The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among the recent news:Wireless gaming...
SYDNEY, Australia-The worldwide opportunity for mobile data and wireless games is huge, according to two new studies, but wireless carriers will need to accurately price and market the applications to take advantage of the market.According to The Research Room, the global market for wireless...
The worldwide opportunity for mobile data and wireless games is huge, according to two new studies, but wireless carriers will need to accurately price and market the applications to take advantage of the market.According to The Research Room, the global market for wireless gaming...
NEW YORK-Wireless entertainment company HipNTasty Inc. will provide wireless games at this summer's Lollapalooza rock festival.HipNTasty will offer a wireless scavenger hunt through its MobileHunt engine, allowing concert attendees to compete for points and prizes while learning about bands and attractions at the festival....
TORONTO-Rogers AT&T Wireless customers can now download English- and French-language Java technology-based games and applications published by Tira Wireless to their mobile devices. "Rogers AT&T Wireless has clearly recognized the potential of this market and is leading the way by offering its customers a...
The wireless industry inched closer to the third dimension with two new major announcements on the 3D front.First, technology company HI Corp. said it launched its Mascot Capsule Micro3D Engine extension for Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW application download service, which means BREW content developers will...
Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...
Although wireless industry leaders and commentators have long prophesized the importance of the business user segment in stimulating the wireless data market, some see that outlook changing as more consumer- and teenager-oriented wireless data services hit the market."Today's youth market will be tomorrow's business...
LOS ANGELES-Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Wireless software company Summus Inc. announced it will resell wireless games from Chinese mobile entertainment company Magus Soft.Summus will act as Magus Soft's primary distribution channel in the Americas and will offer games developed for Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform and the Java 2...
LONDON-The downloadable application market could generate a staggering $7 billion worldwide by 2008, according to wireless research and consulting company Strategy Analytics.The firm said wireless operators need to leverage their billing assets in order to develop both retail and wholesale download strategies. The firm...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it plans to launch multiplayer wireless games in early April that will allow customers to compete against each other from anywhere on the carrier's network.Initial titles will include Mforma's Alien Fight Club and Multiplayer Bowling, Jamdat Mobile's Bejeweled Multiplayer,...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Research and advisory firm Analysys predicted that downloadable wireless games will become so popular in Western Europe that in just three years they will replace ring tones as the area's most popular wireless entertainment service.The firm said that mobile games offer the...
While not as desirable as the latest video game consoles or a DVD player, wireless phones and services are third most requested Christmas gifts by teenagers this holiday season according to a survey of 575 teenagers by International Communications Research.The poll, commissioned by Cingular...
NEW YORK—Motorola said it has signed a cross-platform agreement to allow it to market popular AOL Time Warner content and services through mobile and instant messaging solutions.The U.S.-based company will license Warner Bros. content like Looney Tunes characters for ring tones, screen savers and...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—nGame Ltd. announced a new partnership with Telus Mobility to provide eleven wireless games for Telus subscribers with web-enabled mobile phones.The games are: Rat Race, Air Aces, Alien Fish Exchange, Merchant Princes, Chop Suey Kung Fu, DataClash, Number Shuffle, Poker Dice, Special Ops,...
An overlooked and potentially huge segment of the mobile-phone market is eagerly following the exploits of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. This segment watches PG-13 movies and, in general, must be dragged kicking and screaming to middle and high school.This segment is the...
NEW YORK-Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd. will provide two of its wireless games, Wireless Pets and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, to AT&T Wireless for its PocketNet subscribers via the carrier's "Sink or Swim" wireless games commercial trial.The limited-time trial site allows customers to try...
LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety of companies, both large and small, announced their wireless gaming plans to take advantage...
While carriers' network upgrade plans have garnered the majority of attention from the wireless industry, there is another equally important area that many wireless companies are now focusing on: the applications."Applications are everything," said Adam Guy, senior analyst of mobile wireless research for The Strategis...
BOSTON-The mobile gaming experience is expected to improve dramatically during the next two to three years as 2.5 generation networks are deployed and Java-enabled devices proliferate, increasing the number of installed mobile game users to 100 million by 2006, said Strategy Analytics Inc. in...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd., has teamed with Sprint PCS to provide its interactive wireless games on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web, which subscriber can access through Sprint PCS Internet-ready phones.The games offered include single player games, Fours, Roulette, Higher/Lower,...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS entered an agreement with Tribune Media Services, a provider of information and entertainment products, providing Sprint PCS customers with access to content from TMS' Web site, Zap2it.com, via Sprint PCS' Wireless Web service.The service gives subscribers access to daily TV...
