Monthly Archives: June, 2003

S&P downgrades Motorola outlook

NEW YORK-Standard and Poor's has downgraded its ratings outlook on Motorola Inc. to negative from stable, reflecting the company's slower-than-expected profit improvements."If Motorola does...

Nextel trademarks push to talk

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has trademarked its push-to-talk service. The news follows the rollout of Nextel's Nationwide...

Moviso scores ‘Hulk’ licensing amid summer movie craze

Moviso scored an exclusive, one-year licensing agreement in the United States to offer wireless content based on the highly touted summer movie "The Hulk."...

Consumer advocate says wireless should pay more to USF

WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers should pay more into the universal-service fund, said a consumer advocate."It is time for cellular and the Internet to bear their share...

Symbol exec pleads guilty to fraud

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-The former chief accounting officer of wireless and mobile device maker Symbol Technologies Inc. pled guilty to a "vast fraudulent scheme" aimed at...

M-commerce news keeps cashing in

NEW YORK-A series of diverse mobile commerce announcements show the industry is still interested in the technology, with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., start-up...

Polish company offers mobile gaming console details

OLOWIANA, Poland-A research company said it developed a design for a new mobile phone that doubles as a gaming device, news that follows on...

J-Phone hits 10M camera-phone sales

TOKYO-J-Phone Company Ltd. said yesterday that the number of users of its Sha-mail picture messaging handsets exceeded 10 million. The Japanese operator was the...

RCR Wireless News wins national ASBPE award

WASHINGTON-RCR Wireless News took home a coveted national award in the annual American Society of Business Publication Editors 2002 awards ceremony held Thursday night...

Judge says Leap ‘double counted’ debt

SAN DIEGO-A bankruptcy court judge in San Diego said Leap Wireless International Inc. improperly prepared schedules of assets and liabilities that were filed with...

Bankruptcy court OKs NextWave partnership plan

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved NextWave Telecom Inc.'s partnership plan with venture capital firm Clarity Partners in...

Nokia allies with conservation group for employee training

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has signed a three-year agreement with conservation group WWF to conduct training workshops and seminars for Nokia employees."As part of our...

Nortel’s European operations certified by QMI

PARIS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has received registration with Quality Management Institute for multi-national telecommunication quality standard for its customer care operations in Europe...

IEC: Seamless roaming between cellular, WLAN necessary

CHICAGO-Demand for ubiquitous connectivity between mobile devices and access technologies, including wireless wide area networks and local area networks is growing, indicating roaming between...

Europe to see more Bluetooth than Wi-Fi

AMSTERDAM-In Europe, Bluetooth technology will outpace wireless local area network hot spots by 2008, according to a new report from Forrester Research."We believe that...

Lucent announces pair of contracts

MURRAY HILL, N. J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed two separate contracts, one with a New Zealand operator and the other with a Chinese carrier.The U.S....

CAN Spam Act likely to include text messaging

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry told the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that it would like text messaging spam to be covered by the CAN...

PalmSource deals meant to bolster enterprise appeal

NEW YORK-Palm Inc.'s operating system business PalmSource announced a range of new deals to bolster the enterprise appeal of its product, including new agreements...

Smith Micro plans data kits for Thuraya satellite phones

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc.'s wireless and broadband division will build data connectivity accessory kits that will include a suite of Smith Micro...

Nextel races to NASCAR sponsorship finish

Following a week of speculation, Nextel Communications Inc. said it has signed a 10-year agreement to become the title sponsor of the National Association...

Fixed-to-mobile substitution under way in Middle East

LONDON-New research from regional analysts Arab Advisors Group has revealed that an increasing trend of fixed-to-mobile substitution is threatening monopoly telecom operators across the...

LNP amendment makes little headway in Senate

WASHINGTON-A rumored effort to amend a bill dealing with media ownership restrictions to delay the implementation of wireless local number portability did not come...

Investigation criticizes telecom investment fund

WASHINGTON-A watchdog group said a quasi-governmental corporation set up to fund small telecom start-ups spends nearly as much on executive salaries and overhead as...

Partnership to allow video to be sent to Java phones

NEW YORK-Action on the wireless Java front continues, with streaming media company HelloNetwork and wireless ring tones company Zingy announcing a unique partnership to...

Senate committee authorizes FTC, delays DRM issue

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday reauthorized the Federal Trade Commission but did not deal with the controversial digital rights management issue. Sen. Sam...
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