INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. and Nokia Corp. said they extended their current agreement to distribute cellular phones and accessories in China until Dec. 31, 1999.
While it may be clear that the use of wireless phones is prohibited aboard commercial aircraft, many private pilots in a recent survey indicated they have made calls from their cellular phone while airborne, and some believe it is OK to do it.Billig &...
What?There is not a shortage of available phone numbers? The rise in fax machines, pagers and cellular phones is not to blame for what is being perceived as a number shortage.Instead, the telephone number shortage is because phone numbers are assigned in an old-fashioned...
WASHINGTON-Area-code splits are unnecessary at this time, and the Federal Communications Commission needs to take command of state-controlled phone number allocations that need to move away from the traditional 10,000-number blocks.The rise in fax machines, pagers and cellular phones cannot be blamed for what...
NORTHBROOK, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Albuquerque Ceramic Products Operation will incrementally reduce its workforce by about 20 percent.The plant produces ceramic components for radios, cellular phones and other electronic products. Motorola said it will begin reducing its workforce at the end of March by...
NEW YORK-Philips Consumer Communications L.L.P., has embarked on plans at home and abroad to market aggressively its new ISIS Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Narrowband Analog Mobile Phone Service handsets.The Dallas-based joint venture between Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics North America Corp. began selling ISIS...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. has put its money where its mouth is to support Internet content providers, whose creativity and innovation it sees as critical for sustaining and expanding the wireless telecommunications revolution."That is why is investing $100 million in a technology development...
oseph B. Cahill Crain's Chicago Business CHICAGO-As economies from South Korea to Indonesia convulse, China has become the last line of defense in Asia for Motorola Inc. The importance of China to the Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer of semiconductors and wireless communications gear became...
SEATTLE-AirTouch Communications Inc. said Seattle police arrested two local residents for possession of stolen property and a third resident on suspicion of cellular fraud during a routine traffic stop.AirTouch credits the arrests to recent fraud training it provided to law-enforcement officials.One officer, said AirTouch,...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. and its retail partner Direct To Retail Associates L.P. announced the launch of a program to provide prepaid cellular phones through major retailers.DTR is working with major retailers to secure floor space and national ads for the prepaid program,...
SEOUL, Korea-Samsung Group is providing the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee with four types of wireless communications equipment, six network and systems experts and 14,000 mobile units, including radios, pagers and personal digital cellular phones designed specifically for the Nagano Olympic Winter Games, the company...
IBM Microelectronics Division and CommQuest Technologies Inc. last week announced a merger agreement, giving IBM an entrance into the wireless industry with CommQuest's experience in semiconductors for wireless applications. The arrangement is valued at $180 million, which IBM said will be financed by cash...
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 hands-free cellular car kit, the Vivox Lite VL-1, which uses a car's cassette player to...
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 communications industry.Kim, 46, was president and chief executive officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Standard...
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 his part in a large cellular cloning conspiracy.Matos, who used a Boston electronics business...
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 it believes the issue is important enough to warrant funding by the Clinton administration."The...
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 called Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd.According to the companies, WAP is meant to bring...
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 Administration. Driver distraction is a primary or contributing factor in up to half of...
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 auto accidents, one that is likely to grow as more people use wireless phones...
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 falling by the wayside.Over the past six months, three cellular cancer claims either have...
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 roundtable meeting between alphanumeric paging dispatch providers, those who use such services and a...
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 more money.American Express has been teaming with telecommunications carriers for about five years to provide...
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, charging unfair business practices.According to the dealers-Cel-Tech Communications Inc., Comtech Inc., Cellular Service Inc....
