MIAMI-The CDMA Development Group announced winners of the 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards this week at the CDMA Americas Congress taking place in Miami. Among the winners were:Wang Jianzhou of China Unicom, who received the industry leadership award for his "dynamic leadership in third-generation...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it formed an anti-spam committee Wednesday, marking the organization's work to keep wireless content and applications spam-free.The committee is charged with researching the merits of a national preference and privacy database. It hopes to create a system...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The Open Mobile Alliance unveiled 10 new enabler releases in an effort to ensure service interoperability across mobile devices. Nearly 400 OMA member companies around the world have collaborated on the enabler releases, which allow interoperable wireless data services to be launched among...
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-The OTA Flash Forum has published a "best practices" document addressing interoperability of over-the-air device clients and management servers.The document describes relevant device management standards, offers recommendations on extensions to improve interoperability support and suggests application programming interfaces to support multi-vendor downloads...
Jay Kitchen, president and chief executive officer of PCIA, plans to retire from the industry trade group he has led for 10 years.Kitchen expects to stay with the group for a year to head up a transition team that will name his successor. "We...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it has certified the Wi-Fi-multimedia standard, otherwise known as WMM, for networking in consumer electronic devices such as DVD players and televisions.The standard is also referred to as QoS for quality of service."The Wi-Fi Alliance has taken this step...
LONDON-The GSM Association said it is opening its 2005 awards for nominations this week.The awards are open to all industry players that offer content, products or services that run on GSM, GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA networks. Entries can be made at the organization's Web...
DALLAS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has joined the WiMax Forum, just as Cisco Systems Inc. reportedly denied reports that it has joined the industry body.Nortel sees its joining WiMax as part of its converged networks strategy as well as its plan to add Orthogonal...
WASHINGTON-Alan Shark is resigning as president of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association to become executive director of Public Technologies Inc., a nonprofit association that promotes technology benefits to local governments."We are very excited to have the experience and creative energy of Dr. Shark at...
SAN FRANCISCO-The MultiBand OFDM Alliance said it will announce a Special Interest Group and discuss the roadmap for the group's specification for ultra-wideband technology at the Intel Developers Forum next week.The promoters of the MBOA-SIG include Alereon, Hewlett Packard Co., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp.,...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it has announced the first round of products certified for Wi-Fi Protected Access, otherwise known as WPA2. The products will hit the market later this month.The companies with certified products include Atheros, Broadcom Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Intel...
WASHINGTON-A group that advocates for first-responder communications today sent letters to every member of Congress urging them to pass legislation that would require broadcasters to vacate TV channels that block police, firefighters, and medics from using 700 MHz frequencies.The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials...
LONDON-Symbian Ltd. announced its sponsors for its Smartphone Show scheduled to take place Oct. 5-6 in London.The sponsors are Vodafone, UIQ Technology in association with Motorola Inc. and Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments and Metrowerks. Carphone Warehouse is the show's retail sponsor.
WASHINGTON-The Association of Public-safety Communications Officials has released a set of best practices on how to deal with calls from telematics service providers."Telematics is a great new technology and is becoming a household word as more and more standard vehicles are becoming equipped with...
LONDON-The Global Mobile Suppliers Association said there are 75 W-CDMA terminal models in the market or announced. GSA, an organization that represents GSM-based suppliers, also announced there are more than 8 million W-CDMA subscribers around the world.The group stated earlier this month there are...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Wireless infrastructure association PCIA has hired Thomas Goode to serve as the association's government affairs director. Goode has been counsel to several national associations and has practiced in the telecommunications field for nearly 13 years. Goode's PCIA responsibilities include building and maintaining strong...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Consumer Electronics Association announced Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., and Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., will deliver keynote speeches at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January."Microsoft and Intel...
McLEAN, Va.--The Industrial Telecommunications Association, Inc. said its president and chief executive officer since February 2001, Laura L. Smith, has departed the association. Prior to becoming president, she was vice president of regulatory affairs at the association. "We wish Laura all the best...
The standards deadlock over ultra-wideband technology between the Multiband OFDM Alliance and the Direct Sequence UWB Forum continued at the IEEE conference this week. This time, however, it had an unexpected twist.In the vote tally often won by MBOA, the other side won what...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Once considered a technology with little future, EDGE networks currently number more than 100, according to industry association 3G Americas. The group said more than 100 operators in 63 countries from all regions of the world are in various stages of readiness for...
WASHINGTON-GSM technology wireless trade organization 3G Americas hired Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis L.L.P. to lead its government affairs advocacy on wireless legal and regulatory issues in Washington, D.C. The legal firm currently advises both domestic and international companies on communications, Internet, trade, intellectual property,...
AUSTIN, Texas-Two communications have joined the WiMax Forum, which supports the 802.16 protocol seen by many as a potential competitor to both Wi-Fi and cellular networks.Wireless Valley Communications and Cambridge Broadband said they will support the technology with their offerings."The key strength of WiMax...
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-The OTA Flash Forum, which is a special interest group addressing the technical and operational issues surrounding over-the-air management of mobile devices, added several members to its group including Alltel Corp., mFormation, Mobile Diagnostix, Sprint Corp., U.S. Cellular Corp. and SDSGlobal. The...
HELSINKI, Finland-Contrary to widespread reports, Nokia Corp. has not rejoined the WiMax Forum. But the wireless vendor plans to regain its membership status in the near future."It may be tomorrow or in two months," said Kai Konola, director for strategy and business development for...
