Wireless Business Forecast articles from November 2004

Wireless Business Forecast archives from November 2004

MasterCard, Motorola Launch Handset Payment Trials.
November 3, 2004... The idea of buying something and paying for it with your cellphone is commonplace for many Europeans and Asians, but it's strictly Buck Rogers stuff to a lot of Americans. That's about to change. The foundations for enabling such...

No Buying Binge Likely For Verizon Wireless.
November 3, 2004... With Cingular and AT&T Wireless [AWE] getting the okay from federal regulators to move forward with their announced merger, which dethrones Verizon Wireless from its position as the Number One wireless carrier in terms of total subscribers, the...

CTIA Show Finds Wireless Industry Remaining Strong.(Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association)
November 3, 2004... The wireless industry continues to remain a solid part of the telecommunications industry and, according to indicators offered by CTIA - The Wireless Association at its annual Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show last week in San Francisco, the...

A Return To Prominence.(Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show)(Brief Article)
November 3, 2004... While the trends of the wireless industry were on display at the recently completed Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show sponsored by CTIA - The Wireless Association, one number that is not covered by that association's indices also reflects the...

How Are We Doing?(Brief Article)
November 3, 2004... According the recent J.D. Power and Associates 2004 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study, overall satisfaction among wireless mobile phone owners has increased 5 percent over 2003, an increase the group calls "the first time a...

Kyocera Recalls Batteries.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2004... Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced a voluntary and precautionary recall of potentially fraudulent batteries in its KE/KX 400 Series, 3200 Series and Slider Series phones. The recall is limited to the batteries, as the manufacturer says there is...

Verizon Wireless Expands Workforce.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2004... With the company's recent drop to the Number Two spot in terms of largest U.S. wireless company after the approval given to the merger of AT&T Wireless [AWE] and Cingular, Verizon Wireless' announce-ment that it plans to hire 450 new employees...

Hitting The Half-Pipe On A Handset.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2004... One of the biggest brands in console gaming market - Tony Hawk - now has a wireless counterpart, thanks to a new release from Jamdat Mobile Inc. [JMDT]. The company last week launched a mobile-phone version of the skateboarding game "Tony...

Deal Sheet.
November 3, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Concourse Communications [privately held], headquartered in Chicago; 312/357-2900 Has deployed a Wi-Fi network at the Nashville International Airport for the Nashville Airport Authority, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.;...

Enterprise Wireless Opportunities Are Ready For Prime Time.
November 18, 2004... As the wireless industry began rolling out more data networks and applications, the enterprise market was seen as driver of services beyond voice. But a quick look at what is happening on the data side of the wireless market offers a different...

How Game Retailers Are Tweaking The Wireless Consumer.
November 18, 2004... Mobile games retailers have a thankless task. The miniature window on most handsets offers only five or six lines of text in which to merchandise a vast catalog of mobile games. It is hardly surprising that few mobile customers even bother to...

FCC Approves Emissions Masking Rules In 4.9 GHz Band.(Federal Communications Commission)
November 18, 2004... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in an effort to allow public- safety agencies to use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) wireless technology for broadband communications, last week unanimously approved a report and order identifying...

Confusion Equals $3 Billion Lost Annually.(Industry Overview)
November 18, 2004... According to the latest "Perplexity Poll" from brand strategy firm Siegel & Gale, wireless companies lose $3 billion annual because they are not communicating effectively. The poll surveyed 1,050 wireless customers Oct. 20-25, and it found that...

Sprint, Sanyo Take The Wraps Off Multimedia Phone.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Sprint [FON] and Sanyo say they will begin offering the new Sprint PCS VisionSM Multimedia Phone MM-7400 by Sanyo later this month to get in on the holiday sell-through season. The phone allows customers to view on-demand streaming video and...

BlackBerry Breaks The 2-Million-Sub Mark.(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Research In Motion [RIMM] said its BlackBerry wireless platform has more than two million active subscribers and its subscribership doubled in fewer then 10 months this year. RIM has certainly been successful with its advertising, and it has...

New Research From The WLAN World.(wireless Local Area Network)(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Two recent reports paint a pretty picture for the wireless local area network (WLAN) market in the coming months. According to research released by META Group [METG], by the end of the year, 30 percent of organizations will have transitioned...

Could Text Messaging Be Next Olympic Sport?(Brief Article)
November 18, 2004... Text messaging has become a part of the culture, so much so that the Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the fastest typist of this specific 160-character passage: The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are...

Deal Sheet.
November 18, 2004... Who's Doing What?: PocketThis [privately held], headquartered in Oakland, Calif.; 510/740-5200 Closed a third round of financing with new and existing investors What To Expect Near-Term: Mobile data services software provider...