WARREN, N.J.—Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. announced two new services that incorporate audio and messaging. "Txt Tones" will allow users to link musical tones to text messages instead of rings. The three- to five-second sound clips can be used as an alert that a text...
IRVINE, Calif.—AskMeNow said it plans to add ringtones and wallpapers to its mobile answer service. The company said it will offer more than 5,000 ringtones and true tones from hip hop, country and hard rock artists, television and movie themes, and college fight songs....
This Halloween, mobile content provider Mixxer.com is offering free mobile content to wireless trick-or-treaters. The company is giving away spooky graphics and sounds, including ringtones from "Halloween," "The Exorcist," "The Addams Family," and "Tales from the Crypt." The company also is offering free Halloween-themed...
World Wrestling Entertainment is encouraging its fans to register to vote via an online voter registration campaign that urges young adults to register to vote using their cellular phone. WWE is using Mobile Voter’s text messaging tool to allow its fans to register to...
Alltel Corp. went guerilla with its new advertising campaign promoting its My Circle calling plans. The company released a press release last week saying several of its new My Circle billboards had been "vandalized," purportedly by four men wearing pink, yellow, red and orange...
SAN FRANCISCO-Burger King Corp. is letting its customers get their information their way-and more and more, that way appears to be via a mobile phone. Although McDonald's Corp. and other rival chains have toyed with mobile marketing tests, such as text-messaging sweepstakes and on-pack...
By Alice Z. Cuneo SAN FRANCISCO—Burger King is letting its customers get their information their way—and more and more, that way appears to be via a mobile phone.Although McDonald's Corp. and other rival chains have toyed with mobile marketing tests, such as text-messaging sweepstakes...
Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. revamped its pricing and messaging plans and added options that look much more like postpaid offerings than its traditional prepaid route. The mobile virtual network operator has replaced its old Month2Month plans with five monthly, no-contract plans that range from...
WASHINGTON-Wireless messaging revenue in the United States more than doubled last year from 2003 and is expected to grow strongly during the next five years, according to figures from research from Analysys Research. Wireless data accounted for less than 5 percent of U.S. operators'...
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...
WASHINGTON-Wireless messaging revenue in the United States more than doubled last year from 2003 and is expected to grow strongly during the next five years, according to figures from research from Analysys Research.Wireless data accounted for less than 5 percent of U.S. operators' total...
LOS ANGELES-Fox Sports Radio and mobile marketing company HipCricket have partnered to deliver an interactive wireless application based on Fox's radio broadcasts. By texting to a short code, listeners can offer feedback on programming and participate in surveys, quizzes and sweepstakes using their phones....
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...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Mobile search service 4Info Inc. announced an agreement with business information provider Amacai to deliver localized directory information to mobile users.Wireless subscribers can access the service by texting queries including the name or type of business and a location to short code...
FAREHAM, United Kingdom-Jeff Wilson, chairman of text and voice infrastructure developer Telsis, said he expects text-messaging volume and revenues will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.Wilson said industry observers who are predicting a fall-off in texting volumes are ignoring six growth drivers: favorable...
WASHINGTON-Global Resource Enterprises L.L.C. and British company Eazytext Communications Ltd. will market a wireless emergency alert solution in the United States and Middle East. Global Resource Enterprises said next month representatives of Eazytext-which developed the city alert text system (C.A.T.S.) with the help of...
Although only two teams will line up on the field Sunday for the grand culmination of the professional football season, multiple players will participate in Super Bowl XXXIX in one wireless capacity or another.Verizon Wireless upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell...
DULLES, Va.-Football fans can vote for their favorite commercials with their mobile phones with a service announced this week by American Online Inc.Users can register for the poll by texting the word "vote" to short code 46265 before the game and will receive reminders...
LONDON-Shazam Entertainment announced a partnership with The Link that calls for Shazam's mobile music recognition service to be made available at 300 of The Link's High Street stores in the United Kingdom. The partnership marks the launch of Shazam's first subscription-based product, said the...
LONDON-Shazam Entertainment announced a partnership with The Link that calls for Shazam's mobile music recognition service to be made available at 300 of The Link's High Street stores in the United Kingdom.The partnership marks the launch of Shazam's first subscription-based product, said the company.Shoppers...
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Canadian operator Telus Mobility announced it is selling a new LG Electronics Co. Ltd. phone that features Digit Wireless' Fastap keypad technology. The LG 6190 phone is available for $100 with a three-year service contract.Telus announced in 2002 it would sell a Digit-enabled...
SEATTLE-Developer Tegic Communications launched the latest version of its popular predictive text software for mobile devices this week. Tegic unveilled T9 7.2, an embedded program designed to make messaging more efficient for short message service users. The multi-lingual software predicts the words text messagers...
Google has launched a beta test of a service that allows mobile users to access the Google database from handsets using short message service. Google SMS delivers local business and residential listings via Google Local and price comparisons through Froogle.com. Users also can access...
