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WASHINGTON-Sometime this month, the Supreme Court will determine the future of broadband. “The next important piece of the broadband puzzle will be revealed when the Supreme Court rules in Brand …

WASHINGTON-Vonage Holding Co., the largest independent Voice over Internet Protocol provider, has solved the problem at least one customer was having when Clearwire Corp. blocked access to Vonage’s VoIP service, …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has agreed to rehear a case that potentially created a loophole in e-mail privacy. “The 1st Circuit has dealt a serious …

Internet Service Provider EarthLink has added wireless voice provider to its resume with the release of the all-in-one color BlackBerry 7750 Wireless Handheld with wireless voice and e-mail service. The …

ARMONK, N.Y.-Orange will use IBM software and services to offer its mobile-phone customers single sign-on capabilities for secure access to different mobile services and Web sites. IBM’s software is compliant …

Wireless merger-and-acquisition news appears to be reaching a frantic pitch as IQ Biometrix Inc. and Wherify Wireless Inc. announced plans to merge, MobilePro Corp. said it would buy assets of …

ATLANTA-Earthlink has announced its intentions to sell its own branded converged wireless voice and data devices. The ISP said it will debut its first product this spring offering a complete …

TOKYO-Struggling Internet company America Online Inc. and Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced they dissolved their widely touted joint venture, once heralded as way to promote “fixed-mobile convergence.” …

News on the Wi-Fi vendor front continues to move along, with several new funding announcements and additional consolidation. First, hot-spot aggregator Boingo Wireless announced it completed its Series B round …

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Interest in one-stop shopping for communications services continues to decline, with less than half the population still interested, according to new research from Solomon-Wolff Associates. The survey found …

ALBANY, N.Y.—Telecommunications industry billing and customer care systems provider CommSoft Inc. released a new version of its flagship CommVergence product. CommVergence 8.0 allows customers to provide for wireless services in …

TOKYO—@Nifty, the Internet access business unit of Fujitsu and the largest Internet service provider (ISP) in Japan, launched 384 kilobits per second (kbps) packet communications services for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA …

SAN FRANCISCO—Internet service provider giant EarthLink licensed wireless enterprise software developer Neomar’s Carrier Class Gateway, which the ISP plans to use in its forthcoming “EarthLink Everywhere” wireless Internet service. EarthLink …

DENVER—Country Road Communications Inc. announced one of its affiliates has acquired some assets of Rural Cellular Corp., including the Saco river ILEC, IXC and ISP operation, which serve 10,800 access …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts. Streaming media is …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will begin examining the relationship between wireline and wireless carriers and which regulators-federal or state-have jurisdiction over interconnection. It is a “question of our jurisdictional basis …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless launched Mobile Office, a service allowing customers to use their data-capable wireless handsets to dial into their company network or Internet service provider. While the service is …

Kyocera Wireless Corp. hopes to reach two fast-growing markets with its QCP 6035 Smartphone, combining the functionality of a tri-mode CDMA phone with a personal digital assistant incorporating Palm Inc.’s …

NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it. By contrast, …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s top telecom adviser last week urged the mobile-phone industry and other high-tech sectors to follow the lead of a Colorado firm that has developed a way to …

WASHINGTON-Just because the telecommunications industry is urging the Federal Communications Commission to order the cable industry to open up its cable modem platform to competing Internet service providers, that does …

Sygate Technologies Internet security and access management solutions provider Sygate Technologies Inc. introduced its OneNIC Internet Sharing Solution through the release of the newest version of its flagship software product, …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and America Online Inc. last week announced their long-expected business alliance. The combination of the largest mobile carrier in Japan and the largest Internet service provider in …

The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry. Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks. …

WASHINGTON-Several instant messaging companies, telecom carriers and Internet service and content providers have formed an organization dedicated to achieving true instant messaging interoperability among competing platforms. The IMUnified coalition said …