OLOWIANA, Poland-A research company said it developed a design for a new mobile phone that doubles as a gaming device, news that follows on similar products announced by Nokia Corp. and TTPCom.ATELAB Research Group unveiled the first details about its Chameleon, which the company...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Teleca has licensed its Obigo mobile suite, a software package that includes technologies for mobile browsing, messaging and content management, to Chinese consumer electronics supplier Legend.Legend, which began producing and marketing mobile phones a year ago under the brand name Lenovo, will initially...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration said Hynix Semiconductor Inc.-a manufacturer of computer chips for mobile phones and other high-tech gear-exported products to the United States that were unfairly subsidized, setting the stage for a 45-percent duty on future imports from the South Korean company. The International...
CHELSEA, Mich.-Chrysler Group introduced a new service to connect a driver's mobile phone with a microphone inside the car using Bluetooth technology, a step back from full-blown telematics services like Onstar.The new UConnect system allows users to vocally place and receive calls using their...
WASHINGTON-Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, signed an order creating a new Iraqi government agency to oversee licensing of commercial wireless and wireline telecom systems in that country.The June 9 order establishing the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, obtained by RCR Wireless News,...
PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services.The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony Music artist ring tones that are extracted from the original recordings of songs rather than...
Sony Ericsson said that 25,000 of its mobile phones were stolen from the John F. Kennedy Airport Thursday night. "What the thieves did not know is that they were dummy display phones," said spokeswoman Andrea Iraheta. The phones were designed for promotions. Had the...
For those who serenade wideband CDMA as the authentic third-generation protocol, Qualcomm Inc.-inspired cdma2000 is no more than a counterfeit David dueling the shadow of the giant to come. When the giant comes, in all its messianic glories of data and voice, cdma2000 will...
Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Americas BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, plan to sell their 74-percent stake in Mexico's third-largest wireless operator, Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., to Mexican telecommunications service provider Movil Access S.A. de C.V., which said it...
NEW YORK-Sony Ericcson said that 25,000 of its mobile phones were stolen from the John F. Kennedy Airport Thursday night."What the thieves did not know is that they were dummy display phones," said Andrea Iraheta, spokeswoman for the company.The phones, which were stacked next...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. is getting a slice of the $34 million contract held by WorldCom Inc. to provide mobile phone service to U.S. civilian and military officials in Baghdad, even as pressure builds to have the Bush administration dismiss the embattled long-distance giant as a...
WASHINGTON-A prime-time special of ABC Television Network's "The View" will feature real-time interactivity in which viewers can respond to multiple choice quiz questions via mobile phone, the Internet or digital set-top box. Proteus Inc.'s wireless interactive TV service will allow viewers with wireless service...
BOSTON-Vodafone U.K.'s Vodafone Speaking Phone, which features an application based on technology from SpeechWorks International Inc. and Brand & Grober Communications GbR, allows visually impaired customers to access mobile communications services on Nokia Communicator handsets.The application combines SpeechWorks' ETI-eloquence text-to-speech software and Brand &...
SAN DIEGO-Text messaging is growing on a worldwide basis, according to recent polls conducted by SMS.ac Inc., which provides a wireless community (www.sms.ac) that allows for interaction among network operators, technology standards, the Internet, businesses, consumers, and application and content developers. Results of the...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Infowave Software inked an agreement with T-Mobile International for Infowave's wireless messaging product. The technology will be part of T-Mobile's new Instant E-mail service for smart phones in the United Kingdom. Infowave said its Symmetry product is compatible with Symbian-, Smartphone-, Pocket...
PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services.The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony Music artist ring tones extracted from the original recordings of songs rather than simple tones....
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a new partnership with chip maker Intel Corp. as well as new plans to sell wireless application services to businesses, all parts of an effort to continue the expansion of the company's Java 2 Micro Edition technology in wireless.The...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is infringing on one of Sendo's patents.Sendo said it has initiated legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London...
WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) today urged the General Services Administration to consider cutting ties with WorldCom Inc., potentially putting lucrative government wireline and wireless contracts in jeopardy. Collins' terse two-page letter to GSA Administrator Stephen Perry, obtained by RCR Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Nokia Corp. reached an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to fix a glitch in one of its U.S. mobile phones that does not meet the FCC's enhanced 911 requirements, an agreement that includes Nokia paying out a "voluntary contribution" of $60,000.Nokia first discovered...
WASHINGTON-The inspector general of the General Services Administration is investigating WorldCom Inc.'s contracts with the federal government and may issue recommendations to Congress shortly on whether the Bush administration should continue doing business with the embattled long-distance company, according to a source familiar with...
Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is infringing on one of Sendo's patents.Sendo said it has initiated legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Orange...
WASHINGTON-The inspector general of the General Services Administration is investigating WorldCom Inc.'s contracts with the federal government and may issue recommendations soon on whether the Bush administration should continue to do business with the embattled long-distance company, according to a congressional source late today.The...
WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she is dissatisfied with the General Services Administration's response to her May 30 inquiry on why WorldCom Inc. should continue to bid on federal government contracts.WorldCom, which recently snagged an Iraq mobile-phone contract worth $34...
