Siemens said it will become the latest company to license BlackBerry technology from wireless e-mail company Research In Motion Ltd. The news lends further credibility to industry watchers who argue RIM may eventually drop its device business to focus solely on its licensing and...
Verizon Wireless this week launched several sports-related offerings from its Get It Now virtual store.The carrier is offering Play Ball!, a suite of games and applications for baseball fans. It features FOX Sports games that allow players to test their batting skills; personalized ring...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Investors cheered Sierra Wireless Inc.'s upgraded first-quarter forecast, sending the company's stock up almost 13 percent to $40.72 per share. Sierra said strong sales of its wireless PC cards and embedded modules for mobile phones contributed to the company's positive quarter and...
HONG KONG-Hong Kong's Office of Telecommunications Authority announced plans to issue a new license in vacated spectrum of two existing mobile services licenses offering CDMA and TDMA services when the licenses expire next year.A consultation paper addressing the issue noted subscribers on the CDMA...
FRANKFURT, Germany-As the mobile-phone sales increase, the world's chipmakers continue to look to take advantage of the market opportunity.For example, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe released its new Mobile Media Processors, which the company said incorporate MPEG-4 and JPEG hardware encoding and decoding functionality. The chips...
A testimony to how ingrained wireless has become in popular culture, today consumers can purchase advanced mobile content-ring tones, graphics, games-as easily as they can buy a Diet Coke or Milky Way bar from a vending machine. Recent news surrounding mobile kiosks, or vending...
Sierra Wireless introduced the AirCard 775 PC Card and the MP 775 GPS modem for EDGE networks at the CTIA show in Atlanta. Both products are slated for commercial availability in the second half of this year. The AirCard 775 offers data rates up...
SAN FRANCISCO-Microsoft Corp. released a new version of its operating system for mobile phones that includes support for switching between landscape- and portrait-style screens as well as VGA and QVGA high-resolution displays. Motorola Inc. said it will use the new software in its new...
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.-SmartServ Online Inc. said its subsidiary nReach has partnered with Merit Industries to introduce self-serve mobile content vending machine products nationwide.nReach provides mobile ring tones, graphics, games and applications. Merit is a touchscreen entertainment devices company.The vending machines will feature licensed content...
ATLANTA-WDS Global will integrate Bitfone Corp.'s mProve 3.1 over-the-air firmware update technology into its service framework. The solution should allow carriers to configure user settings and update handset software over the air. The companies are demonstrating the solution at the CTIA Wireless show in...
The future market for mobile-phone memory will total almost $6 billion, according to some in the industry, and could surpass the potential of the massive desktop computer industry in just three years. Indeed, the amount of storage available in next year's high-end mobile phones...
Western Wireless Corp. deployed its Phase I Enhanced 911 service for Cellular One customers in North Dakota. The carrier said the service, which was deployed in partnership with county public safety answering points, is available for about 70 percent of its North Dakota customers,...
BERLIN, Germany-T-Mobile International announced it scored a major deal with handset maker Sharp Corp. to create a line of phones designed specifically for the carrier, which will be sold across Europe. The first of this new generation of co-developed phones will be the TM100...
NEW YORK-Manufacturing company ICT Technologies said it will build Audiovox Communications Corp.'s new clamshell CDM7600 CDMA tri-mode mobile phone starting in the second quarter. ICT said it received a partial letter of credit in the amount of $9.8 million from Audiovox for the deal."This...
SEOUL, South Korea-LG Electronics Co. Ltd. becomes the latest mobile phone manufacturer to team with software giant Microsoft Corp. as it gears up to release its new LG-SC8000 smart phone running Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. LG will release the device in its home...
HANNOVER, Germany-Sony Network Services Europe announced a deal with TeliaSonera Finland to offer a new streaming music service.Dubbed the Personal Media Assistant, the Sony application is designed for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system and allows users to listen to music streamed over...
In addition to the freedom of keeping your cell-phone number when switching between carriers, local number portability has also brought frustration for some porting customers who-after finally freeing themselves from one carrier with their number-have been faced with the unenviable task of porting contact...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week launched an inquiry to assess the impact of high foreign mobile termination fees on American consumers, dragging the United States further into a controversy that domestic and international wireless carriers would rather see settled by overseas regulators and...
SWEDEN-TeliaSonera Sweden has launched its nationwide Telia GO third-generation network.Telia GO will provide TeliaSonera customers with access to mobile Internet at broadband speeds and access to video calling on certain 3G handsets for a charge. In addition, the 3G network will feature a new...
NORWELL, Mass.-Almost one in four mobile phones sold worldwide this year will include a digital camera, according to new research from InfoTrends Research Group. The firm projects that worldwide unit sales of camera phones will reach nearly 150 million this year."Growth in the camera...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, working against a congressionally mandate deadline, on Thursday began the process to ban mobile spam."Congress has made it very clear that it wants the FCC to get out in front of the emerging mobile-spam issue," said FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.The...
SAN DIEGO-Mobile data company SMS.ac Inc. said it has been successful in receiving responses to daily surveys it offers to its members. According to SMS.ac, 35,000 to 45,000 members typically respond to the daily surveys through its Web site and via opted-in user handsets.SMS.ac...
SWEDEN-TeliaSonera Sweden has launched its nationwide Telia GO third-generation network.Telia GO will provide TeliaSonera customers with access to mobile Internet at broadband speeds and access to video calling on certain 3G handsets for a charge. In addition, the 3G network will feature a new...
Polaris hopes to take the stress out of E911."We are a location-technology company," said Bob Dressler, Polaris' vice president of technology. "We are a software-based solution."The E911 mandate hangs like a cloud over the U.S. wireless industry. The Federal Communications Commission requires that the...
