While 54 percent of drivers usually have a wireless phone in their vehicle with them, only 3 percent of drivers are actively using that phone, according to a recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, which promotes...
Popularity is not without problems. Approximately 3.5 million of the cellular phones manufactured every year end up in landfills across the country, according to industry estimates.The Environmental Protection Agency believes that only a federal law will stop cell-phone users and industry from dumping handsets...
Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is now announcing the release of the third version of its already successful Mobile Internet Platform."In fact, we're doing quite well,"...
Amid mounting layoffs and company bankruptcies across the entire telecommunications sector, a little start-up out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is making its debut, hoping to capitalize on the growing voice-enabled applications market.OkamLogic Inc. is beta testing its Wireless Voice Commerce Gateway, a suite of...
Wireless and politicsDear Editor: Correct me if I am wrong, but is your publication a trade tabloid directed to the needs of those involved in the wireless communications business? If so, why is it being used as a political forum to allow Bush bashing by...
Cellport Systems and Ford Motor Co. have teamed to offer the Cellport 3000 with Voice Command hands-free docking station and adapter in select 2002-model Ford vehicles late this summer, Cellport said.The Cellport 3000 with Voice Command was created to allow mobile-phone users to use...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems says NEC Corp. will begin using its chips for two Internet-enabled GSM cellular phones by the end of this year."GPRS, a 2.5-generation wireless technology and a bridge to third-generation wireless technology, offers data transmission speeds that are approximately five times faster...
Handsets/ devicesMitsubishiMitsubishi released three new handsets. The Eclipse is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with a color display. The dual-band phone offers 256 colors and up to 86 kilobits-per-second data speeds. It has several features for business users. The phone allows users...
TOKYO-Amid harsh competition among mobile carriers, Japanese cellular handsets have been evolving rapidly. Most handsets currently used are light, tiny, fashionable and smart. Internet-ready capabilities and color screens are almost standard functions.NTT DoCoMo is selling only i-mode-enabled handsets, all J-Phone's handsets have color screens...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, has expanded its successful Donate-A-Phone program so that carriers and other wireless retailers may donate $2 to the charity of their choice for every phone they recycle."It is a way to...
Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others have seen how Intel Corp. has dominated the mobile computer market with its...
While some analysts and technology experts sing the dirge of EDGE before it is even born and wonder if Bluetooth will ever chew, a new initiative that hopes to leverage these technologies for location-based services is the new tease.But Philips Corp.-which believes that the...
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian's EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week.A simulation using content from Emblaze's content partners and Symbian-based smart phones will be available on Symbian's...
NEW YORK -The governor of New York and the leaders of both houses of the state Legislature said last week they will support legislation to prohibit handheld use of wireless phones while driving, except in emergencies.At separate news conferences held April 2 in the...
TOKYO-One out of four primary school or middle-school kids in Japan have their own cellular phones, NTT DoCoMo said based on its own survey. NTT DoCoMo did the survey of 600 kids between fifth and eighth grade in the Tokyo metropolitan area between Dec....
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs, provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions to the communications industry, announced its e-care and prepaid solutions will be implemented for Esat Digifone, an Irish mobile operator with more than 1 million subscribers. The e-care solution includes self-care and remote...
AudiovoxAudiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal communications services frequencies. The new...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Early in 2001, several countries in South America have changed their tariff schemes with the objective of reducing the existing gap between the cost of fixed calls and cellular tariffs. In general, cellular calls cost more than landline calls in the region,...
Dear Editor: Peter Angelos, the U.S. attorney leading several lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry, has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants, and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now...
To the Editor: Peter Angelos has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now this high priest of the mass tort has his...
DALLAS-More than three-quarters of wireless customers use their cellular phones primarily for personal calls, according to a WebViews Survey conducted by Cellular One Group.The survey showed that only 23 percent of respondents said "business" was the most common destination for their wireless phone calls."There...
More than 50 percent of the 39.8 million business travelers in 1999 brought cellular phones with them on their trips, according to the Travel Industry Association of America. Such numbers have prompted a variety of wireless companies to offer systems and services to travelers...
NEW YORK-In an unusual but not unprecedented step, the U.S. Commercial Service Export Assistance Center will be hosting what its officials call a "reverse trade mission" in the Boston and New York areas in mid-February.The matchmaking tour comprises a delegation of executives from 15...
SINGAPORE-Four years after it was first introduced in Japan, PHS technology finally has made some headway in the international telecommunications arena. Taiwanese paging operator First International Telecom (Fitel) recently was awarded a license to operate PHS service in Taiwan.Ching-Chich Lin, director of the radiowave...
