BROWSING: Jamdat

MANKATO, Minn.-Rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless launched a range of entertainment applications and communications services on its recently deployed CDMA2000 1x network using Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform.The applications will include games like Fury of the Hulk, Jamdat Bowling, Tom Clancy Rainbow Six and Tetris;...

Content provider Handango expanded its library of wireless applications to include more than 10,000 ring tones and graphics, a move that places the company squarely in the wireless industry and a strategy that some think could create a significant business in the near future."There...

Consolidation on the wireless content front continued its unrelenting pace, with gaming company Iomo purchasing rival Covert Operations Ltd. for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock."The mobile entertainment industry is growing at a tremendous rate, and a lot of consolidation has occurred over...

Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...

LOS ANGELES-Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about...

SAN DIEGO, United States-Industry players trumpeted a range of new applications and technologies for Qualcomm's BREW download service in conjunction with the company's developer conference here, but some attendees also raised concerns about elements of the BREW system.Although Qualcomm released worldwide usage numbers for...

SAN DIEGO-Industry players trumpeted a range of new applications and technologies for Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW download service in conjunction with the company's developer conference here, but some attendees also raised concerns over elements of the BREW system.Although Qualcomm released worldwide usage numbers for its...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it plans to launch multiplayer wireless games in early April that will allow customers to compete against each other from anywhere on the carrier's network.Initial titles will include Mforma's Alien Fight Club and Multiplayer Bowling, Jamdat Mobile's Bejeweled Multiplayer,...

LOS ANGELES-Wireless entertainment publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. will be the company behind much of Verizon Wireless' new "The Lord of the Rings" promotion, developing the games, images and ring tones for the promotion.Jamdat licensed the movie franchise from New Line Cinema. The applications will...

LOS ANGELES-Wireless entertainment publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. announced it purchased multiplayer gaming technology from DemiVision L.L.C., a wireless technology companyUnder the deal, Jamdat gains exclusive access to DemiVision's gaming technology for developing and hosting interactive, client-server based wireless games."Jamdat's existing multiplayer platform provides a...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Analyst predictions of a groundswell in wireless gaming seem to be coming true, with a variety of companies making gaming-related announcements.Perhaps the most important news comes from Sprint PCS, which is continuing to expand its application portfolio for its new Vision network....

LOS ANGELES—Wireless gaming company Jamdat Mobile Inc. announced it teamed with the interactive software company Electronic Arts Inc. to jointly publish EA's PGA Tour and FIFA World Cup 2002 for wireless devices.

SEATTLE and LOS ANGELES—The amount of wireless Internet content continues to move ahead at Warp speed, as two companies announced major new releases.First, Jamdat Mobile Inc. announced the release of Gladiator II: Quest for Freedom, the sequel to perhaps the industry's most popular wireless...

NEW YORK-Unplugged Games Inc., founded last year with $2 million in venture financing, made public May 15 an agreement reached last month to supply AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital PocketNet customers with interactive games for multiple players.The New York-based start-up began offering "a limited...

LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety of companies, both large and small, announced their wireless gaming plans to take advantage...

According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users in the United States and Europe, 80 percent of all wireless customers, will play...

In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology that will allow third-party users to write applications for mobile phones from a variety of vendors.The product, known as Binary...

Less than a week after introducing a new suite of messaging services targeted in part to teen users, Sprint PCS introduced a new package of wireless Internet-based games to its Wireless Web service.The move is targeted at capitalizing on two wireless trends-increasing teen usage...