MOSCOW—WiMAX base station and subscriber unit developer Aperto Networks Inc. announced that its WiMAX Forum-certified PacketMAX products are shipping to Avalcom, the company’s leading...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is set to scoop up graphics card specialist ATI Technologies Inc. for around $5.4 billion, putting ATI’s long-standing...
SEATTLE—Starbucks Coffee Co. is the latest mega-brand to go mobile, launching a scavenger-hunt promotional campaign for wireless users. The coffee giant launched a Web...
Mobile-phone penetration rates are surpassing 90 percent in markets around the world, reaching the saturation point in Hong Kong, South Korea and Western Europe....
Yet another wireless startup is diving head-first into the mobile payment waters this week, as Secure Wireless Transfers Corp. plans to team with the...
WASHINGTON—Instead of giving subsidies to rural telephone companies, the government could save $1 billion a year by giving away free wireless and satellite phones...
WASHINGTON—The Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police is urging Congress to lean on the Federal Communications Commission to put the 700 MHz Cyren Call...
Amid speculation that some CDMA operators are turning to GSM technology, GSM proponents have stepped up lobbying efforts to tout the technology's global success....
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.—As multimedia-enabled handsets flood the market, so are external memory options, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The number...
Hey, here's one for Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman and other hopefuls for Texas Gov. Rick Perry's job in Austin, stepping stone to the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shares of L.M. Ericsson dipped after the infrastructure provider posted a slight decline in second-quarter net profit due to its recent acquisition of...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Shares of Motorola Inc. inched upward after the company unveiled plans to step up its stock buy-back plan. Motorola said it will spend...
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Click here for wireless...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Shares of L.M. Ericsson dipped after the infrastructure provider posted a slight decline in second-quarter net profit due to its recent acquisition of...
FORT WORTH, Texas—A slight increase in wireless sales wasn't enough to offset lagging overall sales and an expensive turnaround program for RadioShack Corp. during...
EDINBURG, Va.—Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. has extended its forbearance agreement with Sprint Nextel Corp. to Aug. 14 or whenever a lawsuit pending against the national...
ATLANTA—Mobile virtual network operator Helio L.L.C. cost parent EarthLink Inc. $13.3 million in losses last quarter, according to EarthLink’s second quarter earnings report—and EarthLink...
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp.’s Mobile and Embedded Devices division achieved profitability for the first time, the company announced. The division houses the company’s smart phone...
RESTON, Va.—Wireless Matrix Corp. stepped into the breach to purchase the intellectual property and customer contracts of bankrupt MobileAria for about $11 million, a...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Shares of VeriSign Inc. lost ground despite a rebound in the company's mobile content business during the second quarter. The network infrastructure...
