REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its Multimedia Messaging Service allowing customers to combine pictures, text, animations and sounds into a single messaging service. The carrier said MMS messages can …
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its ‘A+’ corporate credit rating on Verizon Communications Inc. and revised its outlook on the telecommunications company and its related entities from negative …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. launched its Manitoba PXA800F chipset for GSM/GPRS devices that the company claimed provides “wireless-Internet-on-a-chip” functionality and was the first to combine key components for cellular phones …
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced its Virtual Crew Chief polling program designed to allow subscribers to submit text message votes on various stock car race topics. The wireless platform, which is …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless corporate e-mail company Seven announced it scored Orange as a new customer, and that the carrier will offer Seven’s unique network-based corporate information product in the United …
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging company Comverse announced Taiwanese mobile carrier MoBiTai will use its server to offer multimedia messaging services. “Our agreement with MoBiTai emphasizes that our platform is configurable, open and …
MINOT, N.D.-Verizon Wireless said it completed the conversion of all of its local wireless service in North Dakota from analog to digital technology. The conversion included adding two new digital …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless vendor L.M. Ericsson said it will lay off 1,200 workers in its information technology units. The sharp reduction in total staff from 107, 000 to 64,000 necessitated the …
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. has unveiled what it describes as the world’s first handset that combines a Linux operating system and Java Technology, with multimedia PDA functionality. The device, known as …
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it has introduced a new handset known as i95cl for women, a pearlized pink device with sleek looks and the “color of the season.” The launch …
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has introduced a new GSM/GPRS smartphone reference design known as i.Smart, based on its i.250 innovative convergence platform and the i.MX media extension applications processor. …
TOKYO-Under an agreement announced Feb. 13, M-Systems and Toshiba America Electronics Components are jointly developing and marketing the Mobile DiskOnChip G3, which they said, “breaks the world record for capacity …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Wireless infrastructure association Personal Communications Industry Association said Thomas (Tam) Murray, founder and managing member of Community Wireless Structures, has joined its board of directors. Community Wireless Structures is …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell is not backing off the agency’s decision to require local number portability in the mobile-phone industry later this year, but he said robust competition …
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has been cleared to buy 50 wireless spectrum licenses from Northcoast Communications, an affiliate of Cablevision Systems Corp., according to a Reuters report. Verizon will pay $750 million …
IRVINE, Calif.-SMC Networks said its 802.11a wireless network products have been chosen for use in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point’s wireless classrooms project. For the project, West Point …
STOCKHOLM-Service management platform provider Mobilaris AB said it has raised a new round of funding, led by Prosper Capital (formerly Skandia Liv). “The contribution from Prosper Capital supports the plans …
VANCOUVER-A global consortium of wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) and mobile operators have formed to implement a new authentication and payment platform that gives mobile-phone users access to high-speed hot …
PARIS-Alcatel will launch version 2.0 of its Multimedia Messaging Services at the upcoming 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The products feature a high-performance ratio per cost per unit; interoperability …
WASHINGTON-A Texas man who publicly blamed cell phone use for distracting his driving has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of criminally negligent homicide in connection with an …
