LAS VEGAS-Stan Sigman, the new head of Cingular Wireless, will not give a keynote speech during the Consumer Electronics Show, an appearance originally slated for Cingular's former President and CEO Stephen Carter. Sigman bows out of a keynote lineup that includes the heads of...
SEOUL, South Korea-Hanaro Telecom Inc., South Korea's second-largest broadband and fixed-line carrier, announced it would take over its rival Korea Thrunet Co., signaling a major change in the fast-evolving high-speed Internet access market.Hanaro held a board of directors' meeting early Monday and finalized the...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-British mobile-phone maker Sendo filed a lawsuit against its former business partner Microsoft Corp., a move that further illuminates the reasons behind Sendo's decision to dump Microsoft's smart phone software in favor of that from Microsoft rival Nokia Corp.According to media reports,...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
As one of the most challenging years in telecom history winds down, the wireless sector faces a variety of threats from within and outside the industry.Which threats will prove to be mere specters and which ones turn out to be true wolves remains to...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Microsoft Corp. purchased reference design software from Intrinsyc Software Inc., a product the companies said will help original design manufacturers to create devices based on Microsoft's range of device operating systems.Intrinsyc's wireless handheld reference design, the MicroPDA (
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-British mobile phone maker Sendo filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., marking another chapter in the companies' tumultuous relationship.Details on the lawsuit are unclear. Sendo officials declined to comment on the filing, except to say that the allegations are "serious and substantial."...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-British mobile-phone maker Sendo filed a lawsuit against its former business partner Microsoft Corp., a move that further illuminates the reasons behind Sendo's decision to dump Microsoft's smart phone software in favor of that from Microsoft rival Nokia Corp.According to media reports,...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
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LONDON-Pogo Technology, which sold a unique mobile phone/personal digital assistant (PDA) to consumers in the United Kingdom through a deal with Carphone Warehouse, will get a name change and new business focus in conjunction with its new investment team.Pogo Mobile Solutions, as the company...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Reflecting the prevailing mood in the wireless industry, Probe Research has demonstrated that marquee telecom as well as information/Internet Protocol vendors will groan from pain in the near future.But the research firm singles out Sun Microsystems Inc. as a company with little...
LONDON-Pogo Technology Ltd., which sold a unique mobile phone/personal digital assistants to consumers in the United Kingdom through a deal with Carphone Warehouse, will get a name change and new business focus in conjunction with its new investment team.Pogo Mobile Solutions, as the company's...
WASHINGTON-A new Pentagon report said spectrum loss to the wireless industry is hurting military capability and has forced it "to pursue proactive approaches that would prevent future erosion of critical government EM spectrum."The Department of Defense is currently battling with Microsoft Corp....
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Mobile marketing company Avesair Inc. reported the results of its advertising campaign for the grand opening of New York City sport store Champs Sports, with hundreds of thousands of viewers and a click-through rate of almost 4 percent.The campaign, first announced...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The market for advanced computing devices is still staking itself out, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence, but it has the potential to increase to $14 billion this year and grow to $32 billion by 2007.The firm said devices...
America Online Inc. announced that it is launching an industrywide mobile developer program for its instant-messaging services. As flagship members, LG Electronics, Motorola Inc., Samsung Telecommunications America and Siemens AG will work to develop, test and distribute licensed AIM clients for mobile devices. The...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Shipping giant FedEx Corp. announced it will begin using new wireless devices built by Motorola Inc. and running on Microsoft Corp.'s personal digital assistant operating system.FedEx said the device is currently under testing, and that it will be available early next year to...
It's time to choose RCR Wireless News' 2002 Person of the Year. This year, we've decided to let you voice an opinion in this process. Who do you think was the person who most influenced the industry in 2002? Enter your vote via the...
It is time to choose RCR Wireless News' 2002 Person of the Year. This year, RCR Wireless News, the sister print publication of GlobalWirelessNews.com, decided to let you voice an opinion in this process. Who do you think was the person who most influenced...
Motorola Inc. claims it is the only company that has full type approval certification for its wireless reference designs for handhelds. Texas Instruments disagrees.Pointing to its I.250 platform for GPRS as a key example, Motorola said it has moved ahead of the pack with...
Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Meanwhile, wireless application publisher Moviso L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Investors roared their approval of a new deal between synchronization company Pumatech Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN business, sending Pumatech's stock up almost 75 percent to $1.45 per share.Under the deal, Microsoft's MSN service will use Pumatech's Intellisync software to provide synchronization...
Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many in the industry as being behind the times. The buzz surrounding WLAN technology based...
