WASHINGTON-Following the recent sale of its remaining spectrum licenses to Verizon Wireless for $3 billion, NextWave Telecom Inc. filed its third joint plan of reorganization with the bankruptcy court overseeing …
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry officials and engineers will meet in San Diego next week to continue work on a mobile phone battery standard, an effort that comes in response to reports of …
NEW YORK-WeightWatchers.com today launched what it said is the first mobile weight-loss application to be integrated with a Web-based account via the Internet. The company introduced Weight Watchers On-the-Go, a …
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Nokia’s venture capital division announced it created a new $100 million fund to support the growth of mid- to late-stage companies. Markus Salolainen and Rob Trice of Nokia’s …
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Mobile technology provider M7 Networks announced the availability of Sega Mobile’s first title for the Game Lobby, a gaming-based mobile community offered by Sprint PCS. Sega Mobile’s “Home …
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Teens are continuing to drive the adoption of new wireless technologies and services, according to a report by consultancy IDC. The study indicates that 40 percent of 15- to …
MUNICH, Germany-Technology company Siemens said it tested a mobile communications network that could transmit up to one gigabit a second, or about 1,000 megabits per second. In comparison, today’s GPRS …
SAN FRANCISCO-New research shows that more than half of wireless users are against the creation of a national directory service for mobile phone numbers. According to an Internet survey of …
Internet entrepreneur Don Murray said he is selling the Internet domain name Freephones.com, and expects to collect a hefty six-figure price for the site. “Freephones.com has already received numerous offers …
NEWBURY, U.K.-Mobile Streams has been tapped to deliver ringtones, wallpaper and other mobile content for TIM Brazil, a South American carrier with more than 10 million subscribers. With the service, …
DRESDEN, Germany-Radioplan GmbH, which supplies automatic UMTS radio network optimization tools, said it plans to relocate its headquarters to larger offices in Dresden, Germany, to accommodate a staff that has …
MORGAN HILL, Calif.-Anritsu Co. introduced a new test solution for third-generation base station deployments. The PIM-S system offers a single connection for swept frequency S-parameter and Passive Intermodulation measurements on …
LONDON-European wireless operator Orange launched commercial UMTS-based services in the United Kingdom and France. The launch trails similar launches in the U.K. by rivals 3 and Vodafone Group plc, but …
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. said it plans to sell its 20.5-percent stake in Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. beginning early next week. Verizon noted that its current stake in the …
CHICAGO-The Computing Technology Industry Association and The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility plan to cooperate on developing a vendor-neutral certification program for radio-frequency identification technology in an attempt to …
WASHINGTON-The American Civil Liberties Union said it obtained State Department documents that show the Bush administration ignored security and privacy warnings by experts and foreign governments when it was promoting …
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it won a two-year contract to upgrade Hong Kong’s mass transit railway underground communications network with third-generation wireless technology. The UMTS system will allow passengers …
“The future is in the software,” said Nayeem Islam, vice president of NTT DoCoMo Inc.’s mobile software laboratory in San Jose, Calif. “The hardware is a commodity.” Islam’s assertion, spoken …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it is offering a software upgrade to its VX4500 phone, built by LG Electronics Co. Ltd., that will allow users to operate the phone through verbal …
KINGS PARK, N.Y.-Infrastructure vendors will benefit as hundreds of thousands of base stations will be deployed globally every year through the rest of the decade, according to a new report …
