Content & Mobile Marketing

BURLINGTON, Mass.-A new study compiled by research and consulting firm Ovum reports that although voice traffic will continue to dominate the communications market, the growing demand for information services and …

AirFlash.com Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley start-up firm, has created a service bureau called AirFlash, taking a somewhat different approach to the wireless portal market. The company is offering …

MONTE CARLO, Monaco-Seemingly lost in the breakneck expansion of the cellular industry is a largely forgotten fact-it was cellular operators wanting a common digital voice standard that drove the rapid …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the drive to implement Internet e-commerce is being hyped almost on a daily basis, with some justification, as the way forward for almost all future business transactions, …

MELBOURNE, Australia-In a bid to revive Australia’s flagging paging market, Hutchison Telecom has launched a new data broadcasting network using the VHF band and Motorola’s FLEX protocol. The new system …

Global Mobility Systems has partnered with Internet infrastructure company InfoSpace.com to provide Internet content to wireless phones using Global Mobility’s @mobile Internet portal. Under the agreement, InfoSpace.com will deliver Web …

NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus ’99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year …

Geoworks Corp. last week introduced its Discopro.com free mobile information service, which delivers discount and promotional messages to subscribers’ pagers or text-enabled phones. Interested users select which participating retailers they …

Geoworks Corp. said it provided the engineering expertise behind a new handset from Seiko Epson Corp. of Japan, called the Locatio. The multi-purpose phone combines Personal Handyphone System technology with …

Last week proved a significantly productive one for wireless data service bureau provider Saraide.com as the company acquired a value-added service provider in Europe and received a $5.5 million investment …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to hold field hearings in rural America on the best ways to connect those areas of the country to the Information Superhighway. For one thing, …

Scandinavian Softline to license WAP HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavian Softline Technology has agreed to license Nokia Corp.’s Wireless Application Protocol technology to deliver value-added data solutions for wireless carriers. SST has developed …

Geoworks Corp., adding yet another new business focus, has embarked on a crusade to elevate the wireless environment to the broadcast advertising status of television and radio. The company revealed …

Microsoft Corp. launched its MSN Mobile service, a wireless extension of its MSN.com Internet portal that allows customers to receive their information services on pagers, cell phones and other wireless …

The future is convergence. The future is data. The future is 3G. Now that the Operators Harmonization Group has approved a plan to harmonize wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. and Aether Technologies Inc. have formed a new company called OpenSky, created to extend corporate intranet and Internet-based information to wireless devices using the Palm Computing …

SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun’s Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com’s Palm …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has converted stores in Oklahoma City; Tulsa, Okla.; Portland, Ore.; and Boise, Idaho, to its new Centers of Excellence infrastructure, joining those in Salt Lake …

Another U.S. mobile phone carrier has announced definitive plans to commercially launch Internet access during the fourth quarter. Code Division Multiple Access operator Sprint PCS said it has signed an …

UNITED KINGDOM ICO Global Communications Ltd. said it has commenced a rights offering that will permit shareholders to purchase up to approximately 207.6 million ordinary shares of ICO at $5 …

A front-page story in USA Today several weeks ago introduced a new technology called electronic ink, marketed by a company called E Ink, and paging technology just may be what …

While paging carriers work to upgrade their network technology to fit the advanced messaging paradigm, several also are working to upgrade the services available on their networks, namely content. For …

Microsoft Corp. gave some legitimacy to the wireless Internet access arena last week with its $600 million investment in Nextel Communications Inc. and an agreement that gives Nextel customers access …

MONTEREY, Calif.-Wireless data industry leaders met in Monterey, Calif., earlier this month to discuss further actions needed to capitalize on the momentum the long-fledgling market has been able to create …

The buzz phrase of the wireless data industry this year is Internet portal, and AvantGo Inc. hopes to capitalize on this attention by introducing a free interactive Internet service called …