2004

REDMOND, Wash.-Action Engine Corp. closed its Series D round of financing Tuesday, which brought the total amount raised by the mobile software developer to $42 million. Baker Capital led the …

TOKYO-Motorola Inc. said it has begun deployment of its CDMA2000 1x solution on a 2 GHz network for Japanese wireless carrier KDDI, which is expected to commercially roll out innovative …

Music at home, on the go and on the cheap sum up the goal of a new partnership program penned by Microsoft Corp. with a slew of device vendors. Incorporating …

WASHINGTON-A new World Health Organization-backed study says long-term mobile-phone use increases the risk of cancer, but scientists said follow-up research is needed before it can be determined whether wireless handsets …

ESPOO, Finland-TeliaSonera Finland has conducted the world’s first EDGE-W-CDMA packet data handover using equipment and terminals in a commercial network, according to Nokia Corp., which supplied the equipment. Nokia said …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Unit shipments of micro fuel cells for portable devices are expected to reach $125.2 million by 2010, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan. “Once fuel cells …

SAN DIEGO-With a view to bringing CDMA to the mainstream of the European market, Qualcomm Inc. said it has acquired Trigenix, a mobile user interface company, for $36 million. The …

Vodafone Group plc named a new financial director from a familiar place and announced board changes and a new organizational structure that the international wireless provider said would enable continued …

PLANO, Texas-MetaSolv Software Inc. reported an agreement with Dominican Republic telecommunications services provider Verizon Dominicana to supply its service activation solution to deploy mobile wireless services. MetaSolv said the solution …

Motorola Inc. will conduct an m-commerce field trial of mobile phones enabled with MasterCard PayPass and Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, the company announced Tuesday. The handsets, which are expected …

PARIS-Alcatel Corp. signed a contract with tele.ring for the expansion of its UMTS network and a service contract extension under a $74 million agreement. The network expansion, including UMTS radio …

WASHINGTON-ATIS today released a comprehensive plan to craft new industry standards for converging multimedia architectures across wireline, PCS/cellular and Wi-Fi networks. ATIS said the Mobile Wireless Services Priority Work Plan …

Following the recent expansion of its commercial CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network to include 14 major markets and 24 airport locations nationwide last month, Verizon Wireless is set to add 16 …

LONDON-Vodafone U.K. has chosen Tatara Systems’ Subscriber Gateway to enhance its third-generation and GPRS laptop data services. The gateway helps Vodafone become a Wi-Fi service provider without building a hot …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has introduced two products that will increase the capacity and reduce the cost of simultaneously delivering video, audio and other content to large numbers of …

LONG BEACH, Calif.-L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG have formed a Cooperative Open OSS Project (CO-OP) under the framework of the TeleManagement Forum. The participants …

Just days before the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to adopt rules allowing broadband over powerline, two federal regulatory chairmen, their staffs, and a dozen reporters traveled an hour west …

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. launched its iobi Home service in New York City allowing Verizon residential customers to control home phone calls, home voice mail, call lists, directories and calendars …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers said it has set up a working group for a standard to tap open channels in the television spectrum for wireless broadband …

WALTHAM, Mass.-Chantry Networks, which makes solutions for wireless local area network enterprise security, said its second-round venture funding has risen to $17 million, thanks to Siemens Venture Capital. The other …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced two new partnerships to further its presence in the enterprise market. AWS and Symbol Technologies Inc. said they will partner to offer enterprise voice and …

AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it will not certify products with enhancement features for 802.11n, warning that such pre-standard products that fail to interoperate with Wi-Fi will lose certification. “To …

NEW YORK-Crisp Wireless will offer video clips, images and other content based on NBC’s fall show line-up, the company announced Monday. A Crisp Wireless spokeswoman said the content will be …

PARIS-PushMessenger launched an instant messaging and presence server (IMPS) for mobile operators and Internet service providers, the wireless software developer said Tuesday. The company’s ISP/Carrier Edition allows for the convergence …

As infrastructure vendors strive to simplify their products for carriers, companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. are positioning themselves to provide network equipment vendors with …