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SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world’s biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless Internet and networking infrastructure applications. Intel …

In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both …

In a surprise ending, six groups walked away with Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Germany at a total cost of $45.85 billion, the largest amount raised yet in a …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-L.M. Ericsson licensed ARM’s ARM7TDMI processor core for use in its communications products, enabling Ericsson to re-use the ARM intellectual property among all its divisions. Ericsson said it …

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 …

Tantau Tantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement …

NEW YORK-Andrew Seybold offered attendees of a recent New York New Media Association meeting this twice-told tale to illustrate how mobile data badly needs an application of common sense, that …

Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said its money will run out in five months unless it gets help. In the meantime, ongoing efforts to establish a worldwide network and begin widespread commercial …

NEW YORK-Managing solely for the bottom line can come back to bite companies at tax time, with the perverse result of hurting the financial statements so important to existing and …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and BMW of North America Inc. have teamed to offer BMW customers the BMW CPT 7000 digital phone, now standard on all early model year 2001 BMW …

Part of China Unicom Ltd.’s initial public offering in June of between $4 billion and $5 billion is scheduled to be used to fund the company’s $12.1 billion in capital …

CARY, N.C.-SpectraSite Holdings Inc. reported two acquisitions and one development agreement as the company expands its outsourced antenna site and network services. The joint development agreement with Transco, the arm …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia Corp., and Cisco Systems Inc. announced a nonexclusive agreement to enhance connectivity between mobile and Internet Protocol backbone networks. The agreement calls …

WASHINGTON-Last week’s retirement announcement by House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) has thrust into the spotlight a battle royale between Reps. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and Mike Oxley (R-Ohio) for …

PHOENIX, United States-Some observers have compared the broadband wireless industry to a hockey game: lots of skating around, many dramatic clashes, but not much scoring. Still, like a hockey game, …

HONG KONG-In January, the Hong Kong government awarded five licenses for wireless fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), signaling a major advance in Internet access. The licensees will use base stations …

HONG KONG-Pacific Century CyberWorks, the Asian Internet company vying for a tie-up with Cable & Wireless HKT, raised more than $1 billion through a share placement. The funds could help …

Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a number of new test-solution products and made improvements to others. The Agilent 84000 RFIC series model A20E is a low-cost test solution developed …

HONG KONG-An Asian Internet company is looking to block the proposed merger between Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Reuters reported. Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. hinted that …

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s Craig McCaw, swooping in to rescue yet another struggling satellite wireless phone company-leading a group of investors to provide $74.6 million in …

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and Telenor AS announced they have reached an agreement regarding Ireland’s Esat Telecom and its wireless arm Esat Digifone. BT is acquiring a 49.5-percent stake in Esat …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and ARM Ltd. last week announced plans to collaborate on developing a digital signal processor and microcontroller platform for use in next-generation wireless information devices, including smart …

GENEVA-Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest supplier of natural gas, is completing the final stages of a $100 million trunked radio network built to service gas drilling towns located in one …

HELSINKI-Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia Corp., said it and Mitsubishi Electric initiated interoperability testing between their products and solutions supporting the Wireless Application Protocol 1.1. The intent of …

HONG KONG-Even though the Chinese paging market is teeming with around 1,700 operators, the market remains heavily regulated. Even paging operators in the well-heeled southern and southeastern Chinese provinces of …