Text Messaging

The legal chess battle between BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. and patent-holding company NTP Inc. continues, with new patent rulings from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office bolstering RIM’s position in the case. The patent office rejected four of …

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 …

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 …

ESPOO, Finland-Finnish mobile virtual network operator Saunalahti selected Nokia to provide equipment for converged networks that will allow Saunalahti to offer services like Voice over Internet Protocol and multimedia to mobile and fixed telephony customers. Nokia said its gear will …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-A new multimedia messaging service interoperability agreement will allow Verizon Wireless and Leap Wireless International Inc. subscribers to exchange photos and video clips, the carriers said. The service is powered by wireless messaging company Mobile 365, which supports the …

LONDON-Following what it termed extensive customer research and feedback, Vodafone Group plc launched its Vodafone Simply service, which the carrier said provides customers with basic voice and text messaging services along with a simplified pricing scheme. Vodafone said the service …

Verizon Wireless announced an agreement with Clear Channel Entertainment Properties to broadcast concert footage of Velvet Revolver, Avril Lavigne, the Moody Blues and other artists. The carrier added a channel to its Vcast service that will feature rotating performances from …

WASHINGTON-South Korea’s National Emergency Management Agency said it will expand cell-broadcast disaster alerts to cover the whole country. NEMA said the initiative has enabled mobile-phone subscribers to get information on typhoons, tsunami and other disasters on a real-time basis with …

Struggling to shore up decreasing revenues from voice usage, U.S. carriers agreed last October to a set of messaging guidelines they said would allow them to be MMS-interoperable by the end of 2004. While the target date is long past, …

Following what it termed extensive customer research and feedback, Vodafone Group plc launched its Vodafone Simply service, which the carrier said provides customers with basic voice and text messaging services along with a simplified pricing scheme. Vodafone said the service …

Hop-on.com Inc. reported plans to launch a prepaid mobile virtual network operator service using its low-cost handsets and airtime purchased from an unnamed “major” wireless operator. According to the company’s Web site, the service, which is scheduled to launch June …

Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Travel Time roaming service allowing Cricket customers to use their phones outside of native calling areas on a prepaid basis. Customers can sign up for the service with a $5 Flex Bucket account with …

LONDON-Arttu Harkki, who set the Guinness World Record for texting in 2001, helped PalmOne Inc. launch its Treo 650 smart phone in the U.K. market by attempting to break the record for typing an e-mail on a phone using a …

ATLANTA-Fans of the WB Network’s “One Tree Hill” can influence one of the show’s storylines with a new promotion from Cingular Wireless. Cingular subscribers watching tonight’s episode are encouraged to vote via text messaging on whether one character should kiss …

Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. filed plans for a $690 million initial public offering last week, a further sign that the financial drought of the past few years is slowly washing away. Indeed, companies across the economic spectrum are seeing the …

Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. hopes to raise up to $690 million in an initial public offering, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company filed for the ticker symbol NSTR. NeuStar manages telephone area codes and …

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless together with Telescope Inc. announced a new premium short message service chat function for fans of the television show “American Idol.” The companies are offering two chat services during this season of “American Idol.” The first, Idol Chat, …

ARLINGTON, Texas-The University of Texas said it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 14 electronic manufacturers. The university claims the companies infringed on a patented method that allows text messaging through a standard telephone keypad. The lawsuit, which charges …

TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, …

NEW ORLEANS-Carriers’ efforts to increase wireless data revenues took a big step forward this week at CTIA Wireless 2005 as the nation’s two largest carriers quietly confirmed their networks are multimedia message service interoperable. Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless said …

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 promotion including free text messaging for Virgin subscribers between 8 …

In the world of digital marketing, Will Hodgman sees himself as a kind of safe-cracker. Hodgman was the marketing savvy behind AdRelevance, a Seattle-based firm he co-founded with University of Washington computer science professor Dan Weld. AdRelevance quickly established itself …

Device news continued at a flushed pace with Motorola Inc. releasing details on its iTunes phone, Hop-on announcing a $36 handset, Sanyo Corp. offering an innovative new messaging product, and U.S. mobile virtual network operator Boost Mobile going “old school” …

WASHINGTON-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly will ask the country’s top health official to investigate whether cell phones pose health risks to consumers. According to news reports circulating in the Indian press, Congress Member of Parliament Murli Deora recently met …

Starting Thursday Cingular Wireless will send text messages to all of its 46 million customers, giving them a chance to make $1 or $2 donations to the Asian tsunami disaster relief effort, charges that will appear on their monthly bills. …