Devices

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Saturated market conditions are being blamed by cell-phone operators for a 50-percent drop in handset sales for the first six months of 2002 compared with last year. According …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported it is implementing a Cisco wireless local area network at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., enabling health care providers to access real-time and historical clinical data …

DALLAS-Microsoft Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled the company’s Mobile Workplace initiative, which he said includes systems integrators such as Hewlett-Packard Services, Accenture and others and involves connecting Microsoft …

NEW DELHI, India-Confusion prevails over the Indian government’s order to ban the use of cellular phones at petrol outlets. The order was issued by the petroleum ministry, but nobody is …

NEW YORK-Summus Inc., Raleigh, N.C., and Snapfish, San Francisco, will share revenue under a multi-year contract announced July 1 to develop and co-market Snapfish Mobile, a new wireless photo application …

PITTSBURGH-Eizel Technologies Inc., which offers technology to connect mobile devices to corporate information programs, announced it closed a seed round of investment funding totaling $4.2 million. ITU Ventures led the …

HARRISBURG, Pa.-Pennsylvania attorney general Mike Fisher, praised the General Assembly for passing Senate Bill 820, sponsored by Sen. Jake Corman, which would prohibit prison inmates from possessing telecommunication devices. “I …

MANILA, The Philippines-The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to affirm a Court of Appeals decision allowing it to proceed with the implementation of a …

ATLANTA-ART Technologies Inc. and SVOX have signed a technical cooperation and co-marketing agreement under which the companies will offer a joint speech recognition and text-to-speech solution for wireless devices and …

EDISON, N.J.-mFormation Technologies Inc. announced its Enterprise manager Version 1.4 is now available. “In addition to improvements in usability and additional diagnostics to help pinpoint problems more easily, this latest …

OTTAWA-Industry Canada said it will continue to prohibit the use of jamming devices following a public consultation on the issue. Radio frequency jamming devices, called jammers or silencers, interfere with …

MANILA, The Philippines-The Department of Finance (DoF) has planned that a portion of collections from possible taxes on cellular phone firms will be used for the government’s computer literacy program. …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-South African company Econoserv has announced it has successfully implemented a business solution in Nigeria. GeeSM is a Nigerian business selling virtual airtime. It recruits agents who go …

OXFORD, United Kingdom and DUBLIN, Ireland-Looking to become the first company to launch third-generation (3G) services in the United Kingdom, Hutchison 3G has denied press reports that it is quietly …

MANILA, The Philippines-The recent major buy-in by the Gokongwei group, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate that is involved in virtually every aspect of Philippine business, of the New York Stock Exchange-listed telecommunications …

ATLANTA—Motorola Inc., Agere Systems Inc. and Infineon have formed a joint venture company called StarCore LLC to develop and market digital signal processor technologies for mobile devices and infrastructure equipment. …

LOS ANGELES—Based on number of industry employees, companies and payroll, California is the wireless capital of the United States, according to a recent report from O’Melveny Consulting L.L.C. The report …

TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is planning to launch a mobile carrier business renting PHS networks owned by DDI Pocket. The vender is planning to launch the service …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.—Agere Systems said NEC has standardized Agere’s GPRS cell phone platform for new i-mode products. According to Agere, its platform, which uses hardware and software to develop and customize …

RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES, United Kingdom—Norwood Systems has announced the commercial availability of EnterpriseMobility, a software platform that offers employees wireless connectivity within the workplace. The new platform uses Bluetooth technology to link …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Cellenium Inc. launched a Bluetooth-enabled wireless vending system at this week’s Bluetooth Congress. The system allows vending machine operators to monitor stocked goods and machine performance and allows …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Red-M announced a collaboration with Commtag to develop always-on wireless push corporate networks to securely deliver real-time information and mission critical data to mobile devices at this week’s …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the cost of integrating a camera into a cell phone is only US$10, silicon chip developer STMicroelectronics has complained that European terminal makers are resisting the move …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—In an effort to promote the use of multimedia messaging service (MMS), Vizzavi Deutschland, the wireless portal jointly owned by Vodafone and Vivendi Universal, has requested Alatto Technologies …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—While the newly formed Sony Ericsson expects to sell its first third-generation (3G) handset in Europe later this year, Jan Wareby, its executive vice president, has cautioned potential …