CANNES, France-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile released an advanced new mobile phone to be sold in the next few months in Europe and Asia, the first phone from the company to use Nokia Corp.'s Series 60 software platform.The SX1 device, which offers a large...
CANNES, France-Wireless operator Orange released sales figures and details about its business-oriented SPV device-the first wireless device to use Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system-and announced plans to offer a modified SPV aimed at consumers.Orange said it has sold 40,000 of its SPVs since it...
NEW DELHI, India-Thai fixed-line operator, TelecomAsia, has decided to expand and improve the quality of its personal cordless telephone (PCT) network. The company will invest 500 million baht (US$11.6 million) in the expansion program.Besides increasing coverage in the greater Bangkok area, the expansion will...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging company Comverse announced Taiwanese mobile carrier MoBiTai will use its server to offer multimedia messaging services."Our agreement with MoBiTai emphasizes that our platform is configurable, open and flexible, and strengthens Comverse's position as a leading mobile data provider," said Zeev Bregman, Comverse's...
VANCOUVER-A global consortium of wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) and mobile operators have formed to implement a new authentication and payment platform that gives mobile-phone users access to high-speed hot spots.Users need only a mobile phone to use the system, according to Canadian WISP...
WOODBURY, New York, United States-Messaging company Comverse announced Taiwanese mobile carrier MoBiTai will use its server to offer multimedia message services (MMS)."Our agreement with MoBiTai emphasizes that our platform is configurable, open and flexible, and strengthens Comverse's position as a leading mobile data provider,"...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Beatnik Inc., which provides structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, said Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. is using its Beatnik Audio Engine in its new Symbian OS P800 mobile phone and plans to use it in other future products.The BAE allows...
SAN DIEGO-LG Mobile Phones said Verizon Wireless has begun retailing its new VX2000 tri-mode phone for $70, as part of a two-year service agreement, through the carrier's direct sales channels and at RadioShack stores nationwide.The candy-bar-size VX2000, which connects to Verizon Wireless Express Network,...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The virus protection business of Network Associates Inc. said it will jump into the wireless industry in order to protect wireless users from the potential threat of wirelessly transmitted computer viruses, and announced partnerships with processor company Texas Instruments Inc. and operating...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Siemens has set a target of supplying one in five mobile phones bought in the United Kingdom by 2005. Having firmly established itself as the main challenger to Nokia's undisputed leadership of the handset market in the United Kingdom, the company is looking...
LONDON-Acotel, the Italian wireless application service provider, has acquired Info2cell.com, the Middle East's first wireless applications service provider. Acotel's first acquired a 33-percent stake in Info2cell.com in 2000. Following the complete acquisition of the company, Acotel has linked the Info2cell.com development center in Jordan...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. released additional details on its previously announced N-Gage video game platform/mobile phone, reporting the support of a range of major video game developers and sales timelines.In conjunction with the release, Nokia held two "Get Ready to N-Gage" events in London and...
WASHINGTON-Maryland State Sen. Brian Frosh (D) and two other lawmakers have introduced legislation to step up regulation of mobile phone carriers, continuing a growing trend of state activism throughout the country in response to rising consumer complaints about service quality, billing and contracts.The Frosh...
WASHINGTON-A key House lawmaker has requested a probe into whether the Bush administration's top telecom official acted properly in allowing wireless lobbyists to throw her a party in October 2001 and shortly afterward announcing support for lifting the spectrum cap, a move in line...
WASHINGTON-A U.S. government-sponsored study said mobile-phone exposure causes brain damage in rats.The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Environmental Heath Perspectives, is said to represent the first time researchers have found damage to neurons in rats brains exposed to radiation...
WASINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today authorized mobile satellite service providers the flexibility to integrate ground-based transmitters into their operations, but it also reallocated 30 megahertz from the troubled satellite sector to the mobile phone industry for third generation wireless services. The FCC will seek...
WASHINGTON-A Swedish-funded study published in a journal of a U.S. health agency says mobile phone exposure causes brain damage in rats. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Environmental Heath Perspectives, is said to represent the first time researchers have...
BEIJING-China's TCL Mobile Communications sold 6.21 million mobile phones last year, exceeding its sales target of 5 million units. The company is China's largest domestic handset maker. Sales surged almost fourfold compared with 2001.This year, TCL may be surpassed by rival Ningbo Bird, which...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler today warned Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell that allowing mobile satellite service operators to operate land-band transmitters could cause interference to mobile phone handsets in the personal communications services band."We cannot rob Peter in order...
NEW YORK-Siemens AG reported a 10-percent decrease in first-quarter sales, to $20.28 billion, and a decline in net income to $561 million from $579 million during the same period a year ago. Earnings per share dropped to 63 cents from 66 cents.Siemens sold a...
MOSCOW-Biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) was stunned to see its database of clients sold on pirate CD across Moscow and launched an investigation among the staff.The CD containing private data on some 3 million Moscow clients of the company, including their account numbers,...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless will sell a new color screen mobile phone from LG Mobile Phones, the companies announced.The new VX4400 features a 65K-STN color internal LCD display as well as BREW application download technology, which is part of Verizon's Get It Now service. The...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-FastMobile said it successfully completed a voice push-to-talk test between Chicago and London using two standard mobile phones operating with the company's fastxt walkie-talkie technology.The company said the test used two standard mobile phones and a FastMobile server, which routed the digitized voice...
Just months after European carrier Orange released the world's first mobile phone running on Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, the two companies are working to develop a patch for a software bug in the phone's operating system, a bug that allows users to bypass the...
