LONDON-European carrier Vodafone announced a deal with video game company Eidos for the exclusive rights to the Tomb Raider game across 22 countries, a deal that further shows the growing …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Denying any wrongdoing, Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has received preliminary court approval to settle pending class action shareowner litigation against the company. “The Honorable Judge Joel A. …
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s assigned its B+ rating to Nextel Communications Inc.’s offering of $1 billion worth of 7.375-percent senior serial redeemable notes due 2015, and affirmed its BB- corporate …
WASHINGTON-L. Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led occupational authority in Iraq, today told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that mobile-phone licenses in the war-torn country are about to being issued. …
Patent battles continue to rage across the wireless enterprise industry, as Visto Corp. joins the fray with separate lawsuits against rival wireless e-mail companies Infowave Software and Seven Networks Inc. …
Citing false and unsubstantiated advertising claims, Nextel Communications Inc. filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court against Verizon Wireless seeking unspecified damages and an injunction prohibiting Verizon Wireless’ …
WASHINGTON-Universal service is a hot topic in Washington this week with two House panels hearing testimony, a think-tank seminar and an ad campaign launched Tuesday by TracFone Wireless. “The Federal …
LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-COM Inc. has been awarded an $11 million contract by the U.S. Army to deploy and link critical communications to 10 Army installations, including more than 5,000 Army base …
LONDON-Alan Dick & Co. has acquired telecommunications infrastructure service company EXi Ltd. making Alan Dick & Co. a single-source supplier for the telecommunications industry. “Acquiring the resources and expertise that …
SYDNEY, Australia-Australian mobile operators Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale announced a network partnering trial that will see the operators share mobile base station infrastructure in areas where duplicate coverage exists. …
DALLAS-Ultra-wideband (UWB) communications systems will likely exceed 150 million devices by the end of 2008, according a new report from Parks Associates. Parks Associates believes that once the IEEE 802.15.3a …
CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless handset distribution company CellStar Corp. announced it will sell its subsidiary in Sweden, CellStar Intercall AB, to Swedish distribution company AxCom AB. Terms of the deal, expected to …
Hollywood, meet wireless. Several new products from the world’s biggest consumer electronics companies could allow mobile-phone users in the near future to tune into their favorite TV shows, from soap …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it is offering sensors that interoperate with the ZigBee protocol in environments as diverse as a factory floor to a game console in the family room. …
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has filed a lawsuit asking the court to order Qualcomm Inc. to abide by the terms of a cross-licensing agreement between both companies. The lawsuit …
The mobile commerce industry saw several new announcements and partnerships in conjunction with the Mobile Commerce World Europe 2003 event in London, but the most notable event included a teaming …
WASHINGTON-The Nov. 24 date is firm for wireless local number portability, and the intent is for wireless-to-wireless porting to go forth on that day, said the chief of the FCC’s …
SAN FRANCISCO-U.S. supplier Telespree Communications said it received a contract with Romanian CDMA 450 MHz operator Zapp to deploy Telespree’s automated activation and acquisition solution. Zapp will deploy the technology …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Wireless networking equipment provider Proxim Corp. has chosen Wavelink as network management partner for its ORiNOCO line of wireless local area network solutions for the enterprise. Through the partnership, …
SINGAPORE-MobileOne said it would terminate its six-year-old paging service at the end of the year. Singapore’s M1 will offer its 22,000 paging customers the option to switch to its GSM …
