Devices

SAN DIEGO-Mobile computer users now will be able to retrieve e-mail, connect to the Internet, send faxes and stay in touch while out of the office using the Uniden Data …

WASHINGTON-Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of the House GOP leaders caught on a radio scanner last December strategizing how House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) could sidestep congressional ethics sanctions, said …

WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts to expand the Sichuan Posts and Telecommunications Association’s analog and digital cellular phone systems in China’s Sichuan province. The …

Some sociologists pointing to the decline of morality in America comment that no one feels shame any more and that people are too quick to point the blame at others. …

WASHINGTON-House Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio), troubled by the lackluster pace of a Justice Department probe of an intercepted cellular phone call last year that proved politically embarrassing to …

ITASCA, Ill.-Shieldmate Robotics Inc. said it has been dismissed from a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Motorola Inc. against Shieldmate and Qualcomm Inc. Motorola filed a lawsuit in federal court …

House and Senate conferees, Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) in particular, apparently have had it with CALEA squabbling between the wireless industry and the FBI and will not appropriate any money …

WASHINGTON-Perhaps in a long-awaited move to mirror wireless billing practices around the world, the Federal Communications Commission released a notice of inquiry into the possibility of calling party pays in …

NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of …

NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate …

NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc. want to keep things comparatively simple within the handset as demands on its capabilities grow more complex. With that goal in mind, …

Erico Inc. introduced a new line of ground bar assemblies and related products designed for the personal communications services market. Erico ground bars are electrolyptic copper bars manufactured to individual …

WASHINGTON-As he winds down the cellular industry-funded cancer research project with little to show for the $28 million that will have been spent by mid-1999 when he leaves, Wireless Research …

Could this be “the” year? The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold’s Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS ’97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this …

WASHINGTON-In a surprisingly candid admission, the head of the cellular industry’s cancer research project said he will leave the six-year, $28 million program in mid-1999 without conducting either short-term or …

Cellular phones, pagers, faxes and e-mail all are tools that help us function in today’s fast-paced society. But how many times have you answered the phone, only to find yourself …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service said Oct. 14 it had assigned a speculative grade rating of B1 to Audiovox Corp.’s $95 million senior secured revolving credit facility, which matures in 2000. …

Sorry Jay, the edge this week goes to your friends at CTIA again. That’s right. Tom just hired himself some “tall timber” lobbying talent: Steven K. Berry, former chief counsel …

“The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry.” (Maybe not for the mice, in this case. I doubt they were consulted). Wireless Technology Research head Dr. George …

PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 …

Lai treated poorly in cancer article Dear Editor: I must say I am very concerned with your article entitled “Scientist faults claim on cell phones and memory loss.” I understand …

MILAN-Omnitel Pronto Italia, a private Global System for Mobile communications operator in Italy, introduced a rechargeable GSM Subscriber Identity Module card that will allow users to make international calls from …

Consolidation as a means to expansion has been the tradition in the wireless industry. Look no further than Craig McCaw, amassing a wireless fortune one cellular license at a time. …

NEW YORK-Telecommunications carriers are experiencing and causing a lot of taxing questions related to how they are defined-and therefore treated-by tax departments in state and local government. It’s not your …