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Health issue back for wireless industry with court ruling

WASHINGTON-The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to send back to state court four class-action lawsuits seeking to force the wireless industry to supply consumers with headsets to reduce any injury from mobile-phone radiation. Another headset suit was remanded for further proceedings...

CEASA to develop early warning system

GENEVA-The Cellular Emergency Alert Systems Association said it formed a global working group focused on development of early warning networks that use cell broadcast technology to alert citizens to impending disasters. The effort initially will focus on dissemination of seismic event warnings generated by...

Six groups join CompTIA’s RFID certification initiative

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.-Six organizations have joined the Computing Technology Industry Association's RFID certification initiative, which is focused on developing a vendor-neutral certification in radio-frequency identification technology.The groups include the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM Global), FC Business Systems, Intermec Technologies Corp., OTA...

OMA clarifies its role in DRM licensing

SAN DIEGO-The Open Mobile Alliance clarified its role in digital rights management license pricing Thursday, going out of its way to say that it is not affiliated with the MPEG Licensing Authority.The move follows a controversial announcement from MPEG LA touting an agreement to...

UWB groups merge

MANHASSET, N.Y.-The WiMedia Alliance said it has merged with the MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group.The combined group will be known as the WiMedia Alliance Inc. Both groups plan to interface their complementary protocols for ultra-wideband technology.The combined group, which espouses a multi-band approach,...

CTIA joins peer-to-peer Supreme Court case

WASHINGTON-CTIA has joined with several trade associations and telecommunications companies in opposing the entertainment industry's effort to create what it calls "a secondary copyright liability.""The judicial expansion of secondary copyright liability advocated by petitioners is precisely the wrong approach. It is simply impossible for...

GMSA says 139 W-CDMA terminal models on the market

SAWBRIDGEWORTH, United Kingdom-The number of W-CDMA terminals shipped or launched in the market has grown to 139 models, according to research from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association. GSA said that is more than three times the number of models that were available in June...

Near-field forum gains members

WAKEFIELD, Mass.-The Near Field Communications Forum, an industry association launched last year to promote NFC technology, announced 20 new additions to its organization.New sponsor members are MasterCard International, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., NEC, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Visa International....

MMA forms new working groups, adds members

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it has formed two new working groups.The MMA Best Practices Committee, led by Enpocket Chief Operating Officer Mike Baker, will work to establish guidelines and recommendations for executing marketing campaigns via short message service, multimedia message service,...

PCIA names new leader

WASHINGTON-Former wireless policy-maker Michael T.N. Fitch has been named president of PCIA, a trade group that represents tower companies. Fitch, who succeeds long-time PCIA head Jay Kitchen, will officially take over at the association March 1.An internationally recognized expert on radio and satellite telecommunications,...

Music news

The news that Microsoft Corp. will join Nokia Corp. to deliver a mobile-music platform may have been among the more startling developments at last week's 3GSM World Congress, but it was only the first of a half-dozen mobile music announcements both out of France...

Music makes major mobile moves

As evidenced by the vast popularity of gadgets like Apple's iPod, the demand for portable digital music is as obvious as it is universal. But how-and how well-the wireless industry will ultimately tap the mobile-music market is far from clear. Music dominated the headlines...

CMO Council forms wireless marketing forum

CANNES, France-An industry group of marketing executives announced an effort to drive consumer uptake of new mobile applications.The Chief Marketing Officer Council announced it formed the Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME), which is expected to comprise 200 mobile technology companies including wireless...

GSMA announces annual award winners

CANNES, France-The GSM Association announced the winners of its 2005 GSM Association Awards during its gala at the 3GSM World Congress.Brazil won the GSM Association Chairman's Award for country leadership. Brazil counts more than 22 million GSM subscribers, and GSM is expected to become...

GSM Association focuses on SIP in trials

CANNES, France-The GSM Association said it has brought together network operators and vendors to conduct interoperability trials of equipment and networks for Session Initiation Protocol-based services.SIP is the underlying protocol for hosting session-based services such as instant messaging, Push-to-talk over Cellular, video telephony and...

IPCC looks at converged standards for wireline, wireless

FREMONT, Calif.-For the sake of wireless and wireline marriages, the International Packet Communications Consortium said it has established a working group to define the reference architecture for converged networks. The group will look at DSL, fiber and cable on the wireleine side and third-generation...

GSMA reveals integrated messaging initiative

CANNES, France-The GSM Association announced an integrated messaging initiative aimed at encouraging richer messaging formats for the mass market that simplify multimedia messaging service and mobile e-mail. A GSMA project team of operators defined the solution, including service requirements and technical specifications. The solution...

3GSM subscriber base grows by 13.5M users

CANNES, France-3 GSM networks added more than 13.5 million net users last year, representing an annual growth rate of more than 500 percent, according to The GSM Association.Sixty operators in 30 countries offered 3GSM services at the end of the year, with a total...

Liberty Alliance offers new mobile business guidelines

CANNES, France-Industry association Liberty Alliance announced new "mobile business guidelines" designed to maintain fast growth and adoption in the mobile market. The updated guidelines build on policies first announced three years ago addressing issues regarding quality standards, risk management, liability and dispute mechanisms and...

WiMAX Forum adds board members, working groups

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum expanded its board of directors to include AT&T Corp., BT and ZTE.The forum now has 11 companies on its board, each of which appoints a senior-level executive as its representative. Christopher Rice, director of access technology and services, will...

RCA to hold spring meeting in Calif.

RED BANK, N.J.-The Radio Club of America announced it will hold its West Coast RCA Spring Gathering May 4 in Concord, Calif.Guest speakers and topics are still being determined. The event will run from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at Tony Roma's Restaurant in the...

M-spatial to unveil Spatial Platform for Vodafone at 3GSM show

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Location-based services company m-spatial said it will announce at 3GSM Congress the deployment of a location-aware platform for Vodafone UK's wireless data subscribers. The company will unveil its Spatial Platform, which is available to more than 2 million Vodafone live! customers. The offering...

Base station specs released

PARIS-The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative said it is releasing the first version of its base station specifications to non-members on its Web site. The specifications pertain to the interfaces between the transport, control, baseband processing and radio functional modules, according to OBSAI."Over the...

OSS project boosts membership with global suppliers

MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Alcatel Corp., Huawei Technologies, Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. have joined the TeleManagement Forum's Co-operative Open OSS Project, which is designed to improve interoperability and simplify deployment of mobile network management systems.The four companies join existing members of the project, including...