Content & Mobile Marketing

MONTEREY, Calif.-Ending months of speculation and veiled tension, Microsoft Corp. last week officially announced it joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, a move many see as effectively ending a microbrowser …

GENEVA-As any one of the tens of thousands of visitors who thronged the halls of February’s GSM World Congress knows, the latest word in GSM services is Wireless Application Protocol …

American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a service called eLink, a two-way wireless messaging application with integrated personal information manager functions. Using a modified version of the RIM 950 pager from …

Faced with an uncertain future and many difficult questions, members of the Paging Leadership Association met last month in Florida to determine how the industry should position itself in a …

Recently I have read a few opinions casting doubt on the value of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in today’s converging wireless and Internet industries. I consider these opinions to …

Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. has discussed our view of the prognosis for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in other e-mail briefings and in our white paper. We are often asked whether, …

Analysts last week hoped Motorola Inc. would shed some light in its earnings conference call on whether it will need to raise more money or take additional charges to cover …

Building on the convergence of voice and data networks, Wakefield, Mass.-based IPeria Inc. has developed an enhanced services platform designed to blend voice, fax, e-mail and video applications. The IPeria …

Metrocall Inc. may have gained a bit of a lead in the information services race last week, announcing the launch of OnTheGoInfo, a customizable suite of services using the i …

Qualcomm decides to sell its infrastructure division to archrival Ericsson. VLSI rejects Philips’ takeover bid, but says it will explore others. Four Canadian carriers join forces. Cable & Wireless and …

Canada’s telecom market saw major changes last week, as its four smallest telecom companies agreed to merge into one company and Bell Canada formed a strategic partnership with U.S.-based Ameritech …

Globalstar L.P. announced it successfully launched an additional four low-earth-orbit satellites on a Soyuz-Ikar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Globalstar now has 16 satellites in orbit. The total …

While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 “the year of wireless data,” few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year. In 1998, …

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson is testing a wireless financial information and transaction service with Dagens Industri AB, a leading business daily publication in Sweden. The test involves about 40 selected Internet brokerage …

In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week under which PageNet will resell BellSouth’s …

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., among others, have joined to create a standard that will allow users to access Web-based information via mobile or landline …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. last week signed agreements with LottoNet and Yahoo!, furthering its goal to provide various Internet-based information services to its paging subscribers. LottoNet is an Internet-based lottery information …

Competition in the mobile remote access space has begun to heat up of late, most notably as several companies have turned their attention to the same target-the corporate mobile businessman. …

CANNES, France-CNN Interactive last week announced at the GSM World Congress its CNN Mobile service, a mobile telephone news and information service using a platform it co-developed with Nokia Oy. …

While wireless data applications made a big splash at Wireless ’99 last week in New Orleans, a new company quietly slipped into the pool with the introduction of a new …

NEW ORLEANS-1999 could be a key year for many carriers in determining if wireless users want to access the Internet from mobile devices. Nextel Communications Inc. announced it will begin …

In a move designed to further its interests in the wireless environment, Microsoft Corp. announced it has formed an agreement with British Telecommunications plc to develop a set of services …

NEW ORLEANS-Spyglass Inc. released version 2.2 of its Prism platform for converting Internet content into formats that can be displayed on mobile phones. The most significant advancement of Prism 2.2 …

NEW YORK-Wave Systems Corp., San Jose, Calif., may possess some important answers to questions wireless carriers have about reducing customer-service costs, promoting prepaid calling and data communications and capitalizing on …

DENVER-WirelessKnowledge L.L.C., the joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., said it will announce at Wireless ’99 this week significant additions to its recently introduced Revolv service. “The main …