2004

LONDON-A firm representing about 13 percent of Psion plc’s shareholders said it will vote against the company’s plans to sell its stake in operating system company Symbian to Nokia Corp. …

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.-MetroPCS has signed an agreement to deliver AccuWeather.com’s BREW-enabled wireless weather application to its subscribers. MetroPCS will offer AccuWeather.com’s Wireless BREW application for download on next-generation BREW-enabled handsets. …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has officially challenged China’s homegrown Wi-Fi security standard that industry and government leaders claim is at odds with international guidelines and commercially harmful to U.S. companies that …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. are at the short end of wireless infrastructure contracts owing to their late start in the UMTS market, according to a report …

WASHINGTON-New House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas), vowing to approach telecom and other issues through the lens of budget deficit reduction, today said he plans to revisit funding of …

MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc.’s shares jumped almost 15 percent in trading after Wall Street investment firm JP Morgan upgraded the company’s stock from “neutral” to “overweight,” citing the success of the …

SAN FRANCISCO-Electronic services company Molapo Technology said it has extended its services-level $130 million agreement with service provider TelKom South Africa. The contract will last till 2008, said Molapo. “As …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced its new QPoint solution, which the company said is an end-to-end, mass-market location-based services solution. QPoint enables a variety of location-based applications including peer-to-peer, points of …

LONDON-Telecommunications inventory management software provider Cramer has certified LogicaCMG as a Cramer Accredited Partner, meaning LogicaCMG will be a preferred delivery channel for Cramer software. In addition, LogicaCMG has agreed …

POTOMAC, Md.-Airbee Wireless Inc., which develops and licenses wireless communications software, and SupaRule Systems Ltd., which develops, manufactures and supplies electronic measurement instruments for technical personnel, have agreed to explore …

OREM, Utah-QComm International Inc., provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale distribution solutions, announced Terry Kramer, who has served as interim president of the company since last November, will …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Mobilaris AB, which provides middleware for location-based services, acquired BlueFactory’s third-party content and service management operations. “The third-party instrumentation is exactly what we need at Mobilaris at present,” said …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-BellSouth Corp. said it will launch its first major public Wi-Fi deployment in Charlotte, N.C., providing its customers with free access to high-speed wireless data at public locations concentrated …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said it will recognize the loss related to the extinguishment of the tendered 9 percent and 9.5 percent senior notes in the first quarter of this …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investor Services downgraded its ratings of Dobson Communications Corp. and its subsidiaries following the carrier’s “poor financial performance” during the fourth quarter of 2003 and management guidance for …

OSLO, Norway-Opera Software continued its advances in the mobile phone market with the signing of a new deal with handset maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. Kyocera said it will sell the …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced support for location-based applications through its BREW application download service. Using Qualcomm’s new QPoint technology, BREW carriers and application developers can add location information to their …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry reacted angrily to a revised bill of rights for telecom consumers in California, claiming such a rule will hurt the state economy and runs counter to Gov. …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is working with Anatel to conduct a trial of commercial CDMA450 to bridge the “digital divide” in the country. The trial follows a …

LAKE CHARLES, La.-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. said it added 22,089 net subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2003, which was slightly ahead of the 19,881 customers the carrier …

STAMFORD, Conn.-Research and consulting firm Gartner Inc. came out against camera phone bans in the workplace, asserting such restrictions are shortsighted and hard to enforce. The firm said businesses would …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-It appears Verizon Wireless will sell a CDMA EV-DO mobile phone from LG Electronics Co. Ltd. when it launches its high-speed network this summer. The Federal Communications Commission recently …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-More than three months after the implementation of wireless local number portability, wireless retail managers report that the number of problems related to the porting process has dropped …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced one of its newly released FOMA third-generation mobile phones has a software glitch that could mix up incoming e-mails. The carrier said it will offer a …

AUSTIN, Texas-Wayport Inc., provider of wireless high-speed Internet access, announced it will provide Wi-Fi service in the common areas and meeting rooms of San Francisco’s Moscone Center meeting and exhibition …