TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba, two leading Japanese consumer electronics and electrical appliances companies, announced that both firms will on 1 April set up...
BEIJING—A group of Chinese content providers announced a joint effort aimed at protecting and defending intellectual property rights in a move to support the...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—Under a deal with international wireless infrastructure provider Netsize, TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it expanded its short message service system to allow customers...
PARIS—Telecoms equipment maker Alcatel said it suffered its second deficit in its history with a $4.27 loss in 2001, although the French supplier looks...
TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the popular BlackBerry pager, announced a major alliance with Motorola and Nextel Communications to develop a combined...
DENVER, United States—Verizon Wireless became the first nationwide U.S. carrier to commercially launch cdma2000 1x services this week as it unveiled its Express Network...
NEW DELHI, India—The much-awaited 1900 MHz mobile-phone service of the Thai government agency Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT) is slated for launch on 27...
MONROE, La.—CenturyTel Inc. said its wireless revenues decreased 3 percent to $108.5 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with $111.8 million...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite numerous scientific studies that fail to identify problems, worries regarding the use of cell phones remain high on the agenda of...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Dutch telecommunications giant KPN will buy the remaining 22.5-percent interest in German mobile-phone operator E-Plus that it does not already own from...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Following the postponement until May of the personal communications services (PCS) and third-generation (3G) licenses auction, Uruguay has added the possibility of...
WAYNE, N.J.—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Audible Inc. have been testing a jointly developed automated wireless download capability designed to extend Audible's content delivery...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Iospan Wireless Inc. received a patent for optimizing the use of multiple antennas in a wireless system, the company said January 28.The...
ATLANTA—RF Solutions Inc. said it has developed a chipset technology that converges cellular networks with wireless LAN, including 802.11a,b and g.The announcement of the...
ALAMEDA, Calif.—Wireless data infrastructure provider Geoworks Corp. announced a series of drastic moves and a depressing third quarter report, news that sent the company's...
LONDON—Logica announced a deal with T-Motion, the mobile online services arm of T-Mobile International, to create a portal to market billable value-added services to...
LOS ANGELES—The latest Econ One survey showed that costs of cell phone service in the United States dropped greatly during 2001, especially in those...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse and Texas Instruments Inc. announced Comverse's enhanced messaging services will operate on TI's OMAP platform for 2.5 and 3G wireless devices.By combining...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. says it has licensed the ARM926EJ-S core processor for wireless applications such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants.ARM, which provides embedded...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. said it created a wireless group within its Mobile Solutions Partner Program to ensure that other companies' products and services work...
BEDFORD, Mass.—TechOnLine Inc. has launched Communicationsnet, an online technical resource dedicated to communications-related engineering content, including wired and wireless communications, connectivity and networking.The site...
AMSTERDAM—Dutch telecommunications giant KPN will buy the remaining 22.5-percent interest in German mobile-phone operator E-Plus from U.S.-based BellSouth Corp. for about $1.06 billion in...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association is urging the Federal Communications Commission against a mandate for wireless local number portability (LNP)."In the matter...
