WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse today announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse's multimedia messaging service over its GPRS network.Comverse's announcement comes a week after...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Wireless security company Certicom scored four major software licensing deals, moves the company said further reinforce its role as a leader in the...
SEATTLE-Open application development platform provider Mforma Corp. launched its Developer Network, a free program aimed at helping developers build a variety of easily deployable...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc launched an advertising campaign, featuring television, movie, print and outdoor media. Each version of the campaign will feature the carrier's "How...
BEAVERTON, Ore.-For the love of base stations of the cdma2000 variety, Tektronix Inc. has rolled out its Option CD2 software for third-generation testing."Option CD2...
SALT LAKE CITY-Verizon Wireless celebrated the opening of its newest customer service call center in West Valley City, Utah. The $42 million facility includes...
BOSTON-Viridien Technologies, Cape Clear Software and MessageMachines announced they are teaming to offer a messaging platform that integrates instant alerts and notifications and can...
LAGOS, Nigeria-Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a $57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria. The first...
They go by all sorts of names-clearinghouses, hubs and gateways-and they represent companies' attempts at nailing down the precise formula for a business model...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will launch commercial service of its third-generation FOMA wireless service Oct. 1 in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan, with...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Walt Disney Internet Group announced two major content distribution deals-moves that came just one week after the company announced a distribution...
LONDON-U.K. mobile-phone maker Sendo announced it will use PacketVideo Corp.'s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company's...
NASHUA, N.H.-The wireless instant messaging space just got a little more crowded as Octave Communications released a new subscription service for instant group communications...
NEW YORK—A new study shows a surprisingly small number of consumers prefer to use speech-recognition technology; results that possibly dampen recent pushes by wireless...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Kurt Hellstrom, Ericsson CEO, has given a downbeat view on the cell-phone market claiming there are no clear signs of a recovery....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won contracts to build out the provincial Internet backbone networks for Chinese carriers Shandong Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and...
SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Repeater Technologies was granted a Network Industry License by China's Ministry of Information Industry, allowing its OA850C network repeater to be...
Japan's second-largest telecom company, KDDI Corp., has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser on the possible sale of the company's wireless unit...
PLANO, Texas, United States—A new study shows short message service (SMS) chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is...
MACCLESFIELD, England—Mobile Internet infrastructure provider Geoworks Corp. said BT Cellnet launched its developer program on BT's Expidas Web site, a move Geoworks said will...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Czech GSM operator Oskar announce that its customers can make all payment transactions at ATMs in the Czech Republic. The number of ATMs...
MOSCOW—The Rostelecom Company plans to sell its 23.5-percent stake in Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC) due to the financial losses the operator has incurred, announced...
