A new report shows the mobile-phone industry could hit almost 500 million shipments this year, a number driven by demand in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America and sales of color- and camera-enabled devices."We see positive signs from vendors and carriers that this...
NICE, France-Nokia made numerous announcements today at its annual customer Mobile Internet Conference in Nice, France, and at its "Destination Nokia 100% Pure Mobility" event in Brisbane, Australia.The company shared its vision of a mobile services mass market to a broad range of industry...
Customers of Vodafone Group plc in Europe, Australia and New Zealand will have access to content from the TV show "The Simpsons" under a new deal announced between the global operator and THQ Inc. The deal comes just a week after RCR Wireless News...
TOKYO-Kyocera Corp. said a writedown in its U.S. unit contributed to the fall in its first-half profit. The company, however, recorded a net profit of $145 million for the first six months ended Sept. 30 in contrast to $158 million in the same period...
LAS VEGAS-Ascendent Telecommunications announced that its AscendentCS mobility and continuity application has been installed inside media specialist OMD's New York office.Ascendent's solution allows mobile phones to be linked to Private Branch Exchanges (PBX), allowing users to access the same features and functions their desk...
WASHINGTON-The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday unanimously affirmed a lower court's dismissal of an $800 million brain-cancer lawsuit against Motorola Inc. and others. The decision puts in further jeopardy nine pending brain-cancer suits against the mobile-phone industry in Baltimore federal court and...
LAS VEGAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans to relaunch its mMode wireless data offering in November, although details of the carrier's plan are unclear.Andre Dahan, president of AT&T Wireless' multimedia services, announced the carrier's intent during the CTIA Wireless I.T. show earlier this week in...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday said that OnStar Corp.'s ancillary voice calling service is a mobile phone and is subject to the FCC's wireless enhanced 911 rules. But the commission then waived the rules until 2006."We agree with OnStar that the timing of the...
WASHINGTON-The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday unanimously affirmed a lower court's dismissal of an $800 million brain-cancer suit against Motorola Inc. and others. The decision puts in further jeopardy nine pending brain cancer suits against the mobile-phone industry in Baltimore federal court...
NOERRESUNDBY, The Netherlands-Dutch company RTX Telecom A/S said it entered an agreement with a Korean mobile telephone producer to develop a GSM/GPRS mobile phone with built-in camera, color display, WAP, multimedia messaging service and polyphonic ring tones.The phone will use Motorola Inc.'s i.250 platform...
LAS VEGAS-Ascendent Telecommunications announced at this week's CTIA Wireless IT show in Las Vegas that its AscendentCS mobility and continuity application has been installed inside media specialist OMD's New York office.Ascendent's solution allows mobile phones to be linked to Private Branch Exchanges (PBX), allowing...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it plans to develop software for mobile phone to protect from wireless viruses, including multimedia-style bugs that travel through e-mail.DoCoMo is working with virus protection company Network Associates Inc. to develop a compact anti-virus engine....
Nokia Corp. said it posted a net income of $958.5 million, or 19 cents a share, in its third quarter results, although its mobile-phone and infrastructure sales fell.The company said it expects its fourth-quarter earnings to be lower than anticipated because of a possible...
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has extended its deal with ARM Ltd. to license the ARM1136J core and the ARM1136JF core for smart phones and personal digital assistants.The ARM products "feature a combination of high performance, low power, small size, high-code density and powerful...
Kyocera Wireless Corp. resumed shipments of several phone models following the company's investigation into an incident of an apparent exploding phone."There was no explosion," said Kyocera spokesman John Chier.Chier said the incident was actually caused by a safety feature built into the phone's battery....
LG Electronics plans to enter the GSM race in the United States through two new clamshell phones, devices that will be available through Cingular Wireless. LG said pricing and availability details will be announced in the official unveiling of the phones next week during...
Longtime wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a significant new business direction with the unveiling of its Voq phone-a device that marks the arrival of a new smart-phone player and another Microsoft Corp. backer.Investors seemed cheered by the bold move, sending Sierra's stock up...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the Direct Marketing Association, which represents 70 percent of telemarketers, found themselves in a tug-of-war Oct. 3 over the constitutionally disputed Do-Not-Call Registry."We do not agree with your suggestion that providing the FCC with the database would subject you...
WASHINGTON-The Dutch government said a new study finds that radiation from GSM base stations of third-generation mobile-phone systems could be a potential health problem.The research, in which individuals exposed to 3G base station transmissions reported headaches, nausea and other effects, was performed for three...
Roy Miniel is a video gamer. He knows his way around a joystick and is on a first-name basis with Lara. Lara Croft, that is, professional tomb raider. Indeed, it's Miniel's job to know such things-he runs a Denver-area video game store called U...
Western Wireless Corp. announced the registration statement for the resale of its outstanding 4.625-percent convertible subordinated notes due 2023 and the shares of Class A common stock issuable upon conversion of the notes has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. ...
OTTAWA-Atsana Semiconductor Corp said it has unveiled its platform kit for makers of mobile phones and personal digital assistants.The product, known as the J2210 Mobile Evaluation Platform, "enables developers to quickly evaluate and implement support for MPEG-4/H.263 video encode, decode, video conferencing, megapixel digital...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless announced it will offer a BREW application that will allow users to wirelessly link to their desktop calendar applications.The iDatebook application, from Xpherix Corp., allows users to access calendar content held in existing Microsoft Outlook or Palm OS software applications from...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s GSM network failed last weekend, affecting thousands of customers nationwide.The outage affected Cingular's GSM overlay network in the southern, northeastern and midwestern United States, preventing about 880,000, or 4 percent, of Cingular's 22 million customers from using their mobile phones and...
