2001

SEOUL, Korea-SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest wireless operator, said it will pull out of the fixed-line business to focus on its mobile services, according to international press reports. The company …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Battling reaction to the profit warning it issued late last week, Sierra Wireless stood out with several announcements at this week’s PC Expo. Sierra Wireless released its AirPath …

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands-Royal Philips Electronics NV said it will quit making mobile-phone handsets and cede it to a venture with China Electronics Corp. to make them. The Financial Times reported that …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Just a month after it reassured Wall Street of its revenue expectations, Aether Systems Inc. today announced it now expects “flat to modest” growth for the remainder of …

Ameritech Paging, owned by SBC Communications, was left out of RCR Wireless News’ 2001 Top 20 Paging Carrier list in the June 18, 2001 issue. With 1.1 million subscribers, Ameritech …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Embattled high-speed wireless data service company Metricom Inc. said it plans to lay off approximately 23 percent of its work force in hopes of preserving its rapidly dwindling …

NEW YORK-Mobileum Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., has released the 2.0 version of Mobileum, which the company is touting as the “world’s first tools-independent wireless application platform.” The “tools-independent” feature means that …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, will distribute AT&T Wireless shares to AT&T common stockholders at a ratio of 0.3281 of a share of AT&T Wireless for each outstanding AT&T share, …

NEW YORK-Sony Electronics and GoAmerica Inc. introduced a new MYLO wireless service at the PC Expo here June 25 that will provide Internet access for users of CLIE monochrome handheld …

TOKYO-ActiveSky, a company focused on wireless interactive rich media, has signed microbrowser developer Access, consumer electronics producer Casio, advertiser Dentsu, and several content providers to test consumer and business applications …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. today announced two distribution deals, one with a major personal digital assistant company and another with a wireless data carrier. Brightpoint’s agreement with Palm Inc. involves distributing Palm’s …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Networks said it will prune about 1,000 jobs as part of its efforts to improve efficiency and optimize its structures to meet changing market needs. The layoffs of …

DENVER-Daniels & Associates announced U.S. Cellular Corp. acquired the E-Block personal communications services licenses serving the St. Joseph, Mo., basic trading area from Triad Holdings I L.L.C. covering approximately 190,000 …

Sun Microsystems Inc., the inventor of Java technology is embracing ARM Ltd., a provider of microprocessor solutions, to optimize applications for handsets. ARM, which has about 75 percent market share …

I am moved. Not by car or subway, or even through time and space by sophisticated cell-phone technology. I am moved by news reports (some with pictures of eternity-bound adults …

The digital technology wars that marked the launch of second-generation services in the United States is one of the most storied and significant events in the industry’s short history. In …

Texas Instruments Inc. said it has developed a hardware and software chipset solution for GPRS class 12 wireless handsets. HiddenMind Technology Inc. announced it merged with AnyDevice Inc., a move …

So you can check your e-mail wirelessly. Talaris Corp. says “so what?” How about reserving a table at a nearby restaurant for that important work lunch? How about scheduling a …

A search for a new corporate identity may be a major result of the storm of layoffs rocking the telecom world as the majority of the victims are long-term employees …

NEW YORK-Korea Telecom Corp., South Korea’s largest fixed-line telecommunications operator and second-largest mobile wireless carrier, raised $2.24 billion in American depository receipts sold June 28 to investors outside the country. …

In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem …

SEATTLE-Finally, the breakup talk may fizzle out for Microsoft Corp. Thanks to a unanimous decision by the federal appeals court, the software giant may not worry about antitrust accusations as …

BOSTON-It may be a little battered and bruised, and missing a few former compatriots, but the wireless broadband industry made a strong showing in Boston last week at the Wireless …

CellStar Corp. said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has informed it that the investigation into its compliance with federal securities laws has been terminated. “We are pleased to put …

WASHINGTON-As policy-makers last week voiced support for a plan to move the Pentagon off spectrum sought by the mobile phone industry for third-generation wireless systems, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman …