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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
