SEOUL, Korea—Personal digital assistant (PDA) maker Handspring scored a major deal with GrandTech Korea and LG TeleCom to distribute Handspring PDAs working on LG's...
PARIS—Alcatel says it has won a contract to build mobile networks for Philippines operator Digitel to support 500,000 subscribers who will be able to...
NEW DELHI, India—Motorola said it has won a US$178 million contract to supply GSM mobile equipment to India's state-owned carrier BSNL for 1.4 million...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Software and services provider Pumatech Inc. announced all officers and corporate vice presidents of the company will forego 10 percent of their...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp., a provider of value-added logistics for wireless products, has registered to exchange half of its outstanding stock plus $20 million in...
SHERMAN, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has developed the fastest family chip that can enhance the overall speed of all networking systems including broadband,...
LONDON—Moody's Investor Services has cut the ratings of European vendor Marconi plc to Ba1 from Baa2, the second ratings agency to relegate the firm...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—In a new chapter of the judicial battle taking place in Argentina to implement calling party pays (CPP) between cellular callers, companies...
SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. released details of its forthcoming Pocket PC operating system upgrade—which the company is marketing squarely at the business market—a move that...
WASHINGTON—In an attempt to get its preferred message back in the forefront, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association sent a letter to the General...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. revised its third-quarter forecast for this year, saying that sales will be flat compared with the second quarter, rather than improving...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Days after receiving approval from the Chinese government for its CDMA repeater technology, Repeater Technologies Inc. received an $11 million order to provide...
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...
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...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Wireless data delivery solution provider Wireless Services Corp. and mobile software company FreeRein have entered a joint service agreement to commercially release new...
PLANO, Texas—A new study shows short message service chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming...
WASHINGTON—A New York bankruptcy court denied the Federal Communications Commission's request to postpone NextWave Telecom Inc.'s motion to schedule a confirmation hearing in its...
LA JOLLA, Calif.—Sensoria Corp. launched the Sensoria Telematics Environment, a standards-based telematics platform that allows drivers to share music wirelessly between their PC and...
LA JOLLA, Calif.—Bitfone Corp. released the company's flagship product, iBroker, in an effort to tap into the growing multimedia messaging market.Bitfone said its product...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—Cingular Wireless signed an agreement with TruePosition Inc. in which TruePosition's Wireless Location System will be deployed in Cingular's network as...
UNION CITY, Calif.—CPD Wireless, a master agent for multiple wireless service carriers, will become a master agent and wholesale distributor for VoiceStream Wireless Corp.,...
LONDON—Mobile-phone manufacturer Sendo selected PacketVideo Corp.'s mobile multimedia player software as an application for its Z100 GPRS Smartphone, enabling users to access media applications...
MANKATO, Minn.—Nextel Partners launched wireless service in Mankato, Minn., expanding the carrier's coverage in the state, which includes Duluth, Rochester and Winona.