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Wireless Developers Get Dedicated Portal
News The wireless development community gets its own dedicated portal on Monday with the launch of Anywhere YouGo.com. As well as wireless Internet applications and telecom news, the portal will offer directories, tutorials, discussion forums, a career...
[February 21, 2000, 11:08]
Vodafone Launches Wireless Portal
News Vodafone's portal is one of a number of initiatives aimed at linking the worlds of wireless and the Internet. In its latest move to convince investors that it is the right home for Germany's Mannesmann, giant telco Vodafone AirTouch (quote: VOD...
[January 11, 2000, 16:57]
AOL Portal Launches Wireless Shopping
News Mviva, the wireless portal backed by AOL and Carphone Warehouse, on Monday rolled out a comparison-shopping service, m dealfinder. The service, like similar offerings from Scan.com and others, lets users check prices on an item from several...
[March 19, 2001, 13:38]
Comdex: Palm Lays Out Portal And Wireless Plans
News The portal software can only be used with devices that use version 3.5 of the Palm OS. The portal will categorise applications for better organisation. Palm has partnered with Yodlee under its My Accounts link giving users a portal to review all...
[November 14, 2000, 8:28]
News Burst: Terra Buys WAP Portal
News Spain's Terra Mobile is placing its bets on WAP's successful future with the acquisition of wireless portal iobox for 230m euros (about £140m). Terra Mobile is a joint venture owned 51 percent by Telefonica Moviles and 49 percent by Terra Networks...
[July 25, 2000, 11:45]
Nautical Wireless
Downloads Now boaters can access the Nautical Wireless Portal providing great, useful information and services anytime, anywhere. A Rovenet Wireless Internet Portal Program. Real time weather, buoys, severe weather, tropical storms, marina listings and more.
[July 20, 2000, 5:08]
Vodafone And BT Under Threat From M-commerce Upstarts
News A new wireless portal, which will offer free online content and messaging, announced its UK launch on Thursday, even as a report emphasised the bright future ahead of such portals in the mobile-commerce (m-commerce) future.room33, a so-called...
[February 17, 2000, 14:34]
Terra Hits WAP Scene With Iobox Buyout
News Spain's Terra Mobile made the first big acquisition of its short life Tuesday with the purchase of wireless portal iobox for 230m euros (about £140m). The venture's aim is to become the world's leading mobile Internet portal, though a public...
[July 25, 2000, 16:41]
Telecom '99: Oracle, IBM Roll Out Mobile E-commerce
News Oracle's target market for Portal-to-Go is primarily telecommunications carriers, content and service providers, and enterprise customers who want to provide employees with wireless Internet capabilities.
[October 11, 1999, 12:37]
Mobile Future Under Fire
News Most companies interested in the the wireless Internet, including handset manufacturers, network operators, Web companies and independent startups, have so far focussed on the "mobile portal" -- a wireless version of popular online portals such as...
[March 20, 2001, 12:36]
Breathe Offers Cheap Bundled WAP Surfing
News The service is designed to attract users to its wireless portal, the new Holy Grail on the Internet. The introduction of fixed rate packages should go a long way in reassuring consumers and driving uptake of WAP services.breathe is hoping its novel...
[April 6, 2000, 11:43]
Portals Face A WAP Standards Mess
News One in four WAP sites are riddled with faults making them inaccessible to users, says a new report from WAP development portal AnyWhereYouGo.com. Also released is a free WAP emulator that allows developers to test sites on different devices without...
[May 10, 2000, 14:32]
Palm To Dump Online Calendar
News Palm is keeping the MyPalm portal's mobile section, which offers content to people with handhelds capable of wireless data access. Handheld giant Palm plans to discontinue its Web-based MyPalm portal, which offers online access to personal...
[November 27, 2001, 9:36]
Microsoft's CeBIT: Stinger On Show As .Net Gets Plugged
News At CeBIT, Microsoft announced the creation of the first .Net-based wireless enterprise portal, in partnership with Germany's T-Mobil mobile operator. The portal will include news searches, Web browsing, email and messaging, and also provide a...
[March 23, 2001, 14:48]
Memory Launches Its SoulMate MP3 Player
News The company said that although it had no intention of managing artists, it wanted to provide consumers with content through its own portal, claiming that with the transition from the PC to " consumer friendly wireless devices", consumers will want...
[November 4, 1999, 12:10]
One Wireless Viewpoint: 'WAP Is Crap'
News Cable & Wireless Optus operates its WAP portal as a walled garden and "started off this way, based on customer research," CWO general manager of Mobile, Internet and Data Finola Thompson said. The aim of the game is to make money serving content...
[June 30, 2000, 10:12]
Cutbacks Push Dot-coms Toward Profits
News There was a day when The New York Times Digital and Disney had wireless strategies, portal strategies, content strategies and (so on). Those cuts came on top of 400 employees shorn last January from Disney's Go.com Web portal.
[January 9, 2002, 15:03]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Dominates
News The portal also has alliances with numerous international wireless providers. As the portal easily topped every metric that Wall Street set for the company, other dot-coms such as Salon.com and Beyond.com are becoming information superhighway...
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
Bumpy Road Ahead For Wi-Fi Roaming
News Brian McCann, senior manager of solution marketing for communications billings systems provider Portal Software agrees that back-end billing is a critical issue. Consolidation will continue to take place in the WLAN provision space and niche...
[March 18, 2003, 10:58]
Oracle: Life After Ray Lane
News Unlike boss Ellison, Bloom took only one potshot at Oracle archrival Microsoft During a demonstration of a job-search feature on its Oracle Technical Network portal, Bloom searched Microsoft for job openings for those with Oracle experience.
[October 3, 2000, 9:34]
