2001

NEW YORK-Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe, the sixth largest handset maker, this month will introduce its new Trium series of mobile phones, incorporating into two models the voice-activated dialing software of …

PARIS—The French government has dramatically reduced its upfront cost of third-generation (3G) licenses and extended the license terms to 20 years from 15 years.The initial payment for a French 3G …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—nGame Ltd. announced a new partnership with Telus Mobility to provide eleven wireless games for Telus subscribers with web-enabled mobile phones.The games are: Rat Race, Air Aces, Alien Fish …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. have announced a joint venture for liquid crystal display and next-generation display businesses for personal digital assistants and other appliances.Both companies will …

BANGALORE, India—Jataayu Software released WAP 2.0, the company’s gateway and browser software that meets the WAP Forum’s specifications for the second generation of Wireless Application Protocol technology, and said it …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AG has announced 2,000 job cuts as part of what it describes as its efficiency program in response to the slowdown in the telecom market.The company said 1,300 …

LONDON—Vodafone Group said it will cut about 600 jobs in the United Kingdom by January. The world’s largest mobile carrier said it does not plan cuts in its numerous operations …

NEW YORK—In its fourth debt deal of the year NTT DoCoMo Inc., Tokyo, plans to pay off maturing short-term debt with a new issue of $825 million in of 10-year, …

NEW YORK—Sirius Satellite Radio said David Margolese has stepped down as chief executive officer of the company and his duties will be assumed on an interim basis by John J. …

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Infowave Software announced that Mentor Graphics has purchased its Infowave Wireless Business Engine and will deploy it in its European operations.Mentor Graphics will use the business engine on WAP-enabled …

CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. and Logica plan to demonstrate an integrated prepaid and postpaid billing system this week at the 2001 UMTS Congress in Barcelona.According to the companies, the demonstration will show …

NEW YORK—Siemens AG and Motorola Inc. have halted their joint-venture talks for now, according to the Wall Street Journal.The report says no significant announcements will be made this year.

STAMFORD, Conn.—SmartServ Online Inc. announced it will provide its SmartServQ wireless SMS application to a major wireless service provider in Hong Kong.SmartServQ provides subscribers with services including access to equity …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has appointed Bill O’Shea as president of Bell Labs and chief technology officer. He replaced Arun Netravvali, who will become its chief scientist …

NEW YORK—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Inc.’s Car Working Group released a definition for how Bluetooth wireless technology will enable hands-free use of mobile phones in automobiles as part of …

LONDON—European vendor Marconi PLC said its third quarter results met it projections with an operating profit of $7.5 million. The company, which announced the resignation of its chief executive in …

TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial Co says its expects a net loss of $560 million in the second half of this year, 50 percent more than its earlier estimate. The company attributed …

NEW YORK—Telematics has the potential to create $20 billion to $40 billion in revenues during the next ten years, according to a recently released Booz Allen Hamilton report. Telematics has …

WASHINGTON—All of the principles in the negotiations for bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.’s PCS C- and F-block license have signed off on a concept agreement that would allow NextWave to walk …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems Inc., Comverse Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International Inc., have agreed to form a …

HAYWARD, Calif.—Certicom Inc. says it is shipping its virtual private network solution called movian VPN 2.0 for wireless devices using 802.11b, or WiFi, networks. “movian VPN allows companies to extend …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless Inc. posted better than expected third-quarter numbers, noting the introduction of new products during the fourth quarter should help it contend with the current difficult economic …

SINGAPORE—Singapore’s telecom regular Infocomm Development Authority has selected four consortia to trial mobile payment solutions through a $11 million initiative. The trials will run from the first quarter of 2002 …

BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems signed an agreement with Compaq Global Services allowing Compaq to resell Extended’s XTNDConnect Server software as part of its mobile solutions offering to iPAQ corporate customers and …

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—NMS Communications announced it has acquired Lucent Technologies’ voice enhancement and echo cancellation business. According to the agreement, expected to close by year-end, NMS will pay $60 million in …