BEIJING-Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has rated Chinese mobile-phone manufacturer TCL Mobile Communications Asia’s fastest-growing technology company during the past three years. TCL is now China’s third most popular handset brand, following …
TOKYO-Coding Technologies, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) and NEC jointly released a new low-power decoder version for the upcoming MPEG-4 AAC-plus-SBR standard. The low-power implementation allows the standard to run on …
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-LG Electronics has chosen Qualcomm Inc.’s MSM 6200 mobile station modem chipset and system software for its dual-mode third-generation handsets, according to a press release. “Our partnership with …
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics have come together to establish an open standard with the Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces for application processors targeting 2.5G and third-generation mobile phones, personal …
WASHINGTON-The auction policy which saw the mobile-phone industry pay millions of dollars for radio-frequency spectrum was wrong, said Sen. George Allen (R. Va.). Speaking later to reporters Allen backed away …
WASHINGTON-A new Pentagon report said spectrum loss to the wireless industry is hurting military capability and has forced it “to pursue proactive approaches that would prevent future erosion of critical …
DALLAS-Wireless broadband service provider airBand Communications said its Phoenix market has reached profitability four months ahead of schedule. airBand said its customer acquisitions in Phoenix grew 114 percent for the …
PARIS-French vendor Alcatel said it expects market deterioration next year, although the company still expects to meet its targets. Alcatel said it also anticipates a fourth-quarter growth of 20 percent …
NEW DELHI, India-The number of wireless local loop (WLL) lines installed using CorDECT technology, developed by an Indian group, has reached 1 million. In addition, orders worth Rs 1 billion …
SAN JOSE, California, United States-While much has been promised for the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the delivery has been less than sparkling with delays to the specification, higher-than-anticipated chipset costs …
OSLO, Norway-Swedish-Japanese mobile-phone maker Sony Ericsson’s flashy P800 phone will start arriving next week, but confusion reigns about its availability. Sony Ericsson spokesman Peter Bodor said the P800 would be …
SAN JOSE, California, United States-Swedish mobile operators TeliaSonera and Vodafone Sweden have entered into a price battle over their recently launched multimedia message services (MMS) services. The newly merged TeliaSonera …
MANILA, The Philippines-The Gokongwei-owned Digital Telecommunications Philippines (Digitel) plans to invest 6 billion Philippine pesos (US$113 million) next year for its nationwide wireless telephone network in its bid to become …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The only company that participated in the auction for the three regional personal communications services (PCS) licenses-one of which is a national license-in Colombia was Colombia M
DUBLIN, Ireland-The music appears to have stopped on the game of managerial musical chairs at T-Mobile International, with Rene Obermann being unveiled as successor to Kai-Uwe Ricke, who has stepped …
DUBLIN, Ireland-A startup streaming technology company in the United Kingdom said it has developed software to allow broadcast-quality streamed video to be delivered to mobile devices without modifications to the …
BEIJING-Newly appointed Vice-Minister of Information Industry Gou Zhongwen estimated this week the number of mobile-phone users in China had surpassed the 200 million mark. Evaluating the first year of China’s …
LONDON-Pogo Technology Ltd., which sold a unique mobile phone/personal digital assistants to consumers in the United Kingdom through a deal with Carphone Warehouse, will get a name change and new …
HOUSTON-NEC America Inc. will integrate wireless enterprise technology from Vuico L.L.C. into its 515 mobile phone, which is scheduled to launch early next year. Vuico’s GoWireless technology will allow mobile …
