WASHINGTON-While industry this holiday season pushes family plans and makes pocket phones attractive to the younger crowd, questions linger in the scientific community about whether children are more vulnerable to possible health risks from phones than adults."No, it (possible increased risk for children from...
A U.S. bankruptcy court has given ICO Global Communications final approval for $500 million in financing from an investor group led by Craig McCaw and Indian media magnate Subhash Chandra, who had challenged McCaw with a competing financing bid.Under the agreement, McCaw will provide...
WARSAW, Poland-KGHM Polska Miedz, Poland's copper and silver concern, and Polski Koncern Naftowy, the country's oil group, raised their stakes in the country's mobile phone firm Polkomtel, according to a Reuters report.Both firms exercised their first refusal rights, as major shareholders, over part of...
After telling a friend in California about buying a computer for my kids and signing up for Internet access, I got this e-mail from him: "What a wonderful world your kids are inheriting." The e-mail included a NASA Web address so my kids could view...
NEW YORK-Judging by their investments during the third quarter, venture capitalists can't seem to get enough of technology companies, including those involved in the wireless communications sector."Investments in sector for the first three quarters of 1999 approached the total amount invested in (it...
GENEVA-STMicroelectronics said it entered into an agreement with L.M. Ericsson to develop a range of devices based on the Bluetooth core architecture. The companies also are working together to approach the market with optimized Bluetooth solutions, said STMicroelectronics.The first device will be implemented in...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Siemens AG and Phone.com Inc. announced that Spain's Airtel Movil selected Siemens to provide a commercial Wireless Application Protocol platform for wireless Internet-based services. Airtel, the second-largest wireless operator in Spain, plans to begin providing wireless Internet services to its customers later...
LONDON-BT Cellnet, Britain's second-largest mobile phone operator, teamed with Freeserve, the United Kingdom's largest Internet service provider, to develop information services for wireless Internet access. The two companies signed a strategic agreement to collaborate on developing sports, entertainment and financial services for cellular phone...
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's largest mobile carrier, said Dec. 2 it plans to buy a 19-percent interest in Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd., Hong Kong's biggest wireless provider, for $410 million.Under terms of the agreement, reached with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which is...
WASHINGTON-A new study by University of Washington researcher Henry Lai suggests rats exposed to cell phone microwave frequencies suffered long-term memory loss."Studies before this one have focused more on short-term memory. In this study, the long-term memory of microwave-exposed rats appears to have been...
VIENNA, Austria-The first mobile data transfer trials over General Packet Radio Service in Austria have been completed by Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector and Mobilkom, Austria's largest mobile communications network operator, Motorola said."The introduction of GPRS will allow mobile phone users to access a...
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. released an Internet-based payment system for shopping online using Global System for Mobile communications telephones. GiSMo is a secure payment alternative to using a credit, debit or charge card, the company said.GiSMo shoppers purchase items by giving their GSM telephone...
DALLAS-Rent Express Communications launched its frequent traveler program for North Americans who travel overseas regularly and need a mobile phone while abroad.The program costs $50 for one year of access to Global System for Mobile communications international service.Benefits of the program include a SIM...
With its back to the wall and down to its last gasp, NextWave Telecom Inc. and friends brought in the big guns. Bay Harbor Management, a New-York investment firm and a large creditor/shareholder in NextWave, signed up high-powered lobbyists at the firm headed by...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Visa International signed an agreement last week to develop secure wireless e-commerce solutions.The partnership is designed to develop mobile e-commerce and drive open standards for payment transactions over wireless networks. The companies plan to cooperate on payment solutions and leverage...
TORONTO-Rent Express Communications, a provider of short-term wireless solutions for international travelers, said it signed a subscriber identification module roaming agreement with BT Cellnet.Under terms of the agreement, Rent Express will provide mobile phone services to North Americans visiting the United Kingdom."Now, we can...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. announced last Tuesday the public offering of 6.6 million shares of common stock at $135 per share in conjunction with a two-for-one stock split.As a result of the announcement, the price of the company's shares closed at $135.06 last Wednesday,...
Just as it took an unabashed California chick to do what no GOP or Democratic pol could do-outfox Bill Clinton-Naomi Wolf now has done what no pundit could ever do: explain what makes official Washington tick.It all boils down to the uneasy coexistence of alpha...
LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson announced its first consumer product incorporating Bluetooth technology at Comdex/Fall '99. The cellular phone headset connects to a mobile phone by a radio link instead of a cable. The product will be commercially available in mid-2000, said Ericsson.The 0.75-ounce wireless mobile...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. and wireless-location company SigmaOne Communications Corp. announced an agreement calling for BellSouth to conduct a market trial of SigmaOne's Sigma 5000 Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Time Division Multiple Access network-based location system.SigmaOne's location technology combines time difference of arrival and angle of...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration-which recently agreed with the cellular industry to replicate two studies by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. that showed positive findings-may have rejected cooperating with industry on research when mobile-phone cancer allegations first surfaced in 1993 because of a potential conflict...
WASHINGTON-In a major setback to Bell Atlantic Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the Virginia Supreme Court ruled wireless carriers must have local approval to erect towers on state-owned property.The decision complicates a 1997 agreement by the Virginia Department of Transportation to let AT&T...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, bowing to industry pressure here and across the Atlantic, last week signaled for the first time a willingness to consider supporting global harmonization of third-generation mobile spectrum at next year's World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey."We've started a process to reopen discussions...
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc is close to a deal with Viag, the German utility, that would give it access to the Austrian telecom market and more control in Switzerland, the Financial Times reported. BT will take a 50-percent stake in a new holding company,...
