SYDNEY-Chipmaker Intel Corp. continued to push WiMAX technology with its $27.9 million investment in wireless broadband carrier Unwired Australia. Under the deal, Unwired Australia said it will use Intel's WiMAX chips in its efforts to expand the technology across Australia's cities."Twelve months ago, wireless...
MIAMI-Movida Communications Inc., a mobile virtual network operator focused on the Hispanic market, said it has selected Brightstar Corp. to provide product distribution into retail locations in the markets Movida serves. The agreement calls for Brightstar to provide complete supply-chain management services, including product...
TYLER, Texas-Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it will get out of the paging business to focus on its global positioning system tracking, telematics and homeland-security services. The carrier said it will sell its paging business to a group of private Texas investors for $5.2 million....
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Electronic Arts Inc. continued its move to mobile Thursday as Verizon Wireless launched three of the publisher's most popular titles from Pogo.com, its online gaming community.The carrier announced the availability of puzzle game Poppit! as well as two card games, Tri-Peaks Solitaire...
Caribbean telecommunications provider Digicel Group said it has been given governmental approval to acquire Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s operations in Bermuda and to launch a GSM network in the eastern Caribbean island of Anguilla. Digicel was granted similar approval to acquire Cingular's assets in Dominica...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it will create a committee to establish technological standards for terrestrial broadcasts and wireless multimedia services.The committee will be charged with developing and maintaining standards for terrestrial mobile multimedia multicast interfaces as well as components, systems, networks and...
WEST TRENTON, N.J.-DotPhoto announced a service that allows camera-phone users to send images directly from their phones to an online account for sharing, printing and saving.Users can open free accounts at DotPhoto's Web site and register to begin using the service. The site also...
TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. said it has started shipping evaluation samples of a single-chip LSI it developed jointly with NTT DoCoMo Inc.The LSI was developed for dual-mode mobile handsets that support W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS systems. The companies expect the LSI to promote worldwide use of...
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Bitfone Corp. said Chinese mobile-phone maker Ningbo Bird will use the company's device management technology in its handsets.Bitfone provides firmware over-the-air update technology. Ningbo Bird is embedding Bitfone's device management agents in its devices to learn more about device lifecycle after market,...
PETALUMA, Calif.-Dilithium Networks said it has licensed its AnswerFast Plus technology to Motorola Inc. for use in some of Motorola's third-generation mobile devices.The technology reduces video-call session setup time to less than a second, a time that is comparable with voice call setup, said...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Regional wireless provider Dobson Communications Corp. said it completed an exchange offer and consent solicitation of its 12.25-percent senior exchangeable preferred stock and its 13-percent senior exchangeable preferred stock. Dobson said it paid $50.2 million in total cash consideration and issued nearly 28.25...
WASHINGTON-New York City Council member Eva Moskowitz has compiled a comprehensive ranking of cell phones based on levels of radio-frequency radiation emissions, saying consumers should be supplied with the data when deciding on wireless equipment purchases. "In the absence of absolute certainty within the...
Craig McCaw's Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the company's total war chest to around $600 million. The funds came from 31 unnamed investors.A Clearwire official was not immediately available for comment.The company's massive fundraising efforts give...
Wireless Voice over Internet Protocol services are emerging as a threat to traditional wireless carriers, according to a report from Alexander Resources. The report, "Wireless VoIP: What Threats to Mobile Operators?," predicted wireless VoIP service will have a similar impact on competition and the...
Investors cheered a report that predicted chipmaker RF Micro Devices Inc. is scoring additional business with the likes of Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. and that the company likely would exceed its expectations for the coming quarter.RF Micro Devices' stock was up almost 8...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The wireless industry garnered unprecedented attention from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as MobiTV and Sprint Nextel Corp. were named winners of an Emmy Award. MobiTV is owned by Idetic Inc. The companies were honored with a Primetime Emmy Engineering...
SAN FRANCISCO-Chipmaker Intel Corp. offered a general outline for some of its plans in the wireless world, including updates to its chips for Wi-Fi laptops and mobile phones."The number of voice lines worldwide skyrocketed with the proliferation of cellular phones, which made the phone...
Time Warner Inc. is the latest media giant to join the stampede to the "third screen" with a $7.5 million investment in wireless game maker Glu Mobile. The stake was part of a $27.5 million haul in Series D financing for Glu (formerly Sorrent...
Investors continued to get behind nascent WiMAX technology, with two service providers announcing successful funding rounds. California-based fixed-wireless Internet provider NextWeb said it snared $3.5 million in Series E equity financing and a revolving line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank. Kaiser Permanente National...
LIVERMORE, Calif.-UltraCell Corp. announced a reformed methanol fuel-cell technology for portable devices, which the company said provides twice the energy density of lithium batteries.The technology uses a micro reformer to generate fuel-cell-ready hydrogen from a highly concentrated methanol solution, said the company. The result...
WAYNE, Pa.-Traffic.com Inc. said it signed an agreement with the Maryland State Highway Administration that will allow for construction of a network of wireless roadside traffic sensors.The project will provide Traffic.com with sensor coverage from north of Baltimore to south of Washington D.C., including...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. appointed David Truzinski vice president and chief information officer where he will be responsible for the carrier's information technology support, including computer operations, telecommunications, networking, messaging, security, systems architecture and database management.Truzinski previously served as CIO at Cingular Wireless...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Firetide Inc., a wireless mesh networking provider, and Meru Networks, which provides Voice over Internet Protocol infrastructure, said they have teamed to provide voice communication capability on wireless mesh networks.The companies plan to integrate Firetide's HotPort mesh network with Meru's wireless local area...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. expanded its GoodLink wireless messaging and data access service to Windows Mobile-enabled smart phones, according to Good Technology Inc.GoodLink is available on Audiovox SMT 5600 and Motorola Inc. MPx220 smart phones. Both devices support GoodLink 4.5, which provides continuous two-way wireless...
