Putting the mobile in mobile gaming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile games still may be isolated on the phone, but the industry is finally ready to get connected. (Photo by Fred Prouser/Reuters/Landov)...
Cash: Cold, hard and electronic
By: By Tim McElligott
Somewhere between dependency on and freedom from paper money lies the utility and potential of mobile payments...
Clearinghouse consolidator
By: By Dan O'Shea
There probably was not too much new business to be had at the recent Broadband Wireless World conference in Las Vegas. However, the hardcore attendees checking out every last booth would have found a new player in wireless roaming transactions BSG Clearing Solutions...
Enter the content kings
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp'd Mobile and Mobile ESPN have been up and running for only a few months, but they've already created the model that many of the new-breed MVNOs are likely to follow. The model? Content rules...
AOL to resell Clearwire service
By: By Dan O'Shea
Broadband wireless service provider Clearwire and Internet giant AOL have announced an agreement to offer broadband access under the "AOL High Speed - Powered by Clearwire" banner in four of Clearwire's existing markets....
RIM targets small business; Nokia releases BlackBerry alternative
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion has launched a small-business version of its server software, making it available as a free download to any customer purchasing a new BlackBerry device. But the wireless e-mail provider is facing increased competition in the terminal space...
Helio launches, targeting the young tech-savvy
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The EarthLink/SK Telecom venture Helio officially launched today, opening its Web portal to orders for its high-dollar technology-focused service...
Disney Mobile goes to Britain
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Walt Disney Company is taking its new mobile virtual network operator offering over the Atlantic, announcing today it will launch a U.K. version of its family-focused wireless service over O2's GSM networks....
Sprint launches SMS-to-landline
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today launched a new SMS service that allows customers to send a text message to a landline phone. ...
Mobile TV hits NAB
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobility took the normally more TV-oriented National Association of Broadcasters conference by storm today, as a slew of mobile TV announcements from service providers, vendors and media companies signaled wireless's debut into the broadcasting industry....
Nextlink revisits shelved spectrum
By: Dan O'Shea
The first broadband wireless revolution flamed out as quickly as it started. However, another is resurfacing this week, as XO Holdings christens a new broadband wireless subsidiary...
Post-Wireless 2006, attention shifts to gaming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
TV and music may have stolen the limelight at CTIA's Wireless 2006 this month, but the third pillar of mobile multimedia--gaming--was well-represented...
Mobile TV network No. 3 emerges
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Aloha Partners prepares to launch Hiwire with partner SES-Americom...
Kodiak takes on India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While Kodiak Networks has been touting its push-to-talk solution in the U.S. and Europe, it has found a ripe market for an entirely different type of service in South Asia....
Wireless turning green for Earth Day
By: By Tim McElligott
If Americans follow through on their good intentions, 42% of them, plan to do something in support of Earth Day, which is observed around the world on April 22...
Alltel unveils mother of all free calling plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel is joining the growing number of carriers that are embracing free calling plans, but the service it announced today, called “My Circle,” goes further than any carrier so far has taken the concept...
Wireless veteran back in First Mile
By: By Carol Wilson
R. Stanley Allen has been around wireless communications for a long time. He believes fixed wireless access will soon enjoy a major resurgence in the local market....
InPhonic partners with Amazon
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InPhonic today is partnering with its biggest resale competitor Amazon.com, announcing today that it will take over the wireless service storefront of the country’s largest e-tailer...
Southern Telecom, First Mile team on Atlanta wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
Wholesale infrastructure provider Southern Telecom is teaming up with wireless operator First Mile Communications to bring new wireless broadband services to businesses in Atlanta. ...
World Cup to debut on Vcast
By: By Kevin Fitchard
One of the biggest drivers of mobile video in other regions of the world is now making its way to the states. Soccer--or football, as it is known everywhere else--is landing on the Verizon Wireless deck as the carrier has extended its agreement with Univision to air video clips, recaps and commentary of all 64 games of the FIFA World Cup in Germany over the Vcast 3G service....
Sprint offers family tracking service
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint is taking a page from one of its MVNOs' books, announcing today that the carrier will be offering the family tracking service it is enabling for Disney Mobile over its own Sprint and Nextel services...
Convergys and Visage behind Disney Mobile launch
By: By Tim McElligott
Now that Disney Mobile introduced itself as the newest--and most functionally interesting--mobile virtual network operator on the block, those enabling the entertainment giant's service, such as Convergys and Visage Mobile, are taking their bows....
CTIA: Cingular, MySpace to make original ringtones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Cingular and MySpace today kicked off the Mobile Music Studio, an online portal that will allow any of MySpace’s thousands of bands to submit their original music for conversion into a ringtone...
CTIA: PayPal brings Magic to m-commerce
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--Using the only Magic to rival that of Disney’s Magic Kingdom, PayPal President Jeff Jordan brought former NBA star and now entrepreneur Magic Johnson on stage to help present the company's new PayPal Mobile payment solution...
CTIA: Amp’d unveils TV platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Amp’d Mobile today said it would be the first carrier in the U.S. to produce its own television network, announcing a new mobile TV platform that would consist of four streamed TV stations from major broadcasters and a fifth channel that will carry self-produced shows ranging from action sports coverage to its own spoof reality TV shows...
