2004

WASHINGTON—A new suit filed in Illinois state court alleges a driver talking on a cell phone hit and injured a woman crossing the street, litigation that comes as the mobile-phone …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless said it has agreed to supply Symbol Technologies’ mobile computers with its CDMA2000 1x modules. The modules, known as EM3420, will be embedded in Symbol’s handhelds …

HELSINKI—Nokia Corp.’s new Nokia Remote Camera wireless home monitoring solution features an integrated motion detector and video capture with sound. The product includes a digital camera with zoom, video and …

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens AG said it has supplied a network of wireless local area networks for Greek operator Vodafone Panafon to allow the carrier to offer WLAN services across five countries. …

WASHINGTON—The California Public Utilities Commission, unable to reach a settlement with the nation’s No. 2 mobile-phone carrier, today affirmed a record $12.14 million fine against Cingular Wireless L.L.C. for breaking …

NEW YORK—Millicom International Cellular said it sold its 65-percent holding in Millicom Argentina, a high-speed wireless data joint venture, to its local partner after receiving regulatory approval. The carrier did …

ORLAND PARK, Ill.—Andrew Corp. has lowered its fourth-quarter guidance, attributing the fall in revenue and margins to carrier consolidation and delays in commitments to next-generation technology. The company revised its …

PARIS—Webraska Mobile Technologies announced its SmartZone Navigation solution will power the navigation offering in Toyota France’s Toyota Hub consumer telematics services portal, expected to launch next month. Toyota Hub will …

ATLANTA-Following up on a non-binding letter of intent regarding the exchange of operations signed in early July, Cingular Wireless L.L.C., AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Triton PCS signed a definitive …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS will team with Audible Inc. to offer spoken audio content to the carrier’s Vision subscribers. Audible, an Internet-based source of audio content, will provide audio editions …

DUBLIN, Ireland-M-commerce moved a step closer to becoming reality with two separate announcements this week. Payment software company Valista announced Orange has chosen its payment technology to provide connectivity to …

SAN DIEGO-Cricket Communications Inc. will deploy Comverse’s Multimedia Messaging Service Center to offer content to its 1.5 million customers. In addition to offering content to state-of-the-art handsets, the service will …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc., which recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reported fiscal-year 2004 guidance, including the addition of 50,000 and 100,000 net subscribers and customer churn of …

DALLAS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said T-Mobile USA is trialing its new base station for GSM and UMTS networks that is at once compact and offers high capacity, targeting both business and …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. will launch a product designed to help parents protect children from unwanted content and services on their handsets. Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery, which is expected to available …

Vodafone announced plans for 10 new third-generation handsets expected to hit the European and Japanese markets in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. The line-up consists of Sharp Corp.’s …

Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS both launched new handsets Wednesday. LG Mobile Phones and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. have launched the new L1400 camera phone. The clamshell-style GSM/GPRS phone features media …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Messaging provider Jinny Software released two new product bundles designed to deliver short message service, multimedia messaging service and other offerings to mobile operators. VAS2GO is targeted at mobile …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has acquired a French company, Audilog, which focuses on systems integration in network management. Terms of the deal, including what Ericsson will pay, were not …

BOSTON-InHand Electronics Inc. released its new Advanced Technology Platform, the ATP-27X, a hardware/software reference platform based on Intel’s PXA270 embedded microprocessor that incorporates InHand’s power management technologies. According to InHand, …

WASHINGTON-House Democrats today criticized the Bush administration for delays in modernizing the nation’s emergency warning system, but a homeland security official told lawmakers progress is now being made, and a …

WASHINGTON-The 700 MHz spectrum situation just got worse. The Senate Commerce Committee voted 13-9 Wednesday to possibly never require TV broadcasters to return spectrum in the 700 MHz band. “The …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday narrowly passed legislation meant to protect the privacy of wireless consumers if the industry goes forward with a planned wireless 411 directory. The wireless 411 …

WILMINGTON, N.C.-Verizon Wireless opened a $30 million, 160,000-suqare-foot call center facility in Wilmington, N.C., which the carrier said will eventually employee 1,200 people by the end of next year. The …

MAITLAND, Fla.-MeshNetworks Inc. said it has received a new experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy a number of fixed and mobile mesh networks. The company said the …