadian cell-phone subscribers have been able to send text messages to users on any of the four national networks, after Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless...
DUBLIN-Mobile messaging company XIAM Ltd. announced the United Kingdom's West Midlands police force is using its technology for a text messaging application that will assist the deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired in contacting police in an emergency.The service is being implemented following a study by...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-A survey of 38,000 text messaging users conducted by SMS.ac claimed that nearly 70 percent stated they are open to receiving messages from strangers, while just more than 20 percent registered an opposing point of view. Overall, the study indicated that cell-phone...
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA is the latest U.S. carrier to open its network to cross-carrier text messaging-a business that is doubling every eight to ten weeks, according to messaging interoperability company InphoMatch Inc.InphoMatch manages the cross-carrier text messaging systems for AT&T Wireless Services Inc.,...
DENVER, United States-The solar-powered Pathfinder-Plus, operating at 65,000 feet over Hawaii, has successfully completed commercial tests of third-generation (3G) wireless video telephony, wireless Internet surfing via laptop computer modem and high-definition television (HDTV) broadcast. The three weeks of tests, which ended 21 July, involved...
