Tag archive: OMA

Today at the 3GSM trade fair in Barcelona, Spain, number two phone maker Motorola announced it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to build music phones built around Microsoft's Windows Media technology, to compete alongside music phones sporting iTunes software from Apple Computer. Motorola says the forthcoming music handsets will connect to computers using USB 2.0, and support Windows Media digital rights management (DRM)… Read More

“Despite a mobile phone group's dismay over a revised licensing fee for digital rights management, Willms Buhse, vice chairman of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), predicted at an industry forum here Wednesday (May 11) that “there will be an agreement soon.” Noting that Microsoft is an OMA member, and recently sent three officials to a Paris meeting to discuss OMA's DRM, Buhse said he sees the moves as… Read More

“Unlike the personal computing and consumer electronics spaces, the mobile phone industry has been able to develop interoperable DRM solutions from the ground up, which is a real advantage for providers seeking to add multimedia content to their services,” said Harry Wang, a research analyst at Parks Associates. “This environment has created a clean slate for the mobile phone industry to write its own DRM standard.”… Read More

Today at 3GSM World Congress 2005, Microsoft. and Nokia announced they are working together to ensure that consumers can enjoy music from the newly launched mobile music solution offered by Nokia andLoudeye Corp. to wireless operators on both Nokia handsets and Microsoft Windows XP-based PCs. The two companies also have agreed to a long-term collaboration on extended digital media formatsupport. This collaboration includes support on… Read More

Motorola, Inc. today announced its unique Cross-Technology PoC offering that enables subscribers to have “push-to” connectivity across and between GPRS, CDMA2000 1X, and WiFi networks. This is a network-based solution, aligned with Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standards, that does not require modification to standards-based PoC clients. "We built upon existing open standards, and then utilized our softswitching expertise… Read More

Motorola, Inc. today announced three additions to its push-to-talk mobile phone portfolio, including the powerful model V400p quad-band GSM handset, the rugged model T300p CDMA handset and the sleekmodel V65p CDMA handset. Each mobile is designed to deliver a distinct push-to-talk experience that meets the needs of a targeted consumer segment. Motorola is the industry leader in push-to-talk technology with commercial CDMA solutions across North… Read More