SAN ANTONIO-Bell Canada Holdings repurchased approximately 4 percent of SBC Communications Inc.'s 20-percent interest in the company for $870 million.The companies also entered an...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish supplier Tecnomen said it will begin multimedia messaging service trials in two countries, The Dominican Republic and Indonesia.The Dominican Republic trial will...
PITTSBURGH-Eizel Technologies Inc., which offers technology to connect mobile devices to corporate information programs, announced it closed a seed round of investment funding totaling...
HARRISBURG, Pa.-Pennsylvania attorney general Mike Fisher, praised the General Assembly for passing Senate Bill 820, sponsored by Sen. Jake Corman, which would prohibit prison...
DALLAS-Edge Wireless L.L.C., a member of the AT&T Wireless network, signed a three-year contract with Nortel Networks to upgrade its current TDMA network to...
CALGARY, Alberta-Zi Corp., which provides software for device interfaces, announced Humax Co. Ltd. licensed the company's eZiText for its digital set-top box products."Humax represents...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Autodesk Location Services announced the third release of its Autodesk LocationLogic, a development platform for location-based services.Autodesk said LocationLogic 3 includes new...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-Denso International America Inc., North American headquarters for Japan-based Denso Corp., cut 177 U.S. jobs, citing delays in their customers' commercial telematics plans.The...
TORONTO-BlackBerrys will soon be available in France through Research In Motion Ltd.'s latest carrier deal.The company said it will sell the BlackBerry wireless e-mail...
BURLINGOTN, Mass.-Shares of Lightbridge Inc. took a hit Friday after the mobile business solution provider released new, lower-than-anticipated revenues for the second quarter ending...
PARIS-Alcatel said it launched a 3G Reality Center in Shanghai, China, to develop and test advanced mobile applications and data services in the country.Alcatel...
NEW YORK-Short message service company Cellus licensed music rights from BMI, giving the company access to 4.5 million musical works."We look forward to bringing...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South Africa's third cellular network operator Cell C has reportedly implemented a suite of locally developed business critical software solutions. The suite,...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced the country had 170 million mobile subscribers and 196 million fixed-line users at the end of May.During...
NEW DELHI, India-After consolidation of operations and brands, Indian GSM players are now turning to more competitive services by adding new features. This week,...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Oi, the new GSM operator owned by fixed-line operator Telemar, entered the country's mobile market on Tuesday, offering the country's first...
BEIJING-During the first five months of the year, output of mobile phones jumped 108 percent in Shanghai. Exports of information technology products by foreign-invested...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Confronting the fierce competition in its core business, Excelcomindo, Indonesia's GSM 900/1800 operator, spread its wings to provide wireless local area network (WLAN)...
MOSCOW-The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) finally launched a GSM 900/1800 MHz network in Belarus, thus making its first step into the Commonwealth...
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola said it will shed 7,000 jobs and take charges of about US$3.5 billion, 90 percent of which will come out...
MANILA, The Philippines-The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to affirm a Court of Appeals decision allowing it to...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Argentina announced on Monday it cannot pay even the interest on its debt of US$2.4 billion, further extending the default declared...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz (Cotas) has become the first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the region by launching its...
