EMERYVILLE, California, United States—iAnywhere Solutions and Swedish banking company Swedbank announced they are conducting a trial of their new m-Banking solution.The service, Banken via...
SWINDON, United Kingdom—Lucent said it completed a live high-speed data call using a variety of mobile Internet services on commercial Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service...
LONDON—Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile launched a new range of short message service and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based wireless Internet applications built on...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Hungary's Westel began commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to its clients throughout country.Westel's GSM network is based on Ericsson system elements in...
PARIS—The standoff between the French government and mobile-phone operator SFR, which is backed by Vivendi Universal, was at least delayed this week, with SFR...
KIEV, Ukraine—A working group uniting officials from various Ukrainian ministries recommended to sell a 25-percent stake in major Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC), in which...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Sweden's state-owned Vattenfall has called for the launch of third-generation (3G) services to be delayed until consumer demand can be more accurately...
TOKYO—NEC has joined the Mobile Electronic Transactions (MeT) Initiative, which seeks to develop open and common industry framework for secure mobile transactions."The MeT Initiative...
MADRID, Spain—Xfera, one of four companies in Spain with a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license, unveiled plans to lay off 25 percent of...
BEIJING—Officials at the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) indicated they may issue up to three new mobile-phone licenses to offer increased competition to the...
HONK KONG—Motorola Inc. says it has signed a three-year, $44 million contract to supply GSM 1800 infrastructure for Malaysia's carrier Telecom Cellular, whose service...
DALLAS—In its ongoing effort to pull itself out of bankruptcy, WebLink Wireless Inc. announced several reconstruction-and-reduction moves it plans to make.The company will shut...
ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will not implement the reverse stock split it previously announced on Sept. 17.The company said it made its decision...
SARASOTA, Fla.—Speedcom Wireless Corp. announced its Wave Wireless Networking division has been chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide broadband wireless connectivity between...
REDMOND, Wash.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Metawave Communications Corp. announced an alliance to increase the capacity of CDMA and CDMA2000 wireless networks.The joint solution, designed...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Superconductor Technologies Inc. has sued ISCO International Inc. following ISCO's complaint against STI for infringement of its patent for "Cryoelecronically Cooled Receiver...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is the first in North America and one of the first worldwide to roll out third-generation cdma2000...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless reported a three-year agreement with Circuit City Stores Inc. to distribute Cingular products and services in more than 475 Circuit City stores...
BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems said its Bluetooth software development kit for embedded devices, XTNDAccess Blue SDK, now supports the Hands-Free module of the Bluetooth Personal...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS introduced the Samsung SPH-I300 smart phone, combining a Palm-OS powered personal digital assistant and wireless handset.The six ounce device includes...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc added 2.5 million worldwide proportionate subscribers during the third quarter, bringing the wireless giant's proportionate customer base to 95.6 million subscribers.Vodafone...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia began shipping its GPRS phones in Europe on Sept. 28, barely making the third-quarter deadline it had set for itself for commercially...
