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As the new phone-number mandate takes effect on November 24, 2003, the industry has to embrace enhanced customer service in order to increase brand loyalty and ensure that customer churn does not increase.

(October 21, 2003) - The Sands Exhibit Hall in Las Vegas, Nevada, bears testimony to it this week; the hundreds of delegates attending the technical sessions being held in parallel confirm it; the thousands of attendees crowding the exhibits underline it. 2003 is proving, as many pundi...

Mobile data services have arrived in the GSM world. Around the globe, networks have been upgraded for GPRS capability, and can deliver IP data services reliably at rates comparable to dial-up Internet. But so far, subscribers aren't flocking to mobile data. Conventional wisdom in t...

MMS enables many new services for mobile users. Having been asked my thoughts on current MMS usage patterns, I decided to see if I could provide an impression of how things look today from the perspective of an MMS application developer hoping to stay one step ahead of the game.

The mobile Web hasn't had as much of an effect on everyday life as marketeers wanted the public to believe it would. Things can change, but the industry has to first slow down and develop a solid infrastructure.

(March 19,2002) Security was very much the paramount concern when a nationwide wireless data and Internet service provider (GoAmerica) and a provider of wireless infrastructure management software (mFormation Techologies) got together to enable a not-for-profit health-care provider (Ba...

(June 4, 2002) - Verizon Wireless and Microsoft Corp. forged a groundbreaking strategic alliance to deliver co-developed and jointly marketed wireless data services featuring MSN® services and content, Windows® Powered devices, and enterprise solutions. As a result of the agree...

Got $1,500 to spare? If so, then Panasonic's new Mobile Data Wireless Display (MDWD) may be just the thing for you. It's a thin, flat, self-contained touch screen that communicates with your hard disk over distances from 150-300 feet in open spaces, thanks to the wonders of Wi-Fi. Be...

(October 31, 2002) - Mobilitec Inc. has just released version 2.5 of its carrier-grade solution, mPower. mPower is an open standard based system featuring content management and delivery, and flexible subscription capabilities. The newly released version has advanced delivery channel...

(January 8, 2003) - Wireless Retail, Inc. (WRI), one of the nation's top five retailers of wireless phones, service plans and other service-based technology products, activated service for more than one million new wireless phone customers in 2002. This 43 percent growth in post-paid,...

(March 19, 2002) - Despite its present financial performance troubles - with sales down 25% in the last quarter - Finnish powerhouse Nokia made its play for the attention of attendees at this year's CeBit technology fair by launching its latest J2ME-supported phones, complete with trib...

(June 12, 2002) - It worked for the Walkman, it worked for the DVD player, and now Palm hopes it will work to attract first-time buyers for handheld computers: the tactic of offering a model at below the magic hundred-buck level.

With more and more users now accessing back-end systems from wireless devices or always-on connections, IT administrators are more than ever concerned about the best way to guard against unauthorized intrusions launched through remote systems. Administrators will therefore welcome th...

(October 31, 2002) - In anticipation of explosive growth in China's mobile market, Wavecom has officially opened its first representative office in Beijing's fast-emerging 'Silicon Valley' district of Zhongguancun. Wavecom, a major technology partner for China's fast-growing wireless...

(January 13, 2003) - Microsoft has just announced a technology that is sure to represent the most successful step yet towards it vision of 'information anywhere, anytime, on any device.' Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) will deliver up-to-the-minute stock reports, sports scores...

(March 19, 2002)--Where does the wireless truth lie? Anyone trying to decide that in March 2002 had access to a rich variety of data--from the CeBIT technology fair in Hannover, Germany, to the CTIA's latest annual gig in Orlando, Florida--not forgetting everything in between, such as...

(June 12, 2002) - With Openwave Systems, Inc., on a recent buying binge in which it snapped up SignalSoft for $59 million and acquired mobile data downloading technology from Ellipsus Systems for over $17 million, and with Extended Systems acquiring mobile data vendor ViaFone for $11.4...

It must have struck many WBT readers over the years as somewhat odd that, despite having been in business since 1984, the brains behind Research In Motion Limited somehow never managed to figure out a way for RIM BlackBerry users to view the many attachments that inevitably arrive with...

(Las Vegas, November 20, 2002) - Even Bill Gates has been saying recently it's huge, but that didn't help win Wi-Fi any friends among attendees at this year's COMDEX, which entered its second day in Las Vegas yesterday.

(January 15, 2003) - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has just issued Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Profiles as W3C Recommendations. SVG 1.1 separates SVG capabilities into reusable building blocks, and SVG Mobile recombines them in a way optimized for mobile dev...

(March 21, 2002) - If you live in San Diego, the future arrived for you today. Verizon Wireless customers there are the first mobile phone users in the entire USA to be able to download entertainment, gaming, information, communications, and productivity applications onto their phones ...

(June 12, 2002) - One man's ceiling is another man's floor, they say. So not even ardent admirers of Boingo Wireless should be surprised that Boingo's success with deploying Wi-Fi has got wireless wannabe IBM thinking that it could maybe muscle in on the act... on a national basis.

It is only a question of time before the magic M-word 'mobile' is teamed up with every one of the planet's existing global brands, and the blockbuster gaming brand SEGA is no exception. First SEGA leveraged their video game heritage across the Internet, now they propose doing the sam...

(November 27, 2002) - Wireless networks are slowly pervading society. Advanced 2.5G and 3G cellular networks are only the beginning as other technologies, including wireless local area networks (WLAN), Bluetooth, radio frequency identification (RFID), and even ultra wideband (UWB) netw...

(January 15, 2003) - Nokia has introduced the Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME, Version 1.1 for Linux, expanding the universe of creative talent targeting mobile application development. The Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME, Version 1.1 for Linux provides developers with tools to crea...

(March 24, 2002) - From the very first moment back in December 2000, when Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo originally bought its 16% stake in AT&T Wireless Services Inc; the industry had been waiting to hear that i-mode was on its way to the U.S.

(June 18, 2002)-ThinkFree®, a leader in Web-based office productivity solutions, and SavaJe Technologies have formed a partnership to integrate ThinkFree Office Viewer technology with the SavaJe OS 2.0 Smartphone Edition.

The Wherify GPS Locator is, shall we say, the Mr. Hyde side of location-based technologies, but let's not forget that many people around the world are already talking too about their Dr. Jekyll side. Some companies already use RF tags (similar to those used to tag pets) in workwear ...

(November 27, 2002) - Mobile Java application developers are empowered to create professional applications for PDAs with Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7, PDA Edition. The newest addition to Metrowerks' tools for wireless application development supports building PersonalJava ...

(January 15, 2003) - Motorola Inc. Avaya Inc., and Proxim Corporation have agreed to collaborate on the creation and deployment of converged cellular, WLAN, and Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony solutions that will deliver new levels of communications mobility and network connectivity. ...

(March 26, 2002) - Why shouldn't the world's leading supplier of mobile phones, with its listings on six of the world's major exchanges, also get close to its grassroots users? Accordingly, Finnish-based Nokia had the idea last November of launching a 'Nokia Mobile Challenge' and tryin...

(July 2, 2002) - Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola, Inc. have teamed up to add color to the mobile phone user's life with the first color display, JavaTM technology-enabled phone in the U.S.- the Motorola i95cl, available now from Nextel. The handset's large color screen, maximiz...

(August 26, 2002) - QUALCOMM has expanded a cross-licensing agreement with Germany's Siemens AG, granting Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) the rights to make and sell infrastructure equipment worldwide for CDMA wireless systems. The agreement now provides ...

(November 27, 2002) - The notion that cellular phone radiation emissions might result with adverse health effects, the 21st century's first great environmental challenge, is proving a fertile seed-bed for ideas and inventions to combat the problem. By most admissions from experts an...

(January 22, 2003) - News is breaking in Washington this morning of an emerging scandal involving wireless carriers and the Bush administration's top telecommunications administrator, Nancy Victory. Victory is administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administr...

(March 26, 2002) - The wisdom of developing handheld devices based on truly global standards like Java - and GPRS - is being demonstrated dramatically in the case of Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion, known simply as 'RIM' to anyone who already loves the company's BlackBerry w...

(July 9, 2002) - Nokia and IBM have agreed to collaborate on digital content delivery for mobile applications and services. Combining their expertise, Nokia and IBM will provide wireless operators and service providers with a complete solution for content management and delivery. IBM w...

(August 26, 2002) - Narus has announced the latest release of its convergent mobile mediation solution - MobileSight - that acts as an engine to speed the deployment, management, and revenue capture of new segmented or personalized mobile services for voice and data networks. MobileSi...

(November 27, 2002) - The newly announced Nokia 6200 tri-band (GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900MHz) phone is the world's first 3GPP compliant EDGE (Enhanced Data-Rates for GSM Evolution) handset, offering users advanced voice features and robust mobile data services via high speed Internet...