NEW YORK-Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Materials Corp. has established offices here to prepare for a 2001 commercial launch of its SWIFTcomm data platform, which it believes...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced a "wireless travel concierge" portfolio to its Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service via partnerships with several companies and...
Extolling them as "wings of light," Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission last week began looking into the various consumer questions-including privacy-and emerging technologies of the wireless Web by holding a day-and-a-half...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Just a week after rival L.M. Ericsson introduced its first i-mode phone for the Japanese market, Motorola Inc. laid out plans to get...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Under a nonexclusive agreement, Lucent Technologies Inc. will market InfoSpace Inc.'s wireless platform to its customers. InfoSpace said its platform provides an end-to-end...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. confirmed its forecast for fourth quarter 2000, fiscal year 2000, first quarter 2001 and fiscal year 2001.The company expects revenue in...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-While Verizon Wireless prepaid customers are topping off their Big Gulps they can top off their calling cards under an agreement between the...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. will ship with its suite of mobile developer tools the Lutris Enhydra 3.5 Java/XML Open Source application server, including the Nokia WAP...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week called on the Federal Communications Commission to institute a bill-and-keep mechanism for reciprocal compensation.Reciprocal compensation is...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS launched personal communications services in Fort Walton Beach and Panama City, Fla., through US Unwired Inc., Sprint PCS' network managing...
As the industry whets its appetite on the prospect of third-generation services and all the revenue-generating opportunities wireless Internet access can bring, telecom vendors...
IRVINE, Calif.-Test, measurement and engineering provider Comarco Inc. announced it acquired EDX Engineering Inc., a developer of system planning tools, which the company said...
As wireless carriers began bidding on 422 personal communications services licenses up for grabs in the government auction last week, investors were hoping carriers...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. released FraudBuster 5.0, the newest version of the company's post-activation fraud detection system.FraudBuster 5.0 is able to detect all known types...
After months of uncertainty peppered with glimpses of hope, Iridium L.L.C. officially settled into its new home last week as a mobile satellite service...
At its annual PalmSource conference for developers, Palm Inc. further embraced the ongoing wireless enablement of its devices by incorporating a broad array of...
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson and IBM's subsidiary Tivoli Systems Inc. have allied to roll out a set of managed devices the companies believe...
In a trinity aimed to reinvent itself, mobile applications provider Mobilelogic changed its name, hugged a new partner and closed a deal last week.It...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-KPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgium operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for $443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership.France Telecom...
WASHINGTON-A leading congressional telecommunications policy maker said Congress should pass legislation that would allow a "national tower-siting policy to ensure complete coverage and universal...
TORONTO-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it will purchase airtime and services from Microcell Connexions Inc. to offer Canadian customers wireless data services based on...
