December 2003

LOS ANGELES-Compact Power Systems Inc. introduced its flagship product, Cellboost, which the company said is a disposable mobile-phone battery/re-charger that powers up to 60 minutes of talk time and 60 …

Mobile-phone news continues its frantic march, with Siemens announcing major new support for global push-to-talk services. Siemens Mobile said it will make its entire product range-from infrastructure to handsets-capable of …

BANGALORE, India-Software company Subex Systems is marketing INcharge, its revenue assurance solution, as a solution that helps U.S. telecommunications firms comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that requires publicly traded companies …

Motorola Inc. bowed to investor clamor for an outsider with the appointment of former Sun Microsystems Inc. president Edward Zander as the new helmsman, officially ending the reign of the …

Amdocs attempted to assuage shareholders Tuesday, following news earlier in the week that Sprint has backed out of a previously announced billing migration project, by reiterating its revenue and earnings …

LA JOLLA, Calif.-E-business company Global Vision Holdings Inc. announced it teamed with Virtual Integrated Applications Inc. (Via Cell) to offer wireless banking applications. The companies said wireless users will be …

SEATTLE-Wireless retailer Car Toys said it added Sprint PCS products and services to its 59 outlets across the country, bringing the company’s total wireless selection to five of the top …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. closed on its previously announced $25 million acquisition of rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp.’s wireless business, which included two cellular and PCS licenses serving southern Minnesota. …

Music and TV fans will soon have new outlets for their tastes through a series of new announcements in the wireless space. First, Crisp Wireless announced a new music application …

Through the end of January, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer business customers a free Sony Ericsson GC-82 EDGE wireless modem card when they trade in a similar …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it expects its wireless division to post full-year losses at the low end of previous guidance of 43 cents to 48 cents per share, and …

The Federal Communications Commissions’ Auction No. 55 of Specialized Mobile Radio service licenses in the 900 MHz band will take place as scheduled Feb. 11, 2004, despite requests for a …

TORONTO-Williams & Moore Capital Corp., private equity investment arm for the Reliance Aerotech group of companies, will become a strategic investor in Sinclair Technologies Inc., according to a recently signed …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a distribution agreement with iPass Inc., enabling corporations to access T-Mobile USA’s HotSpot Wi-Fi network through the iPass virtual network and its iPassConnect service interface. …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Telcordia Technologies Inc. has acquired intellectual property from DAX Technologies Corp. related to the DAX Optima Performance platform. With the acquisition, Telcordia will create Telcordia Network Vision and Telcordia …

NEW YORK-Nearly 10 percent of current wireline customers surveyed by Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Services said they would take their wireline numbers to wireless carriers based on the recently …

There are plenty of contentious questions in the operating system business. Will Microsoft Corp. dominate the mobile-phone field as it has done in the desktop computer business? Will Symbian manage …

LONDON-LogicaCMG said its merger so far has gone according to plan. “Trading overall during the second half of the year has developed in line with our expectations,” said Martin Read, …

While Intel Corp. was reorganizing its operations to adjust for disappointments in its chip business, Texas Instruments Inc. was presenting an upbeat picture for the fourth quarter last week. Looking …

LOS ANGELES-Richard Helferich, Wireless2Web founder, has been awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its LinkPush technology included in Wireless2Web’s multi-modal TalkBack feature that enables cell-phone …

LGP Allgon has been awarded a contract to provide an indoor distributed antenna system to improve wireless phone and data coverage at Moscone West, the expansion of San Francisco’s Moscone …

WASHINGTON-The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation rejected the government’s argument that towers along scenic highways are the same as large signs and other improvements to increase traffic flow and safety. …

NEW YORK-Software company Scanbuy announced a new service that allows camera-phone users to scan bar codes. The company said the technology could allow users to scan the bar codes on …

Could we, dare we get optimistic? There are signs. The Dow topped 10,000. People are beginning to believe the economy is rebounding. Wireless carriers continue to dodge one bullet after …