AUSTIN, Texas—Metrowerks announced the shipment of its new CodeWarrior Development tools, a set of tools that enables application and content development for Tao Group's...
TOKYO—The Japanese government on 17 April sent a letter of counter argument to the U.S. government regarding the U.S. governmental claim that Japanese mobile...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Safaricom, the joint venture between Telkom Kenya and Vodafone Group, has reported that the operator's subscriber base has grown from 15,000 to...
BEIJING—China's Eastern Communications (Eastcom) announced it is halting its 123.08 million yuan (US$14.87 million) effort to develop its own proprietary mobile-phone technology to compete...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—BellSouth doubled the quantity of users during the last six months in Ecuador, which caused a 40-percent increase in phone traffic and...
TOKYO—Coca-Cola Japan, NTT DoCoMo and Itochu jointly announced that they will establish Coca-Cola vending machines with which i-mode users can purchase a can of...
BEIJING—Peter Borger, president of Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications, told the South China Morning Post he expects the Chinese government to issue two more licenses...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indosat Multimedia Mobile (IM3) said it will continue its free General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering until the end of April, with an...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—After announcing its wireless initiative last week, BT Group said it is aware of the security concerns surrounding wireless local area network...
HELSINKI, Finland—Telfort, the Dutch subsidiary of U.K.-based MmO2, has entered a strategic agreement with Ericsson under which it will outsource all its mobile network...
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Boingo Wireless Inc. said it has implemented Portal Software Inc.'s billing solution, known as Infranet, for mobile service providers."Boingo developed its billing infrastructure...
NEW DELHI, India—It will cost less to make calls over mobile networks in Pakistan beginning 1 May.The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) reduced the airtime...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—In the wake of recent tariff cuts by the competing GSM mobile operators, analog fixed wireless operator Intercellular announced that it will...
TORONTO—The Toronto Blue Jays have turned to technology to help boost ticket sales.The American League baseball team is using what it dubs "cyber-sellers." Equipped...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, announced it will launch a field trial for credit card settlement using third-generation (3G) handsets in the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to reduce third-generation (3G) deployment costs, Vodafone's Portuguese business, Telecel, formed a joint venture with Optimus, the cell-phone division...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Nortel executives have admitted that the US$1.1 billion contact awarded to it by MmO2 for 2.5-generation (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) infrastructure this...
BEIJING—The boom times in China's mobile telecom sector seem to be over. While the country still added 5.9 million new mobile-phone subscribers in February,...
OKLAHOMA CITY—Dobson Cellular Systems completed deployment of equipment allowing it to offer voice-activated dialing services through Preferred Voice.Dobson said it would market the VoiceDial...
BOULDER, Colo.-Cellport Systems Inc. laid off about 80 employees and plans to exit the hands-free car kit manufacturing business.Company spokeswoman Lori Pidick told The...
TOKYO—Intel Corp. unveiled its 1.8 Volt wireless flash memory for cell pones, describing it as up to four times faster than existing flash solutions....
ATLANTA—Wireless platform provider Air2Web will partner with the National Football League to broadcast the 2002 NFL draft on wireless devices.Air2Web will provide free up-to-the...
NEW YORK—British wireless operator MmO2 launched two initiatives in a move to provide mobile data and products to customers in Western Europe.The carrier said...
