BROWSING: wireless entertainment

Two years ago, the wireless gaming market in the United States comprised a few tiny start-ups selling a handful of black-and-white, text-based games. The wireless gaming market today is a multimillion-dollar industry with dozens of players and literally thousands of games.Consolidation is rampant. Earnings...

The wireless content business continues its rapid consolidation as two major U.S. players announced international acquisitions.The moves are the latest indication that wireless entertainment and application companies are no longer content to serve domestic markets.First, wireless entertainment heavyweight Mforma Group Inc. announced it purchased...

How's this for a blockbuster business plan: wireless streaming video combined with the day's top news combined with naked women? At least that's the scheme laid out between Internet and TV news company Naked News and The Netherlands-based wireless technology company Icemobile BV. The...

The wireless content business continues its rapid consolidation as two major U.S. players announced international acquisitions. The moves are the latest indication that wireless entertainment and application companies are no longer content to serve domestic markets.First, wireless entertainment heavyweight Mforma Group Inc. announced it...

NEW YORK-What do rapper Snoop Dogg and homerun hitter Barry Bonds have in common? Both are going mobile.Under a new deal with wireless media company Zingy, Snoop Dogg will sell exclusive ring tones, ring-back tones and voicemail greetings to wireless users in the United...

HELSINKI, Finland-Motion picture licensing continues to play a major role in the wireless gaming market as players scramble for the rights to upcoming blockbusters including "Spider-Man 2," "I, Robot" and "Van Helsing." Games based on such heavily promoted movies generally enjoy better sales, but...

Following a spate of merger-and-acquisition news on the wireless content front, companies now are announcing further deals and offerings in the space.First, wireless entertainment publisher Mobile Scope said it expanded its licensing deal with Twentieth Century Fox with the rights to the "Die Hard"...

The Simpsons. King of the Hill. The X-Files. Aliens. Predator. Ice Age. 24. The Rocky Horror Picture Show."There's a lot of stuff that can be used for wireless," said Jim Beddows, vice president of wireless entertainment for 20th Century Fox's licensing and merchandizing division.Beddows'...

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Activity continues in the wireless content and application market, with Verizon Wireless, Twentieth Century Fox and others making new announcements.Verizon Wireless announced new Get It Now applications from Dwango Wireless and Vindigo Studios, further fleshing out its BREW application download service. Dwango's new...

NEW YORK-Music and TV fans will soon have new outlets for their tastes through a series of new announcements in the wireless space.First, Crisp Wireless announced a new music application for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. customers with Nokia Corp. 3300 music phones. The application...

Music and TV fans will soon have new outlets for their tastes through a series of new announcements in the wireless space.First, Crisp Wireless announced a new music application for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. customers with Nokia Corp. 3300 music phones. The application features...

LOS ANGELES-Wireless entertainment company Jamdat Mobile Inc. scored $11 million in its latest round of venture funding. Benchmark Capital, Apax Partners, Qualcomm Inc., Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. participated in the round."The worldwide market for wireless entertainment hit an inflection point in 2003,...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-A new survey finds that the needs of wireless users are slowly diverging into various market segments, and that network operators and devices makers will have to segment their products in order to target each new user group."The consumer and business worlds are...

DENVER-The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among recent news:c Wireless gaming...

The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among the recent news:Wireless gaming...

Wireless operators in Europe and elsewhere have begun gearing up for potential problems associated with wireless porn, as U.K. telecom regulators field complaints from concerned parents-but the issue has not yet reached U.S. shores. And some analysts believe U.S. carriers will likely adopt an...

Moviso scored an exclusive, one-year licensing agreement in the United States to offer wireless content based on the highly touted summer movie "The Hulk." The company launched a Web site to sell the content in conjunction with the release of the movie, offering ring...

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...

MIAMI-Nextones.com signed a distribution agreement with Wireless Entertainment Services Finland Ltd. to bring Playboy Playmates graphics to cell phones in the United States.Nextones.com said the initial portfolio will include more than 50 Playboy-branded graphics, including the Playboy rabbit head design and Playboy Playmates of...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Research and advisory firm Analysys predicted that downloadable wireless games will become so popular in Western Europe that in just three years they will replace ring tones as the area's most popular wireless entertainment service.The firm said that mobile games offer the...

LOS ANGELES-Verizon Wireless and New Line Cinema announced they will partner to launch a range of promotions in conjunction with the movie studio's highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings movies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Under the two-year new deal, Verizon will...

Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Meanwhile, wireless application publisher Moviso L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA,...

NEW YORK-Sony Music Entertainment acquired wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Sony's move underscores the rapidly growing importance of the ring tone business and the wireless industry in...

DENVER, United States-Santa's helpers will be able to stuff stockings with a new gift this year-wireless data.U.K.-based wireless entertainment and publishing company Digital Bridges plans to sell packaged, prepaid ring tones through a major U.S. retailer by the end of the year, with wireless...