LONDON-Mobile-entertainment company Player X and Vodafone Group plc announced plans to release a cell-phone companion called Space Boy in August. The character "lives" inside customers' mobile phones. Space Boy is the first in the "Mobies" series of interactive mobile-phone friends reminiscent of the tamagotchi...
After weeks of speculation, France Telecom said its Orange SA wireless subsidiary will spend $7.7 billion to buy 80 percent of the third-largest wireless carrier in Spain. The acquisition of 80 percent of Auna Operadora de Telecommunicaciones S.A., which owns 97.9 percent of Retevision...
PARIS-After weeks of speculation, France Telecom said its Orange SA wireless subsidiary will spend $7.7 billion to buy 80 percent of the third-largest wireless carrier in Spain. The acquisition of 80 percent of Auna Operadora de Telecommunicaciones S.A., which owns 97.9 percent of Retevision...
SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. reported revenues of $38.6 million for the second quarter, up 60 percent from revenues of $24.1 million reported during the second quarter of last year.Net income for the quarter was $2.9 million, or 10 cents per diluted share, compared with...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it has joined the Java Verified Program, which provides a process for testing and certifying Java-based mobile handset applications.The carrier said it is a Platinum member in the initiative, which was launched in early 2004 by Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp.,...
LONDON-Mobile entertainment company Player X and Vodafone Group plc announced plans to release a cell-phone companion called Space Boy in August.The character "lives" inside customers' mobile phones. Space Boy is the first in the "Mobies" series of interactive mobile-phone friends reminiscent of the tamagotchi...
TAMPA, Fla.-Nearly a dozen major players from the wireless and technology industries unveiled a joint venture that will offer a registry service for the ".mobi" Internet domain. The suffix was approved early this month by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-724 Solutions said Vodafone Group plc has deployed its X-treme Mobility Gateway in the United Kingdom for the carrier's Vodafone live! entertainment and information service. The two companies signed an agreement regarding the deployment in September 2004.
The wireless enterprise market-long a scene of sedate players and leisurely sales cycles-has cracked open with finger pointing, name calling, innuendo and otherwise rabid competition. "It really is a great indicator that it (the market) is starting to blossom," said Jason Guesman, vice president...
As wireless consumers begin to wholeheartedly embrace data applications, be they ringtones, wallpapers, video apps or games, industry needs to step up its plans to implement parental controls to ensure that end users have the proper experiences. And it's better to come up with...
LONDON-Erotic mobile content will explode into a $2.3 billion market by 2010 if carriers, content providers and regulators can figure out how to manage it, according to a study from Informa Telecoms and Media released Wednesday. The report commends Vodafone U.K. and other U.K....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Vodafone Sweden said it plans to launch commercial push-to-talk service in September targeted at both corporate customers and consumers.The carrier has been in joint evaluations of the service with Nokia for about a year, according to Vodafone Sweden, which bought Nokia's Push to...
Dutch telecom carrier KPN has reached an agreement to acquire rival Dutch mobile operator Telfort for $1.2 billion on a debt and cash-free basis, eliminating a player in the highly competitive Dutch wireless market. Depending on specific performance criteria, the purchase price could be...
An effort to provide a pan-European mobile payment service was aborted just weeks before it was slated to launch. Simpay, a joint venture established two years ago by Orange plc, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone plc, pulled the plug after T-Mobile withdrew its support....
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology is 10 years old this year, a milestone the company is using to highlight Java's widespread influence throughout the electronics and computer industries. When Sun introduced the technology, the company promoted Java as the "write once, run anywhere" platform...
REDMOND, Wash.-Vodafone Group plc and MSN will launch an instant messaging service between mobile phones and PCs, the companies said Thursday. The offering will allow users to exchange messages between the PC-based MSN Messenger and the carrier's mobile IM service, and will include standard...
Dutch telecom carrier KPN has reached an agreement to acquire rival Dutch mobile operator Telfort for $1.2 billion on a debt and cash-free basis, eliminating a player in the highly competitive Dutch wireless market.Depending on specific performance criteria, the purchase price could be increased...
The Government of Finland granted a wireless operating license in the 450 MHz spectrum band to Digita Oy, which plans to deploy a wireless data network using Flarion Technologies Inc.'s Flash-OFDM technology. The license requires Digita Oy to to lease capacity on the network...
Verizon Wireless is moving forward with a plan to install a proprietary Verizon-branded user interface across all of its new feature phones-a maneuver that has sparked widespread discontent among the carrier's handset suppliers and could mark the start of a significant shift in power...
The Government of Finland granted a wireless operating license in the 450 MHz spectrum band to Digita Oy, which plans to deploy a wireless data network using Flarion Technologies Inc.'s Flash-OFDM technology. The license requires Digita Oy to act only as a network operator,...
An alliance of wireless carriers in Asia, which first formed last year, launched services at the Com- municAsia show this week in Singapore. Bridge Mobile Alliance launched a suite of regional mobile services-roaming, prepaid, enterprise and concierge services-across eight countries and territories under the...
Following are wireless company and industry ratings changes made by financial services and investment banking firms this week.In a telecom services report, Merrill Lynch said it expects Verizon Wireless will gain share during the second quarter, while Cingular's growth will remain solid but slower....
LONDON-British Telecom plc launched its BT Fusion fixed-mobile convergence service offering, which uses Bluetooth technology to switch seamlessly between the company's wide-area wireless network and its in-home BT Broadband service. The service, which was originally knows as Bluephone, relies on its BT Hub for...
SINGAPORE-An alliance of wireless carriers in Asia, which first formed last year, launched services at the CommunicAsia show this week in Singapore. Bridge Mobile Alliance launched a suite of regional mobile services-roaming, prepaid, enterprise and concierge services-across eight countries and territories under the alliance...
