Monthly Archives: March, 2005

Mobile Media to offer content with Kyocera Asia-Pac

HONG KONG-Games and entertainment company Mobile Media Co. said it has formed an agreement with Kyocera Communications Asia Pacific Pte Ltd., which provides platforms...

TDS sells notes to pay off some wireline debt

CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc., the company behind U.S. Cellular, said it sold $110 million of its senior notes, which are now expected to...

Provigent gains more funding

LOS ALTOS, Calif.-Provigent Inc., which provides system-on-a-chip solutions for broadband wireless systems, said it has increased its third round of funding to $10 million....

PubSub to provide RSS feeds to handsets

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Internet monitoring service PubSub Concepts Inc. is teaming with Santa Cruz Tech to provide real-time RSS alerts to mobile phones. The free...

Rural wireless carriers get Phase II E911 waivers

WASHINGTON-In a report to Congress obtained by RCR Wireless News, the Federal Communications Commission told lawmakers late Wednesday that it had granted 32 whole...

U.K. users can customize song clip into ringtone

In what appears to be a first for the mobile music market, U.K. subscribers can choose which part of a new single from hip-hop...

Motorola debuts 3 phones, but not iTunes

Motorola Inc. released a trio of new phones featuring digital music players, although the company's long-anticipated iTunes-capable device was not in attendance.Motorola executives have...

Navini powers first 2.3 GHz WCS network

RICHARDSON, Texas-Leveraging Navini Networks Inc.'s technology, MegaBroadband of Massachusetts said it is launching what it describes as the first commercial use of the 2.3...

PalmOne opens research center in Dublin

MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. said it will open an engineering center in Dublin, Ireland, the company's first such facility in Europe.The center will focus on...

Novatel announces convergence product for Europe, Asia

SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. announced the development of the Ovation MCU1200 3G Wireless Multimedia Application Console, powered by Conversa proprietary software suite. The company...

MCI to continue discussions with Qwest

ASHBURN, Va.-MCI Inc. said Thursday that its board of directors plans to continue its discussions with Qwest. Qwest presented a revised proposal to buy...

Metalink lowers 1Q guidance

YAKUM, Israel-Metalink Ltd. announced executive management changes even as it said it will lower its earlier guidance for the first quarter of 2005. The...

Triton to use TechnoCom LBS platform

LOS ANGELES-TechnoCom Corp. said that Pennsylvania-based carrier Triton PCS has licensed its LocatePredict platform to help deploy a new location-based infrastructure.LocatePredict is a wireless...

T-Mobile suspends iPAQ sales due to bug

T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will suspend sales of the Hewlett-Packard Co. iPAQ h6315 personal digital assistant-style phone until the two companies can develop...

Ericsson, Siemens interoperate on PTT

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson and Siemens AG said they have completed interoperability tests between Siemens push-to-talk handsets and Ericsson's Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems-based infrastructure."One of the...

University of Texas files patent lawsuit against cell-phone makers

ARLINGTON, Texas-The University of Texas said it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 14 electronic manufacturers.The university claims the companies infringed on a...

Nortel partners with Trapeze for WLAN portfolio

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Nortel Networks Ltd. unveiled what it describes as a comprehensive vision for enterprise mobility focusing on wireless local area networks. The company...

WiMAX market to reach $2B by 2010

MONTREAL-The sub-11 GHz broadband wireless market has grown 30 percent since 2003, from $430 million in 2003 to $562 million last year, according to...

Partnership to bring Amber alerts to mobile devices

MANDEVILLE, La.-Mobile technology company Smart-Traveler Solutions Inc. is teaming with Amber Alert broadcaster Code Amber to bring the child abduction alerts to mobile devices....

Players must move quickly to tap MVNO market

NEW YORK-The next 18 months are crucial for the increasingly crowded field of mobile virtual network operators, according to consulting firm Global Advertising Strategies....

Gizmondo wireless gaming device launches in U.K.

Tiger Telematics opened its Gizmondo London flagship store, and its launch party featured celebrities including rapper Busta Rhymes, boxer Lennox Lewis and actor Verne...

Western Wireless signs WAP contract, offers UTStarcom video phone

Western Wireless Corp. said it signed an agreement with Wireless Services Corp. to provide WAP 2.0 access to more than 1.3 million Cellular One...

Okla. carrier deploys Jataayu mobile data gear

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Pine Cellular Oklahoma, a family-owned cellular carrier that offers service in McCurtain County in southeastern Oklahoma, plans to deploy Jataayu Software's WAP Gateway...

Memory chip companies enjoy strong 2004 revenue growth

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-The memory business did not fail chip companies last year, according to an annual semiconductor ranking from iSuppli Corp. The ranking showed...

Nokia signs MMS contract in Saudi Arabia

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has signed an agreement with Aljawal, the GSM operator of Saudi Telecom Co., to supply the Nokia multimedia messaging service solution....
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