2006

WASHINGTON—Online wireless retailer InPhonic Inc. unveiled a business unit targeting small business users. The company launched Wirefly.biz, an Internet storefront hawking products and rate plans designed for home office workers …

TOKYO—Call it the luck of the Irish—at least as it relates to Finnish vendor Nokia Corp.’s 3G handset debut with Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. DoCoMo announced that sales of …

SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International announced it signed an agreement to buy 13 spectrum licenses from bankrupt Urban Comm-North Carolina Inc. for $31.8 million in cash. The licenses cover about 4.9 …

WASHINGTON—U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake has reclaimed jurisdiction—at least temporarily—over two health-related lawsuits that she recommended be sent to other courts only last month. The turnabout was indirectly prompted by …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-M-commerce software developer Obopay said it has snared $10 million in Series A venture funding. Obopay, which was founded last year, plans to offer a mobile payment service …

HANNOVER, Germany-Opera Software ASA scored a major win, inking a deal to pre-load its Java-based mobile browser on T-Mobile International phones in Europe. The deal calls for a custom, branded …

Nortel Networks Ltd. plans to restate its financial results-again-as well as push back filing its 2005 annual report to the end of April. The bookkeeping-challenged Canadian equipment vendor also reported …

What a long, strange trip it’s been. Almost two years ago, I renewed my cell-phone contract with what was then AT&T Wireless Services Inc. I was happy to do so-in …

DENVER-Although monitoring and control-enhancing technology hasn’t garnered many headlines in the past, ZigBee-enabled products are likely to burst into prime-time later this year with both consumer and commercial applications, predicted …

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it purchased Ascendent Systems, which sells products that extend desk phone connectivity to wireless handsets in a campus environment. RIM said the purchase would …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. honed its financial estimates for the first quarter, projecting a narrower range of solid sales, from $3.22 billion to $3.35 billion, compared with its earlier projection of …

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 coverage solutions, said it plans to …

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 fast-food chain has purchased 1,000 handsets, …

WASHINGTON-The lawyer for a 20-year-old Michigan man charged with criminally negligent homicide in connection with a fatal car crash initially attributed to driver cell-phone use claims politicians want to make …

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. locations nationwide. The news marks a …

FORT WORTH, Texas-RadioShack Corp. reported plans to team with three other phone resellers to form a purchasing alliance that the companies said expects to resell more than 50 million phones …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. joined several wireless operators in announcing financial restatements-though the company said it expects the adjustments would result in improved financials. Leap said it plans to …

HANNOVER, Germany-Pantech Group spotlighted a variety of upscale handsets at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, in an effort to further establish itself as a new player in European …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. hedged the value of the 37.6 million shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. stock it owns, which represent about 1.25 percent of Sprint Nextel’s stock. Hedging allows Motorola …

AT&T Inc.’s planned acquisition of BellSouth Corp. could be great for consumers, but the news isn’t so great for telecom equipment vendors, already suffering from declining profits. “In our view, …

The market outlook for CDMA handsets may be described as a tale of two contrasting regions. And therein lies a few wireless lessons about the difference in how profits are …

Lucent Technologies Inc. is swimming in new contracts, announcing seven deals valued at more than $300 million at the CeBIT 2006 trade show. “Our customers’ competitive landscape continues to undergo …

SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. says its WiMAX cards for laptops will be available sometime in the second half of this year, not in 2007 as was previously announced. The announcement was …

WASHINGTON-When the government broke up Ma Bell more than 20 years ago, it did so because it did not want one company controlling computer-to-computer communication-at the time the stuff of …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile USA Inc. halted retail sales of Motorola Inc.’s best-selling Razr handset, after the vendor informed the carriers that a component glitch was cutting off calls …