Tag archive: mobile phone operators

Verizon Wirless announced today that it would begin offering videos from YouTube to its V CAST video subscribers beginning in early December. The deal is a limited-time exclusive: for a while, anyway, Verizon will be the only mobile service to offer YouTube selections to U.S. mobile phone users—and the company is clearly hoping the deal will create an upswing in subscriptions for its mobile video offerings. Financial terms of the deal… Read More

According to Interfax news agency, the unnamed university student from the Urals city of Chelyabinsk hacked into one of Russia's biggest mobile phone operators and used a special program to send the message. The teen was handed a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay a 3,000-rouble, about $100, fine. Source: Reuters.

The new digital rights management (DRM) technology, called the OMA DRM server, was developed by Oslo-based Beep Science AS, the companies said in a statement. It is based on a standard developed by industry trade group the Open Mobile Alliance. The new technology works on the concept of a restricted peer-to-peer network in which owners of mobile phones equipped with multimedia messaging, or MMS, can send and receive pictures and sound… Read More