Hoping to speed the adoption of wireless location-based technologies by operators nationwide, Phone.com Inc. introduced several new products at its Unwired Universe conference held last week aimed at tying location …
Nextel Communications Inc. is introducing mobileID’s personalization platform to its wireless Internet customers this week, marking the first commercial deployment of mobileID’s Integrated Personalization Platform. The IPP allows users to …
WirelessNorth Personal communications services carrier WirelessNorth named David Charles president of the company. Charles served as director of operations with Montana Power Co., where he was responsible for 120 employees …
TORONTO-Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc., through its PowerLoc wireless position location division, announced it is working with The Next Market in Detroit to identify opportunities in the automotive, aerospace and consumer …
As expected, Paging Network Inc., the largest paging carrier in the country, voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, consenting to the July 14 petition for involuntary bankruptcy …
SAN DIEGO-Intellectual property provider ARM and PacketVideo Corp. announced a collaboration to integrate PacketVideo’s wireless video decode software with ARM’s microprocessor core in an attempt to help accelerate the deployment …
LISBON, Portugal-Portugal Telecom announced a contract with Telefonica International to swap Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brazil’s Telesp Particpacoes, a fixed-line carrier, for Telefonica’s stake in Telesp Celular Participacoes, a mobile …
The Australian government has banned Telstra, Australia’s dominant telecommunications provider, from bidding on 165 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.4 GHz auction in September, citing Telstra’s existing foothold in the …
Dear Editor, The regarding page 21 of RCR, June 26th issue. Is this an ad for condoms or pagers? How then, in this year of 2000 AD, can an ad …
In this age of politics of destruction, it does my heart good to see Republicans and Democrats-from the far right to the far left-unite against a common foe: Big Brother. …
Nortel Networks Corp. beat analysts’ expectations and demonstrated its continued financial growth, reporting $7.82 billion in revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, a 48-percent increase from the $5.28 …
Nokia Corp.’s stock took a hit Thursday after the company posted strong second-quarter financial results followed by a warning about projected third-quarter results. “We anticipate Nokia’s earnings per share in …
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Bolstered by a low 1.7 percent churn rate and an average monthly revenue per subscriber rate of $73, Nextel Partners Inc. reported strong second-quarter financial results. Company revenue increased …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the Wireless Data Forum and NetRatings Inc. have joined forces to study the impact of advertising on the wireless Internet. There has been much speculation …
TOKYO-Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo selected NEC Corp. to supply an experimental, next-generation Internet Protocol core network system for use in mobile communications and to develop application services. NEC said …
Price Communications Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Price Communications Corp., signed its 500,000th subscriber and reported it added 42,162 net new cellular subscriber during the first six months of …
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc., a supplier of highly linear power amplifiers, reported disappointing financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30. Revenues were down compared …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported that Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. joined the SyncML initiative, formed to develop and promote an open industry specification enabling the creation of interoperable wireless and …
WASHINGTON-While international attention is focused on Deutsche Telekom AG’s $50.3 billion bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and the fireworks it has set off in Congress, merger and acquisition activity in …
HONG KONG-MagiNet Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. formed an alliance to bring wireless Internet access to laptop users, the companies said. The companies will combine MagiNet’s Laptop Connect broadband wireless …
