Yearly Archives: 2004

Psion minority stakeholder against Symbian sale to Nokia

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...

MetroPCS to carry AccuWeather.com content

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...

Bush throws down gauntlet on China Wi-Fi standard

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...

UMTS market set to explode, Lucent, Motorola late to market

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...

Barton to revisit E-Rate funding

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...

Ratings upgrade boosts PalmOne stock

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...

Molapo extends TelKom SLA

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...

Qualcomm releases QPoint location solution

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...

Cramer certifies LogicaCMG as accredited partner

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...

Airbee, SupaRule consider product integration

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...

QComm names Kramer CEO

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...

Mobilaris acquires BlueFactory's third-party content biz

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...

BellSouth to launch Wi-Fi in Charlotte

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...

Crown Castle to recognize loss

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...

Moody's downgrades Dobson and subsidiaries

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...

Opera, Kyocera enter browser agreement

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....

Qualcomm supports LBS apps on BREW download service

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...

No warm reception for revised bill of rights

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...

Anatel to trial Lucent CDMA450 equipment

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...

US Unwired adds 22 K subs

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...

Gartner says camera phone bans in the workplace not effective

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...

FCC approves EV-DO phone from LG

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...

Porting requests on the rise as problems drop

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...

NTT DoCoMo reports e-mail glitch

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...

Wayport to provide Wi-Fi at Moscone Center

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...
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