Wireless Business Forecast articles from April 2006

Wireless Business Forecast archives from April 2006

CTIA 2006 Surprise: Mobile Music Downloads Beat Expectations.(Verizon Wireless Inc.)(Sprint Nextel Corp.)
April 6, 2006... Even as many speakers at CTIA 2006 this week in Las Vegas were wringing their hands over the limited take-up of mobile data in the U.S. market, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless executives offhandedly dropped some encouraging tidbits about...

Mobilizing The Magazines: Maxim And Cosmo Phone It In.
April 6, 2006... Shortly after Wireless Business Forecast's exclusive survey of magazine executives revealed that industry's "wait-and-see" attitude toward mobile content delivery (WBF, March 23), two of the most aggressively mobile wireless brands...

Company To Watch: Enterprise On Alert -- Clickatell Invades The U.S. Messaging Market.(Company overview)
April 6, 2006... A merger with San Mateo, Calif.-based Multimode Inc., will help bring international messaging platform Clickatell into the U.S. market this year, offering a unique suite of enterprise-oriented alert solutions. While much of the U.S. SMS...

Xbox 360 Lives.(Microsoft Corp.'s product information)
April 6, 2006... Now that the production shortages of Microsoft's Xbox 360 have eased, the Redmond, Wash., giant finally sent Wireless Business Forecast its review unit last week, so we got to test out some of its convergence potential. We were impressed by...

February Content Usage: Photos Still Soar, Games Return To Start.(mobile phones)
April 6, 2006... According to the latest panel-based measurement of mobile content usage, the phone cam continues to be the fastest-growing content category by quite a long shot. Meanwhile, there seems to be good reason for the recent games- industry hand...

Charge It! U.S. May Be Ready For M-Commerce.(mobile phones)(Survey)
April 6, 2006... The tale is often told how Asians and Europeans have been paying for stuff with their cellphones for years while Americans seem unenthused by the technology. That may be changing rapidly, according to survey results released at CTIA 2006...

The Master Of All Ringtone Charts.(Billboard Mobile Entertainment)(Brief article)
April 6, 2006... Billboard will add a "Master Tone" sales chart to its line of digital media trackers. The "Hot Master Tone" chart will be based on Nielsen Mobile data, which is itself just rolling out the metric. The list will have the Top 20 sales for the...

One Million Mobile TV Eyeballs Served.
April 6, 2006... The current benchmark for mobile-TV interests, MobiTV, has doubled its subscriber base in the last six months alone to break 1 million paid viewers. Even as many in the industry (that would be Wireless Business Forecast) continue to diffuse...

Deal Sheet 04/06/06.(America Online/Time Warner contracts with InfoGin LtdInPhonic Inca.)(Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. contracts with mPortal)(Disney Mobile contracts with InPhonic Inc.)
April 6, 2006... Who's Doing What With Whom? America Online [TW], headquartered in Dulles, Va.; 703/265-6040 Offers mobile browsing using technology from InfoGin Ltd., headquartered in Kfar Saba, Israel; 011 972-9-7676004 >>In The Short Term...

Cellphone Obsessed? Maybe Not So Much.(consumer survey on services provided by cellular service provider)
April 20, 2006... Perhaps the most striking results of the newest and largest study of American cellphone habits is that we are not as wedded to our cellphones as we thought. In a joint project among Pew Internet & American Life Project, AOL and AP, it turns...

Launch Sequence Started: High Rolls And High Hopes For D2C.
April 20, 2006... In the run-up to the Las Vegas CTIA show earlier this month and during the convention itself, it has become clear that major media brands finally are ready to bet big on off-portal, direct-to-consumer (D2C) content distribution. In fact, the...

Company To Watch: UpSnap -- Giving Voice To Mobile Content.
April 20, 2006... Every new medium generally relies on the conventional forms of the previous medium in its early stages, before the new platform finds its own endemic forms. Film relied on theater, radio on vaudeville, television on radio and film. The...

To Every Season -- Churn, Churn, Churn.(customer loyalty challenge for mobile carriers and virtual network operators)
April 20, 2006... Subscriber loyalty remains a fundamental business problem/opportunity for the major carriers and their offspring mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) if the latest Forrester figures are even vaguely accurate. Between 2004 and 2005, 24...

We Built This [Mobile] City On Rock & Roll.
April 20, 2006... Mobile community was among the hottest topics at the CTIA conference earlier this month, even though no one in his or her right or honest mind can say what form this ideal will take. 3GUpload, an off-portal distributor of content, acquired...

Could Mobile Beat The Desktop?(Wireless telephones internet access)
April 20, 2006... Browsing the Internet via wireless devices is growing at such a pace worldwide that it already beats notebook-PC access to the Internet in many markets, according to Ipsos Insight. The Brits and the French are increasing their mobile...

Amdocs/QPass Aim For Convergence.(Amdocs Ltd)(Qpass)(converged services)
April 20, 2006... In a deal that could substantially jumpstart multi-platform converged services, integrated customer management firm Amdocs acquires leading mobile- content-transaction provider QPass for $275 million. Amdocs provides software and services to...

Deal Sheet 04/20/06.(business deals)
April 20, 2006... Who's Doing What With Whom? Xero Mobile [XRMB], headquartered in Los Angeles; 323/857-9100 Completes its reverse merger with Desi TV Inc., headquartered in Los Angeles; no contact number available >>What To Expect Short Term...