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WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. have sought Federal Communications Commission approval of a deal involving the swap of hundreds of broadband radio service channels in the 2.5 GHz band. …

The IEEE’s November Wi-Fi standards-development meeting came and went without much fanfare, but debate over how to best reach a standard is causing some fireworks. Airgo Networks Inc. said it …

AIX EN PROVENCE, France-Near Field Communications vendor Inside Contactless said it closed $10.6 million in financing. Sofinnova, Vertex Venture Capital and Visa International led the round, while GIMV, Vertex Singapore …

SAN DIEGO-Chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. both raised revenue forecasts based on improving sales, news that could translate into an improved market for the worldwide mobile-phone industry. First …

SAN DIEGO-Chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. both raised revenue forecasts based on improving sales, news that could translate into an improved market for the worldwide mobile phone industry. …

MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Ltd. is supplying its BreezeMAX 3500 system to France Telecom affiliate Ikatel, which offers broadband data service in Mali. The deployment includes hundreds of customer premise equipment based …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. launched its fourth-generation single chip assisted global positioning system solution for mobile phones, which the company says enables users to connect to a satellite from their mobile …

Watching Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. exchange nasty barbs over intellectual property rights smacks of similar bickering between Qualcomm and L.M. Ericsson in 1999 over patents for the CDMA protocol. …

SAN DIEGO-As demand for and shipments of Qualcomm Inc.’s chips took off, so did the company’s financial performance. Qualcomm, the world’s second-largest chip maker for mobile devices, posted fourth-quarter net …

SAN DIEGO-As demand for and shipments of Qualcomm Inc.’s chips took off, so did the company’s financial performance. Qualcomm, the world’s second-largest chip maker for mobile devices, posted fourth-quarter net …

TEMPE, Ariz.-Research firm Forward Concepts lowered its 2005 digital signal processor forecast to 5 percent revenue growth, or to about the $8.2 billion level. The market research firm also lowered …

There’s little doubt that m-commerce is quickly gaining traction among U.S. users. But exactly what m-commerce means to the wireless industry is far from clear. Contactless payments-speedy point-of-sale transactions that …

There is a great future in ethnography. Indeed, this interdisciplinary approach to studying social and cultural nuances of small groups of people in natural, day-to-day settings could hold the key …

The W-CDMA race has just started, but chipset vendors from all corners of the industry are driving to play in the nascent but growing market. Already, industry heavyweights Texas Instruments …

SEOUL-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. posted increasing revenues, but the company’s profit line took a hit due to a $300 million fine the U.S. Department of Justice levied against the company …

SEOUL-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. posted increasing revenues, but the company’s profit line took a hit due to a $300 million fine the U.S. Department of Justice levied against the company …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced the on-time sampling of its Mobile Station Modem chip solution, supporting HSDPA technology. Qualcomm said the MSM 6280 chipset is the company’s second complete HSDPA solution …

Skyworks Solutions Inc., which provides semiconductors for mobile applications, said it expects to report fourth-quarter revenues below the low end of the company’s previous guidance. Based on a preliminary review …

InterDigital Communications Corp. released its HSDPA coprocessor terminal for mobile phones. The company said the chip offering features low-power usage and a small, flexible design. Philips Semiconductor N.V. purchased the …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. released its new HSDPA coprocessor terminal for mobile phones. The company said the chip offering features low-power usage and a small, flexible design. InterDigital …

According to most industry observers, all systems are go in the worldwide wireless industry. Predictions show significant sales opportunities in emerging markets like India, where handset costs are plummeting below …

SAN DIEGO-Chipmaker Sequoia Communications today released an RF transceiver for mobile phones that supports W-CDMA, HSDPA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM technologies. The company said the transceiver will lower the cost …

Among the tragedies that Hurricane Katrina brought was the realization that it would be easier for some people to reconnect with their dogs than their grandmas. A veterinarian can access …

The race to bring the much-hyped wireless home to market continued to heat up last week as two major wireless mesh-networking chipmakers gained traction in the nascent market. Zensys A/S, …

Motorola Inc. may cut EDGE technology from the initial shipments of its forthcoming handsets-including the highly anticipated Pebl and Slvr models-due to problems with chips from supplier RF Micro Devices …