LONDON-Gizmondo Europe Ltd. has created a "new game innovation fund" to financially support emerging developers looking to produce games for the forthcoming Gizmondo gaming device.The subsidiary of Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc. hopes to spur developers' interests in creating games specifically for the Gizmondo and...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. announced EDGE contracts, underlining the increasing traction of the technology in the Middle East and around the world.Motorola said it signed its first commercial EDGE contract in the Middle East with Mobile Telecommunications Co. in Kuwait.The network will allow...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has teamed with Major League Baseball to bring audio broadcasts, real-time scoring and streaming video to wireless handsets.The service, which is available today on the Nokia 6600 and soon should be available on the Nokia 6620, features live audio broadcasts of...
LAS VEGAS-Increasing its presence in the wireless high-speed data game, Verizon Wireless launched its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO BroadbandAccess service in Las Vegas, providing users in the greater metro area with access to average data speeds of between 300 and 500 kilobits per second. The...
Amid second-quarter financial result releases and a much-anticipated analyst meeting, Motorola Inc. launched a slew of mobile devices last week, the majority of which feature integrated Bluetooth technology.The new Motorola V551 EDGE handset is targeted at users interested in both business and entertainment-related features....
Increasing its presence in the wireless high-speed data game, Verizon Wireless launched its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO BroadbandAccess service in Las Vegas, providing users in the greater metro area with access to average data speeds of between 300 and 500 kilobits per second. The carrier...
Motorola Inc. launched a slew of mobile devices today in anticipation of its annual financial analysts meeting later this week.Motorola debuted the V975, which features a clamshell form factor, and the candy bar-shaped C975, both touted as affordable third-generation handsets. The phones include multimedia...
The end of the year came early for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the carrier made good on its often-repeated plans to offer high-speed wireless data services before the calendar turned over as it launched what it termed commercial UMTS services in four markets...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will begin production and systems integration capabilities for CDMA2000 base stations for the 450 MHz band at its facility in Poland. Lucent said it will improve cycle and delivery times to its Eastern European customers by up to six...
Wireless infrastructure players seem to have settled into buoyant times as quarterly profits follow quarterly profits."Confidence has returned to the industry," said Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive officer of L.M. Ericsson, which reported quarterly profits, as did its competitor Lucent Technologies Inc.In its...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Inc. launched Sony Ericsson's GC82 EDGE PC Card across its network following the recent completion of its EDGE technology deployment covering approximately 93 percent of the Canadian population. The launch follows network trials initiated late last year in the...
Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with a 4X...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Once considered a technology with little future, EDGE networks currently number more than 100, according to industry association 3G Americas. The group said more than 100 operators in 63 countries from all regions of the world are in various stages of readiness for...
SEOUL, South Korea-Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said its GSM network is available throughout Louisiana as part of the carrier's plan to invest $85 million in its Louisiana network this year. Cingular noted its EDGE wireless data service is also available in Louisiana, which can be accessed...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will begin offering a bundled device and services package allowing business customers to use Bluetooth-enabled Hewlett-Packard iPAQ Pocket PC devices and Nokia Corp.'s 6820 handset to access the carrier's EDGE network.The carrier said that customers who already own...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said its GSM network is available throughout Louisiana as part of the carrier's plan to invest $85 million in its Louisiana network this year. In addition to GSM voice services, Cingular noted its EDGE wireless data service is also now...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless gear supplier L.M. Ericsson announced a series of contracts around the world, assuring its place as the world's premier infrastructure player.In the context of the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg emphasized the increasing importance of hosting services...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will supply GSM equipment to nine of Hutchison India's 13 license areas. The value of the contract was not disclosed.Nokia is supplying GSM equipment that is upgradeable to EDGE technology."By consolidating our supplier agreements, we are determined to cost...
REDMOND, Wash.-Fulfilling an agreement announced earlier this year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it has begun offering Wi-Fi service in six train stations along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between Boston and Baltimore. Stations covered include Boston Route 128 Station, Providence, New York Penn Station, Philadelphia...
SINGAPORE-Siemens AG said it has rolled out what it describes as the first GSM/GPRS module with integrated EDGE technology for high-speed data transfer.The product, the MC75, can work in all GSM networks worldwide and has a USB port for plug-and-play functions. It is suitable...
Wireless gear supplier L.M. Ericsson announced a series of contracts around the world, assuring its place as the world's premier infrastructure player.In the context of the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, Ericsson Chief Executive Officer Carl-Henric Svanberg emphasized the increasing importance of hosting services among...
OSLO, Norway-Norwegian mobile carrier Telenor Mobil said it is upgrading its GSM network with EDGE technology, although it emphasized that EDGE is not a replacement for its ongoing UMTS rollout."By combining the two technologies, we will more quickly be able to offer a high-speed...
OSLO, Norway-Norwegian mobile carrier Telenor Mobil said it is upgrading its GSM network with EDGE technology, although it emphasized that EDGE is not a replacement for its ongoing UMTS rollout."By combining the two technologies, we will more quickly be able to offer a high-speed...
