Mobile gaming initiative gains OMA backing
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Yet another attempt to standardise mobile gaming The Mobile Gaming Initiative has gained backing from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and formed a Game Services Working Group within the OMA to look at standards in mobile gaming.â¦
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Latest version of the open-source suite also adds support for mobile devices.
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Shadow sports a revamped Windows Mobile interface and aims to entice consumers.
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In light of a recent Parks Associates analysis of mobile and portable gaming trends, a series of casual games have hit the market for cellular handsets and portable media devices.
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The European mobile phone games market   is coping with its first slowdown as telecoms carriers shift   advertising spending to mobile television or digital music, and   operators struggle to win new devotees.
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The Motley Fool - Next-generation cell phones were supposed to be huge for enterprise applications, with their quasi-PC functionality. Well, it looks like the wireless gurus were wrong. The killer app for wireless is gaming, at least on a global basis.
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A group of cellular operators have joined up to help guide next-generation mobile technology.
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Mobile game publisher aims for shorts, snacks, and even sexy pasttimes.
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Fragmented industry still needs a consistent framework for mobile advertising.
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Zeemote has shown a wireless remote control for playing games on mobile phones
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'Oakville' mobiles going out to PC makers
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By Andrew Murray-Watson There was deja vu in the air at 3GSM, the annual get-together for the global mobile phone industry. The event in Barcelona is used by mobile executives to discuss the future of their sector and to unveil new products and services.
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Mobile handset manufacturers Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Siemens and Sony Ericsson have announced their co-operation in the Mobile Broadcast Services work, launched under the auspices of the sector trade association, the Open Mobile Alliance.
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(InfoWorld) - Some of the world's biggest cellular operators have gotten together to promote their vision of what next-generation mobile technology should look like. Sprint Nextel Corp., Vodafone Group PLC, China Mobile Communications Corp., Orange PLC, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Royal KPN NV and T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG announced Thursday they have formed the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) initiative. NGMN, a nonprofit group based in London, won't push a particular type of network but rather a set of guidelines that future technologies should follow, said Steve Falk, vice president of global standards at Sprint. "We think that we can speak with a more organized and concerted voice that we have in the past," Falk said. Vendors and standards organizations had stronger voices in the development of 2G (second-generation) and 3G systems. Carriers will represent the interests of their customers, the end users, he said. The group, which is already consulting with equipment vendors but will only include carriers as members, may be pitting itself against Qualcomm Inc., which developed much of the current 3G (third-generation) technology and has been criticized in some quarters for its royalty and licensing practices. The NGMN is looking toward the technologies to follow 3G systems such as HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) and EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized). Carriers are still deploying and upgrading those networks, which are based on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) respectively, but even faster technologies are coming down the road. Sprint, for one, has called WiMax its 4G technology and plans to roll it out across the U.S. within the next few years. In choosing WiMax, the carrier used some of the guidelines NGMN was formulating, Falk said. Among NGMN's recommended features are the following: - high data throughput with low latency - low operation and maintenance costs - support for authentication, security and differentiated quality of service Carriers also will favor technologies covered by FRAND (fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory) intellectual property rules, Falk said. "One of the principles of NGMN is an open and transparent IPR (intellectual property rights) regime," he said. The NGMN would like to see a single technology track and believes greater harmony will lower costs and speed up product development for vendors, too. "In some cases, 2G and 3G vendors have had to do very costly and time-consuming development on three to five different kinds of technology," Falk said. Being able to focus on one or two tracks, in turn, will help bring products and services to mobile subscribers faster and more economically, he said.
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Messaging specialist cut short Mobile messaging software company Empower Interactive Group has gone into administration. The company's SMS and MMS software is used by several mobile operators, including Orange UK, Wind in Italy, Singapore's Starhub, and Etisalat in the UAE.â¦
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Industry body calls for customer awareness The Open Mobile Terminal Alliance, a mobile-phone industry body which counts Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3 amongst its membership, has published guidance for network operators and handset manufacturers on provisioning and maintaining VoIP settings on new handsets.â¦
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A European project aims to change how people receive their digital entertainment in the future.