CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Test-and-measurement company UbiNetics launched a tool designed to allow carriers to evaluate interactions between third-generation phones and networks.SystemAT automates testing of any commercial mobile phone or group of mobile phones against a test network, allowing carriers to test the phone's stability and...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Smart-phone company PalmOne Inc. appears to be gearing up to release an innovative smart phone that features a flip-open display. The company recently received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a "compact personal digital assistant and cellular telephone with...
ATLANTA-Industry is awash in high-end phone news, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile in Germany showed off new smart phones, and as Panasonic gears up to release a new device running Nokia Corp.'s Symbian-based Series 60 operating system. First, Cingular announced it will sell...
MONTREAL-Fonoinfo released its new Commander product, which the company said is a complete virus detection, prevention and disinfection solution for mobile phones. "The threat of mobile viruses is real, it's here and it's spreading very rapidly," said Ayad Sabbagh, the company's chief executive officer....
ATLANTA-Industry is awash in high-end phone news, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile in Germany showed off new smart phones, and as Panasonic gears up to release a new device running Nokia Corp.'s Symbian-based Series 60 operating system.First, Cingular announced it will sell PalmOne...
Although only two teams will line up on the field Sunday for the grand culmination of the professional football season, multiple players will participate in Super Bowl XXXIX in one wireless capacity or another.Verizon Wireless upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell...
The venture capital arm of Siemens said it will join Cardinal Venture Capital and Garage Technology Ventures in investing $3 million in wireless technology company PhoneBites. PhoneBites is developing a mobile-phone application that will allow users to interject sounds into a voice conversation. The...
Siemens AG will cut about 74 jobs in its North American mobile-phone business, moves that come as the company ponders what to do with its loss-making global handset operations. Siemens would not say how many workers will remain in its North American mobile-phone business...
The overwhelming popularity of ringtones and ring backs has given birth to an unprecedented cottage industry: mobile music labels that deal directly with artists to create content for wireless phones. INgrooves became the latest entrant in the developing space last week. The digital record...
Internet search engine Ask Jeeves said it will bring its service to wireless devices later this year, joining an already crowded playing field of mobile-search providers. But whether wireless subscribers will use their phones to access search engines-or how they might do it-is anybody's...
The backdrop to headline-grabbing stories on megamergers, telecom reform, corporate earnings (and scandals) and shareholder suits is a far-reaching debate about the ways and means digital content is handled from the moment of creation.It's important because content-judging from evolving trends-is likely to be such...
DULLES, Va.-Football fans can vote for their favorite commercials with their mobile phones with a service announced this week by American Online Inc.Users can register for the poll by texting the word "vote" to short code 46265 before the game and will receive reminders...
MUNICH-Siemens AG recorded a net income of $1.3 billion in its first quarter, up 38 percent from the same period a year ago. The company posted loses in its Communications division-which houses its mobile-phone and networks operations-but strong earnings in other Siemens segments helped...
Mobile publisher THQ Wireless Inc. said it will allow football fans to vote for a most valuable player during the Super Bowl broadcast Feb. 6.THQ is teaming with Players Inc., the licensing arm of the NFL Players Association, to encourage spectators to tout their...
WASHINGTON-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reportedly will ask the country's top health official to investigate whether cell phones pose health risks to consumers.According to news reports circulating in the Indian press, Congress Member of Parliament Murli Deora recently met Singh on the cell-phone health...
The venture capital arm of Siemens said it will join Cardinal Venture Capital and Garage Technology Ventures in investing $3 million in wireless technology company PhoneBites. PhoneBites is developing a mobile-phone application that will allow users to interject sounds into a voice conversation. The...
Mobile workers are discovering there's nothing more tethering than wireless devices. As advancing technologies enable 24/7 communications and monitoring capabilities, the once-clear lines between "company time" and "private time" are blurring. Employees are wrestling with how to be accessible without sacrificing their personal lives,...
Siemens AG officials said they have no plans to sell the company's loss-making handset business, according to reports. Industry has been awash in rumors that Siemens will either sell its mobile phone operations or form some type of joint venture with the likes of...
Finnish mobile phone component manufacturer Perlos said it will lay off 200 workers in its Lehmonharju plant. The plant currently employs around 640 people. The news comes as industry gears down for a sluggish year of mobile-phone sales after several stellar years of growth....
LONDON-Legal digital music downloads via the Internet and mobile phones exploded in 2004 even as illegal downloads continued to plague the recording industry, according to a study released Thursday. According to the report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music fans...
WASHINGTON-The EMR Network petitioned a federal appeals court here to review a three-judge panel's rejection of a challenge to how the Federal Communications Commission crafts radio-frequency radiation safety guidelines for mobile phones and antenna towers.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
DALLAS-Consumers may finally be warming to the idea of using multimedia entertainment content on their handsets, according to a new study from technology consultancy The Diffusion Group. The report, released Wednesday, finds that 42 percent of households that use both the Internet and mobile...
WASHINGTON-A U.K. health group said there is no solid evidence mobile phones pose health risks, but recommended cell-phone use by children and others be minimized and urged the public to take a precautionary approach to wireless calling as additional research is conducted to clarify...
A computer hacker broke into T-Mobile USA Inc.'s network in 2003 and stole the names and social security numbers of about 400 T-Mobile subscribers, the carrier said. The hacker also was able to access information stored on subscribers' T-Mobile Sidekick devices, according to reports...
