Wireless Business Forecast articles from July 2006

Wireless Business Forecast archives from July 2006

Executive Q&A: Is Hedderel's mTLD A Solution In Search Of A Problem?(Vance Hedderel)(Interview)
July 13, 2006... When mTLD opened its sunrise period for registering ".mobi" domains to trademark holders, the big brands started rolling in. Within two days of going on sale June 12, more than 5,000 ".mobi" addresses sold through. Test sites already are...

How Did MapQuest Find Its Way to the Top of the Mobile Heap?(Mobile Application Report)
July 13, 2006... Wireless Business Forecast was more than a little surprised to discover from Telephia's recent "Mobile Application Report" that Zingy's MapQuest Mobile is not only the biggest revenue-generating app on handsets, but that it wins in a walk....

Still Chasing Women: Gender And The Endless Game.
July 13, 2006... For about the fiftieth time in the past two years, another research company reports that women dominate casual game play. This time, mobile is the platform purported to be ignoring a ripe market of rabid female gamers. Parks associates...

Text-2-Screen: A New Social Medium.(Vibes Media)(communications-technology)
July 13, 2006... A truism in communications-technology history is that no one really knows or can accurately anticipate how a culture will embrace and deploy new tools. SMS was not supposed to be a consumer-facing technology, but U.K. and European teens...

Company To Watch: Action Engine Tunes Up To Advertising.
July 13, 2006... After years of pitching wireless operators its plans for streamlining interfaces and bringing superior user experiences to deck design, Action Engine shifted its focus recently to content providers. Out of the gate, it succeeded in nabbing...

Plugging In: Wireless News From Around The Web.
July 13, 2006... HBO's Mobile Video Peek-A-Boo Reuters' report on HBO's deal with Cingular to make special programming of the "Entourage" series is smart enough to know that the real story here is how much HBO won't let out. The Time Warner property...

The World Cup Test: Mixed Grades.
July 13, 2006... The European wireless industry rolled the dice a bit on the recent World Cup event by making it a high-profile test case for mobile multimedia capabilities. Wireless Business Forecast cannot declare the early results a clear win for...

ShortTV Tours The B2B Home.(Business to business)
July 13, 2006... As carriers and most third-party content developers chase the consumer with mobile-data offerings, the B2B vertical market remains relatively untapped. To be sure, there are loads of application providers and carrier groups pursuing the...

4Info Reads The Paper: What Texting Learned In USAToday.(4Info partnership with Gannett Company Inc)
July 27, 2006... It has been nearly six months since mobile-search-and-alert service 4Info penned an unprecedented deal with Gannett to co-market news alerts in the pages of USAToday, the nation's largest-circulation daily. While digital-media pundits...

Analysis: Zune, Not Zany.
July 27, 2006... It turns out that the big Microsoft announcement last Friday regarding its upcoming iPod challenger has a number of implications for wireless content distribution that got missed in the Microsoft vs. Apple coverage. In fact, what is...

Nokia's William Plummer: DVB-H's New Vote Of Confidence.
July 27, 2006... The DVB-H rollout in North America got a PR boost, if not a tangible advance, last week when the Telecommunications Industry Association approved the specification for the standard in this region. "This approval is not a prerequisite for...

WHOIS On dotmobi Today?
July 27, 2006... The mTLD group responsible for maintaining the new .mobi top level domain makes it easy to determine who has and has not already registered a trademark as a mobile URL. The WHOIS database can be found at http://pc.mtld.mobi/whois/index.php....

Company To Watch: GeoVector Takes Japan, Points To U.S.
July 27, 2006... Wireless Business Forecast spoke at length last year with mobile search- and-content delivery company GeoVector, which now is making some interesting moves. The San Francisco company combines geo-location with orientation detection on the...

Review And Analysis: Reuters Puts Another Chip In The Fee-Based Model.
July 27, 2006... As Wireless Business Forecast has predicted repeatedly, ad-supported applications and mobile services will help commoditize major data categories for which carriers are used to charging, exerting price pressure and accelerating adoption of...

Motricity Puts Some Gold in Its Pocket.(Motricity merges with Gold Pocket)(Brief article)
July 27, 2006... The expected consolidation in the mobile-content and -marketing space continues with Motricity's acquisition of Gold Pocket. Motrisicty apparently is using its newfound cash ($40 million in a recent funding round and about $120 million...

Skype Gets The Message: mBlox And Mobile 365 To Power SMS.
July 27, 2006... Trying to find more ways to monetize its hugely popular but mostly free Internet phone service, Skype will ramp up a fee-base SMS messaging component using aggregators mBlox and Mobile 365. Skype account holders will be able to text-message...

Plugging In: Wireless News From Around The Web.(Verizon wireless services)(mobile gaming)
July 27, 2006... V-Cast Plays It Hip In a review of recent Verizon Wireless VCast marketing, Mediapost applauds the product-placement strategy used to popularize the service among elusive youth demos. The in-show references are "salty" and edgy for a...