NEW YORK-Crisp Wireless said it built a WAP site for MindShare Interaction to promote Unilever's I Can't Believe It's Not Butter brand. The site features Fabio in the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter "Kitchen of Love" originally developed for online audiences. The site...
ARMONK, N.Y.-IBM Corp. added to the rapidly consolidating market for vendors serving wireless operators by snapping up privately held Vallent Corp., a software firm that develops network performance monitoring and service management applications for wireless carriers. IMB said adding Vallent's deep wireless expertise to...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Palm Inc. lowered its financial guidance for its second fiscal quarter, which ends Dec. 1, due to delays in shipping its Treo 750 in the United States. The company now expects revenues to fall between $390 million and $395 million, down significantly from...
STERLING, Va.-NeuStar Inc. said it acquired Followap Inc., a U.K.-based company that provides mobile instant messaging products for Europe and Asia. The deal is valued at about $139 million.Followap has a customer base of 17 mobile carriers, including Vodafone, Turkcell, 3 Group, Wind and...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nokia Corp. slightly lowered its financial expectations for the coming years, news that caused investors to pause, but the company also unveiled four new slim, mid- and low-tier devices Nokia hopes will boost its worldwide market share. "To enjoy the full benefits...
BOSTON-Comcast Corp. launched wireless service in partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. in two markets: Boston and Portland, Ore. Comcast's Mobile Access service is "a new arrangement from Comcast and Sprint that will make it easier for you to access all your home and entertainment...
WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration set Dec. 13 for the first public meeting of a new federal advisory committee created to assist the agency in pursuing new policies envisioned in President Bush's 2003 spectrum initiative. The panel-comprised of industry officials and academics-will advise...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The future is all about WiMAX for Alvarion Ltd. now that the wireless broadband solutions developer cut its Cellular Mobile business unit loose for $15 million. The company sold its CMU business to privately held LGC Wireless Inc., a wireless networking technology...
SAN BRUNO, Calif.-Video-sharing phenomenon YouTube.com has selected Verizon Wireless for its first mobile distribution agreement. Verizon Vcast subscribers will be able to use their handsets to watch and share YouTube user-generated videos, beginning in early December. "People want to be entertained in a way...
WASHINGTON-The National Transportation Safety Board urged federal and state governments to ban motor coach and school bus drivers from using cell phones-except in emergencies-while operating those vehicles, an action that comes as government investigators probe the cause of a school bus accident in Alabama...
NEW YORK-Casual game developer Oberon Media added to its portfolio, snapping up mobile game-maker Blaze for an undisclosed sum. Blaze claims more than 100 carrier relationships and boasts a library of licensed mobile games including The Da Vinci Code, VH1 Mobile's I Know the...
ST. LOUIS-MetroPCS Communications Inc. has tapped Amdocs Ltd.'s Qpass digital commerce platform to deliver mobile content. The carrier said it will use the technology to offer chat and voting services as well as ringtones and graphics. Qpass' platform will also support MetroPCS' customer-care efforts...
ATLANTA-Palm Inc.'s new Treo 680-combining enterprise applications with multimedia to expand Palm's traditional market-will launch via Cingular Wireless L.L.C. on Friday at $200, the two companies announced today. The device is compatible with Cingular's GSM/GPRS/EDGE network. The holiday-season launch is a boon to Palm,...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-As chocolate-lovers know, their favored confection appears in many colors. And Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. appear to be banking on the near-universal appeal of the sweet and holiday color schemes to sell their new Chocolate handsets, appearing Friday at...
SHENZHEN, China-Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. racked up a contract with Mobistar to deploy mobile switching centers as the Belgium-based carrier transitions its core network from TDM to a distributed Internet Protocol architecture over the next several years. Huawei said its Mobile Softwitch R4 will...
SAN FRANCISCO-In September Sprint Nextel Corp. said it would help marketers target ads for its mobile Web pages by gender or region, for example. Now the nation's wireless-service providers are getting ready to roll out a new targeting tool for marketers that will identify...
BOSTON-The four national wireless carriers have agreed on a plan to help shoulder the cost of providing wireless service in Boston's Big Dig tunnels, so that drivers will not have their cell-phone conversations interrupted. According to documents filed with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, the...
U.S. network operators are losing their grip on subscribers who stroll off their decks to buy ringtones, access adult content or simply surf the wireless Web. When it comes to knowing where users are, though, carriers still hold the cards.Call it the Starbucks scenario:...
Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO USA subsidiary said the industry's No. 4 operator T-Mobile USA Inc. is trialing its mobile TV service, adding another national carrier to its list of partners even as it prepares for the initial commercial launch of service with Verizon Wireless early...
WASHINGTON -- Bush administration efforts to help Iraq create a competitive wireless market and an independent regulatory regime to oversee telecom reconstruction in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion are at risk of being undermined by internal political strife in the war-torn country,...
A tiny Texas carrier is launching a second service market after apparently prompting price changes by Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket service in its debut market. Local wireless operator Pocket Communications Inc. is rolling out its budget-friendly unlimited calling service in Laredo, Texas,...
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration suddenly finds itself confronting privacy and security issues associated with radio frequency identification technology, an awkward position for a U.S. government aggressively promoting RFID and contributing to a potentially huge commercial market for wireless tracking chips and infrastructure. While...
The Sony Ericsson W810i-the vendor's flagship Walkman music phone, described as a ``multimedia beast'' by one analyst-will be closely watched by some in the industry to see how well it sells at Cingular Wireless L.L.C.Why? The answer reflects the industry's increasing time-to-market pressures, a...
Tower marketing and licensing firm KGI Wireless Inc. added 363 tower sites from Time Warner Cable to its portfolio, pushing its count of managed sites to more than 7,000.Earlier this year, KGI snagged a multi-year deal to manage Alltel Corp.'s 3,000 wireless tower sites,...
