BEIJING, China—China’s state Development Planning Commission said it has approved 19 firms to make CDMA handsets to cater to part of its 120.6 million cellular phone subscribers.Some of the approved …
TOKYO—Hitachi Ltd. denied reports that it had decided to shut down its plant that makes dynamic random-access memory chips.A news report also had said the company planned to lay off …
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. launched it Cricket wireless service in Boise, Idaho, allowing customers to make unlimited local wireless calls for a fixed price each month. Ericsson provided wireless …
TOKYO—Kyocera Corp. said it plans to cut 10,000 jobs at is branches overseas, representing 20 percent of its 51,000 work force worldwide.The company said the decision was a reaction to …
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—TeleCommunications Systems Inc. said it successfully completed compatibility testing with Grayson Wireless’ Geometrix wireless location system. The testing assures wireless carriers that the two systems can operate together to …
FREMONT, Calif.—Wireless gaming company Synovial Inc. scored a major deal today with Sega of America under which the company will offer Sega’s video game content to handheld devices and next-generation …
LOS ANGELES—Motorola Inc. has developed a product called photomasks that makes chips with integrated circuits smaller than 100 nanometers in breadth, about 10,000 times smaller than the human hair.The company …
SARASOTA, Fla.—Speedcom Wireless Corp. closed an $8.4 million private placement that leaves the fixed wireless broadband products provider in the enviable position of having a “virtually debt-free” balance sheet, the …
WASHINGTON—Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the newly installed administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said that NHTSA is watching closely the growing issue of driver distraction but said that it …
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission expects to begin releasing data on consumer complaints by the middle of next month, Rosemary Kimball, director of media relations for the FCC’s Consumer Information Bureau, …
SALT LAKE CITY—Verizon Wireless celebrated the opening of its newest customer service call center in West Valley City, Utah. The $42 million facility includes more than 800 workstations and 200 …
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Networks said it has selected TietoEnator as its research and development partner effective Oct. 1.According to the terms, about 300 Nokia workers will move to TietoEnator, while TietoEnator …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Nokia Corp. said it has signed a UMTS contract to deliver core network and radio access for Europolitan Vodafone.Nokia will begin deliveries this month and will launch the network …
LAGOS, Nigeria—Motorola’s Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a $57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria.The first phase of the project is scheduled to …
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Multichannel multipoint distribution services equipment provider Hybrid Networks Inc. said it will be listed on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market effective today, subject to the provision that on …
BOSTON—Viridien Technologies, Cape Clear Software and MessageMachines today announced they are teaming to offer a messaging platform that integrates instant alerts and notifications and can distribute information to a variety …
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., released the results of a study the company conducted to determine subscriber interest in 2.5- and third-generation multimedia messaging services.The research revealed …
OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. said today that Wisconsin-based motor carrier County Transit Inc. purchased its MobileMax2 wireless communications system, which Aether said will help County Transit enhance communications between …
RED LODGE, Mont.—The ribbon is expected to be cut on Sept. 5 on a new wireless communications tower and building known as the Palisades Project.The project consolidates wireless radio communications …
PLANO, Texas—Mobile Internet consultancy and SmartTrust partner AU-System today said it will offer a gateway technology to carriers, which the company said will speed up time-to-market for deploying mobile products …
