Content & Mobile Marketing

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Location-based services have struggled to find their feet in Europe. Mobile data has taken a long time to deliver on the technology, applications and price points to meet …

Moviso scored an exclusive, one-year licensing agreement in the United States to offer wireless content based on the highly touted summer movie “The Hulk.” The company launched a Web site …

RESTON, Va.-Verizon Wireless will begin using real-time charging and convergent mediation provider Openet Telecom’s FusionWorks Mediation solution to support real-time content billing and flexible reporting of Internet Protocol-based services for …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Teleca has licensed its Obigo mobile suite, a software package that includes technologies for mobile browsing, messaging and content management, to Chinese consumer electronics supplier Legend. Legend, which began …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday reauthorized the Federal Trade Commission but did not deal with the controversial digital rights management issue. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) offered but then withdrew …

SEATTLE-WaterCove Networks has joined Qpass Inc.’s Prosperity Alliance, allowing the companies to work together to offer mobile data solutions. “Our expertise in business system integration and value-added service delivery naturally …

SAN FRANCISCO-It’s a numbers game. Three million developers. Three million downloads of the J2ME software development kit last year. Five hundred fifty million desktops running Java. Fifty-three wireless carriers deploying …

WASHINGTON-Lawmakers last week called for making firm the mandate that TV broadcasters give back spectrum in the 700 MHz band by the end of 2006. Reps. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and …

LOS ANGELES-Xingtone launched a new downloadable application that allows consumers to subscribe to a service that uploads their favorite MP3s, images and game files to their mobile phones. Xingtone’s business …

SAN DIEGO-Text messaging is growing on a worldwide basis, according to recent polls conducted by SMS.ac Inc., which provides a wireless community (www.sms.ac) that allows for interaction among network operators, …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless continued to tout its wireless data services-the carrier said almost 75,000 applications are downloaded per day-numbers that could increase following the carrier’s plan to combine all its …

Without going too far out on a limb, it seems a safe bet to claim the wireless industry has gone crazy for most anything associated with the term Wi-Fi. From …

WASHINGTON-Verizon Communications Inc. will turn over the names, addresses and phone numbers of four subscribers to its DSL service who are accused of illegally downloading music via the Internet. The …

LONDON-U.K. newcomer Hutchison 3G U.K. will slash prices for its third-generation services beginning Monday. The two new service packages offer up to a 50-percent savings compared with similar plans on …

BOSTON-Two mobile marketing companies announced deals today, news that shows the continuing growth and potential of the wireless advertising industry. First, marketing company M-Qube announced the next phase of its …

Verizon Wireless continued to tout its wireless data services-the carrier said almost 75,000 applications are downloaded per day-numbers that could increase following the carrier’s plan to combine all its data …

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. announced two new deals to further the development of applications and content for mobile phones. First, the company introduced its new i.JV30 Java virtual machine for its …

WASHINGTON-Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Federal Communications Commission are at loggerheads over the global defense giant’s push for a public-safety spectrum carve-out that could undermine agency efforts to free up …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), a long-time champion in the fight against the unsolicited commercial e-mail that increasingly devours Internet capacity and threatens wireless data in its infancy, this week is …

TEMPE, Ariz.-Rapidly growing Wi-Fi hot spots will likely prove profitable only in some venues, according to a new report from Forward Concepts that assesses the profit potential of various hot …

SINGAPORE-MobileOne said it will launch a video streaming service Monday for its users with Nokia 3650 phones, making it the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in …

Consolidation on the wireless content front continued its unrelenting pace, with gaming company Iomo purchasing rival Covert Operations Ltd. for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock. “The mobile entertainment …

WASHINGTON-An industry group advising the Federal Communications Commission on emergency public warnings today urged use of new technologies to deliver critical homeland security information to U.S. citizens, a policy stance …

TEMPE, Ariz.-Rapidly growing Wi-Fi hot spots will likely prove profitable only in some venues, according to a new report from Forward Concepts that assesses the profit potential of various hot …

DENVER-Instant messaging technology provider Jabber Inc. said it will introduce a range of products and services aimed at the wireless industry, including a gateway the company said will allow mobile-phone …