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Nokia, Cricket, Turner Broadcasting join marketing group

BOULDER, Colo.—The Mobile Marketing Association continued to expand its roster, adding 27 member companies from five countries. The industry organization signed up traditional media companies including the Associated Press, National Public Radio, NBA Media Ventures L.L.C. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. as well as...

GPS, Wi-Fi teaming up for location services

Growth of the wireless location-pinpointing industry is evident with a flurry of company announcements. Boston-based Skyhook Wireless said it raised $6.5 million in its first round of Series B financing. The metro Wi-Fi location systems provider said Bain Capital Ventures led the round, along...

Time Warner invests $7.5M in Glu

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Time Warner Inc. is the latest media giant to join the stampede to the "third screen" with a $7.5 million investment in wireless game maker Glu Mobile. The stake was part of a $27.5 million haul in Series D financing for Glu...

Time Warner invests $7.5M in Glu

Time Warner Inc. is the latest media giant to join the stampede to the "third screen" with a $7.5 million investment in wireless game maker Glu Mobile. The stake was part of a $27.5 million haul in Series D financing for Glu (formerly Sorrent...

As VoIP evolves, MOP lurks in the shadows

For all the play Voice over Internet Protocol snags in the wireless arena, a new and broader technology is lurking to gulp it up. Media over packet technology, as it is called, will also threaten to make multimedia messaging services obsolete. But its arrival...

Chinese content firm has strong IPO on Nasdaq

SHANGHAI, China-Chinese wireless content company Linktone Ltd. made an impressive debut in its Nasdaq initial public offering, with share prices soaring as high as $19.50 per share.The company offers ring tones, icons, screen savers and messaging services through China Mobile and China Unicom, and...

Chinese content firm has strong IPO on Nasdaq

SHANGHAI, China-Chinese wireless content company Linktone Ltd. made an impressive debut in its Nasdaq initial public offering, with share prices soaring as high as $19.50 per share.The company offers ring tones, icons, screen savers and messaging services through China Mobile and China Unicom, and...

Sony Ericsson expands portfolio with new product launches

Following its solid earnings and its retrieval of the No. 5 handset maker slot, Sony Ericsson released a range of new phones and devices, including a unique toy racecar that mobile-phone users can control through Bluetooth technology.Sony Ericsson's range of new announcements spanned the...

Democrats to craft bill to help public-safety interoperability

WASHINGTON-House Democrats are preparing a bill that would give first responders access to spectrum to help with interoperable communications."Democrats will fight to ensure that first responders will have the equipment they need to respond to terrorist attacks. We will ensure that first responders have...

Democrats to craft bill to help public-safety interoperability

WASHINGTON-House Democrats are preparing a bill that would give first responders access to spectrum to help with interoperable communications."Democrats will fight to ensure that first responders will have the equipment they need to respond to terrorist attacks. We will ensure that first responders have...

SDR technical advances may be outweighed by revenue drops

Software-defined radios may be the answer to today's interoperability issues, but carriers and handset makers do not seem overly enthused about adopting the technology because the technological advances gained from SDR may hurt their business models.Why? Because SDR gives "too much flexibility to the...

It’s only a game-but a complicated one: European gaming market cautiously plays out

OXFORD, United Kingdom-If you believe the latest predictions from the handset manufacturers and market research firms, then mobile gaming is set to become a major business for mobile operators.Nokia is actively attempting to pull together the various technologies, content providers and operators to make...

Motorola signs cross-platform agreement with AOL Time Warner

NEW YORK—Motorola said it has signed a cross-platform agreement to allow it to market popular AOL Time Warner content and services through mobile and instant messaging solutions.The U.S.-based company will license Warner Bros. content like Looney Tunes characters for ring tones, screen savers and...

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AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...

Applicants listed for Dec. 12 PCS re-auction

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday released the list of applicants to participate in the re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses, scheduled for Dec. 12.The FCC accepted 44 applications, including Alltel Communications Inc. and Cook Inlet/VoiceStream Wireless Corp., and told 66 other entities-including...

Wireless Internet content providers struggle to find comfort spot

Being the new kid on the block is always a challenge. Besides trying to keep your own sense of identity, there is the pressure of trying to fit in to an unnatural surrounding that may or may not receive you graciously.A few years ago,...

Wireless-only funds track industry

NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive.The daily whipsawing of the Nasdaq, where the stocks of many high technology companies trade, may obscure but does not...

D.C. NOTES: Oy vey

While Steve Case, Gerald Levin and Ted Turner were cartwheeling last week over AOL's planned purchase of Time Warner, others were not jumping for joy over this or anything else digital.A world away, in Jerusalem, top ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis pulled the plug on the...

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FIRM RADISYS EXPANDS INTO TELECOM

NEW YORK-RadiSys closed March 1 on a $28 million purchase of IBM Corp.'s Arctic business, the first of up to 10 acquisitions the Hillsboro, Ore., company plans during the next three years, primarily to bolster its presence in telecommunications."Our first interest is telecommunications-base stations,...

CNN TEAMS WITH NOKIA TO DELIVER NEWS ON PHONES

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. The service will allow consumers to get text-based CNN news on their handsets, and...

BATTERY BUSINESS EVOLVES FROM ONE ACRONYM TO ANOTHER

NEW YORK-Nickel cadmium batteries, long the mainstay of rechargeable power sources for wireless phones, are fading fast into handset history.Today, nickel metal hydride batteries are emerging at the top of the charts, but this ranking may not last too long. Lithium ion technology, a...

U.S. DIGITAL CHANGES CHANNELS TO BECOME IRIDIUM DISTRIBUTOR

NEW YORK-U.S. Digital Communications Inc., Calabasas, Calif., is a classic example in action of the old saying, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going."After seven years of bad luck trying to develop and market Web TV under the name of VisCorp, the...

U S WEST’S PETITION TO BLOCK TIME WARNER-TURNER DENIED

NEW YORK - The Delaware Chancery Court has denied a petition from U S West Inc. to stop the merger of Time Warner Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc.U S West made a $2.5 billion investment in a strategic partnership with Time Warner called...

EON PLANS NATIONAL FOOTPRINT TO SEIZE IVDS MARKET

Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging interactive video and data services market.Having completed its research and development program for its...