cellular phones

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Vivox USA Inc. said it will distribute its products internationally through Tessco Inc. of Sparks, Md., under a new agreement signed between the two companies. The agreement covers Vivox’s …

Ike Kim, the number-one man at what is striving to be the number-two paging device manufacturing company, died earlier this month, ending a successful but far-too-short career in the wireless …

BOSTON-U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern announced that Germaine Matos of the Dominican Republic was sentenced Feb. 3, by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, to two years in prison for …

WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration has recommended to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) that more research be conducted on possible health risks from mobile telephones, but the agency left unclear whether …

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-After introducing the architecture for the Wireless Application Protocol last September, collaborators L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they established a new company …

They’re coming out of the woodwork to point out the perils of driving and dialing. Cellular phones can cause distractions, says a new report from the National Highway Traffic Safety …

NEW YORK-Noting there is inadequate data available about the impact of cellular phone use on car crashes, a federal agency nevertheless said cell phone use does play a role in …

WASHINGTON-While the World Health Organization has reaffirmed the need for more bioeffects research on mobile phones, lawsuits attempting to link wireless devices to brain cancer in the United States are …

Remember the old Kris Kristofferson standard, “Everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on?” Well, I think I saw that in spades when I sat in on a recent …

One big-name credit-card company believes it can help accomplish every wireless carrier’s objective: to gain brand recognition, target high-end users, simplify billing, reduce churn and perhaps entice customers to spend …

A California court of appeals remanded for further proceedings a judgment for Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co., allowing four cellular dealers to revisit part of their case against the carrier, …

MADISON, Wis.-Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois said it will provide cellular phones and airtime to homeless people again this Thanksgiving so they can speak with family and friends. …

I wonder how many Americans fired up their cellular phones last Thursday morning to see if a call to 911 would go through. I know I did. If ABC’s Nov. …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. signed a letter of intent with Nokia Corp. and extended an alliance with L.M. Ericsson to distribute wireless phones in the United States. Under terms of the agreement …

AirCell Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that has developed a system to provide ground communications for aircraft using cellular channels, has been in a holding pattern since early this year. …

Pre-Paid Solutions said it introduced a new debit conversion technology for the prepaid cellular market. The technology will be available this month under the name Pre-Cell Technology and Pre-Cell Chip. …

It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them. Beginning with …

NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of …

NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate …

NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc. want to keep things comparatively simple within the handset as demands on its capabilities grow more complex. With that goal in mind, …

With so many wireless carriers competing for potential customers, marketing techniques have become an important tool to attract clients. One of the more recent marketing trends seems to be the …

WASHINGTON-In a surprisingly candid admission, the head of the cellular industry’s cancer research project said he will leave the six-year, $28 million program in mid-1999 without conducting either short-term or …

PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 …

WASHINGTON-InTouch USA Inc. announced it has taken its wireless equipment rental service worldwide, primarily to offer carriers with holes in their roaming capabilities access to foreign networks. The company said …

MILAN-Omnitel Pronto Italia, a private Global System for Mobile communications operator in Italy, introduced a rechargeable GSM Subscriber Identity Module card that will allow users to make international calls from …