WASHINGTON-As President-elect Bush crafts a diverse team of Republicans with Pentagon, state government and Old Economy business experience and confronts a slumping stock market increasingly subject to the vagaries of high-tech shares, it remains to be seen whether the next administration can achieve the...
WASHINGTON-Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos confirmed he may take over mobile phone-cancer litigation in Maryland that was dealt a major legal setback recently, but he distanced himself from press reports last week that said his law firm intended to file lawsuits around the country against...
At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the new events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2000 in chronological...
WASHINGTON-2001: A Space Odyssey? Perhaps if you're working on the international space station or developing a Star Wars defense. But for wireless, it will be a year the industry comes back to earth and gets back to basics as carriers, manufacturers, dot-coms, government policy-makers and...
As the debate rages on in Britain over the possible health effects cellular phones may have on children, a recent survey from London-based NOP Research Group showed that one in 10 British adults planned to give a mobile phone as a present for Christmas,...
WASHINGTON-A new book describes top cellular lobbyist Thomas Wheeler as obsessed with controlling public relations for industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research conducted in the 1990s and claims he attempted extraordinary measures to downplay suspected health risks.In "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age," Dr. George...
TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's largest privately held paging carrier, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late Friday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark.Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most severe type of bankruptcy, which calls for the...
WASHINGTON-The British government, acting on recommendations of a blue-ribbon scientific panel, called for $10 million in new mobile phone-health research on Friday and for precautions in order to limit radiation exposure to children and teenagers.The implementation of the Stewart commission by Britain's Department of...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said last week he thinks the time has come to mandate digital wireless phones be compatible with hearing aids."It is time to think about a mandate. ... We were very very patient," said William Kennard, noting that...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Under a new partnership, CellPoint Inc. and Swedish game developer It's Alive! plan to "bring the mobile phone to life" by creating location-based mobile games for short message service phones or WAP handsets.Tom Soderlund, It's Alive!'s chief executive officer, said the companies hope...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-EVoice Inc. introduced eVoice Premium, a new voice mail service designed for residential and small business customers, the company said.EVoice Premium works with subscribers' existing phone numbers and e-mail addresses. The "all-access" feature consolidates voice mail messages from wireless and wireline phones...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-SnapTrack Inc., a Qualcomm Inc. subsidiary, announced a year-long test of its position-location technology is over and the results are positive.The tests of SnapTrack's Wireless Assisted global positioning system solution, conducted by a consortium of various industry representatives, found the technology can...
HILLSBORO, Ore.-There are a variety of wireless e-mail services ready to satisfy the needs of e-mail junkies stuck in a meeting or an airport who are dying to know the contents of their beloved inbox.But one service is beginning to stand out from the...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa-Fundamo, a financial services initiative of Sanlam, signed an equity deal with VenFin and Archway Venture Partners to further the company's goal to establish a mobile payment platform. VenFin acquired a 35-percent equity stake in Fundamo, and Archway Venture Partners acquired...
BEIJING-According to Beijing-based consultancy BDA, reports of the death of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in China have been greatly exaggerated, as 69 million people in China will be accessing the Internet over their mobile phones by 2004. China Mobile will begin charging fees...
Digital PagingDigital Paging Co. released its new Hit plus pager, which the company said can carry three different frequencies. The pager also features a hands-on screen programming function, and has an inputted pass code option for resellers. The Hit plus, as well as all...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Global Telecom Solutions Sector won another large stake in China's mobile phone market with a $29 million GSM communications award covering about 370,000 people in the Zhejiang Province.The first award, which was $53 million, came in June.The recent deal calls...
NEW YORK-Globalstar do Brasil and South American transportation company Itapemirim have teamed up to put mobile phones on 43 inner-city buses in South America.The service is scheduled to start December 1, and the phones will be installed on all new buses in Itapemirim's fleet....
NEW YORK-When NTT DoCoMo began planning for what would become its wildly successful i-mode service, Japan's largest telecommunications company turned to a journalist with an undergraduate degree in French literature."I-mode is now a mega hit, but I was pushed into the valley many times....
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 latest 3.5 operating system.The hybrid, set to launch during the first quarter of next...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-BarPoint.com Inc. announced it is extending its mobile shopping and information service to digital phone users through a short messaging system version of the BarPoint Shopper.The company also introduced a music service allowing users the ability to listen to audio clips of...
WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, concerned with increased tower construction fatalities and injuries, is putting the tower industry under the microscope.OSHA head Charles Jeffress is expected shortly to write tower owners and mobile phone carriers to emphasize the importance of federal workplace safety...
NEW YORK-Globalstar do Brasil and South American transportation company Itapemirim have teamed up to put mobile phones on 43 inner-city buses in South America.The service is scheduled to start Dec. 1., and the phones will be installed on all the new buses in Itapemirim's...
London-based mobile phone giant Vodafone Group plc reported strong interim results for the six months ended Sept. 30, including a 55-percent increase in proportionate customer additions compared with the same period last year, bringing the company's proportionate customer base to 65.5 million subscribers.Proportionate earnings...
