NEW YORK—Vivendi Universal has deployed MyNetonomy , developed by U.S.-based Netonomy, as the portal through which customers can purchase, activate and personalize services on Universal Music Mobile (UMM).Launched commercially in late September, the service delivers Vivendi Universal's music-oriented content over the GSM network of...
NEW YORK-Vivendi Universal has worldwide ambitions, particularly in the area of wireless technology and interactive television, and equally important, it possesses a balance sheet to support its plans, said Jean Marie Messier, chairman and chief executive officer."We believe we are the world's first global...
NEW YORK-Stockholm-based Iquity Systems has established a U.S. headquarters near Wall Street to promote its Mobile Media Suite, which delivers recorded advertising messages to wireless customers interested in getting discounts on airtime in exchange for listening to 10-second promotional spots.The company, which has about...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. today announced two distribution deals, one with a major personal digital assistant company and another with a wireless data carrier.Brightpoint's agreement with Palm Inc. involves distributing Palm's handheld devices, focusing on wireless carriers and related retailers. Brightpoint's second deal involves Motient Corp.,...
Verizon Wireless has signed an agreement with Triad Holdings L.L.C. to acquire Triad's PCS licenses covering the Southern Oklahoma BTA of Ardmore and Lawton-Duncan. The new area, which covers total pops of 267,000, will become part of the Verizon Wireless South area. Verizon hopes...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The battle between Handspring Inc. and Palm Inc. rose to a new fevered pitch this week as Handspring announced a spate of new services and applications for its personal digital assistants, a move that comes just one week after both companies announced...
LAS VEGAS-Computer and Internet royalty gathered in Las Vegas for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Wireless 2001 show, offering up opinions and advice about the comparatively new wireless industry that is becoming an integral part of the desktop, laptop and wired Web world.Jerry...
ATLANTA-Online Yellow Pages provider BellSouth RealPages.com will offer consumer access to its Southeastern U.S. directory listing on Web-enabled phones through Yahoo! Yellow Pages.BellSouth said the deal will allow wireless consumers to search the Yellow Pages by category and drill down to listings displayed nine...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. has announced the availability of Yahoo! Local Info, a directory of location-based information for Web-enabled phones. According to the company, consumers can find information on entertainment, emergencies, restaurants, stores, travel and yellow page listings by entering their current location into...
While the wireless community continues to search for the killer application that will make wireless Internet access mandatory, the mysterious application may be as simple as following the model set out by the wired Internet.Eric Harber, vice president of marketing and business development for...
NEW YORK-To avoid falling into "microcap hell," companies play a "gorilla game" of amassing size, but going public may not be the best way to get there, said Eric Gebaide, a principal of Broadview, Fort Lee, N.J.Major technology market indexes are skewed because of...
The millennium is off to a good start for Vodafone Group.The U.K.-based carrier began 2000 with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann, parent of its rival Orange, and continued with a spending spree for third-generation (3G) licenses across Europe. The year also marked the finalization...
WASHINGTON-2001: A Space Odyssey? Perhaps if you're working on the international space station or developing a Star Wars defense. But for wireless, it will be a year the industry comes back to earth and gets back to basics as carriers, manufacturers, dot-coms, government policy-makers and...
Chris Gent has had quite a year.For the chief executive of Vodafone Group plc, 2000 began with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann AG, parent of its rival Orange plc, and continued with a spending spree for third-generation licenses across Europe. The year also marked...
WASHINGTON-A French court's decision to regulate the Internet could have repercussions for the wireless Web in the United States at a time when carriers are excited mobile commerce will help them increase revenues.A French court recently told Yahoo! Inc. it has three months to...
This holiday season, those shopping for wireless service and devices will find a culmination of new offerings, as well as traditional bargain rates on buckets of wireless minutes.For the first time ever, shoppers will be able to use their wireless devices to purchase items...
As it initiates a beta launch of its wireless Internet solution and wireless portal this week, YadaYada Inc. is preparing to go head to head with competitors OmniSky Corp. and GoAmerica Inc.Calling itself a wireless version of America Online, YadaYada uses the same equipment...
Until you have actually bought a good or service using a mobile device, it is difficult to comprehend the sheer power of the phone as an electronic wallet. In Europe, recent initiatives by innovative carriers such as Sonera allow users to buy candy, to...
NEW YORK-Like the Wizard of Oz working the controls unseen, electronic commerce could soon become the primary delivery and fulfillment mechanism for all goods and services, regardless of whether consumers buy those goods and services online, by mail order or in a store.Telecommunications, provided...
LONDON-Yahoo! Europe announced two new wireless partnerships this week, including one with a handset manufacturer and one with a mobile operator.Yahoo! Europe and Trium, a Mitsubishi subsidiary, said Yahoo! will provide a range of content and services to Trium's WAP-enabled mobile phones. The handsets...
RESTON, Va.-Motient Corp. announced an agreement with Internet content leader Yahoo! Inc. under which Yahoo! will use Motient's eLink service and wireless network to provide Yahoo! users with wireless access to its content and services.Motient also released second-quarter operating results, posting a net loss...
WASHINGTON-Several instant messaging companies, telecom carriers and Internet service and content providers have formed an organization dedicated to achieving true instant messaging interoperability among competing platforms.The IMUnified coalition said it intends to create specifications by the end of August that will allow interoperable instant...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), responding to angry constituents hit with unsolicited wireless junk mail, plans shortly to introduce legislation to ban mobile-phone spam."He saw this as the next wave and wanted to nip it in the bud," said Steve Maviglio, press secretary for Holt.The...
Palm Inc. introduced a wireless solution for its full line of personal digital assistants at PC Expo last week called the Mobile Internet Kit.The kit consists of a software upgrade that adds Palm's Web Clipping technology to the devices, allowing them to interact with...
