Mobile Phones

Analog Devices Analog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation …

Handset subsidies are falling as digital mobile phones gain huge volumes, but as carriers begin targeting new segments and a new cycle of data-enabled handsets come to market, analysts wonder …

Easy Access Inc. has selected SeaGull Inc.’s Wireless-to-Host solution to wirelessly enable its EZ-Vote mobile voter registration management system. MG Financial Group has introduced wireless access to Forex market trading …

WASHINGTON-Nearly a week after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that wireless carriers can be subject to damages awarded in civil lawsuits, consumers and the industry are reading the ruling differently. …

WASHINGTON-A ruling last week from a federal appeals court allowing for law enforcement to obtain cell-site information without a court order means the issue of law enforcement using mobile phones …

WASHINGTON-Despite splashy headlines of multibillion dollar telecom deals, wild dot-com stock swings on Wall Street and all the hot-button digital issues that have GOP and Democratic policy-makers crawling over each …

WASHINGTON-A little known government panel could play a big role in the coming years as new trade rules free up foreign firms to buy U.S. wireless companies, a trend that …

WASHINGTON-The Baltimore law firm that earlier this month filed a mobile-phone cancer lawsuit against several wireless firms and two industry trade associations is expected to file additional lawsuits as early …

TORONTO-Rogers AT&T Wireless launched a wireless shopping comparison service in conjunction with BuyBuddy.com, an online independent comparison shopping guide. The service is available on the new BlackBerry 957 and 950 …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australia’s Telstra said it switched on the telecommunications network for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, which includes capacity for more than 15,000 mobile phones for media and officials. The …

The issue of mobile-phone radiation and its possible link to cancer became even more garbled last week as the Australian Consumers Association released a study in its Choice magazine, claiming …

Alcatel supplied European wireless operators France Telecom Mobiles, Mobistar and Dutchtone a solution that will allow their customers to continue making or receiving calls on their prepaid mobile phones when …

WASHINGTON-A congressional audit of federal agencies’ responsibilities and actions toward testing for mobile-phone health effects is likely to go forward even if the person who requested the audit is elected …

WHEATON, Md.-Between 12 and 17 percent of end users buy hands-free kits at the time they purchase their wireless phone, according to a nationwide survey of respondents at 400 retail …

PacketVideo Corp. and Warner Bros. New Media unveiled plans to deliver Warner Bros.-created original animated content to wireless devices, including wireless phones and personal digital assistants, using PacketVideo’s MPEG-4 streaming …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Televigation and U.S. Wireless Corp. have partnered to provide navigation assistance for both WAP-enabled and regular mobile phone users. Under terms of the agreement, U.S. Wireless will provide Televigation’s …

MOSCOW-CDMA technology has been battling for a spot in Russia’s mobile market for two years, but it lost the war as Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, an opponent of the technology, …

NEW YORK-The risks of using a cellular phone while driving “appear to be small compared to other daily risks, but are uncertain because existing research is limited and of uneven …

WASHINGTON-A top-flight Baltimore law firm is expected to file a lawsuit this week claiming a malignant brain tumor diagnosed in a 42-year-old male neurologist was caused by heavy and long-term …

WASHINGTON-While international attention is focused on Deutsche Telekom AG’s $50.3 billion bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and the fireworks it has set off in Congress, merger and acquisition activity in …

CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc.’s TimesThree and SUMedia.com Inc. unveiled e-couponing as a component of the L411 service that TimesThree demonstrated at its wireless location network launch in Calgary, Alberta. When available, …

Tantau Tantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement …

To its credit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking the driver distraction problem seriously. Last Tuesday’s all-day conference at the Department of Transportation was educational and enlightening, providing …

WASHINGTON-On land and in air, the ever-popular mobile phone-America’s favorite toy in the New Millennium-is creating headaches for government, industry and citizens, and raising serious safety questions with no easy …

WASHINGTON-Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has begun preparing for the likelihood that many mobile-phone carriers will not meet upcoming deadlines governing location-based 911 wireless emergency service …