Wireless Business Forecast articles from May 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from May 2005

WBF Analysis: The Return of "TheSpot:" Can Failed Web Models Succeed On Mobile?(Wireless Business Forecast)(TheSpot Wireless)
May 5, 2005... If the nascent field of mobile video can have a vintage series, then certainly StewdioMedia's year-old mobisodic run of "TheSpot Wireless" on Sprint PCS Vision is it. The faux-reality soap opera series claims 1,000 mobisodes produced for the...

Integration Now: The Big MVNO Opportunity Is 'Seamlessness'.(mobile virtual network operators)
May 5, 2005... The coming wave of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) could be as massive as one major launch a month during the next 12 to 15 months, according to industry insiders who are consulting with many of these nascent carriers. What is most...

'Our Goal Is To Provide Power:' CellBoost Looks To Supercharge Wireless.(Compact Power Systems)(wireless telephones)
May 5, 2005... We can send full motion video over the air to cellphone screens the size of postage stamps. We can play 3D games on handsets that are smaller than cigarette packs. But still outside of our grasp is performing all of these amazing feats of...

Rant-Tone: Mobile Content Ratings - Be Careful What You Wish For.
May 5, 2005... The first in a non-scheduled series of opinionated missives from Steve Smith, editor, Wireless Business Forecast The mainstream media loved the recent news that CTIA-The Wireless Association was developing some kind of mobile content...

Mobile Gaming Needs An Urge To Merge.
May 5, 2005... More than half (65 percent) of venture-capital investment in mobile gaming companies occurred in 2004, according to Screen Digest. In fact, last year clearly was this platform's breakthrough moment, with 19 mergers and acquisitions in the...

Ho Hum: Live TV In Your Hand.
May 5, 2005... The Sprint PCS Vision service took the next leap forward in multimedia mobile content by adding Fox News Channel to its Sprint TV portfolio of video offerings. This provides a live feed of the cable channel free to Vision subscribers. Sprint...

Microsoft To BlackBerry: We're Gonna Netscape Your A**.(operating system)
May 5, 2005... As just about any tech-driven company in the last decade knows, it is impossible to enjoy meteoric success without attracting the attention of Microsoft. The classic good news/bad news scenario applies here. When Microsoft decides to counter...

Deal Sheet.(For-side.com Co. Ltd. acquires iTouch PLC)
May 5, 2005... Who's Doing What?: For-side.com Co. Ltd, headquartered in Tokyo; 011 03-5339- 5211 Is adding yet another company to the fold with its purchase of iTouch plc, headquartered in London; 011 44 (0) 20 7613 6000 What to Expect Short Term:...

SUPERCOMM 2005.
May 5, 2005... ** June 6-9 ** McCormick Place ** Chicago SUPERCOMM is the only event where you can explore the whole world of communications: Broadband. Infrastructure. IP. Converged Wireless. Enterprise Networks. Everywhere you look, you'll be...

Is That a Phone In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Packing Another Big Media Platform?(telecommunication industry)
May 19, 2005... The big media brands have a serious jones for mobile, but the wireless ecosystem should be discriminating about when and where to deploy familiar content brands. Even in these early days of 3G and mobile multimedia, it is apparent that old...

Mobile Marketing: It's In the Mix.
May 19, 2005... The first stage in mobile marketing's inevitable evolution is officially over, and it is time to bring the industry forward into its next era of integration with larger branding initiatives. So say companies that are in the process of...

Playing With the Big Boys: Mobile Gaming Grows Up At E3 2005.
May 19, 2005... Only last year, mobile gaming at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) seemed like a backwater of cheesy kiosks and second-tier licensing struggling for attention at the edges of minor show-floor areas. At this year's meeting of the game...

Xbox 360 Will Help Home Theaters Cut The Wires.
May 19, 2005... One of the unintended consequences of the next generation of game consoles will be that they usher in a new age of wireless home entertainment. Microsoft lifted its skirts (just barely) on its upcoming next-gen game console, the Xbox 360, in...

The Big Snooze: Do Multi-Function Phones Bore Consumers Or Carriers?
May 19, 2005... Research analysts sent mixed signals about the future of feature-laden next-gen mobile handsets with video, MP3 and WiFi capabilities. According to iSuppli's new Mobile Handset Design Forecast Tool (DFT), we will see more than half of...

Where the Girls Are...But Carriers Aren't.
May 19, 2005... News, weather, sports, drama, stocks, standup comedy, Maxim and Sports Illustrated pin-ups, hip-hop ringtones. When you look at the common slate of data offerings among the major carriers, you have to wonder who is the world declared the...

PalmOne Stuffs A Filing Cabinet In Your Pocket.
May 19, 2005... PalmOne is scheduled to introduce the LifeDrive line of new wireless devices this week, a substantial step forward in the idea of portable information. Mistakenly revealed earlier this month in a retail listing at Amazon.com, the LifeDrive...

Deal Sheet.(Intellisync)
May 19, 2005... Who's Doing What: World Wide Web Consortium, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. (U.S. office); 617/253-2613 Creates Mobile Web initiative with France Telecom [FTE], Hewlett-Packard [HPQ], MobileAware, Segala M Test, Vodafone [VOD] and...