Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Music services still dance around wireless play

This was supposed to be the year of the music phone, but as the holiday season approaches the home stretch, on-the-go music lovers are...

Bummed out Christmas

Unfortunately, it has become commonplace to read press reports about drivers on cell phones whose priorities are terribly-sometimes fatally-misplaced. Everybody knows it's a big,...

Handset moves

It's an increasingly awkward dance between U.S. wireless carriers and handset manufacturers as phone makers begin to assert their independence from operators. Handsets don't work...

Finding magic, money with VC

Wireless entrepreneurs looking to scrape up venture capital would do well to recall a college radio hit from a few years ago: it's all...

Qualcomm pursues consumer electronics with Bluetooth acquisition

Qualcomm Inc. plans to profit from in-house Bluetooth intellectual property to drive down the cost, power consumption and footprint of chip-based functionality in mobile...

Qualcomm adds to IPR stable with Airgo buy

First OFDMA and now MIMO. Qualcomm Inc.'s acquisition of Airgo Networks and its Multiple-Input, Multiple-Out technology, as well as the company's previous purchase of...

Consumer Reports takes on tough assignment: smart phones

Under the banner, "Simpler and Slimmer," Consumer Reports' January 2007 issue weighed in on a handset category that has even the experts scratching their...

Leap preparing for further expansion, pondering affiliates

Leap Wireless International Inc. is poised to make a large push into East Coast and Gulf Coast markets with the spectrum it acquired in...

The gift of mobile

'Tis the season for gifting and Christmas lists a mile long. But what to do if someone's list includes a Tetris download for their...

Sanyo M1 at Sprint Nextel: top-line model has rivals

Sanyo Corp. has put its best foot forward at Sprint Nextel Corp. with a top-of-its-line multimedia phone, the M1, at a crucial time for...

Feder rules McDowell can participate in AT&T-BellSouth merger

The Federal Communications Commission's general counsel late Friday authorized Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell to participate in the stalled $79 billion merger of AT&T Inc....

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country...

Pan Asian Mobile TV consortium enters fray

HONG KONG-Several companies have joined forces to form the Pan Asian Mobile TV consortium, which aims to enable multimedia broadcasting for mobile operators in...

Weekly wireless ratings wrap-up

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier Credit Suisse First Boston...

Intel mobile WiMAX efforts blossom

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. is showing off its first mobile WiMAX baseband chip. When paired with the company's previously announced multi-band WiMAX/Wi-Fi radio chip,...

Ericsson’s employees acquitted of tax evasion

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-A Stockholm court has acquitted L.M. Ericsson's employees of tax evasion charges filed last year by Sweden's National Economic Crimes Bureau.The employees were...

Holiday cheer for consumers: How low can third-party, online retailers go?

'Tis the season to be jolly, especially if you're a consumer checking out online deals from independent retailers. For instance, Wirefly, the online retail...

Digicel moves into Bonaire with Telbo purchase

KRALENDIJK, Bonaire-Caribbean telecom company Digicel has acquired the wireless segment of Telbo, a Bonaire telecom provider. The deal includes Telbo's mobile subscriber base, spectrum...

Sprint Nextel promises to improve financials by next year

Sprint Nextel Corp. expects to see substantial improvement in its churn performance in the second half of next year, and the focus on its...

AT&T debuts BusinessDirect mobile portal

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-AT&T Inc. expanded services for its BusinessDirect business, launching a mobile portal for its network manager customers.The offering is designed to allow network...

NextWave redeems notes

SAN DIEGO-NextWave Wireless L.L.C. plans to redeem $148.5 million of non-recourse secured notes that were issued in April 2005 by former equity holders NextWave...

Airgo uncovers new 802.11n chip

SAN DIEGO-Now that Qualcomm Inc.'s acquisition of Airgo Networks Inc. is out of the bag, the companies announced the availability of an 802.11n Draft...

Cell phones to mate with parking meters

BURLINGTON, Mass.-ParkMagic is partnering with Verizon's SkyTel to allow users to pay municipal parking fees with their phones.The Ireland-based company announced the U.S. debut...

Atrua catches $9M in funding for finger-print scanning

CAMPBELL, Calif.-Mobile software developer Atrua Technologies Inc. snared $9 million in its fourth round of funding.BlueRun Ventures led the round, and Atrua welcomed new...

Schueppert quits Crown Castle’s Modeo

HOUSTON-The head of Crown Castle International Corp.'s mobile TV effort unexpectedly resigned, throwing a potential wrench into the company's plans to build mobile TV...
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