Wireless consultancy probes mobile content consumption
By: By Jason Meyers
M:Metrics measures and quantifies data on application usage...
Mobile music: Huge in Europe
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.K. carrier Vodafone said recently its 3G Live service had sold 1 million individual full-track song downloads at 1.50 to 2 euros a pop since its launch...
The Golden Age of take-out TV
By: By Dan O'Shea
MobiTV has kicked off a still-unsteady evolution that could influence the futures of the mobile, TV and advertising industries...
Mforma charts mobile music service with Billboard
By: By Jason Ankeny
After last year's launch of its Hot Ringtones ranking, pop music chart publication Billboard officially is entering the mobile content space this week...
Anti-viral software takes to the air
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With viruses becoming an increasing threat over mobile networks, security companies have begun looking for ways to get their new mobile anti-viral software into handsets...
Danger’s Sidekick heads up the T-Mobile ladder
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile’s Sidekick is making its way to the T-Mobile motherland. Danger, which manufacturers the hiptop messaging handset, said today that T-Mobile Germany is adopting the device after observing its two-year run in its U.S. subsidiary...
RadioFrame to support Nextel iDEN network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After more than a year of silence, specialty base station vendor RadioFrame is making some big noise, announcing a huge deal with its old customer Nextel for a massive microcell deployment....
Verizon selects Starent's PDSN for EV-DO network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Starent Networks has landed a major contract with Verizon Wireless for its Packet Data Serving Node and home agent gear in Verizon's new 3G network as well as much of its current 1X footprint....
InPhonic launches Spanish-language MVNO
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wireless services provider InPhonic this week announced plans to launch Viva Liberty, a Spanish-language spinoff of its prepaid mobile virtual network operator service Liberty Wireless. ...
SBC expands Wi-Fi reach
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications has signed a roaming agreement with international Wi-Fi provider Airpath Wireless to increase the reach of SBC FreedomLink and a separate deal with Boingo Wireless to increase traffic on SBC's own Wi-Fi network....
Exclusive: Nokia courts T-Mobile for Preminet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile International is evaluating Nokia's Preminet content distribution service as a possible technology to augment its T-zones download center, an international repository of games, ringtones and other multimedia applications. ...
Publishing turns to wireless fo multimedia distribution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Random House invests in new delivery scheme for educational content...
Sprint debuts international handset
By: By Jason Ankeny
Sprint this week introduced its first digital quad-band handset, the Samsung-produced Sprint PCS International Phone IP-A790...
Sprint powers launch of MVNO targeting Hispanics
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced its latest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customer, Movida, a new wireless operator targeting mobile service at the 40 million Hispanics living in the U.S....
3GSM: Handango, Comverse penetrate BlackBerry
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Handango is targeting new customers on both sides of the Atlantic, announcing at the 3GSM World Congress new versions of its software download client for Blackberry and BenQ devices...
Boingo subscribers get Wi-Fi up high
By: By Jason Ankeny
Wi-Fi hot spot aggregator Boingo Wireless announced Wednesday a roaming agreement with Connexion by Boeing that will enable its Boingo Roaming System subscribers to connect to the wireless Internet in mid-air....
3GSM: NetTest launches new test and OSS solutions for wired and wireless networks
By: By Tim McElligott
Denmark's test and operations support system provider, NetTest, made some noise at 3GSM World Congress this week with several product launches including: a non-intrusive and intelligent KPI/KQI monitoring system for mobile and fixed operators called MetroQuest, a post-processing performance analysis solution for 3G operators called Compass 3G, and a new version of its MasterQuest OSS solution along with a new MasterQuest customer....
3GSM: IBM taps Nortel IMS solution
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Nortel Networks and IBM are joining forces for converged multimedia services, announcing today at the 3GSM World Congress that IBM will build its multimedia delivery platform off of Nortel's IP Multimedia Subsystem platform. ...
3GSM: Series 60 goes after Chinese market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Series 60 is making its debut in China, gaining a foothold in East Asia after years of being a European centric platform....
Nokia and Microsoft to launch cross-platform music service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Nokia and Microsoft set aside an old feud in mobile software today at the GSM World Congress to announce a mobile music service that will span both wireless and wireline networks, and integrate both into the Series 60 and Windows XP platforms....
Cingular and Motricity team on mobile content
By: By Jason Ankeny
Cingular Wireless announced today it has partnered with mobile content solutions provider Motricity to enhance the delivery of content, applications and games available via Cingular's MEdia Mall service. ...
3GSM: Oz launches branded e-mail over IM
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CANNES, FRANCE--Oz today at the GSM World Congress announced it has expanded its symbiotic relationship with the major IM providers to incorporate their e-mail services into its mobile instant messaging client...
End in sight for Nextel/Flarion trial
By: By Dan O'Shea
Nextel Communications has confirmed that it will end its one-year-old trial of Flarion Technologies’ FLASH-OFDM solution on June 30 to begin analyzing the data culled from the test before making any other decisions about deploying the technology...
Virgin Mobile USA reaches three million subs
By: By Jason Ankeny
Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA announced today it has surpassed the three million net subscriber mark, giving the company a 1.7% share of the U.S. wireless market...
Sprint gussies up for Valentine's Day
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Sprint has decided to paint some lipstick on its wireless network, offering "romance" oriented messaging and communication services. ...
