March 2002

CALGARY—Zi Corp. announced it won its second patent suit against Tegic communications, a unit of AOL Time Warner. The latest ruling follows a recent decision in California that stated Zi’s …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Airtuit announced its BlueMoon 4.0 Mobile applications Server and BlueMoon Micro Edition, which allow mobile users to work in both online and offline modes. The solution is targeted to …

FORT WORTH, Texas—Travelocity.com launched My Messaging, a suite of wireless travel notification tools for travelers. The service, available for free following any Travelocity.com booking, enables travelers and people they designate …

TABY, Sweden—Allgon announced it will supply base station antennas to Swedish UMTS network operators 3GIS and Hi3G. “We won the contracts in hard competition, which once again confirms our high …

HANNOVER, Germany—Marco Boerries, developer of Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice office suite, unveiled his new company VerdiSoft at CeBit in Hannover this week. Boerries demonstrated VerdiSoft’s CrossPoint Server software that will allow …

CINCINNATI—InfoSpace launched a new wireless data service with Cincinnati Bell that the company said dramatically simplifies user provisioning of SMS alerts. The new service allows Cincinnati Bell users to stay …

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.—To be successful, pay-per-use applications need to meet three criteria: an accurate bill, happy customers and happy developers, according to a new report from Probe Research Inc. The …

HANOVER, Germany—More than 100 million customers across 27 countries in Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and Israel enjoy GSM high-speed data service, including international roaming. The networks use high-speed circuit …

SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm signed an agreement with Japanese carrier KDDI to enable the carrier’s handsets with Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) technology to enhance KDDI’s data services …

HANOVER, Germany—Psion Teklogix announced it will partner with Option to develop drivers for the GlobeTrotter Universal tri-band GSM/GPRS PC-card radio so they can be integrated into devices in the Psion …

CALGARY—The OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) Forum, an association promoting one global OFDM standard for cost-effective, high-speed wireless networks, announced the addition of several new members. Fujitsu PC and Wipro …

BERKELEY, Calif.—Otelnet, a provider of intelligent push solutions for wireless operators, announced the rollout of three new mobile content channels for carriers: lifestyle, entertainment and public safety.Otelnet now partners with …

LONDON—Vodafone Group plc and T-Mobile International AG, two of the world’s largest wireless operators, reported an initiative to create an interoperable mobile payment platform designed to accelerate customer and merchant …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. announced two third-generation contract wins this week, the first with Germany’s E-Plus Mobilfunk and the second with T-Mobile International. Nokia will be the main supplier for E-Plus’ …

AUSTIN, Texas, United States—Motorola said it licensed its i.250 GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) mobile phone platform to Eastcom Communications, one of China’s biggest original design manufacturers. “The i.250 innovative …

CULVER CITY, California, United States—Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment formed Wireless Services, a new group that will focus on developing and distributing new mobile-specific entertainment applications, games and services featuring Sony …

SAN JOSE, California, United States—For the first time in its history, the mobile-phone industry experienced a drop in unit sales in 2001, according to Dataquest. Worldwide mobile-phone sales totaled nearly …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having heard that T-Mobile plans to launch third-generation (3G) services in 20 German cities during the third quarter, Vodafone D2 responded this week by announcing plans for a …

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OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite upbeat statements from equipment manufacturers and the organizers, this year’s CeBIT exhibition would seem to have been hit with bad news, particularly for the cell-phone industry, together …

JOHANNNESBURG, South Africa—South African mobile network operator MTN reported that it suspended its free PC-to-mobile short message service (SMS) on Mtnsms.com following an unsustainable third-party cost increase. A company spokesman …

TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest operator in Japan, will launch its third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 on 1 April, the carrier announced. In Japan, NTT DoCoMo launched FOMA 3G services in …

TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, two leading electronic manufacturers in Japan, partnered for third-generation (3G) handsets and will begin collaborating next month on the development of a new platform for multimedia-enabled, …

NEW DELHI, India—Thuraya mobile satellite services, being offered by Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), has reached a subscriber base of 32,000 in about 25 …

NEW YORK and HANOVER, Germany—Lucent Technologies and Nokia cut their estimates, owing to what the network equipment makers described as weak demand for telecom equipment. Nokia cut its estimates just …