REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. signed deals with Vodafone and Bell Mobility to offer its range of wireless content services, further moves by the company to...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up...
OSLO, Norway-Sales of handheld computing devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, rose 3.5 percent in the final quarter of 2002 in...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Looking to break into the European cell-phone market has proved harder than expected for the Far Eastern manufacturer Daewoo. The company, which...
MIAMI-Prepaid wireless service provider TracFone Wireless Inc. said it has reached a company milestone in having served more than 2 million customers nationwide. "This...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, said it will stop selling the latest mobile handset manufactured by NEC because the handset might...
WASINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today authorized mobile satellite service providers the flexibility to integrate ground-based transmitters into their operations, but it also reallocated 30...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service has made available loans for the deployment of broadband Internet service to underserved communities with fewer...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-A range of big-name wireless players within the Java Community Process released what they call the road map for dealing with Java...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company AvantGo Inc. reported revenues for its fourth quarter of $5.3 million and a net loss of $737,000. In the same...
CHEMSFORD, Mass.-WaterCove Networks said it has closed a $20 million third round of financing, raising to $70 million the company's equity financing to date.The...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-LGC Wireless announced its in-building wireless solution, InterReach Unison, is now being used in Honolulu International, Denver International and Dallas Love Field...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association today said it established a state affairs division, a move that comes as mobile-phone carriers face heightened scrutiny...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following last week's decision from cell-phone operator MmO2 that it will delay the deployment of its U.K. third-generation (3G) service until the...
LONDON-Nortel Networks Ltd. said European operator Connex has deployed its Passport 2000 multiservice switches, enabling convergence of its voice and data traffic onto "one,...
WASHINGTON-A Swedish-funded study published in a journal of a U.S. health agency says mobile phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published...
LONDON-British Telecommunications said it has rolled out new wireless hot spots across Hilton hotels, airports and motorway service stations in the United Kingdom. The...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its corporate credit rating on Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. and its subsidiary UbiquiTel Operating Co. from...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it would begin offering E-Comeleon plc's custom wireless phone faceplates for Nokia Corp.'s 3360, 3590, 6590 ad 5160 models, as...
BOULDER, Colo.-SandCherry Inc. has released version 2.4 of its SoftServer platform.The enhanced version includes Java and Web Services APIs, which increase the accessibility of...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. reported $1.1 billion in wireless revenue for the fourth quarter of 2002, which was a 15 percent increase compared with...
NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless reported 964,000 net customer additions during the fourth quarter of 2002, a 34.8 percent increase compared with the 715,000 customers added...
PHILADELPHIA-Sprint Corp. chairman William Esrey, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, is reportedly set to step down from the nation's fourth largest long-distance company,...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Following the exit of the company's majority shareholder, European mobile commerce company Paybox said it will shut down its consumer-oriented services-which totals 750,000...
