Mobile Phones

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-A new survey confirms what has become painfully obvious in society: Americans have a love-hate relationship with cell phones. University of Michigan preliminary data found that while more …

DALLAS-Research and consulting firm Parks Associates said the mobile-phone industry is in a unique position to set digital rights management standards that will work for consumers and industry players. “Unlike …

NEW YORK-MusiKube announced a new deal with Shazam Entertainment to add audio recognition technology to its music recognition and discovery service. NMK Inc. is the company behind the MusiKube brand. …

WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile is hoping to drive text-messaging use by touting a Thumb Wrestling Championship next week in Miami. The contest, which kicks off Tuesday, is part of a month-long …

NEW ORLEANS-America Online Inc. announced deals with two U.S. wireless carriers. Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it is working with AOL to give Cingular Wireless customers easy access to AOL’s new …

Several handset makers and carriers have taken advantage of the spotlight of the CTIA show in New Orleans to release handset-related news this week. Cingular Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America …

A new survey confirms what has become painfully obvious in society: Americans have a love-hate relationship with cell phones. University of Michigan preliminary data found that while more than 80 …

NEW ORLEANS-Mobile music company mobZilla will use Coding Technologies to deliver streaming audio to mobile phones on the open-standard aacPlus format. The mobZilla subscription service offers streaming, commercial-free music to …

Xcelis Communications L.L.C. said it has revamped its call re-routing offering so that now the company will sell its Pantheon product to customers so they can re-route their own calls. …

David Steinberg stands as an example of the surplus of opportunity within wireless. As chief executive officer of Internet activation company InPhonic Inc., Steinberg has overseen the growth of the …

SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia’s first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology. …

Mforma Group Inc. is branching out from the wireless gaming arena and waltzing onto the crowded dance floor of mobile music. The Bellevue, Wash.-based entertainment publisher this week is expected …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Hoops hysteria hit mobile phones this week, as Sprint PCS launched an offering of voice tones from cacophonous college basketball commentator Dick Vitale and an ESPN-branded application based …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has unveiled a payment solution that simplifies the business model among content providers, mobile operators and consumers. Known as Internet Payment eXchange, the company said …

NEW YORK-Nearly half of the nation’s 10- to 18-year-olds own mobile phones and a vast majority are interested in handsets that double as music players or cameras, according to a …

A startup company today released a mobile phone designed specifically for 8- to 12-year-old children. “Why aren’t parents buying cell phones (for their children)? They’re such practical tools,” said Fred …

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says cell-phone use by drivers is on the rise. In 2004, according to a new NHTSA survey, approximately 8 percent of all motorists in …

KYOTO, Japan-Omron Corp. introduced a face-recognition technology it said can be implemented in personal digital assistants, mobile phones and other mobile devices with camera functions. The OKAO Vision Face Recognition …

TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. announced it formed a new design company, Renesas Design France S.A.S in Rennes, France, which the company said will develop and design baseband LSIs for phones. Renesas …

SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia’s first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology. …

LOS ANGELES-Music rights giant BMI said Wednesday it has licensed its portfolio to mobZilla for use with the mobile media company’s streaming music service. The partnership brings roughly 4.5 million …

Numbers show that the worldwide mobile-phone market increased to 674 million units in 2004, a 30-percent increase from sales in 2003. The research comes from Gartner Inc. and mirrors similar …

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today said cell-phone use by drivers is on the rise. In 2004, according to a new NHTSA survey, approximately 8 percent of all motorists …

KYOTO, Japan-Omron Corp. introduced a face-recognition technology it said can be implemented in personal digital assistants, mobile phones and other mobile devices with camera functions. The OKAO Vision Face Recognition …

MIDDLETOWN, R.I.-TowerStream said it has completed a one-month trial using mobile Voice over Internet Protocol over a Wi-Fi network in Middletown. The mobile broadband provider said it allowed VoIP phone …