Monthly Archives: January, 2006

Visto sues Good for wireless e-mail patent infringement

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The flurry of legal wrangling in the wireless e-mail space continued as Visto Corp. filed a patent infringement suit against competitor Good...

Summus becomes Oasys Mobile, launches mobile content locker

RALEIGH, N.C.-Summus Inc. launched a mobile portal designed to allow users to purchase and manage digital content. The company unveiled OasysMobile.com, which it described...

Motorola deploys PTT in Yemen, Sonim unveils OMA-compliant PoC server

SANA'A, Yemen-Motorola Inc. said it plans to supply and install its end-to-end push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) offering in partnership with a public sector telecommunications...

Nokia reorganizes Finnish workforce

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced a workforce reorganization that will affect almost 300 total employees in its infrastructure and enterprise businesses. The company said the...

DoCoMo financials mixed, buys stake in Philippine operator

TOKYO-Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. posted weaker year-over-year third quarter fiscal 2005 results. For the nine months ended Dec. 31, 2005, the consolidated...

Venture capitalists target Heavy.com, DxO Labs

NEW YORK-Two emerging mobile players announced new funding this week. Broadband network Heavy.com closed a $10 million round of financing led by Polaris Venture...

Cingular unveils iTunes-capable Slvr, T-Mobile counters with Pebl

ATLANTA-Following the success of its wildly popular Razr, Motorola Inc. is expanding its range of sleek, four-letter phones with the retail release of its...

Ericsson posts 4Q results in line with guidance

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson posted $1.1 billion in net income for the fourth quarter, a 52-percent increase over the $738 million the company reported for...

SIPquest claims VoIP application first to be optimized for Mobile 5.0

OTTAWA-SIPquest, a developer of Session Initiation Protocol applications, said its Mobile Console application has been optimized for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.The...

FCC proposes $100,000 fines for Alltel, AT&T over call-record scandal

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining AT&T Inc. and Alltel Corp. each $100,000 for not having certifications on file showing that they are protecting...

T-Mobile USA tops J.D. Power customer care survey

Three Christmases ago, Sue Nokes received a call from a T-Mobile USA Inc. customer who had been bumped up through the customer care system...

Globalstar to add cellular to satellite

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission authorized Globalstar L.L.C. to operate land-based cell phone networks to augment its existing mobile satellite services, a significant enhancement that...

Industry veteran O’Brien joins emergency alert firm

WASHINGTON-Morgan O'Brien, the industry pioneer who built Nextel Communications Inc. into a multibillion-dollar national wireless force, is joining a start-up firm seeking to leverage...

Thumbs up, Chuck!

You'd think Chuck Schumer, the Democratic New York senator actually from New York, would have been so busy trying to pin down Supreme Court...

DoCoMo yields to Microsoft, inks deal for Windows Mobile phones

TAOYUAN, Taiwan-In a surprising turnaround, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it will sell phones running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system. DoCoMo previously...

Carriers post blowout 4Q numbers, industry now set for record growth

The U.S. wireless industry is on track to chronicle its best-ever quarterly customer growth, with more than 5.4 million net adds already reported by...

As industry posts record handset sales investors remain concerned about future

The worldwide mobile-phone market roared to another record finish in the fourth quarter as unit shipments reached a staggering 245 million, according to research...

Protecting your customers

Wireless carriers ultimately are responsible for keeping information about their customers private and should address the matter with internal controls instead of waiting for...

Level 3 to acquire Progress Telecom

BROOMFIELD, Colo.-Level 3 Communications Inc. said it will spend $137 million to acquire Progress Telecom L.L.C., a regional wholesale network services company. Level 3...

RIM options dwindle in NTP case

The legal options for Research In Motion Ltd. continued to dwindle last week as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear its case against...

As voice, data services converge, handset sales channels expand

The evolution of the wireless industry has had a profound effect on the players involved. Within all levels of the market, companies have had...

InterDigital howls on LG licensing

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Investors sent shares of InterDigital Communications Corp. skyward after the technology firm announced a $285 million deal with South Korean manufacturer...

Vodafone adds 7.1M subscribers, no plans to sell Verizon Wireless stake

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported solid numbers for the quarter ended Dec. 31, and the company said its guidance for the full year of 2005...

House and Senate to hold hearings on records scandal

WASHINGTON-Both the House and Senate said they plan to hold hearings on the ever-burgeoning privacy scandal regarding the disclosure and sale of customers' telecommunications...

McCaw, other industry veterans back wireless startup Tello

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Wireless trailblazer Craig McCaw and other high-tech heavyweights are backing a new company looking to let business users reach colleagues through mobile...
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