SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ringtone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided a platform for the launch of several new wireless handsets. Audiovox Communications Corp. led...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's board of directors Wednesday voted to appeal rules recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission meant to streamline tower sitings in historic areas. "The CTIA Board of Directors believes the regulating of commercial mobile radio services and other...
WASHINGTON-The chief executive officer of First Cellular of Southern Illinois, Terry Addington, will be the 2005 chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, CTIA announced.Addington has been serving as vice chairman. He replaces Scott Ford, president and CEO of Alltel. Ford will continue...
Yahoo Inc. has followed Google into the mobile-search arena, launching a service that allows wireless users to query its search engine over their handsets.Yahoo Search, which launched Wednesday, enables consumers to access conventional Web results, such as local business listings as well as maps...
SAN FRANCISCO-Audiovox Communications Corp. introduced its new CDM-8615 handset at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2004.The clamshell-style dual-LCD phone is geared toward consumers who want an affordable compact phone, said the company. The tri-mode is CDMA2000 1x capable, Java enabled and includes a...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced it achieved profitability and increased license revenues in its first-quarter fiscal-year 2005 results, released this week.Openwave reported revenues of $83.6 million, up 9 percent from the previous quarter and up 23 percent from the year-ago quarter. Net income...
SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ring-tone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
SAN FRANCISCO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it is offering advanced firmware over-the-air update capabilities via its BREW solution.The new capabilities allow wireless operators and handset manufacturers to remotely reflash a BREW-enabled device's firmware to repair software flaws or add new functions. The company is demonstrating the...
SAN FRANCISCO-The number of wireless subscribers grew by an estimated 14.5 percent during the past 12 months, while the average price of local monthly service continued to hold steady, according to the Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association.There are...
SAN FRANCISCO-Audiovox Communications Corp. released its CDM-8930 1.3-megapixel camera phone at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show in San Francisco.The handset, featuring a swivel clamshell body, has a 1.3-megapixel digital camera with a built-in flash that can store up to 20 photos....
The nation's wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watcher say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in the United States.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the Inter-Carrier MMS Working Group Friday...
WASHINGTON-Three nationwide GSM carriers will participate in a digital emergency alert pilot that officially kicked off last week, but questions remain about whether the Bush administration-sponsored project can secure support from top CDMA wireless operators and the leading industry trade association. The six-month pilot...
The Walt Disney Internet Group's new Starwave Mobile business, launching at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment Show, will expand the organization's play in the wireless arena. Starwave Mobile will function as a licensing and publishing business focused on licensing content from third-party...
WASHINGTON-A new World Health Organization-backed study says long-term mobile-phone use increases the risk of cancer, but scientists said follow-up research is needed before it can be determined whether wireless handsets pose a health danger to consumers. The Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institute...
WASHINGTON-An 11th-hour effort to pass the wireless enhanced 911 funding bill was struggling against a senatorial objection that stopped the frenetic activity to get the bill passed. Still, supporters remained hopeful the bill would be considered before Congress leaves town for the election. The...
WASHINGTON and DALLAS-Even as several entities signed a nationwide agreement meant to streamline tower sitings, tribal lands are exempt from the rules, thus leading some critics to say the pact isn't streamlined enough. The Federal Communications Commission, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and...
First, the confusing color-coded threat alerts. Then, the duck tape and plastic-sheeting quacker. Next, cybersecurity chaos that continues to this day. Now this.On Sept. 22, testifying before a House homeland security subcommittee, Reynold Hoover, the Department of Homeland Security's point man for national emergency...
WASHINGTON-Cellular companies and a leading technical organization have created a working group to develop design and performance standards for mobile-phone batteries, a move that comes amid reports of injuries caused by exploding phones."As the number of wireless phones sold in the United States continues...
WASHINGTON-Carriers that chose the handset solution to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's wireless enhanced 911 Phase II rules may not be required to have complete deployment by the end of next year if an 11th-hour effort to pass a 911 funding bill includes...
WASHINGTON-The process of streamlining tower sitings on historic land saw several developments this week.The Federal Communications Commission, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers Monday signed the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement meant to streamline tower sitings, and...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Advisory Committee on Diversity in Communications in the Digital Age recommended Monday that the Federal Communications Commission hang tough on setting aside spectrum for small businesses, but one panelist with a wireless subsidiary abstained and the wireless industry spoke out against the...
Nortel Networks said it has appointed Clent Richardson to the post of chief marketing officer. Richardson will lead the company's newly formed global marketing organization responsible for brand development and management, online presence, solutions marketing, advertising, public relations, sponsorships, promotions, community relations, employee communications...
Congress—and California—need to take a couple of steps back on industry plans for a 411 directory of wireless telephone numbers. Regardless of where one stands on whether it is a good idea or not to have such a directory, regulation like that signed by...
