SAN DIEGO-The Open Mobile Alliance made publicly available six new Enabler Releases that address both existing mobile services and future offerings. The releases include:OMA Multimedia Messaging Service Version 1.3, which enhances the existing MMS specifications to include support for new multimedia objects and content...
SAN DIEGO-Modem maker Novatel Wireless Inc. said it has begun shipping its Merlin U740 HSDPA-enabled PC data cards to European carriers. The company said the cards would work on HSDPA networks as coverage becomes available from the carriers."We have worked with leading 3G operators...
MUNICH, Germany-For those who yearn for channel surfing away from home, Siemens AG is launching Mobile TV Streaming, which the company said makes mobile channel surfing over GPRS or W-CDMA/UMTS networks as easy as regular channel surfing at home. Siemens said streaming content is...
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. plans to step up its competition with the likes of Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. by introducing more mid- and low-end phones in Europe, the United States and elsewhere. Sony Ericsson lately has focused on sales of...
WASHINGTON-Coming on the heels of a successful lobbying effort to change the 2 GHz band plan, rural wireless carriers are asking the Federal Communications Commission to revise the 700 MHz band plans to allocate more spectrum in smaller chunks.The Rural Telecommunications Group late Tuesday...
The GSM Association signed an agreement with NeuStar Inc. to offer Root Domain System services to more than 680 global GSM mobile operators. NeuStar's Root DNS will manage a global common directory, enabling GSM networks to interoperate, which will give wireless operators, across networks,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Three wireless industry vendors announced new funding this week. Roamware Inc., which provides mobile roaming solutions, said it raised $14 million in a series C round of financing.Proceeds of the funding round will be used to enhance the company's product line and...
SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless data package adoption among the top five U.S. service providers showed a 22-percent penetration rate for the first half of 2005, according to new research from Telephia.The company said average package charges have increased 5 percent to $7.86 during the second quarter...
PHILADELPHIA-Hewlett Packard Co. and Earthlink Inc. will have to wait another few days for the City of Philadelphia's announcement of which company wins the city's Wi-Fi infrastructure contract.The announcement was scheduled to be made Monday, Sept. 26, but Dianah Neff, chief information officer in...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-The majority of cell-phone users support policies that limit wireless usage in schools, according to an survey of 2,400 consumers by Amplitude Research. Eighty-five percent of the 2,400 respondents said they support polices that allow phone use immediately before and after school...
FOSTER CITY, Calif.-Equinix Inc., which provides network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, signed an agreement allowing Hawaiian operator Mobi PCS to establish operations within Equinix's Honolulu Internet Business Exchange. The deployment will serve as Mobi PCS' main point of presence and switching center...
WASHINGTON-Citing the significant progress and resources spent by interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol providers to warn their customers that calls to 911 may not go through, the Federal Communications Commission said again Tuesday it will not enforce the latest of three deadlines regarding notification....
MINNETONKA, Minn.-Digi International said it has partnered with PetroCom to deliver high-speed GSM wireless connectivity on PetroCom's network to offshore oil and gas industry devices in the Gulf of Mexico.PetroCom will use the Digi Connect WAN GSM to provide Ethernet-to-wireless Internet Protocol connectivity to...
M-commerce software developer Valista has teamed with Motricity Inc. to develop a mobile retail platform for operators and content providers. The offering couples Valista's transaction and content packaging technology with Fuel, Motricity's content delivery platform. The companies said the platform is designed to address...
Amp'd Mobile Inc. and Disney both offered details this week about their upcoming mobile virtual network operator services. Amp'd Mobile said it's on track for a pre-holiday service launch of its MVNO service that will target the increasingly attractive youth/young adult market and rely...
SAN FRANCISCO-Syniverse Technologies Inc. signed an agreement with LM&O Advertising, Arlington, Va., to provide its Mobile Marketing solution as part of an integrated marketing campaign for the Army National Guard. The two-way message broadcasting tool delivers time-sensitive information via text messaging.LM&O Advertising created the...
WASHINGTON-U.K.-based Inmarsat Ltd. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a 2 GHz mobile satellite service license that would allow it to offer interoperable communications to first responders and homeland defense officials, adding a new twist to current efforts by satellite companies to regain...
SAN FRANCISCO-Lucent Technologies Inc. launched the Lucent Hosted Custom Applications Center, saying the center aims to enable service providers to rapidly introduce differentiated services, with low upfront investments and other operational and financial advantages."This is a crucial component in Lucent's overall applications strategy," said...
Unlike the freewheeling and sometimes thought-provoking keynotes of previous CTIA Wireless I.T. shows, Tuesday's opening keynote session was a trio of rudimentary company presentations on business basics from Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp. and Intel Corp. executives. The keynotes-spruced up with slick video presentations and...
SAN FRANCISCO-Electronic Arts Inc. will lumber further onto the wireless gaming playground in coming months, releasing wireless versions of seven of its PC- and console-based franchises.The publisher said it will launch mobile versions of casual PC games Harvest Mania, Word Whomp, World Class Solitaire...
KINGS PARK, N.Y.-By 2010, worldwide subscribers will reach 2.3 billion individual wireless subscribers, according to Visant Strategies "World Mobile Subscriber Markets 2005" report.Of those 2.3 billion subscribers, nearly half will use third-generation services, said the company."What we are seeing today is not only the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced availability of new tools designed to help companies bring Bluetooth products to market faster.The Bluetooth SIG said the goal is to simplify the qualification process that devices undergo to become certified. The tools are part of an...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. plans to launch additional mobile TV services later this year using a platform from RealNetworks Inc. The supplier said its new Helix OnlineTV solution will enable Cingular to offer its third-generation subscribers personal interactive TV on their mobile devices. RealNetworks' deal...
IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. launched a new software product called Blink that simplifies the use of Bluetooth when connecting cellular phone handsets with PCs, said the company.Bluetooth Link is a result of cooperation between Broadcom and BVRP Software International, which is now Avanquest Software. The...
