BURNABY, British Columbia-Unity Wireless Corp. said it closed a $2.2 million three-year debt financing by institutional investors. The company, which develops wireless subsystems and...
ALPHARETTA, Ga.-Verizon Wireless inked a two-year deal to provide wireless voice and data services for Chick-fil-A Inc. As part of the deal, the Georgia-based...
WASHINGTON—A federal court in Colorado told state regulators there that they cannot require Alltel Corp. to file rate statements and agree to certain service-quality...
WASHINGTON—Evoking visions of the Battle of Yorktown, Robert McDowell appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday afternoon hoping to be confirmed as a member...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular and Wi-Fi industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—Next month’s LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will include a mobile Linux focus, according to conference organizer IDG World Expo. In addition, the show...
TORONTO—Nortel Networks Ltd. plans to restate its financial results—again—and also will push back the filing of its 2005 annual report to the end of...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. halted retail sales of the Razr, Motorola Inc.’s best-selling handset, this week after the vendor informed...
COPPELL, Texas—SmartVideo Technologies said it signed a distribution agreement with CellStar Corp. covering the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. SmartVideo offers video...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. CarriersMorgan Stanley downgraded its opinion...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. announced today it purchased Ascendent Systems, which sells products that extend desk phone connectivity to wireless handsets in a...
HANNOVER, Germany—Microsoft Corp. unveiled its much-hinted-at Origami product today—an ultra-mobile personal computer with Wi-Fi connectivity—at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany. The computing...
LOS ANGELES—Bunim-Murray Productions, which is often credited with starting the reality TV phenomenon with the MTV hit "The Real World" more than a decade...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless handset distributor InfoSonics Corp. said its geographic mix of revenues experienced a significant shift last year toward sales in Latin America. The...
PEARL RIVER, N.Y.—Interactive media company Traffix Inc. launched a strategic mobile marketing business unit called mxFocus. The company said the new business unit focuses...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. unveiled Voice over Internet Protocol services for business customers, and said it plans to integrate wireless capabilities with services...
AACHEN, Germany—A consortium of European businesses and colleges unveiled an Application Programming Interface (API) designed to allow users to access content across mobile devices....
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—InterDigital Communications Corp. announced its fourth quarter and full-year results, showing a jump in revenues over the same quarter a year...
SAN DIEGO—Now that the Chinese government has sanctioned its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology as the third-generation technology of the land, and with precious 3G licenses...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless inked a major retail distribution deal for its wireless service, agreeing to sell its INpulse offering through 2,300 Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. had a brief service outage earlier this week, due to problems with a database that stopped recognizing customers. Cingular spokesman Mark...
WASHINGTON—As part of the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band, Sprint Nextel Corp. was given...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty to join the spectrum auction fraud lawsuit against Wall Street telecom magnate Mario Gabelli, upping...
WASHINGTON—A new report says injecting property rights and market forces into spectrum allocations would best foster efficient spectrum use and development of new technologies....
