Wireless Business Forecast articles from March 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from March 2005

The Content Report: The Premium Dollars Are Flowing.(mobile content sales)
March 10, 2005... Growth in mobile content revenues seems almost unstoppable for the foreseeable future, with only a fraction of users currently buying premium content and loads of room for deeper penetration. "We have seen, on average, no less than...

Why Mobile Music Moguls Should Look East For Models.
March 10, 2005... Submitted for your approval: Imagine that the next 50 Cent or OutKast single arrives on the market as a ringback tune two weeks before the song itself is released on album or as a single. It is available exclusively through one of the major...

WBF Analysis: VCast -- We Like You! We Really Like You.(Verizon Communications Inc. launches digital video broadcasting service for mobile phone users)
March 10, 2005... There is a lot of skepticism (ours included) surrounding the ultimate appeal of 3G networks and the prospects for upselling data services to phone users. Sister publication TelecomWeb's own online poll of industry professionals about whether...

Are Phones Ready for Their HDDs?(micro hard disk drives for mobile phones and PDAs from Intel Corp. under development)
March 10, 2005... Intel was beside itself in announcing that the 1.0 spec for the CE-ATA interface for micro hard drives had been finalized, paving the way for mass storage in mobile handsets. Intel demo'd PDAs and portable media players with the CE-ATA protocol...

Wireless VoIP Gets Nokia Support, A Test And A Directory.(Nokia Corp. makes its dual-mode handsets WiFi-capable )
March 10, 2005... Nokia revealed that it will be supporting dual-mode handsets in a big way by making all business phones WiFi-capable by the end of this year. A general manager of Nokia's enterprise business told a group of reporters last week that handsets...

T-Mobile: We'll Always Have Paris.(T-Mobile International AG und Company KG's information management)
March 10, 2005... No one in recent memory has turned a bad public reputation into a marketing bonanza as effectively as did Paris Hilton, and now she is spreading her backward PR success to her wireless carrier. Sure, there will be hosts of new stories about the...

The High Price Of Regulation.(costs and consequences of Federal Communications Commissions's regulations)(Brief Article)
March 10, 2005... FCC regulations are costing the taxpayer more than they may be worth, especially when it comes to spectrum management, according to a new academic study from the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. Dr. Jerry Ellig penned the Costs and...

Deal Sheet.
March 10, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Yahoo! [YHOO], headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.; 408/349-3300 Purchases Stadeon Inc. [privately held], headquartered in Princeton, N.J.; 609/945-0403 What to Expect Near-Term: Yahoo gets Stadeon's core...

Is Content King...Of the Road? Media Mattered At CTIA Wireless 2005.(Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association)
March 24, 2005... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss? The recently concluded CTIA Wireless 2005 show in New Orleans was starting to look and sound like an Internet convention circa 1996. Familiar questions abounded: How much premium content cost can the...

How The Recommendation Engine Will Drive Data Usage.
March 24, 2005... As the Internet already has proved, never underestimate the power of community when it comes to new communications platforms. The recommendation engine -- users telling like-minded users about the best things to see, purchase and play -- has...

Wireless VoIP Gets a Manhattan Debut...But Does It Have A Use?(voice-over-Internet Protocol)
March 24, 2005... Carrie Bradshaw and her troupe of sex-driven gal pals may have a new piece of bling to whip out of their D&G bags this summer - a Wi-Fi phone. Wireless broadband provider TowerStream is moving wireless voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)...

Ubiquitous Content: Extending Content Across Multiple Devices.
March 24, 2005... By Chris Ruff, vice president/marketing and product management, UIEvolution A few years back, MCI's strategic guru and oft-cited "father of the Internet" Vinton Cerf was known to wear a T-shirt sporting the bawdy phrase "IP Everywhere."...

Lurching Toward A Next-Gen Wi-Fi Compromise.
March 24, 2005... We still don't have a clear answer on what shape the 802.11n successor to 802.11a/b/g will be, because the IEEE failed to achieve the necessary 75-percent super-majority to approve the TGn Sync standard proposal at a recent meeting. The...

Content Gets Some Ground Rules.(Mobile Entertainment Forum)(Brief Article)
March 24, 2005... The Mobile Entertainment Forum, a consortium of mobile data carriers and service providers, issued a "code of best practices" for mobile subscription services. The group developed these rules out of experiences with subscriptions in the U.K....

Airbee Goes Shopping.(acquisitions)(Brief Article)
March 24, 2005... According to Indian tech news provider Sify, U.S.-based ZigBee software developer Airbee is about to make three major acquisitions, two of which are U.S. companies that may be announced in April. Airbee executives would not specify their...

US Wireless Ready To Roll Up And Roll Out.
March 24, 2005... A series of recent moves is loudly announcing US Wireless' intention to become a major nationwide wireless broadband provider with multiple product lines. The Louisville company launched its own VoIP product working on a pre- WiMAX network....

Deal Sheet.
March 24, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Symbian Ltd., headquartered in London; 011 44 207 154 1917 Licenses the Exchange Server ActivSync from Microsoft [MSFT], headquartered in Redmond, Wash.; 800/426-9400 What to Expect Near-Term: Symbian will develop a...