Wireless Business Forecast articles from July 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from July 2005

Search Me: WBF's Exclusive Mobile Search Report.(Wireless Business Forecast reports on mobile search)
July 14, 2005... For all intents and purposes, mobile search is a press-release war and little else right now. The number of people actually using their phones to engage in Web or directory searches probably is nil, and most of these applications are audibly...

Case Study: The Longest Yard - Getting Into Hollywood's Mix.
July 14, 2005... One of the hallmarks of this summer has been that movie tie-in games for the weekend's blockbusters now appear predictably on phone decks the week the film is set to premiere in theaters. "War of the Worlds," "Batman Begins" and even "Mr....

People To Watch.(Motorola Inc.)(eLec Communications Corp.)(National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners)
July 14, 2005... Patricia B. Morrison is the new senior vice president and chief information officer at Motorola. Morrison will oversee all strategic, operational and financial aspects of the company's information technology architecture, systems, tools,...

Vocel: Getting Outside The Mobile Box.
July 14, 2005... As we have written in these pages many times, mobile applications need to imagine new ways to leverage the unique properties of the cellphone. Not only are handsets portable and ubiquitous, they are also insistent. Mobile may be the only...

Deal Sheet.(Top Level Domain, Ltd signs an agreement with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)(AWSConvergence weatherbug service)
July 14, 2005... Who's Doing What: AWSConvergence, headquartered in Germantown, Md., 301/250-4000 Launches WeatherBug service with Sprint [FON], headquartered in Overland Park, Kan.; 800/829-0965 What to Expect Short-Term: The longstanding real-time...

The London Bombing And User-Generated Media.
July 14, 2005... One of the ancillary tech and culture stories to emerge from last week's terrorist attack on London was the cameraphone effect. The most striking images of the destroyed double-decker bus, emblazoned on the front page of one London tabloid,...

Video Finally Starts Its Sales Surge.(Qpass)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... In what surely is only the first small lurch forward in the market mobile video took a slightly larger share of data revenue in June than it had in May. According to m-commerce enabler Qpass (which manages nearly half of U.S. content sales),...

Mobile Marketing Sizzles This Summer.
July 14, 2005... The tipping point will be reached by September when it comes to mobile- marketing initiatives, as several major brands prepare to launch mobile campaigns throughout the summer. McDonalds, Timex, Coca-Cola and Heineken will leverage...

Getting In Tune: The Slow Road To Mobile Music.
July 28, 2005... Getting digital music onto cellphones could produce one of the most lucrative new revenue streams for the wireless industry during the next decade, but only after substantial growing pains. According to a new IDC study, U.S. Wireless Music...

Joining The Rabble: Making Mobile Community Work.
July 28, 2005... If the Internet has taught us one thing, it is that community and communication will always find a way. E-mail, public forums and personal Web pages, online dating, blogging, instant messaging - all emerged as the Internet's true killer apps....

Your Life, Your Phone, Your Credit Card: Will Wireless Be The Next Universal Payment System?
July 28, 2005... "Sir, please swipe your phone and confirm your payment." Within the next few years, cellphone users likely will hear something just like this in convenience stores, parking garages and movie theaters as the mushrooming industry of...

EA's Mobile Game Plan: Exploit The Transition.
July 28, 2005... These early days of mobile gaming are much like the transition periods between game console generations like the PS1/PS2, a time of opportunity, says Electronic Arts' Vice President and Mobile General Manager John Batter. "It was during...

NPD's Wireless Star Search.(NPD Group Inc.)
July 28, 2005... In a bid to extend its extensive market research and consulting business into the wireless realm, The NPD Group recently picked off a number of high- profile industry analysts to form its own NPD Wireless team. Here is your scorecard of the...

Wireless Philly Narrows the Field, Ups The Price.(muni-wireless plans are proving expensive)
July 28, 2005... Amid reports that muni-wireless plans are proving more expensive and less practical than many cities had hoped, the flagship project for this model, "Wireless Philadelphia," announced three finalists in its search for the right provider. An...

Mobile Gets Into The Torrent.(File sharing software)
July 28, 2005... The ingenious file-download protocol BitTorrent has quickly become the bane of Hollywood's existence because it makes retrieving massive multimedia files so easy. The "leech and seed" method of file sharing slowly and unobtrusively downloads...

The Badge Of Youth: Mobile Is The New Prada.(Wireless communications services)
July 28, 2005... Mobile gadgetry and services now have the upper hand in the battle for young people's hearts and minds, according to a new compendium of research on youth markets by MarketResearch. "Technology in the form of cellphones, handheld computer...

June Content Metrics: All Boats Rise As Summer Starts.
July 28, 2005... It is much too early to see in mobile content usage the sorts of patterns we now see established in Web content, but the June numbers may suggest a trend to watch. After several months of modest organic growth and some leveling off in...

Deal Sheet.(Bango partnered with Crisp Wireless )(Grosvenor Fund financing for Qmobile)
July 28, 2005... Who Is Doing What: Bango, headquartered in New York City; 646/ 812-8640 Partners for content delivery with Crisp Wireless, also headquartered in New York City, 212/557-1850 What to Expect Short-Term: The deal brings one of the largest...