Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) announced its second mobile licensing agreement in a week, unveiling a deal granting THQ Wireless exclusive rights to publish strategy games, player images and ringtones.THQ said it will produce a trivia game under the partnership and will offer...
VIENNA, Austria-Telekom Austria said it paid $105.6 million to purchase MobilTel AD, a Bulgarian wireless carrier, as part of a call option agreement concluded in December 2004. The deal is according to the timetable announced in the option agreement and follows delivery of the...
VIENNA, Austria-Telekom Austria said it paid $105.6 million to purchase MobilTel AD, a Bulgarian wireless carrier, as part of an option call option agreement concluded in December 2004.The deal is according to the timetable announced in option agreement and follows delivery of the audited...
Startup VKB Inc. is now selling a $200 mobile-phone accessory the company believes could significantly improve the way wireless users interact with their phones. About the size of a cigarette lighter, the company's new BTVKB gadget uses a red laser to project a full-size,...
Although only two teams will line up on the field Sunday for the grand culmination of the professional football season, multiple players will participate in Super Bowl XXXIX in one wireless capacity or another.Verizon Wireless upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell...
The venture capital arm of Siemens said it will join Cardinal Venture Capital and Garage Technology Ventures in investing $3 million in wireless technology company PhoneBites. PhoneBites is developing a mobile-phone application that will allow users to interject sounds into a voice conversation. The...
Mobile publisher THQ Wireless Inc. said it will allow football fans to vote for a most valuable player during the Super Bowl broadcast Feb. 6.THQ is teaming with Players Inc., the licensing arm of the NFL Players Association, to encourage spectators to tout their...
DALLAS-The chip market is not looking as cheery as a year ago as some of the bellwethers are witnessing slips in their fortunes. Texas Instruments Inc. and RF Micro Devices epitomized this trend as both failed to swing upward in their net earnings.TI reported...
The venture capital arm of Siemens said it will join Cardinal Venture Capital and Garage Technology Ventures in investing $3 million in wireless technology company PhoneBites. PhoneBites is developing a mobile-phone application that will allow users to interject sounds into a voice conversation. The...
WASHINGTON-Nearly two years after the Bush administration announced an agreement to free 5 GHz frequencies for Wi-Fi technology without causing interference to military radar systems, government and industry officials have yet to settle on a solution that fully resolves technical and national security issues....
Two Chinese companies advanced their strategies for the third-generation homegrown protocol, TD-SCDMA, as the country prepares for a commercial launch of the technology by mid-2005. Chongqing Chongyou Information Technology Co. has licensed the ARM processor known as ARM926EJ for TD-SCDMA phones. The company also...
LONDON-Orange S.A. will replace its current software infrastructure for its European operations with Sun Microsystems' Java Enterprise System, Sun said.Orange, the mobile arm of the France Telecom Group, will spend the next three years rolling out the new software in the United Kingdom, France,...
With a new product and two deployments, Tropos Networks Inc. has staked itself firmly in the wireless LAN space. The firm announced its Tropos 4210, an in-vehicle mesh Wi-Fi router. It combines the company's fixed and mobile offerings.Tropos said its Wi-Fi cells form a...
WASHINGTON—FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy said the five-member commission should vote again if changes are made to the government's proposed ruling on solving interference at 800 MHz, thus casting doubt on Nextel Communications Inc.'s hopes to clarify rules through a procedure called an erratum. Abernathy...
WASHINGTON-The General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, will issue a legal opinion in October as to whether the Federal Communications Commission violated the Miscellaneous Receipts Act or the Anti-Deficiency Act when it crafted rules to implement its plan to solve public-safety interference...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Terabeam Wireless, the operating arm of YDI Wireless Inc., which develops and supplies broadband wireless solutions, announced it has repurchased almost 4.2 million shares of its common stock from Michael Young, former president and chief technology officer of Terabeam.The 4.2 million shares...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Sun Microsystems Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with ARM Ltd. to integrate and distribute optimized Java solutions for mobile devices. Both companies also agreed to establish a single distribution source through Sun.ARM's Jazelle hardware technology will be deployed into...
No company is an island. With three major acquisitions last week, Cisco Systems Inc., ARM Ltd. and Eastman Kodak Co. have demonstrated that many firms are involved in the mobile world. The trend is not restricted to the smaller firms whose consolidation announcements flood...
ARM Holdings plc said it has agreed to acquire system-on-chip company Artisan Components Inc. for about $913 million based on Artisan's stock value of $33.89 as of Aug. 20.The transaction will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2004, subject to ARM and Artisan...
LONDON-Datatec International, the global arm of networking and information technology services group Datatec, has agreed to purchase U.K.-based telecom consulting firm Analysys Ltd.The companies have created a new company called Analysys Mason. AMG will become the umbrella brand for a more far-reaching consultancy offering,...
WASHINGTON-Leucadia National Corp., the New York investment firm seeking to buy at least 50 percent of MCI Inc., is remaining mum on whether it backs the revamped long-distance carrier's plans to re-enter the wireless space or any other aspect of the proposed telecom purchase."We...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. will partner with ARM to develop a security solution to protect software on mobile phones.For the solution, TI will implement ARM's TrustZone Technology on its OMAP platform and line of TCS chipsets using the recently licensed ARM 1176JZF-S core. TrustZone Technology...
LONDON-Virgin Mobile U.K. is planning an initial public offering of about $2 billion in July, according to international press reports. The mobile virtual network operator will list its shares on the London Stock Exchange.The carrier currently has 4.1 million customers and has witnessed strong...
ROCKVILLE, Md.-Telenor Venture, the venture capital arm of Telenor Group, has acquired Telenor Mobile Interactive USA, a mobile applications and messaging service company.The company will now be called Telenor Interactive.
