WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week said it will soon ask the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to craft national wireless location privacy rules that call …
IRVINE, Calif.-STM Wireless Inc. announced it was awarded a patent for its special form of CDMA called Cyclic Code Phase Multiple Access. The technology provides the benefits of CDMA but …
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard. After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently …
NEW YORK-Imagine your life story and your daily life compressed into a fashion accessory that combines computing and communications into a fashion accessory. Charmed Technologies, Beverly Hills, Calif. a venture-backed …
HAYWARD, Calif.-Mobile e-commerce security provider Certicom Corp. reported a strategic licensing agreement with Juno Online Services Inc. in which Juno will deploy Certicom’s SSL Plus technology with its Internet access …
SAN DIEGO-CDMA subscribers for the third quarter of this year totaled more than 71 million, which is a 73 percent increase from the previous year, according to the CDMA Development …
Cross Country Automotive Services, a 28-year-old company responsible for much of the behind-the-scenes work for several car manufacturers’ roadside assistance programs, announced last week it is partnering with WirelessCar to …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Bulgaria, a small country in Eastern Europe, has been shaken during the last few months by a scandal in the communications market. The mobile communications market in Bulgaria, a …
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries operating in China reached an agreement with Alcatel Suzhou Telecommunications Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Alcatel, to distribute Alcatel mobile telephones …
SAN FRANCISCO-Brience Inc., an enterprise wireless Internet technology enabler, is cooperating with Ericsson Canada Inc. to deliver mobile Internet solutions to service providers and enterprise customers. The two have selected …
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. has begun carrier trials of its first Bluetooth-capable wireless phone, the Timeport 270, and expects to begin shipping the CDMA handsets by year-end. Depending on “carrier testing …
MONTREAL-WMLBrowser.org, an open source development project developing a WML browser that will work with Linux environments, is supporting the Research In Motion Ltd. Blackberry device, according to 5Nine, a Linux …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Baltimore Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced a strategic agreement to provide security solutions for Internet-enabled wireless devices. Under the agreement, Baltimore will provide mobile root digital certificates which …
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could have a more difficult time offering bundled services to its customers after the business unit is separated from the parent group, according to one analyst. …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-A survey of U.K. businesses has found more than 70 percent have no intention of implementing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in the near future, while just 15 …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While many of the public statements from the U.K. cell-phone operators have always mentioned early 2002 as the commercial deployment date for third-generation (3G) services, the four existing …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Hungary is preparing to launch an auction for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses in second-quarter 2001. According Andras Somogyi, the director of the International Organization Communications Authority, the …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Always a keen advocate of mobile Internet technology, Nokia has linked with Excite Europe to offer a directory search engine on the regular Internet. The service, which will …
NEW YORK-Hughes Network Systems and America Online have begun marketing AOL PLUS Powered by DirecPC, the satellite delivery of AOL’s content, the companies announced last week at Internet World Fall …
TOKYO-Marubeni Telecom will start providing free home page services for i-mode users on 25 October, the firm announced. Users of the services can store pictures, characters and incoming call melodies …
