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SAN FRANCISCO-The wireless industry reported 25.2 million new subscribers, its largest one-year addition of new subscribers in its more than 20-year commercial history, according to CTIA’s semi-annual industry survey released this week at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment Show. …

The high-flying mobile content industry is experiencing some turbulence as two leading content providers issued sobering announcements. Disappointing earnings from its content business led VeriSign Inc. to lower its third-quarter revenue forecast late Thursday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company expects …

The wireless industry reported 25.2 million new subscribers, its largest one-year addition of new subscribers in its more than 20-year commercial history, according to CTIA’s semi-annual industry survey released this week at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment Show. Steve …

Third-party content provider Jamster! has once again come under fire as an independent U.K. regulator upheld nearly 300 consumer complaints about the company. Jamster!, a subsidiary of VeriSign Inc., failed to block the publication of a scathing rebuke from the …

WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic senators said they are close to introducing legislation to overhaul the nation’s emergency-alert system to take advantage of cell phones, the Internet and other widely used digital communications technologies. The lead sponsor, according to lawmakers, will …

SAN DIEGO-Eloqui Wireless has launched One Voice Technologies Inc.’s MobileVoice service to its subscribers, according to One Voice. Eloqui is making the service available in its stores beginning this week. The service includes voice dialing, group conference calling, and reading …

FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies Inc., which provides mobile data solutions, said it signed new wireless messaging contracts with Blue Wireless, CC Communications and Nex-Tech Wireless. Blue Wireless offers local and long-distance wireless services in New York and Pennsylvania. The company …

Internet search giant Google Inc. is continuing its stealth move into wireless with the acquisition of software developer Android Inc., the company confirmed this week. The acquisition raised industry eyebrows due to Android’s wealth of talent and veil of secrecy. …

SINGAPORE-Wireless carrier MobileOne Ltd. plans to launch a new short voice messaging service concept to its customers in Singapore. BubbleTALK, which is a product of a collaboration between M1 and L.M. Ericsson, allows callers to leave a short voice message …

SEATTLE-Mobile marketing and media solutions company Mobliss Corp. will provide technology for a short message service voting campaign for CBS’ reality series “Rock Star: INXS.” The show is a contest to find the next lead singer of the band INXS. …

Motorola Inc. is in the process of rolling out a new user interface the company hopes will take it into the multimedia age. “We’re not building a phone; we’re building a mobile communications device,” said Doug Walston, director of Motorola’s …

PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. entered the mobile content space via an agreement with InProdicon AB, which distributes digital content in the Nordic region. The agreement between Brightpoint Sweden AB and InProdicon calls for the companies to launch a new Web site …

PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. entered the mobile content space via an agreement with InProdicon AB, which distributes digital content in the Nordic region. The agreement between Brightpoint Sweden AB and InProdicon calls for the companies to launch a new Web site …

NEW YORK-MTV Networks is developing an in-house text-messaging platform that will deliver content from the company’s cable channels to U.S. wireless users. The Viacom network is planning to offer cross-carrier polling, alerts and sweepstakes from the MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, …

MUNICH, Germany-Infineon Technologies AG announced sample availability of its first reference design for low-cost handsets. The company said costs for GSM handsets with short message service functionality could be cut in half, to below $20, using its new ULC reference …

Faced with increasingly crowded shelf space on carrier decks, content providers are gaining traction by marketing directly to U.S. consumers with Web-based storefronts of their own. And carriers are slowly warming to the idea. Off-portal marketing of ringtones, wallpapers and …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The long-awaited market for wireless location-based services may finally be around the corner, according to two analyst reports this week. Citing Sprint PCS’ recent introduction of an operator-assisted direction-finding service, ABI Research said operators’ efforts to push LBS …

SINGAPORE-Mobile 365 has inked deals to provide text messaging delivery and data services with six Asian operators since January, the company said. Using the CommunicAsia 2005 conference as a backdrop, the company announced partnerships with carriers such as Pakistan’s Paktel …

CHINA Electronics manufacturing services company Flextronics said it will score more than $550 million in upfront cash payments from the sale of its network and semiconductor businesses. AMIS Holdings Inc. will buy the company’s semiconductor business, and as previously announced, …

BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom-Motorola Ventures announced an undisclosed strategic investment in Anam Mobile, a messaging infrastructure provider for short message service and multimedia messaging service (MMS) delivery platforms. The investment arm of the world’s No. 2 handset provider cited Anam’s patented …

SINGAPORE-Mobile 365 has inked deals to provide text messaging delivery and data services with six Asian operators since January, the company said Wednesday. Using the CommunicAsia 2005 conference as a backdrop, the company announced partnerships with carriers such as Pakistan’s …

NEW YORK-Comverse announced its LifeLog product that stores mobile-oriented personal data on networks. LifeLog allows subscribers to upload, manage and share mobile content, including pictures, video clips, contacts and messages, on a network-based storage system. The product allows customers to …

CHICAGO-Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. said it has tapped VeriSign Inc. to provide content and messaging interoperability services for the carrier’s 1.6 million subscribers. VeriSign will offer its library of more than 50,000 ringtones, images, games and community services under the …

CHICAGO-Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. said it has tapped VeriSign Inc. to provide content and messaging interoperability services for the carrier’s 1.6 million subscribers. VeriSign will offer its library of more than 50,000 ringtones, images, games and community services under the …

SEATTLE-Multimedia messaging service activity continued to grow at an impressive clip in April, with nearly 8 percent of U.S. wireless users sending photos from their handsets to another phone or e-mail address, according to mobile usage measurement firm M:Metrics. The …