Continuing its string of solid quarterly results, Nextel Communications Inc. posted a 31-percent year-over-year increase in total revenues from $2.4 billion during the first quarter of 2003 to $3.1 billion …
SEOUL, South Korea-Handset maker Sony Ericsson narrowly regained the No. 5 global market share slot from rival LG Electronics Co. Ltd. in the first quarter, as LG reported shipments of …
WASHINGTON-It took more than a year and it wasn’t pretty, but the Federal Communications Commission and bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. Tuesday signed an agreement requiring NextWave to sell more than …
SEATTLE-Venture capital firm eFund L.L.C. announced the launch of its new Mobilopia wireless marketing company, which is the result of a merger among Mynamics Inc., eFund’s portfolio companies Txt Talk …
CHICAGO-Tellabs Inc. posted its first quarterly profit in two years, raising its shares by 10 percent. The equipment supplier had a net profit of $13 million, or 3 cents per …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced two new contract wins for GSM technology. Nokia will extend its contract to Russia’s VimpelCom for GSM/GPRS equipment under a $60 million agreement for 2004. The …
JENKINTOWN, Pa.-Wireless services garnered 30 percent of total consumer spending during the fourth quarter of last year, which was a 3-percent increase from the previous quarter and just below the …
CHICAGO-Navigation information technology company Navteq Corp. filed for a $500 million initial public offering. The company sells digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices and Internet-based mapping …
SEOUL, South Korea-Although the Korean government has yet to make a decision regarding whether to mandate a wireless Internet platform for the country’s three wireless carriers, the operators plan to …
Enterprise software company Sybase Inc. continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of the assets of privately held wireless technology company Dejima. Sybase said it would integrate Dejima’s language processing …
Motorola Inc. announced its first-quarter results to market enthusiasm, generating its best stock momentum in three years.Its shares rose $3.11 to $19.33, representing a 20-percent leap. The vendor reported net …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. and Cometa Networks, Inc. entered an alliance where Cometa Networks will incorporate some or all of the Toshiba U.S. SurfHere hot-spot locations into Cometa’s …
WASHINGTON-More than 100 small and medium-sized telephone companies Tuesday urged the Senate to pass the Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act. “Currently billions of dollars of investment in further deployment of high-speed …
RadioShack Corp. will begin offering Sprint Corp.’s small business wireless pricing programs and services at its retail locations across the country as an expansion of its current Sprint PCS offerings. …
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to 170 kilobits per second and average throughput of …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investor Services assigned its B2 rating to Western Wireless Corp.’s $1.5 billion senior secured credit facility and confirmed its B2 senior implied and Caa1 issuer ratings with a …
SEATTLE-Annette M. Jacobs has been named president and chief executive officer of SafeHarbor Technology Corp. where she will be responsible for setting the strategic growth course of the company. Jacobs …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The CellularRAM specification co-development team has welcomed Renesas technology to its fold of chipmakers in the Asian market. Other members include Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Infineon and Micron Technology …
HOUSTON-Texas Instruments has released a new Hands-Free Kit (HFK) Development Platform and a Bluetooth subsystem to go with it. According to TI, combining the digital signal processor (DSP)-based platform with …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Off-premise automated teller machine provider Triton entered into an agreement with Verizon Wireless to support a CDMA option on Triton ATMs. The Verizon Wireless option will be offered on …
