TOKYO—Japanese chip maker Toshiba Corp. says it will roll out a mobile Internet phone in Europe next year.The phone is expected to be GPRS-enabled, according to the company.
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Vodafone and the French-based media giant Vivendi have denied rumors that widespread job cuts are to take place at Vizzavi, their mobile Internet portal joint venture. The two firms, responding to press speculation, said they are committed to the venture and predicted...
TOKYO—Compaq Computer and Japan Communications tied up for a mobile solution business. The firms are going to explore the corporate market by combining Compaq's system integration services and Japan Communications' mobile data services.Both firms will also share know-how and technologies in the mobile Internet...
TOKYO—Wireless Internet Service (WIS), a start-up mobile service provider in Tokyo, is going to launch high-speed mobile Internet service on 1 November in cooperation with NTT-ME. Using the 2.4 GHz band, WIS will provide 2 Megabits per second (Mbps) service at 1,980 yen (US$17)...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said that Korea Telecom Freetel is the first carrier worldwide to introduce data application services based on its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) mobile Internet platform."KTF expects to roll out commercial BREW-enabled applications and services to subscribers in November...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it plans to team with other wireless industry leaders to found the Liberty Alliance Project to streamline easy single Internet sign-on by creating an open, standards-based solution for network identity and authentication."The way in which people communicate with each other...
NEW YORK—MMO2, the BT Wireless unit that British Telecommunications plans to spin off in November, has received low-tier investment-grade corporate credit ratings of Baa2 from Moody's Investors Service and BBB- from Standard & Poor's.In the announcements on 18 September, the two agencies also assigned...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell-phone operators have been criticized by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) for promoting the technical attributes of their networks rather than services.The GSA, a trade association formed by the major cell-phone equipment vendors, said operators have presented a confusing value...
TOKYO—Japan's KDDI Corp. said it was postponing the launch of its high-speed mobile Internet access service from this fall to next April.KDDI said the cdma2000 1x-based service planned by its au wireless subsidiary was not being delayed by standards glitches, but by software issues."There...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo announced it plans to increase the speed of its i-mode and DoPa mobile Internet services by almost 20 Kbps and hopes to launch the enhanced service in spring of 2002.The services will be upgraded from the current 9.6 Kbps speed to 28.8...
They go by all sorts of names-clearinghouses, hubs and gateways-and they represent companies' attempts at nailing down the precise formula for a business model aimed at nurturing the wireless Internet marketplace. This business model, the companies say, will tear down the wall between carriers...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced new features and services for its Go.Web corporate mobile Internet service, and for the first time the company released its Go.Web application-programming interface to the general developer community.GoAmerica said its new wireless Web features would take advantage of emerging standards,...
Even as vendors grab news pages with reports of successful live calls over their third-generation networks, one piece is often left out: behind every live call is a test. And tests are not always pretty.Major phone makers and builders of networks like Nokia Corp.,...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse announced Swedish mobile carrier Europolitan Vodafone will trial Comverse's multimedia messaging service over its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network.Comverse's announcement comes a week after the company released the results of a study it conducted to determine user interest...
IRVING, Texas, United States—Nokia Corp. said it has rolled out its first WAP-enabled GSM phone called Nokia 3395 for the Americas market.The phone, which includes mobile Internet browser, new arcade-style games and a higher capacity battery for extended talk, data and standby times in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has licensed its technology for smart card transactions over the mobile Internet to France-based Xiring, which designs and markets personal card readers and secures transaction solutions for consumers."Xiring and Ericsson share the same vision of a wireless communication-enabled future," said...
PLANO, Texas—L.M. Ericsson has announced plans to expose 26 students of the Plano Independent School District's Gifted program to the workings of its mobile Internet facilities to mark the opening of its new North America headquarters."Students will 'test drive' the mobile Internet in Ericsson...
ISTANBUL, Turkey—Turkish mobile carrier Turkcell today said it will launch its new mobile Internet service, SurfCell for WAP and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) users.Users will be able to access Internet sites through either Turkcell's WAP page or by entering the address on their...
NEIUWEGEIN, the Netherlands—TDC Mobile International and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced their plans to create a pan-European revenue-sharing WAP gateway, which the companies said will give content providers a simple, unified method to offer their services to Europe's 320 million mobile customers.The situation now,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has licensed its technology for smart card transactions over the mobile Internet to France-based Xiring, which designs and markets personal card readers and secures transaction solutions for consumers."Xiring and Ericsson share the same vision of a wireless communication-enabled future,"...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. and Nortel Networks said they have successfully conducted an end-to-end, live third-generation cdma2000 1x mobile Internet Protocol call in Nortel's lab in Richardson, Texas."This call demonstrated the expanded data capabilities of 3G wireless networks and the ability for wireless data users...
TOKYO—104 Inc., a leading mobile Internet platform provider, along with CMG Wireless Data Solution, a business unit of CMG Group, will jointly provide a platform for mobile Internet content distribution. The firms announced the agreement on Aug. 15. Based on the deal, both firms...
