Content & Mobile Marketing

NEW YORK-The recent “Internet & E-Business Conference & Expo” brought together a host of players occupying various niches in cyberspace, and some may become shining stars in the wireless galaxy. …

NEW YORK -Simon Hayward, vice president and research director of The Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn., is waiting for the real “WAGs” to come to the fore and realize the unfulfilled …

The wireless Internet is only as good as the device it’s on. Granted, there are plenty of other issues surrounding the look and feel of the experience-including network speeds and …

No one is quite sure where the wireless Internet is going. There is such a profusion of technology developed and offered on a daily basis-from PacketVideo Corp.’s streaming multimedia offering …

All BREW lovers are welcome to the party. Software developers and carriers are joining Qualcomm Inc. to propagate the virtues of the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless, an open platform …

Two U.S. companies are taking their respective technologies to the Australian market, following third-generation spectrum purchases in the country last month. Qualcomm Inc. paid $79 million for 10 megahertz of …

GroupServe GroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup’s first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of …

WASHINGTON-Sweeping reforms at the Federal Communications Commission promised by new Chairman Michael Powell and trumpeted by GOP lawmakers, owing to likely Democratic resistance and legal constraints, could fall far short …

SAN FRANCISCO-WCITIES, which provides location-based information services, launched its Geo-Coded Location Information Service for wireless network operators. The new service integrates longitude and latitude coordinates with WCITIES content for point-to-point …

The vast layout of the CTIA Wireless 2001 show last week in Las Vegas was a little dizzying, with meetings and conferences spread out across the city’s famous strip. One …

NEW YORK-SkyBridge L.P., a Bethesda, Md., company that plans to offer fixed wireless broadband access in 2003 via its own low-earth-orbit satellite constellation, will add leased geostationary satellite capacity to …

Every year after the show, I wonder if I should write a column with profound insight into the state of the wireless telecommunications industry and enamor you with all of …

LAS VEGAS-Advancing its wireless data initiative, Leap Wireless International Inc. acquired a pair of wireless data applications providers to support the location-based myAladdin wireless technology the company acquired last year. …

LAS VEGAS-Portal Software Inc., IBM Corp. and Reciprocal Inc. are working together to deliver a new secure digital content commerce and distribution offering that integrates Portal Software’s Infranet platform and …

LAS VEGAS-Symbian, a provider of software platforms for next-generation mobile phones, made several announcements at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s Wireless 2001 show last week in Las Vegas and …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Inc., MSN, and Motorola Inc. announced an agreement to provide consumers access to MSN’s Hotmail e-mail and Messenger instant-messaging communications services as well as content from MSN …

LAS VEGAS-Sonera’s zed portal service won a major victory last week as wireless carrier Vodafone U.K. adopted the services for use in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group plc offers its …

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to …

NEW YORK-China Mobile Hong Kong does not need 3G to take advantage of opportunities in a populous country with rising per capita income and low penetration by personal computers and …

SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc., a company that uses Java technology to create of semiconductor-based solutions, and Plazmic Inc., a provider of mobile media solutions for the wireless Web, announced a …

LAS VEGAS-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc., a global supplier of interoperability solutions, made announcements regarding several newly formed strategic alliances at CTIA Global Wireless 2001. The company signed a technology agreement …

SAN FRANCISO, United States-Listen.com announced that Listen Japan acquired Japanese mobile-phone content company Noel. Both companies provide music and entertainment content and services. One of Noel’s most popular offerings is …

LONDON-AlterEgo Networks, a provider of Internet software and services, will team with BT Cellnet, a mobile operator based in the United Kingdom, to combine BT Cellnet’s wireless data GPRS network …

NEW YORK-With the March 12 commercial debut of NetProfile Wireless Edition, Bridgewater Systems, Kanata, Ontario, is offering a chance and a challenge to mobile operators seeking a profitable way out …

NEW YORK-AirMedia unveiled its Wireless Hub, which the company said will bring together content providers, corporations, telecommunications carriers and content aggregators and will simplify the dissemination of content for the …