Content & Mobile Marketing

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gravitate Inc., a new mobile location services software provider, launched its Gravitate Platform and closed a $3.7 million round of funding, the company announced. “The Gravitate Platform …

LONDON-Informix Software Inc., an independent operating business of Informix Corp., is joining the Symbian Technology Partner program, allowing Informix to develop enabling technologies and engage in co-marketing activities promoting Symbian’s …

MEXICO CITY-Diveo Broadband Networks, which offers wireless broadband services in Latin America, said it launched Diveo Hosting Paq for large and medium-sized businesses, Internet content providers, e-commerce providers and systems …

Endwave Endwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Everypath Inc., a wireless application service provider and technology enabler, introduced its Mobile Application Server, designed to give enterprise customers the ability to convert content into mobile applications …

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.-David Bell has quite a resume. He founded his own company in 1997 in his basement. He helped evolve the company from a mostly hardware-focused business into …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. hopes to leverage the growing interest in wireless Internet service for the company to remain viable and turn around its troubled past. It is doing so by …

Just less than a year after bursting onto the wireless Internet scene with a wireless solution for the Palm V, OmniSky Corp. this week is introducing a similar solution for …

Lutris Technologies Inc. released Lutris Enhydra Wireless, the certified and supported version of its Open Source wireless software platform that provides developers and systems integrators the source code, support and …

BARCELONA, Spain-Net2wireless Corp. joined Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Mobile Internet affiliates program under which Net2Wireless’ 3Gate Platform, a solution designed to enhance the performance of multimedia content on mobile devices, will …

Aether Systems Inc. announced USAToday.com as the first customer for the recently introduced AirLoom service, which adapts Web content for wireless distribution. In addition, Aether said it will help USAToday.com …

MEXICO CITY-Telcel, Mexico’s largest wireless operator, launched commercial wireless Internet services using Phone.com’s Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) platform. The commercial service launch marks the mobile carrier’s spinoff from parent company …

TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like …

NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on new importance. Presence is shorthand for …

SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle’s portal-to-go technology and …

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Wireless service provider Centennial Communications Corp. will begin offering Indicast Inc.’s personalized audio Internet content to its wireless subscribers starting in November. Indicast’s audio content allows users to pre-select …

For the mobile commerce market to succeed in winning over consumers from the wired Internet and bricks-and-mortar space, it will have to be flexible in meeting consumer expectations, according to …

WASHINGTON-At RCR Wireless News press time, the Federal Communications Commission was preparing to release a public notice asking for industry comment on the August federal appeals court decision that threw …

Flarion Technologies Flarion Technologies, a new company formed to commercialize a wireless data technology for Internet mobility market, announced that Matthew J. Desch has been appointed to a new seat …

CHICAGO-Video content may be the new show to watch on the wireless Internet. Content is the name of the game in the wireless Internet evolution going forward. And while it …

NEW|YORK-Texas Instruments plans to release next year a third-generation wireless solution for independent developers of modules for the Springboard expansion slot on Handspring’s Visor handheld computers. “We are pleased to …

DURHAM, N.C.-Instead of making plans for what they wanted to do once they graduated from high school, Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman were making plans on how to raise money …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Software developer Pixo Inc. licensed Certicom Corp.’s security technology for the Pixo Internet Microbrowser for wireless phones. Certicom said its Elliptic Curve Cryptography technology and MobileTrust digital certificates will …

NEW YORK-The New York Times Co., through its New York Times Digital Internet division, launched NYT Mobile, a global, 24-hour news, information and entertainment service built using WAP technology. The …