Content & Mobile Marketing

GENEVA-Despite a subdued initial public offering (IPO) that saw the company reap a modest US$9 per share-near the bottom end of an already hastily reduced US$8.7 to US$10 range-the future …

TOKYO-Mobile Internet shopping is no longer a futuristic idea, but a daily practice, at least for early adopters in the browser phone-advanced nation of Japan. The Ministry of Posts and …

Handsets Sendo European mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Nextel Communications Inc. Wireless Web Service customers will now have access to CBS SportsLine.com content thanks to an agreement between the two companies. SportsLine.com will provide access to …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Streaming media technology provider Luxxon Corp. released its Mediator Streaming System, providing wireless operators with a comprehensive streaming media solution incorporating Luxxon’s Mediator Transcoder and Mediator Server. The …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Mobile Web customers now can access an information provider, Afronet.com, focused on content by and for the African-American community. Afronet.com offers customer’s daily news updates, business news, …

Motorola tried to square up to recent hard times with a series of announcements from product launches and contract wins to brokered alliances and games. The announcements made last week …

Wireless Web site enabler 2Roam Inc. announced several new deals last week, one of which the company hopes will propel it into new and more profitable markets in the Asia-Pacific …

SEATTLE-Imaging technology company LizardTech Inc. partnered with computer chip giant Intel Corp. to enter the wireless Internet market with a product the company said will allow wireless users to view …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-America Online Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. reported a comprehensive services, content and marketing agreement to provide America Online’s features and services to customers as part of VoiceStream’s wireless …

NEW YORK – Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sentica, a wireless convergence company, announced a new pact with entertainment software company Electronic Arts aimed at establishing itself as the delivery vehicle for all interactive wired and …

Streaming content onto wireless devices seems like a perfect match of technology. Without the hard drive space required to download and save large files, streaming content to wireless devices is …

TheRightSize TheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers …

NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today? That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of …

According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users …

So far, the question has been: Who drives the traffic? Do content providers for the wireless Internet push user traffic for wireless carriers, increasing their revenue stream, or do carriers …

With consumers continuing to buy into wireless services, “push” and “pull” solutions are coming to the forefront as a way to provide information to consumers and provide additional revenue streams …

TOKYO-Japan Telecom Co. Ltd., the country’s third-largest wireless operator, reported subscribers for its Internet-enabled cell phones reached 5 million customers. “Thanks to communications functions and content such as ringing tones, …

Nine months after investing an initial $33 million into its mobile Internet services development company Microcell i5 Inc., Canadian wireless operator Microcell Solutions Inc. introduced its i.Fido wireless data services …

Newly named Leader of the Pack FCC Chairman Michael Powell got it right last week when he declared that wireless is the killer app. He’s not alone. Each week, there …

VIENNA, Va.-The Newspaper Association of America partnered with Aether Systems Inc. to create a wireless news gateway, which will allow users to access content from multiple participating newspapers, in an …

NEW DELHI, India-Thai cellular companies foresee a big jump in use of WAP phones during 2001. About 70 percent of the 1.4 million new handsets that Advanced Info Service (AIS) …

ANNANDALE, Va.-Nextel Communications licensed Invertix Corp.’s ScanixT Packet Data wireless optimization software, which it expects to deploy throughout its network this year. Invertix said the software processes engineering data and …

In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology that will allow third-party users to …