Devices

The White House Under Siege! The Presidency in Crisis! Zippergate! So scream the airwaves of official Washington. Ah, heck, Vern, it’s only Groundhog Day. Today is just like yesterday and …

Comsat Corp. said it filed a breach of contract lawsuit against IDB Mobile Communications Inc. in U.S. District Court of Maryland, seeking to collect $5 million for satellite services it …

CommQuest Technologies Inc. today introduced a tri-band Global System for Mobile communications chipset that will allow global roaming in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz frequency bands using …

LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. announced that Century Telephone Enterprises Inc. will begin consumer trials of its Network Wildfire service with residential, business and wireless customers in Louisiana and Wisconsin. Century …

WASHINGTON-A Chicago wireless firm has sued 360

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 …

MILFORD, Conn.-Starrtel Cellular Group Inc. will occupy 60,000 square feet of space in Veeder Place in Hartford, Conn., which is under renovation as part of an inner-city economic development plan, …

Wireless carriers mobilized their resources earlier this month to maintain cellular service when an ice storm in upstate New York and northern New England left thousands without power or wireline …

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-The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration made several specific recommendations for future actions regarding highway safety in its recent report. Today, only the states of Minnesota and Oklahoma …

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 …

WHEATON, Ill.-The majority of cellular phone users acknowledge the dangers of driving while using their phones but continue do so anyway, according to a survey conducted for the Insurance Research …

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 …

NEW YORK-By 2000, some 22 million devices other than personal computers will be accessing the Internet, according to IDC-Link Resources projections cited at a recent Internet World ’97 conference. Although …

Well, here it is only a couple weeks from the holidays and folks are getting frazzled. Imagine kicking out the First Lady’s luncheon pal, gossip columnist Cindy Adams, for making …

Wouldn’t it be nice to know if people are actually going to like the holiday gifts you so thoughtfully picked out especially for them? You ponder, prepare and then pray …

AT&T Corp. admitted it might sell its Wireless Messaging Division-without actually confirming that the paging unit is indeed up for sale-after rumors surfaced that the paging network was on the …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-GTE Wireless plans to launch an 800 MHz digital cellular phone system in San Diego using the cdmaOne infrastructure equipment supplied by Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group, announced …

Shortly after the Venezuela telecom regulatory agency Conatel was forced to lift the ban prohibiting the country’s two cellular operators from adding new subscribers, sources have said the agency now …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has resumed his probe of the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of mobile phone safety, requesting the agency respond by Dec. 19 to a new series …

Reps. Tom Bliley (R-Va.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) apparently have had it with rope-a-dope delays by Franklin L. Haney. Haney, as you may recall, is the Tennessee investor-developer and pal …

For many cellular carriers, this holiday season marks the first in which more than two wireless carriers in each market will be competing to earn the business of gift givers. …

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced that Japanese cellular service providers DDI Corp. and IDO Corp. will use cdmaOne as the brand name for their joint Code Division Multiple …

St. Paul, Minn.-based Tele digital Development Inc. has introduced a system that allows cellular phone service resellers and other providers to control the cost and use of prepaid airtime on …

Dr. Dan Schlager, M.D., president of Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems, filed an ex parte brief with the Federal Communications Commission urging it to apply Phase II E911 rules on locating …