SAN DIEGO-Integrated circuits producer Philips Semiconductors formed a strategic alliance with Widcomm Inc. to speed up the development of its Bluetooth wireless technology products and to provide customers with a …
The business of stealing cars is a $7 billion game that every year saps the resources of law enforcement and results in a financial and personal loss for car owners. …
LOS ANGELES-SigmaOne Communications and InirU Wireless Inc. are following the rush to cash in on the elusive location-based mobile service market by teaming up to offer location-based advertising, promotions and …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Sprint PCS awarded a contract to Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector to provide the company with CDMA equipment through interoperability specifications and third-generation cdma2000 1x packet data. …
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Air2Web Inc. and TheFirstNews.com are taking a technological step backward. Instead of using cell phones’ increasingly detailed screen to provide information, the two companies plan to get their …
SINGAPORE-The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore released a report showing newcomer StarHub has the poorest GSM cellular service. It had the highest incidence of dropped calls and fared poorly …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Russian company RadioTel said it will test a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) trunking network in the St. Petersburg area, using Motorola equipment for infrastructure and terminals. Motorola estimated the …
NEW YORK-Transmeta Corp. and its Crusoe line of processors received enthusiastic applause from investors as the San Francisco company went public Nov. 7. The 13 million share initial public offering, …
NEW YORK-Despite substantial increases in subscribers and revenues last quarter, VoiceStream Wireless Corp. experienced growing losses it attributed to rapid growth and expenses related to acquisitions. VoiceStream, headquartered in Bellevue, …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Slovakian operator Globtel prefers a “beauty contest” process of licensing the country’s third-generation (3G) licenses. Eva Forraiova-Guttlerova, the company’s public relations manager, said the beauty contest system is more …
HELSINKI, Finland-In a new three-year agreement Nokia will supply its core GPRS solution, services and broadband switching system upgrades for Belgium-based operator Proximus Belgacom Mobile’s mobile network. Nokia said it …
TOKYO-Seven regional companies of KDDI Group on 1 November merged to form a new company called “au.” KDDI decided to merge these regional companies to better compete with giant NTT …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-A new wireless ventures company will help Scandinavian entrepreneurs build “world-beating wireless companies,” according to a release from Argo Global Capital and Northstream. The two companies teamed up to …
Qualcomm Inc.’s much-battered stock received a vote of confidence last week as Lehman Brothers released an equity research report reiterating its “Buy” rating of the company’s stock, which has seen …
NEW YORK-Wireless interactive marketing company SkyGo Inc. announced it completed the first phase of its market research study in Boulder, Colo., and has more than 1,000 consumer participants. The study …
NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it. By contrast, …
After answering more than 5.5 billion questions in the past four years, Ask Jeeves Inc.’s online question answering service is finally learning to talk. The talking capabilities come from an …
The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, Motorola Inc. and others convinced the Illinois Supreme Court to stay the publication in USA Today last week of a notice of class-action litigation …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. have agreed to develop GPRS phones using Microsoft Corp.’s Stinger smart phone platform and Mobile Internet Explorer microbrowser software for VoiceStream’s …
The evolution of the Symbian initiative advanced last week as the company held its first developers conference in London, supporting the release of version 6.0 of its open software platform …
