NEW YORK—KPMG will conduct a survey to measure smart card use in North America, according to a 6 August announcement of The Smart Card Alliance, formed earlier this year by …

LONDON—Saudi Business Machines (SBM), the general marketing and services representative for IBM WTC in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced it has completed the installation of the largest-ever computer project …

LONDON—Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) has announced it has awarded a joint contract to Swedish telecom heavyweight Ericsson and Finnish mobile giant Nokia. Under the terms of the deal the two …

NEW YORK—Celltick Technologies, an Israeli interactive mobile broadcasting solution developer founded in March 2000, received US$10 million in follow-on venture financing it will use to accelerate marketing in Europe and …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Telecom Personal presented a signed agreement with Lotus to enable its cellular clients to access various mobile services based on WAP from their terminals. This will allow corporate …

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TABY, Sweden—Aspiro has agreed to deliver GlobalDining’s mobile restaurant directory and reservation network to its customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.According to Aspiro, the agreement, which is subsidized …

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, United States—Motorola said it has sold its Integrated Information Systems Group to defense contractor General Dynamics for US$825 million in a deal expected to close within 60 …

SUFFERN, New York, United States—Acticon Technologies, Suffern, N.Y., developer of PC card modems and other PCMCIA form factor communications, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Ositech Communications Inc., a …

SAN DIEGO, United States—Device makers Hanwha and Synertek have signed a memoranda of understanding to port Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless platform to their handheld devices.“More than 3,300 developers …

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, United States—Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places across the globe. Traveling WorldCell customers …

SAN JOSE, California, United States—Analyst firm Gartner Dataquest said worldwide semiconductor revenue this year will be $168.1 billion, a 26-percent drop from last year.“There are few signs of growth in …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—TDC said it is seeking to take control over Polish cellular operator Polkomtel, according to international press reports. It currently holds 19.6 percent of the carrier.However, the Danish company …

BRUSSELS, Belgium—The European Commission (EC) has published new safety standards on electromagnetic fields for mobile-phone manufacturers. The limits, which “will not expose users to excessive electromagnetic waves,” will apply to …

LONDON—The huge popularity of mobile phones in Europe has had an adverse effect on the once-necessary prepaid disposable (PD) calling cards, which are used instead of coins in public payphones …

BUCHAREST, Romania—According to the Romanian newspaper Ziarul Financiar, Ted Lattimore, president and chief operating officer (COO) of MobiFon, said the company is interested in buying a Romanian 3G license.Lattimore said …

WARSAW, Poland—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed a contract to allow Polish telecom operator Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. to purchase products and services from across the entire Lucent Integrated Network …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Argnor Wireless Ventures announced its has invested in software developer General Wireless Scandinavia.In addition to providing General Wireless with capital, Anders Bjorkman, president of Argnor and Ragnar Thorisson, senior …

BUCHAREST, Romania—Moldavian GSM operator Moldcell announced that negotiations between the two mobile telephony operators (Moldcell and Voxtel) that were started on 7 November, 2001, have been finalized.The two operators have …