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SAN FRANCISCO-The Trusted Computing Group said it plans to enable trust and security in mobile phones and their applications. TCG is a nonprofit industry association that creates open industry specifications …

LONDON-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Inc. appointed Najmi Jarwala president of the North American region. Most recently Jarwala was senior vice president of customer equipment and supply chain at AT&T Wireless …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Vivotech, which provides contactless payment solutions, said it raised $18.25 million in its series B funding round. The funding was led by Draper Fisher Jurveston and included participation …

SINGAPORE-The GSM Association announced its successful completion of six months of network interoperability trials in Europe and Asia with Session Initiation Protocol and Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem technology. Many operators …

MUNICH, Germany-For those who yearn for channel surfing away from home, Siemens AG is launching Mobile TV Streaming, which the company said makes mobile channel surfing over GPRS or W-CDMA/UMTS …

SAN DIEGO-The Open Mobile Alliance made publicly available six new Enabler Releases that address both existing mobile services and future offerings. The releases include: OMA Multimedia Messaging Service Version 1.3, …

MUNICH, Germany-In a deal that strengthens its wireless broadband portfolio, Siemens AG signed a takeover agreement with operational support systems startup Garderos Software Innovations GmbH. In the deal, Garderos will …

SAN FRANCISCO-L.M. Ericsson said it will distribute ringback tones from EMI Music’s catalog of music as part of Ericsson’s hosted ring-back tone service in the United States. The nonexclusive deal …

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Mobile TV and video services could run into capacity constraints on third-generation networks in as little as two years, according to a new report from Analysys. The report, “Making …

TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies Inc. landed a three-year contract with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. to provide clearing and settlement services for roaming partnerships beginning in January 2006. Syniverse said it will provide …

Unlike the freewheeling and sometimes thought-provoking keynotes of previous CTIA Wireless I.T. shows, Tuesday’s opening keynote session was a trio of rudimentary company presentations on business basics from Microsoft Corp., …

WASHINGTON-U.K.-based Inmarsat Ltd. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a 2 GHz mobile satellite service license that would allow it to offer interoperable communications to first responders and homeland …

Amp’d Mobile Inc. and Disney both offered details this week about their upcoming mobile virtual network operator services. Amp’d Mobile said it’s on track for a pre-holiday service launch of …

MINNETONKA, Minn.-Digi International said it has partnered with PetroCom to deliver high-speed GSM wireless connectivity on PetroCom’s network to offshore oil and gas industry devices in the Gulf of Mexico. …

FOSTER CITY, Calif.-Equinix Inc., which provides network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, signed an agreement allowing Hawaiian operator Mobi PCS to establish operations within Equinix’s Honolulu Internet Business Exchange. …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-The majority of cell-phone users support policies that limit wireless usage in schools, according to an survey of 2,400 consumers by Amplitude Research. Eighty-five percent of the 2,400 …

PHILADELPHIA-Hewlett Packard Co. and Earthlink Inc. will have to wait another few days for the City of Philadelphia’s announcement of which company wins the city’s Wi-Fi infrastructure contract. The announcement …

SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless data package adoption among the top five U.S. service providers showed a 22-percent penetration rate for the first half of 2005, according to new research from Telephia. The …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Three wireless industry vendors announced new funding this week. Roamware Inc., which provides mobile roaming solutions, said it raised $14 million in a series C round of financing. …

The GSM Association signed an agreement with NeuStar Inc. to offer Root Domain System services to more than 680 global GSM mobile operators. NeuStar’s Root DNS will manage a global …

WASHINGTON-Coming on the heels of a successful lobbying effort to change the 2 GHz band plan, rural wireless carriers are asking the Federal Communications Commission to revise the 700 MHz …

WASHINGTON-Mandatory negotiations between Sprint Nextel Corp. and 800 MHz licensees it must pay to move as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s rebanding process began Tuesday for Wave 1 licensees …

SAN FRANCISCO-Coding Technologies GmbH, which supplies audio compression technology, and MSpot Inc. a mobile entertainment company, said MSpot has switched to the Coding Technologies MPEG-3 aacPlus format for its MSpot …

IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. launched a new software product called Blink that simplifies the use of Bluetooth when connecting cellular phone handsets with PCs, said the company. Bluetooth Link is a …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced availability of new tools designed to help companies bring Bluetooth products to market faster. The Bluetooth SIG said the goal is to simplify …