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February 18 2010 - 11:21 am ET | Kristen Beckman
VeriSign Inc. said it partnered with CAQH, a nonprofit alliance of health plans and trade associations, to conduct a pilot program to demonstrate secure authentication for health IT interoperability. The six-month ... Read More »
February 18 2010 - 6:00 am ET | Matt Kapko
BARCELONA – “Any piece of content should be playable within five seconds.” That’s the goal Spotify is after with its hugely popular music service that barely anyone outside of Europe has ever heard of, CEO ... Read More »
February 17 2010 - 10:12 am ET | Matt Kapko
BARCELONA – For Nick Rhodes, the keyboardist in Duran Duran, technology has never been an afterthought, but rather something he’s tried to leverage every step of the way in the band’s 29-year career. Whether ... Read More »
February 12 2010 - 11:46 am ET | Tracy Ford
With the Mobile Marketing Association's decision to restructure into four global business units, iLoop Mobile Inc. founder Michael Becker has been named managing director of North America for the trade group. In this role, he ... Read More »
December 22 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Matt Kapko
For all that it promises to change in our daily lives, wireless technology still comes up short far too often. We live in a world that's both fascinating and discouraging. Just think, if we own the right car and the right ... Read More »
November 19 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Josh Aroner, Senior Director, Marketing, Oracle Communications
Last week Oracle, in partnership with United Kingdom-based trends consulting group The Future Laboratory, launched the results of the “Capitalizing on the Digital Age” study, which explores how the digital world will ... Read More »
November 17 2009 - 12:01 pm ET | Tracy Ford
The Mobile Marketing Association updated its definition of what constitutes mobile marketing to include more than just advertising or marketing to people over a mobile device. The new definition as much as anything points to the ... Read More »
October 26 2009 - 12:32 pm ET | Tracy Ford
MetroPCS Wireless Inc. is targeting the youth market with a new flirting application that has been pretty successful in the United Kingdom. “At its core, we've taken dating and reinvented it for a younger generation, ... Read More »
October 14 2009 - 5:56 pm ET | Bruce Joseph and Andrew McBride, Wiley, Rein law firm
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York handed a significant victory to Verizon Wireless against the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) by holding that neither the download of a ... Read More »
September 28 2009 - 11:05 am ET | The Wall Street Journal
Are the odds of a Verizon Communications bid for DirecTV Group shortening? The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) ... Read More »
September 15 2009 - 11:50 am ET | Tracy Ford
LOS ANGELES--FLO TV President Bill Stone is moving beyond carrier agreements with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility to try to drive awareness to the mobile TV space and increase consumer adoption of the nascent TV service. Stone, ... Read More »
February 25 2009 - 10:33 am ET | By Olga Kharif
Low-cost apps that let users download music and other extras to their cell phones could help lure cash-strapped music fans ... Read More »
February 20 2009 - 11:22 am ET | Colin Gibbs
Mobile marketing types like to talk about cool features like click-to-video, 2-D barcodes and interactive wireless scavenger hunts. ... Read More »
February 18 2009 - 10:58 am ET | Colin Gibbs
New app stores and smartphone platforms are dominating the news out of Mobile World Congress this week, but it’s a quiet little mobile marketing initiative U.S. carriers will be monitoring closely in coming weeks. ... Read More »
February 18 2009 - 11:52 am ET | Allie Winter
T-Mobile International announced it will pair up with Nokia Corp. to offer integrated marketplace content. The carrier said that together, the two will provide widgets, applications and other content through the web’n’walk widget ... Read More »
February 18 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Colin Gibbs
After years of treading water and failing to live up to outlandish hype, mobile games finally may be starting to make progress. And it’s the Apple’s iPhone — and, to a lesser extent, other multimedia-friendly smartphones — that’s ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 11:09 am ET | Allie Winter
Sprint Nextel Corp., which continues to wedge itself in as the cheaper wireless solution, has put two of its popular plans together and taken $10 off the total price. The carrier announced its new offering, Simply Everything + ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Mike Dano
Moodio.fm provides a fantastically useful service that suffers from a number of usability challenges. It’s hard to set up, and is in some cases technically challenging. That said, if cleaned up a little, Moodio.fm essentially ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 10:44 am ET | Colin Gibbs
MySpace said it is overhauling its mobile site in an effort to grow its base of 20 million wireless users. The popular social networking destination will launch an updated version of its wireless site later this week, adding new ... Read More »
February 17 2009 - 10:32 am ET | Colin Gibbs
Yahoo Inc. unveiled an overhauled mobile portal that it hopes will become “your starting point to the Internet.” The company launched a beta version of Yahoo Mobile, a wireless Web destination that combines existing Yahoo ... Read More »
February 11 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Colin Gibbs
I spent a little time over the last few days downloading — ahem, purchasing — music. I bought a few tracks from a punkish-alt country band called Dead Moon, a jazz/funk act dubbed The Quantic Soul Orchestra and a couple of entire ... Read More »
February 10 2009 - 11:20 am ET | Dan Meyer
Leap Wireless International Inc. is bringing music to the masses, or at least those wireless consumers packing its Cricket devices. Despite the ... Read More »
February 10 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Michael Calore
Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music and videos, to help you quit ... Read More »
February 10 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Marguerite Reardon
The new phone, which is less than a half-inch thick, is a full-featured multimedia handset designed for music lovers. It will debut next week at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ... Read More »
February 5 2009 - 1:16 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
Mobile application retailer Handmark announced a deal to acquire FreeRange Communications, a Portland, Ore.-based mobile technology firm, for an undisclosed amount. FreeRange offers a publishing platform designed to help media ... Read More »
February 4 2009 - 1:37 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
Shares of Electronic Arts Inc. soared as the company announced cost-cutting measures after its wireless business suffered an estimated $368 million charge. The Redwood City, Calif.-based publisher posted a $641 million loss ... Read More »
February 3 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Josh Lowensohn
launched its first foray into digital downloads for games. The new online store offers more than 600 casual titles without the need for physical media. Amazon says all the titles at launch are under either $6.99 or $9.99 with ... Read More »
February 3 2009 - 12:51 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
Shares of RealNetworks Inc. nosed downward after the company said it will be in line with quarterly revenue expectations but swallow nearly $250 million in charges. The Seattle-based firm said next week’s earnings report will ... Read More »
February 3 2009 - 12:31 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
We hate being overwhelmed on the wireless Web. While most site-builders have come to grips with the small screen, far too many content owners continue to overwhelm our phones and our fingers by trying to jam as much stuff as ... Read More »
January 29 2009 - 12:52 pm ET | Dan Meyer
So, it looks to be official. The iPhone is a full-blown epidemic of American Idol proportions. You can’t defeat it, you can only hope to contain it. And even that seems to be pointless. Just ask any domestic carrier not named ... Read More »
January 29 2009 - 12:47 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
London’s Handmade Mobile Ltd. is bringing its Flirtomatic service to the United States. The mobile and online social networking community, which claims more than 1.3 million registered users, launched in the United Kingdom three ... Read More »
January 28 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Colin Gibbs
“Super Bowl XLIII uses 21st century technology to insure (sic) that fans have a positive experience on February 1, 2009,” the press release from InStadiumSolutions (ISS) exclaimed. “Fans will be able to text issues right from ... Read More »
January 28 2009 - 1:00 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
There’s a new player on the wide-open mobile search playground. And it’s bigger than you think. Kgb, a New York-based firm with roots in fixed-line directory assistance, launched service earlier this month with a premium service ... Read More »
January 23 2009 - 6:00 am ET | Matt Rosoff
Now here's a recipe for success: Take a brand that your parent company's been on the verge of abandoning for the last four years. Slap it on a new music download store for mobile phones. Encrust all the tracks with DRM, even ... Read More »
January 22 2009 - 1:57 pm ET | Colin Gibbs
Glu Mobile Inc. limps into 2009 after enduring a brutal year that saw its stock tumble from nearly $5 a share to less than 40 cents. But while the company recently streamlined its operations and slashed jobs, its foot is still ... Read More »
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