SEATTLE-Customer relationship management provider Par3 Communications Inc. announced the acquisition of EnvoyWorldWide, a Massachusetts-based notification services company.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Par3 provides...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. wireless affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. said its lawsuit against Sprint Nextel has been pushed back from its original trial date of Dec....
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc named banking group HSBC Holdings plc Chairman John Bond as its new chairman.Bond, who announced his resignation from HSBC last week,...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Orthogon Systems said it has deployed its OS-Gemini and OS-Spectra Ethernet point-to-point bridges at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. Orthogon said the equipment...
WASHINGTON-A handful of public-safety organizations, led by the Association of Public-safety Communications Officials, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the government...
NEW YORK-Alamosa Holdings Inc. subsidiary Southwest PCS said it sold 10 MHz of spectrum covering portions of Oklahoma and Texas to Panhandle Telecommunications Systems...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said it has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance, saying it aims to be directly involved with ensuring wireless local area network...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it won a seven-year contract to manage wireless operator 3's network and IT infrastructure in the United Kingdom. The deal...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-House of Blues Entertainment licensed Soapbox Mobile's Anywhere product, a mobile marketing and customer relationship management platform. Soapbox Mobile said its product...
CHELMSFORD, Mass.-Operating system company SavaJe Technologies raised $40 million in equity financing, which the company said it plans to use to enhance its sales...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially took the high-speed plunge with the launch of its UMTS/HSDPA-based BroadbandConnect network. The carrier said its next-generation network is initially...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced the winners of its annual Forum Nokia PRO Awards, which recognize accomplishments in the development of content and applications during...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. said its Jamster subsidiary is working with Melodeo Inc. to develop a digital music platform that will support full-track music...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Mobile search technology provider JumpTap Inc. snared $21 million in its latest round of financing.New investor Redpoint Ventures joined existing backers General Catalyst...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc said it plans to launch eight new mobile TV channels including wireless versions of HBO, MTV and Twentieth Century Fox Television....
WASHINGTON-In an attempt to educate Capitol Hill staff about the importance of cost recovery, the Foundation for Rural Service released a paper saying that...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will use ArrayComm L.L.C.'s smart antenna technology in its wireless base stations, the companies announced.ArrayComm said its antenna...
YONKERS, N.Y.-Wireless carriers struck out for a fourth straight year in the annual survey of cellular service and phones conducted by independent evaluator Consumer...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, joined by the rest of the telecommunications industry, last week asked the Treasury Secretary to intervene and stop the Internal Revenue...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Mobile virtual network enabler Visage Mobile accumulated $30 million in Series D funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc. announced it's updating several products with Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem standards in order to enable cellular carriers to bring...
WASHINGTON-A group opposed to assessing universal-service contributions based on telephone numbers said it had sent nearly 600,000 e-mails and letters to the Federal Communications...
Japan-based weather content provider Weathernews Inc. this week plans to launch a Java-based video application for users with Sprint Nextel Corp. multimedia phones.The Weathernews...