LAS VEGAS-SanDisk will use SyChip Inc.'s WLAN6060SD NIC accessory card design, based on the Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) standard, in its new SanDisk...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Ugandan Consumer Protection Association (UCPA) has called on mobile network operators to begin billing subscribers by the second and not by...
BEIJING-China's telecommunications industry publication "People's Telecom" forecasted that the country will have 384 million mobile subscribers in 2006, attaining a penetration rate of nearly...
TOKYO-Mitsui & Company plans to expand its mobile content distribution business in Europe and Asia through a partnership with a Tokyo-based venture business. Mitsui,...
TOKYO-The Japanese Telecom Ministry launched a discussion regarding introducing the "carrier pre-fixed system" known as "Myline service" for calls from fixed-line phones to mobile...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Colombian government and Ecuadorian courts have passed measures that will push forward personal communications services (PCS) auctions in each country, allowing...
BEIJING-Samsung received the Chinese government's approval to directly sell its handsets on the domestic market, bypassing import agents. Market leaders Motorola and Nokia already...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Clear Channel Communications has teamed with InPhonic Inc. to provide its six Cleveland market radio stations with a wireless messaging service to communicate...
IRVINE, Calif.-Linksys and Zandiant Technologies have joined to develop wireless networking appliances that allow vehicles to connect with home, office and hotspot networks, like...
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands-Philips Electronics said it will supply its Platform4 multimedia encoding technology to Italy's Mediaset for audio and video services for mobile operator...
TORONTO-Rogers Communications and its Rogers Wireless Communications subsidiary announced it expects network revenues, excluding equipment sales, of about C$1.93 billion (US$1.2 billion) to C$1.97...
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States-Verizon Communications said its wireless division added more customers during the recently completed fourth quarter than the 803,000 net customer...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. and Rioplex Wireless Ltd. announced plans to deploy a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) wireless broadband network in the lower Rio Grande...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-The Linux operating system has raised its stakes in the wireless world in a pact with MontaVista Software, which has agreed to embed...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging company Comverse said Portugal operator Telecomunicacoes Moveis Nacionais S.A. will use its VoiCD product to offer music and entertainment services to its...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Consumer Electronics Association's R6 Mobile Electronics committee has created CEA-936, a standard that allows cell phones to connect to car kits, car...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Wireless applications provider SmartServ Online Inc. announced it will team with Wireless Retail Inc. to sell packaged bundles of wireless data applications inside...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. has renamed its upcoming mobile computing technology that will extend wireless capabilities to notebook computers using 802.11 technology. Centrino mobile...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems announced it will supply Samsung with wireless data chipsets and software for use in the company's new generation of advanced mobile...
DUBLIN, Ireland-NewBay Software released its FoneBlogT v1, a new software system for mobile network operators that allows phone users to create personal Web sites...
LAS VEGAS-Mobile-phone maker Audiovox Communications Corp. said it will show off a range of new mobile phones at the Consumer Electronics Show, including integrated...
NEW YORK-Unsecured creditors of 360networks Inc. have filed a class action lawsuit against Nortel Networks Ltd. to recover $100 million.The creditors are represented by...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish antenna maker Allgon said it will supply antennas for Telecom Italia Mobile's (TIM) third-generation (3G) network in Italy. Allgon said it is...
CHICAGO-NotWired Inc. announced the launch of version 4.5 of its NotWired Mobile Office, available via the Internet and wireless devices. The new version of...
