MANILA, The Philippines-Saddled with heavy debts resulting from the East Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the continued downturn of the global economy, Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel), the mobile-phone subsidiary …
NEW DELHI, India-India has become the fourth country in the Asia-Pacific region to have GSM players offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), with BPL Mobile launching the new service in Mumbai, …
MELBOURNE, Australia-As the federal government’s push to sell its remaining stake in Telstra gains momentum, the Australian communications giant, in its submission to the Estens inquiry into regional telecommunications, has …
REDMOND, Wash.-Smart antenna solution provider Metawave Communications Corp. announced plans for “major restructuring” of its operations, which include cutting 30 percent of the company’s work force and the appointment of …
FOSTER CITY, Calif.-FaceTime Communications, Foster City, Calif., introduced commercially Oct. 8 its IM Auditor application, which permits the management, control and interoperability of any enterprise’s wired or wireless device with …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Wednesday asked the U.S. Senate “to return the billions of dollars the wireless industry has paid to the U.S. government for auctioned spectrum.” …
SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. will use Qualcomm Inc.’s MSM6200 Mobile Station Modem chipset and system software to develop its Merlin family of third-generation wireless PC card modems. Novatel is developing …
LOVELAND, Colo.-The City of Loveland, Colo., is combining GiveMePower Corp.’s PowerCAD CE, a mobile handheld CAD system, with Autodesk Inc.’s desktop GIS system, AutoCAD Map, to offer its field staff …
BEIJING-The subscriber growth of China Unicom’s CDMA network is gaining momentum. Since launching the network in January this year, initial subscriber growth was sluggish. It took the company more than …
SAN DIEGO-One Voice technologies Inc. has completed testing of its MobileVoice system using IBM’s x Series Servers in both large and small system configurations at IBM’s labs and at its …
CAMBRIDGE, England-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. said its latest trial results show enhanced observed time difference systems are making progress, with 81 percent of calls now being located to within 150 …
LONDON-Wireless entertainment company Digital Bridges announced it is embarking on a major Java rollout, a move that will include selling a wide array of downloadable Java applications through retail outlets, …
NEW YORK-PayCircle, a group formed to push mobile commerce applications through standard application programming interfaces-released the PayCircle Payment Web Service Specification 1.0, which covers WSDL sources, XML schema definitions and …
FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Kyocera Mita introduced a 802.11b network interface print controller for its printers and multi-functional devices designed to allow companies to deploy printing capabilities into a wireless local area network …
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The Smart Card Alliance announced its 2003 board of directors and executive committee as well as the appointment of Randy Vanderhoof as the new executive director. In addition to …
OTTAWA-Nortel Networks Ltd. and Qualcomm Inc. announced the successful test of an UMTS voice and data call across commercial cell sites using live 1.9 GHz radio spectrum, Qualcomm chipsets in …
AMAZON STATE, Brazil-Citizens of Brazil will use the Globalstar satellite phone system to cast votes in the upcoming presidential elections. Votes are cast on battery-operated voting machines, then transmitted back …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Expanding the coverage of its Wi-Fi-based HotSpot service, T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a partnership with Borders Group Inc. to provide wireless Internet access in Borders Books and Music locations …
FOSTER CITY, Calif.-Inktomi Corp. announced it will cut about 20 percent of its staff, or about 85 positions, a move the company said would better align it in the current …
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc.’s stock fell 15-percent on Wednesday, to trade at $8.30, a new 10-year low for the infrastructure giant. By Thursday morning, shares were back up almost 10-percent to trade …
