WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. said it provided AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with the software platform for its recently introduced #121 VoiceDial voice-activated dialing service.
NEW YORK-Zingy launched Phonemates, an audio-based application powered by VoiceWeb technologies, that brings chat rooms and message boards to mobile phones. With Phonemates, users can navigate, listen, and post comments, …
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Wherify Wireless Inc. announced retailer distribution agreements by which CompUSA, Good Guys, Wherehouse Music, Fry’s Electronics, Micro Center, Al & Ed’s, and J&R Computer World will resell Wherify’s …
TOKYO-The Financial Times reported German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom AG is unlikely to sell off its T-Mobile USA Inc. division when it announces its debt-reduction plans next week due to …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Cambridge Silicon Radio signed a volume price agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co, Ltd. to purchase 1 million BlueCore2 Bluetooth chips from CSR next year. SEMCO is expected to use …
EINDHOVEN, United Kingdom-Royal Philips Electronics and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a successful commercial network field trial of single antenna interference cancellation chips for GSM/GPRS mobile phones. The companies said the …
SAN DIEGO-Dr. Pieter van Rooyen, founder and chief technology officer of Zyray Wireless, will speak on Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output antenna systems (MIMO) and Space-Time Processing (STP) technologies at two upcoming conferences. …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said it has sampled the first solution that will link human interface devices like PC mice, keyboards and gaming consoles to personal computers. “Operating at …
WASHINGTON-The New Jersey State Senate has joined in the distracted driving ban chorus by passing legislation that would ban the use of handheld wireless phones while driving. The bill has …
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support. …
Editor: Further to your request, I am sending a list of the countries in Europe, which have paging operations and the estimated number of users. Because the operators in Britain …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc. said it downgraded Lucent Technologies to “junk” status, even as the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has broadened its …
PARIS-Alcatel said that Vodafone Telecel extended its contract for Alcatel’s local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) for its customer base in Portugal. The 26 GHz network covers Lisbon, and the center …
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. said it filed a report with the Federal Communications Commission with details of new tests of enhanced observed time difference mobile location technology. Results …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens has won a $109.7 million order from Orascom Telecom Tunisia in Tunisia to build a GSM network. The three-year contract includes the switching network and intelligent network services. …
HELSINKI, Finland-Ukrainian Mobile Communications will use Nokia Corp.’s Multimedia Messaging Solution in the Ukrainian market, allowing the carrier’s 1.5 million customers to send messages, along with pictures, graphics and sounds. …
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan-The Uzbektelecom landline national operator received a CDMA 450 MHz license and launched the construction of a wireless network with a capacity of 150,000 clients. The Chinese company Huawei …
BALTIMORE-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake Thursday dismissed the $800 million brain cancer lawsuit against the mobile phone industry. Today, Blake heard oral argument on industry’s motion to dismiss six class …
WASHINGTON-The president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last Friday stepped back from comments he made to the press earlier in the week calling for merger guidelines from the …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-A patent infringement lawsuit brought by ISCO International Inc. against SuperConductor Technologies Inc. and Conductus Inc. came a step closer to a close this week. In a Markman …
