IRVINE, Calif.-Mobile search provider go2 said it delivered more than 24 million unique user sessions in 2005, marking a 51-percent increase from its 2004 usage figures. Wireless users viewed more than 210 million pages of local information from go2 last year, the company said;...
Eager to capture a piece of an estimated $2 billion equipment market, Texas Instruments Inc. is plunging into the WiMAX infrastructure business. The company today introduced a number of components it said comprise an end-to-end solution that gives carriers and infrastructure vendors the ability...
The chief executives of nine of the nation's high-profile, high-tech firms are calling for a complete review of national spectrum policy in order to foster what they characterize as the resource's highest and best use. Through their public-advocacy group, the Technology CEO Council, these...
Some of the biggest names from the early days of video games are looking to cash in on the latest platform in gaming-the mobile phone. The venerable publisher Namco Networks officially joined the stampede to mobile last month, launching a mobile game subsidiary dedicated...
LONDON-Moonlight Mobile launched an application that allows mobile-phone users to browse Amazon products and information from their handsets. The company said users can check product prices and availability, read buyer ratings and add items to their shopping cart or wish list for future purchase....
Handset distributor Brightpoint Holdings B.V. said it acquired all the outstanding shares of Persequor Ltd., which previously supplied management services to Brightpoint Asia Ltd. and Brightpoint India Pvt. Ltd.In addition, Brightpoint gained ownership of a 15-percent interest in Brightpoint India that Persequor previously held.Terms...
WASHINGTON- Major mobile-phone carriers and manufacturers last week petitioned U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake to reconsider her recent decision to have two health-related lawsuits sent back to state courts in California and Florida and a third lawsuit remanded to a federal court in Louisiana....
Syniverse Holdings Inc. capped its first year as a publicly traded company with improved net income despite a decline in revenues for the fourth quarter.Revenues for the quarter totaled $83.6 million, down 5.3 percent from fourth-quarter revenues of $88.3 million during 2004. Total revenues...
European operator Vodafone Group plc announced a new agreement with Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. that calls for Huawei to build 3G phones that Vodafone plans to sell under its own brand. The move highlights a significant, growing trend in the worldwide...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission wants to make sure that the sale of customer call records-which has erupted into this year's biggest wireless scandal-has not been aided and abetted by telecommunication company employees. "Is there any evidence that dishonest insiders at the carriers are providing...
PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. said it reached a settlement regarding the enhanced directory assistance services it provided to former Nextel Communications Inc. customers prior to Sprint Corp.'s acquisition of Nextel last year. Sprint Nextel Corp. terminated the master contract with Metro One as...
WASHINGTON-CTIA is changing its USF tune and siding with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin in his battle to change the way universal service is paid for. Martin-and now CTIA-wants to base universal service funds on telephone numbers, instead of the current system that works on...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reported last week that its Alaska Native Broadband L.L.C. partner launched Cricket wireless service in Colorado Springs, Colo. Leap noted that following the launch its network now covers 3,295 square miles along the Colorado Front Range, from Fort Collins...
LA CRESCENTA, Calif.-Magnific's Inc. said it has created a magnifying glass-like product that fits onto cellular phone displays. The Phone Monocle, which Magnific's said magnifies screen characters up to two times, is designed for phone users who are over 40 years old, those who...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. signed an 800 MHz planning-funding agreement with the State of Utah and said it hopes to have a completed frequency-relocation agreement completed by June 30, the company announced. The Utah Communications Agency Network, which serves 115 public-safety agencies covering 12 counties...
WASHINGTON-North Carolina officials are probing the death of a worker who fell from a cell phone tower on Feb. 9. "We have an investigator assigned and he is working on it," said Kevin Beauregard, assistant deputy commissioner for the North Carolina Department of Labor.North...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless has snapped up a small cellular operator in Northern California, Cal-One Cellular LP, which operates under the Cal North Wireless brand. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Verizon Wireless said the deal includes Cal North's 49 cellular sites and...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration faces increased pressure to take a tougher stance on trade with China, a development that could lead to strained relations with the Asian giant and possibly complicate the near-term efforts of U.S. mobile phone vendors to compete for more billion-dollar contracts...
WASHINGTON-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake ruled three mobile-phone health suits should be returned to state and federal courts, another in a string of legal setbacks for the wireless industry. While the mobile phone industry has yet to lose a suit alleging a cell phone-cancer...
Senate lawmakers on Friday introduced bipartisan legislation to reserve unused slots in broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband access.The unused or unassigned broadcast frequencies are known as white spaces. The Wireless Innovation Act of 2006 requires the Federal Communications Commission to permit unlicensed use of...
WASHINGTON-The long-awaited advanced wireless services auction, with its high-rolling bidders expected to account for much of the $10 billion to $15 billion in anticipated license sales, could occur largely in the dark. The Federal Communications Commission, acknowledging the auction's high stakes and concerned about...
With equipment orders not rolling in like they used to, or at least having slowed down slightly, equipment vendors are looking for new ways to bring in revenues. At the same time, carriers are looking to tap into new revenue streams without making huge...
BARCELONA, Spain-The evolution toward convergence could make for some strange bedfellows. The 3GSM World Congress was named for third-generation cellular services, but it was the alphabet soup of other technologies that garnered much of the attention at last week's show. Motorola Inc. and Nokia...
Virgin Mobile Holdings plc is set to be one of the first European operators to launch mobile TV services using a dedicated mobile TV network. The company, which operates a number of mobile virtual operator services around the world, laid out plans to launch...
