Content & Mobile Marketing

How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless phones can cater to the less …

MIAMI-Tiaxa launched its panregional wireless Internet portal in Latin America, offering wireless phone users personalized, location-sensitive mobile Internet services. The company noted it can capitalize on the region’s adoption and …

BEIJING-Sina.com, an Internet media and services company geared toward the Chinese community, signed separate memoranda of understanding agreements with L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Siemens in China to deliver content …

SignalSoft Steven Adams was appointed vice president of operations for SignalSoft Corp., a developer of wireless location services. Adams will oversee product deployment and installation, product technical support and customer …

DENVER-MobileLogic reported a software licensing agreement with Aether Software, the products division of Aether Systems Inc., to provide MobileLogic customers the ability to securely “mobilize” Web content for Palm handheld …

STAMFORD, Conn.-Wireless media solutions provider i3 Mobile reported an agreement to incorporate directory information from InfoUSA.com into its wireless content and mobile commerce services. According to i3 Mobile, the service …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-MobileEngines Inc., a mobile application service provider, reported content partnerships with five entertainment brands: Breaktv.com, Hollywood.com, Mojam.com, Musicblitz and Onlinehiphop.com. Under the partnerships, MobileEngines will power mobile entertainment …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a supplier of software and systems for network-based enhanced services, won a contract from Guangdong Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. to provide its mobile data systems enabling …

DALLAS-CNN Interactive and ATX Technologies Inc. have agreed to make CNN Mobile content and services available to ATX’s telematics customers later this year as a part of a bundled package …

CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. announced the U.S. patent office has allowed Cell-Loc to claim as its property the delivery of handset-based wireless location content and services over the Internet, regardless of …

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. reported it has purchased equipment and developed a strategic alliance in anticipation of launching wireless Internet services later this year. A company spokesman said Dobson will …

DENVER-Daniels & Associates, a global provider of financial services to media, Internet and telecommunications companies, named Kevin Brynestad and David Tolliver senior vice presidents. Brynestad will provide corporate finance services …

Solectron Corp. completed its acquisition of Americom Wireless Services, a privately held company specializing in wireless handset repair and refurbishment and outsourced technical customer-support services. Solectron, a supply-chain facilitator of …

NEW YORK-MobileSys Inc. commercially debuted today a new global data roaming product that allows encrypted information to be exchanged between corporate enterprises and wireless devices that use different networks. “Now, …

They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors. All …

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. …

Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, the exclusive provider of online ticketing for Ticketmaster Corp., will begin providing its services wirelessly this week with help from NeoPoint Inc. and what it calls “local intelligence.” …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced a nationwide advertising program that allows e-marketing service provider CoolSavings to extend its content to Metrocall’s messaging devices using the company’s Preview Channel information service. Metrocall’s …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. launched its Mobile Site service as a complement to its existing Mobile ASP solution. Mobile Site pulls data from a Web site and reformats it for wireless …

NEW YORK-Portable Life, Cupertino, Calif., launched a Web site May 3 intended to provide a portal to a variety of information sources related to portable and mobile electronic devices. The …

While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the wireless Internet experience, and not all …

OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to “kick the barn door open” to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet …

Reuters Group plc and Aether Systems Inc. launched their Sila Communications European wireless data joint venture, created to host, design and manage content and services for wireless customers. Headquartered in …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The commercialization of mobile data services continues its headlong rush as cellular operators look to differentiate themselves in the market. The heavy promotion of an ever-increasing portfolio of …

LONDON-The wireless sector in the Middle East is still widely accepted as a vibrant and growing market, with the wireless Internet and several wireless trade shows coming on the scene. …