Content & Mobile Marketing

Taking advantage of new technologies, peer-to-peer companies, otherwise known as dotcoms, are porting services to wireless subscribers without operator consent. Through handsets, personal digital assistants, laptops and other mobile devices, …

LONDON-The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association …

The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-The Pacific Newspaper Group Inc. is using wireless marketing in an effort to drum up readership and revenues for The Province Newspaper. The media group is publishing a …

WILMINGTON, Del.-M-Wise Inc. said it has enhanced its content management and delivery platform with the Audio and Video Album. The Audio and Video Album allows users to send audio and …

LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday. Your Destiny TV is behind the …

SHANGHAI, China-Linktone Ltd., which provides interactive entertainment services to Chinese consumers, said it is sponsoring a nationwide contest to find original mobile content. Linktone said the goal of the contest, …

Microsoft Corp. will provide daily downloadable video content including news, sports and entertainment programming for Windows Mobile-based devices, the company announced Wednesday. MSN Video Downloads will deliver a subscription-based mobile …

BERLIN-Chipmaking behemoth Intel said it will work with German media company Bertelsmann to develop a new technology for legally downloading and sharing files through the Internet. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based …

Mobile video providers continued to target users in the Far East with two new announcements Tuesday. RealNetworks Inc. and mobile operator Hong Kong CSL launched a mobile media service enabling …

For U.S. carriers, the race to deploy ringback tones is on. Ringbacks-the clips of music a caller hears instead of a traditional ring before the person being called answers the …

Video-game behemoth Electronic Arts signaled its long-awaited-and perhaps long-feared-entry onto the mobile gaming playground earlier this month at GDC Mobile in San Francisco, unveiling plans to release as many as …

As a tower operator, Crown Castle International Inc. is venturing into a less familiar environment as an enabler of what may grow into a major application in the wireless industry: …

LONDON-In what appears to be a first for the mobile music market, U.K. subscribers can choose which part of a new single from hip-hop star Fabolous to use as their …

An association of mobile carriers and content firms joined the fight last week against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. The Mobile …

SAUDI ARABIA Nokia Corp. has signed an agreement with Aljawal, the GSM operator of Saudi Telecom Co., to supply the Nokia multimedia messaging service solution. Deliveries have already begun, and …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it signed an agreement with Wireless Services Corp. to provide WAP 2.0 access to more than 1.3 million Cellular One customers in 19 states and …

T-Mobile USA Inc. suspended sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 smart phone due to unexplained software bugs, a move that illustrates the extremely advanced levels of technology packed into …

MusiKube broke an almost year-long silence last week, resurfacing to launch a mobile music identification application that allows users to purchase ringtones directly over their handsets. With the service, called …

BALTIMORE-Security technology company SafeNet Inc. said it will acquire DMDsecure B.V., a Dutch digital rights management software developer, for $9.7 million in cash. SafeNet plans to combine its security offerings …

BALTIMORE-Security technology company SafeNet Inc. said it will acquire DMDsecure B.V., a Dutch digital rights management software developer, for $9.7 million in cash. SafeNet plans to combine its security offerings …

SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. announced the development of the Ovation MCU1200 3G Wireless Multimedia Application Console, powered by Conversa proprietary software suite. The company expects to launch the product in …

HONG KONG-Games and entertainment company Mobile Media Co. said it has formed an agreement with Kyocera Communications Asia Pacific Pte Ltd., which provides platforms for information services, wireless hosting content …

In what appears to be a first for the mobile music market, U.K. subscribers can choose which part of a new single from hip-hop star Fabolous to use as their …

T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will suspend sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 personal digital assistant-style phone until the two companies can develop a software upgrade “that will deliver …