2004

DENVER-U.K. mobile entertainment company Monstermob Group acquired Denver-based content provider 9 Squared Inc., the companies announced Tuesday. Monstermob paid $2.95 million in cash for 9 Squared and will hand over …

SAN FRANCISCO-The MultiBand OFDM Alliance said it will announce a Special Interest Group and discuss the roadmap for the group’s specification for ultra-wideband technology at the Intel Developers Forum next …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Modem-Art, which makes baseband processor chips for W-CDMA terminals, said it has closed $8.4 million in funding. Fund adviser Apax Partners with $4.2 million led the round. Other …

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Mobile applications provider Infowave Software, Inc. will pay royalties to use patented products from wireless messaging company Visto Corp., resolving a year-old legal struggle, Visto said. Details of …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging suppliers Comverse and Tecnomen both announced multimedia messaging service center contracts Wednesday. Comverse said Telefonica Moviles Espana selected its MMSC to be deployed with a third-party MMSC to …

Samsung Telecommunications America and Verizon Wireless have made the Samsung SCH-a790 global phone available to Verizon Wireless customers. The quad-band CDMA/GSM phone allows Verizon Wireless customers to roam internationally onto …

PARIS-The French government said it will sell a 9.6-percent stake in France Telecom to institutional investors, lowering its holding to below 50 percent for the first time. France Telecom owns …

LONDON-Anglo-Dutch information technology services firm LogicaCMG will use Sun Microsystems’ Java Enterprise System for its wireless data services and messaging offerings, Sun announced Tuesday. LogicaCMG will implement the full array …

Sprint Corp. reported that Ford Motor Co. has selected the telecommunications company to be the preferred wireless provider of Bluetooth phones and services for Ford’s Mobile-Ease Hands-Free Communication System. The …

LANSING, Mich.-SBC Communications Inc. said it will begin providing access to its FreedomLink Wi-Fi service at 10 state parks in Michigan as part of the state’s MiWiFi project designed to …

Centennial Communications Corp. reported $214.8 million in total revenues for its domestic and international operations during its fourth fiscal quarter ended May 31 of this year compared with $194.8 million …

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG will equip the telephone booths of Turk Telecom, Turkey’s largest fixed-network operator, with 70,000 card pay phones and a complete management system. The phones will enable users …

OSLO, Norway-Opera Software announced the Opera smart-phone browser will become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software. Opera’s browsers include Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology, which reformats regular Web pages so users …

PARIS-Portuguese mobile carrier Optimus has launched a music-recognition service from Musiwave. The service allows users to identify music via mobile phones. Users are charged about 60 cents per song successfully …

SAN DIEGO-Consumers can expect to see more of LG Mobile Phones, as the mobile-phone manufacturer has launched its biggest advertising campaign since its 1998 U.S. debut. The company is being …

SHANGHAI-Telecom equipment maker ZTE posted net income of more than $46 million for the third quarter, more than three times its second-quarter figures. The company’s year-ago net profit was $12.16 …

SEATTLE-Mobile entertainment provider Dwango North America has raised $3 million in institutional funding from Weiss, Peck & Greer Investments, the company announced Tuesday. The announcement comes on the heels of …

MIAMI-Election Protection, a Florida voter information advocacy group, said it has partnered with TracFone Wireless Inc. to provide poll monitors with prepaid wireless phones. Poll monitors will be able to …

PLANO, Texas-Mobile entertainment provider CHL Technologies was acquired by E-Mobile Information Technologies, the companies announced late Monday. The acquisition was necessary for CHL to become a public company, according to …

TOKYO-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will deploy cellular devices that use Royal Philips Electronics’ Near Field Communication chip solutions. An NFC-enabled mobile phone could connect wirelessly with an NFC-enabled personal computer …

BELMOPAN, Belize-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has agreed to supply Speednet with third-generation, CDMA2000 1x infrastructure equipment to bring advanced voice and data to the carrier’s customers in Belize. The …

ATLANTA-Nortel Networks Ltd. has granted interoperability approval to a new mobile messaging product from Glenayre Technologies Inc. Glenayre’s Versera Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE), which was designed to cost-effectively deploy and …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. said the government’s decision late last week to eliminate the previously existing 55-megahertz spectrum cap for wireless carriers removes one of the principal …

Verizon Wireless will launch Verizon Wireless stores inside more than 570 Circuit City Superstores around the country via a new store-within-a-store concept meant to bolster its retail presence. Circuit City …

A dual-band smart phone from Taiwanese manufacturer High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has been granted approval from the Federal Communications Commission, according to FCC documents. The CDMA 800/1900 phone, code-named …