Wireless Business Forecast articles from September 2005

Wireless Business Forecast archives from September 2005

The Internet Moves In: Looking For Web2Phone Synergy.(trends of ringtones)
September 8, 2005... Even with WAP browsers (or maybe because of them), U.S. wireless carriers have succeeded in keeping their phone networks well-segregated from the Internet, even as the rest of the world makes liberal use of the Web as a way to shop for and...

A Flash Of Recognition? Macromedia Searches For U.S. Entry Point.
September 8, 2005... It's ubiquitous in Japan, the world's most evolved mobile market. It's shipping 30 million handsets worldwide this quarter. And it's a platform with an insanely broad base of experienced developers already well-acquainted with its protocols....

Will All WANs Lead To SmartVideo?(wireless area networks)(Interview)
September 8, 2005... The prospects for the success of mobile TV are chancy enough, but placing all of your bets on a single distribution mechanism may be suicidal, says Richard Bennett, president and CEO of SmartVideo, the Atlanta-based aggregator that has been...

SMS.ac's Wishy-Washy Bill Of Rights.
September 8, 2005... Wireless aggregator and fulfillment provider SMS.ac succeeded in attracting press fanfare but little critical scrutiny of its "Mobile Consumer Bill of Rights" last month, demonstrating that it is still pretty easy to impress the tech press....

Listen Up! Podcasting Belongs On Phones.(in the list)
September 8, 2005... In what is sure to be the first of many similar announcements, Pod2Mob (www.pod2mob.com) announced the beta of its podcasting solution for mobile phones. The Los Angeles company is providing a downloadable application that lets users...

Is Mobile Video The Medium No One Really Wants?(impact of value added services in mobile phones )
September 8, 2005... Reiterating and modifying other recent studies on consumer readiness for mobile video, Park Associates finds that only a small fraction of mobile customers, between 12 percent and 13 percent, say video downloading or streaming is "especially...

The PSP Gets Into Its Wireless Groove.
September 8, 2005... After some last-minute delays, Sony finally released the much-anticipated firmware upgrade (2.0) for its PlayStation Portable (PSP). The WiFi capabilities of the unit finally shine with the addition of a relatively full-featured Web browser....

Deal Sheet 09/08/05.(4SmartPhone deals with SmartPhones Telecom AS for distribution agreement)(Reuters Group PLC partnered with m-Qube to introduce news services )(Zingy Inc acquired Vindigo)
September 8, 2005... Who's Doing What?: 4SmartPhone, headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz.; 602/481-6088 Inks a partnership agreement to distribute software and email services with SmartPhones Telecom AS, headquartered in Oslo, Norway; 011 47 99 00 65 What to Expect...

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2005.
September 8, 2005... September 27-29, 2005 Moscone Center San Francisco CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2005 brings together the two entities of wireless data: Enterprise and Entertainment. On the Enterprise side, the spotlight is on incorporating...

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: Can Mobile Gaming Reach The Next Level?
September 22, 2005... A flurry of research in recent weeks on mobile gaming fails to clear the fog of war from this development field as opinions about the prospects for mobile gaming continue to diverge and conflict. How many people are using mobile gaming, with...

Print-To-Phone: Paper Media Get The Wireless Bug.
September 22, 2005... From Google to BeliefNet and from CNN to Fox Sports, the new media and cable brands form a long line at the doors of mobile carriers, looking for ways to convert their high-profile, rich-media services and brands to portable media....

Company To Watch: A Tool, Not An Interruption - Lessons From The Vindigo/Zingy Marriage.
September 22, 2005... If mobile marketing and content distribution has any veterans, then the union of Vindigo and Zingy last month is a marriage of a couple of old-timers with considerable experience moving brands into mobile. "We've run 250 campaigns with 150...

August Content Sales Show Divergent U.S., EU Tastes.
September 22, 2005... The latest market-share figures from m-commerce enabler QPass shows European and U.S. markets on different consumer usage paths, at least for this month. There has been considerable buzz among content providers and carriers that there are...

802.11n Stands For 'Ninnies Without Wires'.
September 22, 2005... In what is fast becoming a comic opera of industry self-immolation, plans to reconcile disputes over the next-gen 802.11n wireless networking standard may have gotten derailed last week by Intel&Co. Just as the IEEE Task Group N seemed...

Katrina's Wireless Wake.
September 22, 2005... We didn't keep exact count, but the press releases were flowing into our offices at about a five-a-day clip in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, all chronicling in painstaking detail the speed with which operators were restoring...

How Not To Do GPS Gaming.
September 22, 2005... Boost Mobile is trying to impress the market with two of the first mobile games to incorporate GPS positional data. Both are made by Blister Entertainment using Java. Both are excellent examples of over-reaching with a new technology and...

Deal Sheet 09/22/05.(Illustration)
September 22, 2005... Who's Doing What: Sprint Nextel [FON], headquartered in Overland Park, Kan.; 800/829-0965 Partners on a video music network with RealNetworks Inc. [RNWK], headquartered in Seattle, Wash.; 206/674-2700 What It Means: Real's Rhapsody Radio...

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2005.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
September 22, 2005... September 27-29, 2005 Moscone Center -- San Francisco CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2005 brings together the two entities of wireless data: Enterprise and Entertainment. On the Enterprise side, the spotlight is on incorporating...