Content & Mobile Marketing

Tantau Tantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement …

NEW YORK-Any wireless carrier that frets about competition on its turf should consider SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., the fourth licensee in Hong Kong. The city-state has a population of 6.9 …

NEW YORK-Merger and acquisition activity involving American companies shed some of its recent hyperactivity, slowing down last quarter to its lowest level since early 1998, Mergerstat L.P., Los Angeles, reported. …

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles and Terra Networks set up Terra Mobile, a new company charged with developing and operating the Telefonica group’s global mobile Internet portal. Telefonica Moviles will control 51 …

REDMOND, Wash.-America Online Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they have agreed to provide AOL content to AT&T Digital PocketNet subscribers. Beginning this fall, PocketNet customers will have access …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless introduced a wireless Internet service called Mobile Web, featuring the ability for users to create custom home pages. Subscribers can configure a personal home page by dictating …

In a Dallas factory once used for making bombs during World War II, Stick Networks Inc. is building a new class of wireless Internet services it hopes will prove just …

WASHINGTON-On land and in air, the ever-popular mobile phone-America’s favorite toy in the New Millennium-is creating headaches for government, industry and citizens, and raising serious safety questions with no easy …

A broadcast radio alternative is fast approaching that will allow drivers to access a variety of audio newspaper and magazine content in their cars using a wireless Internet connection. More …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed updating wiretap laws for the Internet Age, despite concerns that federal law enforcement already may be exceeding constitutional privacy rights with a new system …

The term wireless application service provider has been tossed around a lot lately. But what exactly is a wireless ASP and why is it so popular at this stage of …

NEW ORLEANS-Siemens Carrier Networks L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Information and Communications Networks Inc., introduced Quickstream, an end-to-end broadband access network solution for wireless carriers. Siemens said by …

LONDON-U.K. wireless operator Orange plc announced a $752 million wireless Internet strategy, including numerous acquisitions, investments, partnerships and content agreements. Dubbed OrangeWorld, the initiative aims to take “wirefree communications beyond …

NEW YORK-Three companies have joined forces to create a professional services joint venture providing end-to-end implementation of wireless content delivery and m-commerce applications. The participants include Internet business strategy firm …

LONDON-By the end of the year there are expected to be 16.7 million wireless portal end users in Europe’s top 15 markets, according to a study released by The Strategis …

LONDON-British mobile carrier Orange plc said it bought Ananova Ltd., a new media division that includes an animated Internet newscaster, for $142.5 million in cash from the U.K. Press Association. …

Any industry that converges with the Internet has seen its entire model be destroyed and rebuilt. Like a tidal wave, it crashes and levels the playing field. For many, this …

MALAYSIA-Telekom Malaysia launched Wireless Application Protocol services based on Motorola Inc.’s Mobile Internet Exchange platform, leveraging content from Telekom Multimedia, the Internet and multimedia division of Telekom Malaysia. The first …

NEW YORK-Telstra Corp., Australia’s dominant telecommunications provider, “hates to be considered an incumbent because we transitioned to a New Age company years ago,” said Philip Wise, managing director of its …

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. released the latest version of its Prism content delivery and transformation technology for wireless operators and content providers. Prism version 3.1 supports Extensible Markup Language, content sources …

NEW YORK-smartRay.com announced partnerships with seven national, international and regional carriers, including Nextel Communications Inc. Under terms of the agreement with Nextel, smartRay.com said it will provide Nextel’s wireless Internet …

Arch Communications Group Inc. launched its two-way messaging service this week, positioning the new service as far away from the old paging paradigm as possible by using the brand Webster …

LONDON-Sonera Zed Ltd. has agreed with Unilever and Hewlett-Packard Co. to test new mobile marketing solutions beginning in Finland this summer. “Mobile marketing is one of the areas in which …

BOSTON-A new report from consulting company Ovum advises current and potential players in the wireless market to develop wireless portal strategies and partnerships now and focus on the core aspects …

Palm Inc. introduced a wireless solution for its full line of personal digital assistants at PC Expo last week called the Mobile Internet Kit. The kit consists of a software …