2001

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 salaries to help the company in …

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 cash to retire up to $150 …

NEW YORK—Java 2 Micro Edition company LogicChain Inc. announced Crisp Partners acquired an equity stake in the company, and plans to form a new mobile content services company called Crisp …

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, data storage and video imaging applications. …

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 to junk status. Standard & Poor’s …

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 have decided not to begin providing …

MADRID, Spain—Spanish mobile giant Telef

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 Rostelecom Director General Sergei Kuznetsov. However, …

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 has increased to 316. Via ATMs …

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 allow mobile solution developers to rapidly …

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. The company, which holds a dominant …

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 companies to create a range of …

HERZELIA, Israel—Israel-based Formula Telecom Solutions, a developer and provider of end-to-end telecommunications management solutions, announced it was awarded a contract valued at US$10.5 million from MobiTel, Bulgaria’s GSM operator. The …

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 now quickly becoming a mainstay among …

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 Tu-ka, according to The Wall Street …

BEIJING—Jan Malm, President of Ericsson (China) has confirmed that China has become Ericsson’s top market in the first half of this year with sales of US$970 million, 12 percent of …

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 used in China Unicom’s CDMA network. …

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 Inner Mongolia Mobile, all of them …

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 its OA850C Network Repeaters to Capitel …

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 wireless data applications for worldwide carrier …

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 a mainstay among adults age 35 …

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 the carrier’s enhanced 911 solution, the …

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 allows users to send multimedia …

NEW DELHI, India—Motorola Inc. said it has won a $178 million contract to supply GSM mobile equipment to India’s state-owned carrier BSNL for 1.4 million subscribers. “It’s for turnkey deployment …

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 their car, obtain current weather information, …