Monthly Archives: July, 2004

TI to implement ARM security software

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. will partner with ARM to develop a security solution to protect software on mobile phones.For the solution, TI will implement ARM's...

EFJohnson wins $1M DOE contract

WASHINGTON-EFJohnson today said it received a $1 million contract to provide the Department of Energy with its Netelligent Infrastructure Systems Project 25 trunked communications...

FCC requests more detail from Cingular, AWS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. a series of highly detailed questions about their proposed $41...

PolyFuel raises $18.4M in new funding

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-PolyFuel Inc. said it closed an $18.4 million third round of funding. The new funds bring the five-year-old company's total investments to...

Lucent, Novatel announce 3G agreement with KPN, E-Plus

SAN DIEGO-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless announced another third-generation win in the European arena. Lucent and Novatel will supply KPN in the Netherlands...

T-Mobile USA to offer ‘King Arthur’ content

Continuing the content tie-ins between Hollywood movies and wireless carriers, T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will begin offering exclusive content from the Touchstone Pictures/Jerry...

Jamdat Mobile files for IPO

LOS ANGELES-Wireless gaming publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of ...

SEC inquiry highlights importance of wireless subscriber numbers

Subscriber numbers are an important metric for the wireless industry because the industry is still growing, so an inquiry by a federal agency into...

States new battlefield for wireless regulation

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry continues to find its battlefield expanding, with carriers increasingly drawn into fights with one state after another on issues ranging from...

Flextronics extends manufacturing reach with plant buys from Nortel

Signifying a strategic shift away from infrastructure manufacturing, Nortel Networks Ltd. reached an agreement last week to divest certain production operations and related activities...

Orange U.K. to launch W-CDMA July 19

LONDON-Orange U.K. said it will launch its third-generation W-CDMA network July 19. The launch will include the country's major cities. The company's French subsidiary...

STMicroelectronics, Nokia offer specs for camera-phones

HELSINKI, Finland-In an effort to standardize the increasingly popular camera component in mobile devices, Nokia and STMicroelectronics are releasing a new specification for camera...

Court sides with Qualcomm on patent dispute with TI

SAN DIEGO-The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled Texas Instruments Inc.-and not Qualcomm Inc.-was in breach of the companies' patent portfolio agreement. The case is...

Motorola premieres new camera phone

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. released the A630 wireless handset at a gala last week in New York City.The candy bar-shaped device features a hidden QWERTY...

Fresh off Terabeam buy, YDI Wireless pays $3M for Ricochet

The Ricochet saga continues, with Falls Church, Va.-based YDI Wireless Inc. becoming Ricochet Networks Inc.'s fourth owner in two years.YDI bought the company for...

Verizon picks up Qwest assets

In a move expected to bolster its spectrum position and coverage in the western United States, Verizon Wireless reported late last week that it...

Cell phones (mostly) get clean bill of health

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, having decisively triumphed in health litigation, believes more than ever science is solidly in its corner as a result of a...

Navini Networks secures financing

RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc., a broadband wide-area wireless network provider, said it secured $30 million in series D financing.The funding round was significantly oversubscribed,...

Vodafone closes public offering on Vodafone K.K.

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported the closing of the public offering made by its wholly owned subsidiary Vodafone International Holdings B.V. for the shares that...

RFID tags should track inventory, not people

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." -Bruce SchneierImagine a world where your every possession-clothes, books,...

Cities and counties deploy Wi-Fi as part of economic strategy

Metro-scale broadband networks based on Wi-Fi technologies are popping up across the country, with big and small industry players alike endorsing the systems for...

Capitol catharsis

Freud is looking down on us, smiling at how the most powerful, the most-manly city on earth has learned to cope with the stress...

Swedish carriers seek altered license terms

STOCKHOLD, Sweden-A handful of wireless operators lodged a joint application with Sweden's National Post and Telecom Agency that calls for altered license terms for...

N.J., D.C. distracted-driving laws take effect

New Jersey motorists should think twice before they reach for their cell phones while driving as a state law took effect July 1 banning...

Users’ control of RFIDs will allay privacy fears

Radio Frequency Identification tags-labels the size of a credit card or smaller containing a silicon chip and an antenna-are destined to replace the ubiquitous...
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