MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-No. 2 personal digital assistant maker Handspring Inc. reported fourth quarter earnings in line with company expectations but severely impacted by the slow economy, inventory problems and pricing …
Popularity is not without problems. Approximately 3.5 million of the cellular phones manufactured every year end up in landfills across the country, according to industry estimates. The Environmental Protection Agency …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association again last week pressured the public-safety community to make firm commitments as to the deployment of enhanced 911 service. With a looming Oct. 1 …
While Japan’s largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc., continues to trial its 3G network in select portions of Tokyo, speculation continues to circulate that the planned October launch of commercial …
The country’s continued slowing economy seemed to have little impact on wireless carriers reporting second-quarter results last week, with Sprint PCS, often used as a bellwether for the industry, and …
NEW YORK-Oki Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, Calif., will make commercially available in September its new module, compatible with version 1.1 of the Bluetooth standard for short-range wireless applications. The Bluetooth module, which …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission made out better on its fiscal year 2002 budget with the Senate Appropriations Committee than it did with the full House of Representatives. The House passed …
Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is now announcing the release of the …
With as many as six wireless operators to choose from in some markets, wireless carriers have to work overtime to keep their customers from jumping ship. While customer churn industrywide …
While Nokia Corp. is the hands-down leader for mobile handsets shipped in the United States, the handset giant only holds a 7-percent market share for CDMA phones sold in the …
PARIS-Wireless vendor Alcatel signed a $275 million contract with Telemar, the Brazilian fixed-line operator that recently bought a GSM license in Brazil, for a GSM 1800/GPRS network. The network will …
SAVANNAH, Ga.-H.O. Systems Inc., which offers next-generation billing solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced it has signed a long-term billing and customer care contract with wireless operator MetroPCS. MetroPCS said …
FCC Chairman Michael Powell needs to direct his staff to get over it and get on with it. “It” is the agency’s loss in federal appeals court to NextWave Telecom …
It’s quiet out there in the paging and messaging industry. Perhaps too quiet. WebLink Wireless Inc., Arch Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. are the three largest independent paging and messaging …
ATLANTA-Nextel Communications Inc. launched an improved version of its Direct Connect service in Georgia and Alabama, allowing customers access to co-workers, vendors, suppliers, family and friends throughout their local markets. …
CALGARY, Alberta-Wi-Lan Inc. said it will cut about 30 percent of its staff, in line with the slump in the fixed wireless market. The company had a work force of …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. completed the acquisition of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems’ ownership interest in Cellular One Group. Southwestern Bell Mobile is a subsidiary of Cingular Wireless. Financial terms of …
LONDON-Panting from a barrage of criticisms from its shareholders and calls for a boardroom overhaul, Marconi plc said it will go back to basics by cutting costs and concentrating on …
NEW YORK-Telecommunications reflected the dramatic drop in the number and size of mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies last quarter, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported. Across industry sectors, these transactions numbered …
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. said it designed a wireless news gateway for the Newspaper Association of America. The gateway allows users to search for the first letters of a …
