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MIAMI LAKES, Fla.-Calypso Wireless Inc. retained David Davila to serve as president and chief executive officer, in a move the company said is intended to bolster its ability to deliver …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless Inc. announced commercial availability of its MC5720 PCI Express Mini Card wireless module for CDMA 1x EV-DO networks. The company said the module, which is built …

PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc.’s North American business will team with RadioShack Corp. to offer handset repair and refurbishment services, the companies said Thursday. RadioShack will provide the services at the phone …

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago-Caribbean wireless carrier Digicel said it expects to invest more than $190 million in its mobile telecommunications operations in Trinidad and Tobago. L.M. Ericsson is …

T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will sell Nokia Corp.’s clamshell-style 6101 for $150. The device also will be added to the carrier’s T-Mobile To Go prepaid offering. The device features …

WASHINGTON-An Arizona appeals court Tuesday led that text messages sent by autodialers are illegal just as telemarketing calls to mobile phones using autodialers are illegal. Acacia Mortgage Corp. sent two …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Nokia Corp. announced two new happenings in Taiwan. Nokia opened its third-generation Mobile Services Development Center in Taiwan and announced a partnership with Chunghwa Telecom to launch mobisodes, short …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is reaching out to public-safety officials in Texas to make sure they know that 911 calls should be rerouted if a public-safety answering point is damaged …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. reported that BellSouth Corp. has launched a wireless broadband trial in Athens, Ga., using Navini’s pre-WiMAX Ripwave equipment to transmit signals between local radio towers and …

PARIS-InfraWorlds has acquired California-based publisher Mobile Digital Media to expand its offerings for personal digital assistants and smart-phone users. The Paris-based company said it bought MDM’s assets from former parent …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. released its new 2652 phone for emerging markets, which the company said will sell for around $122. The new phone comes on the heels of news that …

NEW YORK-More than 75 percent of U.S. mobile phone and personal digital assistant users say 48 hours of active battery life would be the most important feature of the perfect …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has surpassed the 20 million wireless subscriber plateau, two and a half years after it reached the 10 million customer milestone. The carrier has …

Third-party content provider Jamster! has once again come under fire as an independent U.K. regulator upheld nearly 300 consumer complaints about the company. Jamster!, a subsidiary of VeriSign Inc., failed …

Microsoft Corp. announced a new structural reorganization that will combine the company’s wireless efforts with its Xbox video game and TV platform businesses. The software giant said it will realign …

WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic senators said they are close to introducing legislation to overhaul the nation’s emergency-alert system to take advantage of cell phones, the Internet and other widely used …

WASHINGTON-The National Transportation Safety Board has urged states to prohibit inexperienced teenage drivers from using cell phones while they are learning how to operate motor vehicles. “An average of more …

SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. debuted its UMTS RailLink, offering high-speed broadband connectivity and Wi-Fi access on fast-moving trains. IPWireless said that during a 24-mile demonstration in Europe, its UMTS RailLink …

LOS ANGELES-The market for mobile resource management systems could reach more than 5.8 million units by 2009, with annual hardware and service revenues exceeding $2 billion, according to a new …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. and Avaya Inc. announced a joint agreement calling for the companies to develop and deliver hosted Voice over Internet Protocol wireline and wireless services in …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Siemens Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Siemens AG, is investing in metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks supplier Tropos Networks Inc., and said it plans to accelerate Tropos’ MetroMesh systems in …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and The Game have accounted for more than 2.5 million music downloads through Sprint Nextel Corp.’s Music Tones service, the carrier announced Wednesday. 50 …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Ubiquity Software Corp. signed a partnership agreement to develop end-to-end Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem solutions, pairing Ubiquity’s Session Initiation Protocol application server as …

Qualcomm Inc. upped its guidance for the coming quarter based on what the company said were stronger-than-expected sales of CDMA chips throughout North America, Latin America and the rest of …

AT&T Corp. said it has signed roaming agreements that add more than 2,100 Wi-Fi hot spots across China, Japan and Greece, as well as in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity through select European …