Associations

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-The OTA Flash Forum, an over-the-air technology industry group, said security issues, interoperability concerns and remote diagnostics solutions will be its top priorities for 2005. The group identified …

WiMAX may be one technology, but the players involved with it are issuing a number of discordant notes. While some news outlets published reports last week that the certification date …

Media reports indicate that certification for WiMAX products may be delayed for six months, but a spokesperson for the WiMAX Forum said the reports are inaccurate. Another prime mover of …

LONDON-The Open Mobile Terminal Platform group announced it bulked up its membership to 40 companies with the addition of firms such as Qualcomm Inc., PalmSource Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and The Consultant Registry, with the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, conducted a test to show how background sounds, which are important …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-3G Americas signed a memorandum of understanding with the Association of Telecommunications Enterprises of the Andean Community that calls for the mutual cooperation regarding wireless communication issues in the …

WASHINGTON-Often times when people go to trade shows, it is a business trip that feels nothing like being at home. CTIA hopes to change that this year at its show …

WASHINGTON-CTIA plans to spend “tens of millions of dollars over the next three years” on an advocacy strategy legally separate from the wireless association, CTIA President Steve Largent told the …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Kristin Rinne, Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s chief technology officer, has been elected the 2005 chairwoman of the 3G America’s board of governors. Rinne succeeds former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. CTO …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, consistently thrown off balance by new taxes and regulations in one state after another, is fine-tuning a master plan that draws on tried-and-true political strategies that carriers …

LAS VEGAS-The stampede toward mobile video continued at the Consumer Electronics Show as content providers, carriers and TV networks announced alliances to bring televised content to on-the-go viewers. SmartVideo Technologies …

LAS VEGAS-Below is a quick rundown of some of the numerous new gadgets announced at the Consumer Electronics Show: c Kodak announced a new digital camera with Wi-Fi capability for …

The stampede toward mobile video continued Thursday at the International Consumer Electronics Show as content providers, carriers and TV networks announced alliances to bring televised content to wireless handsets. SmartVideo …

LAS VEGAS-The MultiMediaCard Association said it has formed a liaison arrangement with the Consumer Electronics-Advanced Technology Attachment Promoter Group. The agreement calls for the two groups to collaborate to make …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.-The Public Safety Foundation of America said Monday it has awarded nine grants in eight states totaling $542,000. The grants were awarded as follows: $51,605 to Union County, …

Wireless SuperSession: Friday, Jan. 7 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the convention center’s North Hall, room N257. Executives from Virgin Mobile, M-Forma, Verizon Wireless, Motorola and Nokia will participate. …

As usual, the wireless industry plans to come out in force during this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, running Thursday through Sunday in Las Vegas. Among the expected announcements: c LG …

LONDON-The annual 3GSM World Congress is moving to Barcelona, Spain, from its home of 10 years, Cannes, France, beginning in 2006, according to the GSM Association. The 2005 event will …

The GSM Association announced plans to upgrade a database used by GSM operators that can identify stolen mobile phones. The database ensures that stolen phones cannot be resold. The association …