BARCELONA, Spain—Internet and mobile vendor VeriSign Inc. signed an agreement to acquire Vienna, Austria-based 3united Mobile Solutions AG, which is a privately held wireless applications service provider founded in 1999. 3united said its network connects with more than 50 wireless operators in Eastern Europe,...
LONDON-MobileIGNITE, a trade group aiming to accelerate the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence, picked up new member companies. The group said E28 Limited, BCT Global, Convergin, FG Microtec, HelloSoft, Netrake, NewHeights Software and tekVizion have signed on. MobileIGNITE stands for Mobile Integrated Go-To-Market Network IP...
Melodeo Inc. is teaming with Japanese developer Access China Inc. to tap the Chinese mobile music market. The companies announced a joint venture to deliver music and other content through wireless operators and mobile media service providers. The first offering of full-track downloads is...
Digital security and mobile content provider VeriSign Inc. said it plans to spend $30 million in cash to acquire software developer CallVision Inc. Seattle-based CallVision provides Web-based billing and data analysis applications to operators including T-Mobile, Bell Canada, TelstraClear and Australia's AAPT. The company's...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Digital security and mobile content provider VeriSign Inc. said it plans to spend $30 million in cash to acquire software developer CallVision Inc. Seattle-based CallVision provides Web-based billing and data analysis applications to operators including T-Mobile, Bell Canada, TelstraClear and Australia's AAPT....
After just 18 months on the job, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced that its chief marketing officer, Clent Richardson, plans to leave the company March 1. Nortel has not named a replacement and said only that Richardson's decision was based on personal reasons and that...
The wireless sector will enter 2006 with great expectations, everybody watching third-generation systems shift into higher gear with all that jazzy, digital content whose anytime, anywhere availability is transforming other industries even as cellular carriers of old reinvent themselves. Indeed, the mobility given voice...
LONDON-Content delivery company MBlox got mired in Crazy Frog's marsh this week. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company was fined $70,000 by U.K. watchdog group Icstis for powering Jamba's content offerings to wireless users. Hundreds of consumers complained to Icstis about the VeriSign Inc. subsidiary, saying...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. said its Jamster subsidiary is working with Melodeo Inc. to develop a digital music platform that will support full-track music downloads.Verisign noted that Jamster was reviewing Melodeo's MobilDRM digital rights management product, which has been approved by four music labels...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. said its Jamster subsidiary is working with Melodeo Inc. to develop a digital music platform that will support full-track music downloads.Verisign noted that Jamster was reviewing Melodeo's MobilDRM digital rights management product, which has been approved by four music labels...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Jamster is hoping to scrub its image with a worldwide rebranding effort. The content provider launched a marketing campaign touting a new logo, redesigned Web site and new print, TV and online advertisements. The company, which sells content directly to consumers via...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Jamster is hoping to scrub its image with a worldwide rebranding effort. The content provider launched a marketing campaign touting a new logo, redesigned Web site and new print, TV and online advertisements. The company, which sells content directly to consumers via...
CHICAGO-MobileIgnite declared its autonomy as an independent industry association, announcing that its top priority is to accelerate the adoption of fixed-mobile convergence interoperability. The new trade group said 16 industry players are set to join as members and that it has granted "affiliate" status...
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...
Boston Communications Group Inc. suffered another legal setback when a federal judge ordered the company to stop providing the prepaid wireless services that account for 70 percent of its revenue. BCGI provides a platform carriers like Cingular Wireless L.L.C. use to deploy prepaid offerings....
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. posted a strong third quarter despite disappointing revenues from its mobile content business. The Internet security company reported quarterly income of $44.6 million, or 17 cents a share, up from $40.4 million, or 16 cents a share, in the same...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. posted a strong third quarter despite disappointing revenues from its mobile content business.The Internet security company reported quarterly income of $44.6 million, or 17 cents a share, up from $40.4 million, or 16 cents a share, in the same period...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.
The high-flying mobile content industry is experiencing some turbulence as two leading content providers issued sobering announcements. Disappointing earnings from its content business led VeriSign Inc. to lower its third-quarter revenue forecast late Thursday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company expects total revenue for the...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.
SAN FRANCISCO-Executives from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., VeriSign Inc. subsidiary Jamster!, WiderThan, Orange SA and others took turns discussing the future of wireless content and the mobile Web during the Mobile Software Value Chain forum here, while Opera Software used the event to announce plans...
BOSTON-Internet voice provider Net2Phone launched a trial of VeriSign Inc.'s cellular/Wi-Fi connection, the companies said Thursday.During the trial, Net2Phone will allow subscribers to receive and place calls over a Wi-Fi network or mobile carrier network using a single device and phone number. Like Skype,...
Third-party content provider Jamster! has once again come under fire as an independent U.K. regulator upheld nearly 300 consumer complaints about the company. Jamster!, a subsidiary of VeriSign Inc., failed to block the publication of a scathing rebuke from the Advertising Standards Authority, which...
