SAN FRANCISCO—Following a recent annual meeting, venture capital firm SoftBank Venture Capital announced it will change its name to Mobius Venture Capital, a move...
HURST, Texas—Handango, a wireless software publisher, announced it will exclusively power Palm Inc.'s Software Connection Web site and that the companies intend to conduct...
MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France—Webraska announced it is going to supply Orange UK with upgrades to Orange's existing multimedia location-based services.The upgraded service will allow users to...
CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. and e-Payment technology provider iPIN have joined to offer a new solution covering rating, billing and e-payments.Convergys' Geneva ARM software will be...
BISMARCK, N.D.—Verizon Wireless launched digital wireless service in the Bismarck-Mandan area of North Dakota as part of the carrier's $7.7 million investment in the...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS said it will offer downloadable ringtones and screen savers to its customers through its Web site or wireless Web service.The...
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America announced it will sponsor the Gadget Bar at "Fashion For Freedom," a fashion show scheduled for December 6, 2001, in Hollywood,...
TORONTO—CellWand Communications has announced the launch of Pound Taxi (#TAXI), a new cellular service that will allow callers to obtain the first available taxi...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said it will vote next week on whether to authorize ultra-wideband technologies, despite requests from the departments of defense and...
HELSINKI, Finland—German mobile operator Viag Interkom said it has launched its prepaid service for GPRS, using a Nokia solution for processing charging data for...
RICHARDSON, Texas—Ericsson AB issued a circular Tuesday in the company notifying the staff that about 400 workers in the research and development division will...
MEXICO CITY—America Movil, the mobile subsidiary of Mexico's TelMex, announced several transactions that will give it control of several Latin American companies currently held...
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Siemens AG said it rolled out a program called the "We Surpass Partner Program" to help carriers and other service providers deploy...
SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. introduced the wireless and voice features for its Oracle application server release 2, which include enhanced support for voice access to...