VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Mobile Operandi Communications Corp. released its mophone version 3.0, a free entertainment content service for mobile-phone users.Mophone gives multimedia-capable mobile-phone users personal Web pages and storage areas where pictures and ringtones can be managed, stored and viewed on their phones. The service...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here rejected the latest challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's radio frequency radiation standard for mobile phones and base stations.In 2001, the EMR Network-pointing to new research-petitioned the FCC to re-examine whether to revise its regulations to address non-thermal effects...
WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone industry lawyers asked a court here to dismiss six brain-cancer suits, arguing the plaintiffs' complaints are pre-empted by federal law."The federal government set a single, uniform, consensus standard for RF emissions from wireless after a careful and deliberate balance of safety and technological...
WASHINGTON-Former Rep. Wes Watkins (R-Okla.) has agreed to a $2 million settlement in connection with a fatal car crash in which driver cell-phone use is alleged, but the ex-lawmaker faces possible jail time over the district attorney's charge of negligent homicide.Watkins, 65, has a...
Operating system company PalmSource Inc. announced plans to acquire Chinese software vendor China MobileSoft Ltd. in an all-stock transaction valued at around $23 million. PalmSource's stock fell slightly after its announcement to about $14.15 per share.Under the terms of the transaction, PalmSource will issue...
T-Mobile USA became the first carrier to offer ringback tones nationwide Wednesday.The carrier launched CallerTunes, enabling subscribers' phones to play music instead of the traditional ring callers hear before a mobile phone is answered. Users paying a $1.50 monthly subscription fee for the service...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry officials and engineers will meet in San Diego next week to continue work on a mobile phone battery standard, an effort that comes in response to reports of injuries from exploding handsets likely caused by faulty batteries. CTIA and the Institute of...
SAN FRANCISCO-New research shows that more than half of wireless users are against the creation of a national directory service for mobile phone numbers.According to an Internet survey of just more than 1,000 users, 53 percent said they were against the establishment of a...
Internet entrepreneur Don Murray said he is selling the Internet domain name Freephones.com, and expects to collect a hefty six-figure price for the site. "Freephones.com has already received numerous offers from private companies. With the offers coming in the way the are, we are...
"The future is in the software," said Nayeem Islam, vice president of NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s mobile software laboratory in San Jose, Calif. "The hardware is a commodity." Islam's assertion, spoken with equal measures of confidence and conviction, defines DoCoMo's past as well as its...
The world's two most popular consumer electronics devices may soon be combined into one-the mobile TV phone. Behold. Although one is designed for sedentary, passive entertainment and the other for portable, two-way interactions, technology companies the world over are scurrying to build devices that...
WASHINGTON-Wireless is here to stay and it is becoming more important. That was the take-away message from Thursday's 22nd annual Institute on Telecommunications Policy & Regulation sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute and the Federal Communications Bar Association.The wireless industry has "won the battle...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. slipped past Motorola Inc. to become the world's No. 2 mobile-phone manufacturer, according to new numbers from research firm Gartner Inc.According to Gartner, Samsung sold 22.9 million mobile phones in the third quarter, just above the 22.4 million phones Motorola...
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Canadian operator Telus Mobility announced it is selling a new LG Electronics Co. Ltd. phone that features Digit Wireless' Fastap keypad technology. The LG 6190 phone is available for $100 with a three-year service contract.Telus announced in 2002 it would sell a Digit-enabled...
It's no mystery why so many content and messaging providers are working so hard to pry the lid off the booming Chinese wireless data market. The question is how to do it. According to statistics released by China's Ministry of Information Industry last week,...
TOKYO-NEC Electronic Corp. wants to make chips off its old block. The semiconductor unit of NEC Corp. said it will work together with its parent company to develop dual-mode chipsets that will combine W-CDMA with GSM/GPRS and EDGE technologies.The project, which is estimated to...
Colorado Mills is one of Denver's newest suburban malls. The warm, well-lit corridors are lined with like likes of Gap, Target, K-B Toys, Chili's and other clothing, eatery, trinket and curio shops. And in an indication of the growing importance of wireless in American...
Mobile instant messaging is expected to take another step forward this week with an announcement that Nokia Corp. will expand its offerings of IM-friendly handsets. The world's largest handset manufacturer will build on a two-year relationship with Oz, a Canadian software developer, to embed...
SINGAPORE-MobileOne, a Singaporean wireless carrier, said it will begin a one-month third-generation trial Thursday using data cards and involving mainly corporate customers.A second-phase trial, involving 200 customer and corporate customers, will use 3G mobile phones in December.M1 said its 3G network rollout is on...
TOKYO-NEC Electronic Corp. wants to make chips off its old block.The semiconductor unit of NEC Corp said it will work together with the parent company to develop dual-mode chipsets that will combine W-CDMA with GSM/GPRS and EDGE technologies.The project, which is estimated to cost...
Wi-Fi is quickly taking the place of integrated cameras and push-to-talk functions as the new hot technology for the handset market. As a result, chipmakers, carriers and handset suppliers are rushing to take advantage of the perceived demand for such converged devices. And the...
ROK Entertainment Group said its ROK Player allows multimedia memory card-capable mobile phones to play content-loaded multimedia chips on the full screen of their handsets rather than in letterbox formats. "We have already licensed a wide range of content from comedy to music and...
HONG KONG-Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said it became the first Chinese vendor to make third-generation handsets with the launch of three new UMTS devices at the 3G World Congress & Exhibition. Huawei will add the 3G devices to batch production early next year, and...
Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. released its latest line-up of advanced handsets for its FOMA third-generation network. The carrier's new 901i series of mobile phones feature advanced video calling, increased memory and support for a variety of features. As usual, DoCoMo did not...
