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 four primary focus points for the year: ensuring devices with different OTA clients can...
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 had been postponed from this month to July, and that therefore a WiMAX standard...
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 the technology, Intel Corp., also said it was not aware of any such postponements.Some...
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 Communications L.P."2005 promises to be a particularly exciting year for the OMTP group," said...
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 to 911 call-takers, are transmitted over a Voice over Internet Protocol system. Since VoIP...
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 region, including the sharing of technical information and participation in related wireless events. ASETA...
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 in New Orleans in March.It is building a 7,000-square foot home-the back porch of...
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 press Tuesday.Largent said the CTIA executive committee had pledged the money, and no surcharges...
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 Rod Nelson, who served as 3G America's chairperson for the past two years."It's going...
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 hope will attract consumer support and media attention while putting city and state officials...
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 Inc. announced a series of agreements to bring television network content to devices using...
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 e-mailing and viewing pictures. Kodak said the EasyShare-One camera will also have integrated access...
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 Technologies Inc. announced a series of agreements to bring television network content to devices...
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 sure the technologies they support are complementary, said MMCA.The CE-ATA Promoter Group was formed...
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, Ga. $91,604 to the Grundy County, Ill., Emergency Telephone System Board $44,000 to Gentry 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. Keynotes: The Day 1 keynote address will be given by Ed Zander, chairman and...
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 Electronics Co. Ltd. will unveil three new devices. Prices for the phones were not...
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 be held in Cannes Feb. 14-17.Relocation comes in response to rising attendance and growing demand...
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 said it updated its own centralized, global database as well as a database available to...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-The ZigBee Alliance has crowned two years of work with a ratified specification, which will allow interoperability of products from more than 100 members, said the alliance."The announcement of the ZigBee specification is a major milestone in wireless networking," said Andrew Wale,...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry officials and engineers will meet in San Diego next week to continue work on a mobile phone battery standard, an effort that comes in response to reports of injuries from exploding handsets likely caused by faulty batteries. CTIA and the Institute of...
CHICAGO-The Computing Technology Industry Association and The Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility announced plans to cooperate on developing a vendor-neutral certification program for radio-frequency identification technology.The groups said the certification initiative is an attempt to address an industrywide shortage of RFID experts, which...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry has recommended to federal regulators six principles that it believes will improve the nation's inter-carrier compensation regime."We believe that fundamental reform of the intercarrier compensation system is essential if consumers are to enjoy the benefits of an economically efficient telecommunications regime,"...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-CompTel/ASCENT announced that H. Russell Frisby Jr. will step down as chief executive officer of the telecom carrier association in 2005.Frisby, who has led CompTel/ASCENT since 1998, will remain CEO until a successor is found. Frisby also is serving as CompTel/ASCENT's acting chief...
