Nearly 3 million mobile users received Barack Obama's SMS about his new running mate, but many of those who signed up may have gotten the text late - or not at all - according to new figures from Keynote Systems.A mobile and Internet test...
Nokia Corp. is teaming with The Carphone Warehouse to bring its all-you-can-eat mobile music service to U.K. users next month.Comes With Music, as the effort is branded, packages one year of unlimited downloads with the purchase of a handset. Users will have to pay...
As the nation's eyes shift from Denver to the Twin Cities for this week's Republican National Convention, a Minnesota-based company's technology is once again being used to make sure cell phones and other wireless devices work inside the convention hall.ADC, which provided its active...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--BuzzCity: Naspers invested $10 million into BuzzCity, a developer of global wireless communities and consumer services. BuzzCity said it...
An Irish comic publisher is lobbying Apple Inc. to embrace content ratings after its graphic novel was dropped from the company's App Store.Infurious Comics is pushing for a ratings system after Apple rejected "Murderdrome," which the publisher describes as a "darkly humorous strop"...
As you may know, this week's Democratic National Convention - right here in RCRWireless.com's beautiful, mile-high backyard - is very much a wireless affair.Barack Obama's campaign set a high bar for mobile with a much-publicized effort to notify supporters via text message of Sen....
Nuance Communications Inc. played the litigation card in its latest attempt to swallow Zi Corp.A giant on the speech-recognition playground, Nuance two weeks ago was rebuffed by Zi after offering an unsolicited $40 million bid for the Canadian software developer. While the offer marked...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--BitWave: Apex Venture Partners, TVM Capital and ECentury Capital Partners invested $10 million in a Series B funding round...
Passengers on coast-to-coast American Airlines flights can now sit back and surf the Web.The world's largest airline said it has teamed up with Aircell to provide Internet access to passengers on flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles and...
Nuance Communications Inc. isn't letting a tiff with Zi Corp. stand in the way of a good spending spree.The Burlington, Mass.-based speech recognition firm will fork over roughly $180 million in stock to pick up SNAPin Software, a Seattle-area developer of customer-care applications. The...
Nuance Communications Inc. went on the offensive in its effort to acquire Zi Corp., calling Zi's unwillingness to enter negotiations "perplexing and inappropriate."Nuance, a behemoth on the speech-recognition playground, last week offered an unsolicited, 80-cents-per-share bid for Zi, marking a 150% premium over the...
Synchronica said it will fork over roughly $5 million in new shares to acquire fellow mobile e-mail provider AxisMobile.A U.K.-based firm that provides over-the-air firmware update technology based on open industry standards, Synchronica targets business users and "prosumers" with mobile push e-mail and synchronization...
Many people are familiar with the coffee shop's Wi-Fi, while others even know how to set up a simple home network. Pretty much everyone, however, knows that Wi-Fi is what makes it all possible. That ubiquity is what many venture firms are counting on...
The first Bluetooth headsets were simple mono devices, designed to sit in one ear as you took a call on your mobile phone. However, as handsets has developed into sophisticated entertainment devices that can play music and video, so headsets have started to develop...
Picture whipping out your cell phone and catching up with "Lost" or "Jeopardy," or watching the local 11 o'clock news, all for free. You can do this with an imported Chinese phone, but you can't with any phone sold in the U.S. - at...
CallWave Inc. shelled out $9 million in cash to pick up WebMessenger Inc., a Los Angeles-based developer of messaging applications for smartphones.CallWave, a privately held company that claims 42 employees, targets business users with cross-platform applications for conferencing and other communications. The San Francisco-based...
TruePostion Inc. said it won a permanent injunction in a Delaware federal court barring Andrew Corp. from marketing a key location technology patented by the Berwyn, Pa., company, a judgment that also included more than $23 million in damages."This is a major win for...
Hardware, software, high-speed networks, uptake . it seems all the pieces are in place for mobile commerce to take off. Well, all the pieces except maybe a viable business model or two.That was the takeaway from last week's Mobile Financial Services Summit in Denver,...
In San Antonio test market, customers can get voice, wireless, broadband and television services. AT&T is testing out its new U-Verse voice services by making them available to all current U-Verse customers in the San Antonio area.
Just in time for the 2008 Olympics set to kick off in China later this week the nation's two largest carriers expanded their international data plans.AT&T Mobility introduced two new plans, one for smartphone users and one for PC card users. The new smartphone...
Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their phone.Voice messages will be displayed on users' phones with sender and time information, and customers can scroll through the messages...
