Content & Mobile Marketing

This holiday season, those shopping for wireless service and devices will find a culmination of new offerings, as well as traditional bargain rates on buckets of wireless minutes. For the …

The wireless Internet’s influence on the wired Web is often portrayed as a positive, allowing people to access the information previously available only when hooked to a wire from a …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.L.P. said it will launch a wireless Web proxy server and microbrowser based on Geoworks Corp.’s AirBoss technology. The deal will allow all devices operating on …

LAS VEGAS-The computer industry is ready to stake its claim in the wireless market, evidenced by a range of announcements at this year’s Fall Comdex show. Various PDA manufacturers and …

ATLANTA-Alerts.com, a provider of detection and notification services for high-traffic Web sites, plans to go wireless under a new deal announced with Internet platform Air2Web Inc. The deal will allow …

The race is on to develop carrier-class software infrastructure for the next generation of wireless data applications, and last week’s merger announcement between TeleCommunication Systems Inc. and Xypoint Corp. adds …

LONG BEACH, Calif.-Wynd Communications Corp. introduced GoAmerica Inc.’s Go.Web wireless Internet access service to its WyndTell users, adding Internet content to the two-way messaging service for the deaf and hard …

Now that Arch Wireless Inc.’s acquisition of Paging Network Inc. is complete, former PageNet subsidiary Vast Solutions Inc. is free of the dead weight its former parent company represented and …

Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to develop new ways to combat this …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Just as content on the wireless Web is not at the same point as the wired Web, wireless Web security is not at the same level either. But if …

Qualcomm Inc. announced it will form a venture arm to invest in start-up companies in an effort to proliferate the use of CDMA technology. Qualcomm is making a $500 million …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced a technical and marketing alliance with U.S. Wireless Corp. to add mobile location information to Geoworks’ Mobile ASP platform. Using U.S. Wireless’ mobile location information, Geoworks …

It’s more than a rhetorical question. The future of the wireless industry arguably rests on the answer. Unless a workable and effective advertising model for m-commerce is developed, billions of …

NEW YORK- FindWhat.com announced today it teamed with ThinkersGroup.com to make its search engine results-including its search advertisements-available to users of Web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants. The company …

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Air2Web Inc. and TheFirstNews.com are taking a technological step backward. Instead of using cell phones’ increasingly detailed screen to provide information, the two companies plan to get their …

After answering more than 5.5 billion questions in the past four years, Ask Jeeves Inc.’s online question answering service is finally learning to talk. The talking capabilities come from an …

Over the past several weeks, Sprint PCS has rolled out several additions to its Wireless Web service designed to target the consumer market, particularly teen users. In the last month, …

PORTLAND, Ore.-Sonera Corp. announced it will invest $68 million to purchase one-fourth of Metro One Telecommunications. The deal gives Metro One enough capital to pay down about $35 million in …

WASHINGTON-Beijing appears to be thumbing its nose at wireless provisions of the landmark U.S.-China trade agreement, posing potential problems for American mobile-phone firms and the next administration. The move comes …

Deutsche Telekom expects to obtain approval of its proposed purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by the first quarter of next year, according to a report in German daily newspaper Frankfurter …

Sun Microsystems Inc. officially threw its hat into the wireless Internet ring last week with a broad set of announcements unveiling a dedicated wireless organization within the company, launching new …

Spirent Spirent Communications, which provides performance analysis solutions, announced the InfoDM v2.0 release, which is part of the company’s acquisition of InfoSoft Technologies, will supplement Spirent’s CDMA test solution with …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has created a new default home page for PocketNet wireless Internet subscribers geared for teen users, with some 60 content sites of interest …

While wirelessly enabling various types of applications is generally the one common element among wireless application service providers, most agree that value-added services and applications added to this core platform …

In the effort to alter consumers’ perceptions of wireless phones, Sprint PCS turned up the volume last week with the introduction of an online music service offered in conjunction with …