CAMBERLEY, United Kingdom-Toshiba launched its first European mobile phone-the TS21i-in the Netherlands through KPN Mobile. The phone will offer one-touch access to KPN Mobile's i-mode service."Since we announced our intention to produce mobile phones for the European market, we have been working hard to...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Summus Inc., which sells software and platforms for wireless applications, announced it will likely not meet its previously announced revenue expectations for this year and next year.Summus blamed the slow pace of wireless carrier service rollouts as well as delays in new wireless...
WASHINGTON-White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke said today industry unity could help win funding for wireless priority access service implementation and that security remains a big problem with wireless local area networks."It would make it easier...to make the necessary decisions about budgeting for wireless...
PALM BEACH, Fla.-422 Inc. and its partner Varetis Communications launched a new and unique service for mobile phone users-wireless directory assistance."422 will be the most significant information service short code to be added to public service since 411," said Dean Becker, founder and chief...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Technology platform provider Summus Inc. announced it will maintain and resell mobile phones and services from Single Touch Interactive, which controls a portfolio of media brands and applications including those based on World Wrestling Entertainment and The Sports Mobile Professional.Under the agreement, Summus...
NEW YORK-Qualcomm Inc. closed out its fiscal year with a flourish, as sales in Asia helped bring about a return to profitability, the company reported Nov. 7. Revenues rose to $3 billion, a 13-percent increase from the prior year's $2.7 billion. Net income followed...
WILMINGTON, N.C.-ComScape Telecommunications Inc., which owns a number of C-block and F-block spectrum licenses, launched its Kiwi PCS service in Wilmington, N.C., offering customers flat-rate unlimited local calling for $35 per month with no contracts or deposits. Customers also can add voice mail, caller...
CANNES, France-GartnerG2, the research and advisory arm of Gartner Group, said short message service (SMS) is potentially a powerful marketing tool in Europe, with SMS use now exceeding Internet use in Europe.According to research the company presented at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo in Cannes, France,...
CANNES, France-GartnerG2, the research and advisory arm of Gartner Group, said short message service is potentially a powerful marketing tool in Europe, with SMS use now exceeding Internet use in Europe.According to research the company presented at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo in Cannes, France, more...
BALTIMORE-U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake Thursday dismissed the $800 million brain cancer lawsuit against the mobile phone industry.Today, Blake heard oral argument on industry's motion to dismiss six class action lawsuits that take issue with the marketing of mobile phone products that plaintiffs claim...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, will launch a flat rate mobile service in the second quarter of 2003, the company said on Thursday.According to the firm, the service based on PHS networks will be provided at 4,000 yen (US$32.61) to 5,000...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Siemens Telecommunications recently announced it has been awarded a 1 million Euro contract to supply South Africa's mobile service provider, Vodacom, with the infrastructure and applications for its new multimedia messaging services (MMS).In terms of the contract, Siemens is required to integrate...
MANILA, The Philippines-The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is set to issue next month new regulations cracking down on providers and distributors of prepaid cards for mobile phones suspected of stealing from the government some six billion pesos (about US$113 million) worth of tax...
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), formed in June 2002, will either greatly help or hinder the future of wireless industry, according to a new study from the Shosteck Group.According to the Shosteck Group, OMA plays a political role in the future of wireless technology...
MOSCOW-Russian wireless carriers joined the effort to help resolve the unprecedented hostage drama in Moscow where Chechen terrorists held some 700 theatergoers hostage.Wireless traffic in the area of the theater heavily increased on the night when spectators called their relatives and police to report...
SHANGHAI, China-Last year, Siemens announced big plans to increase its mobile telecom market share in China. But Lothar Pauly, board member of the Information and Communication Mobile Group of Siemens, acknowledged he is not fully satisfied with the progress made during the past year....
with CollectiveGood on recycling programSAN FRANCISCO-Working Assets, which sells phone, wireless, credit card and Internet services, announced it will team with mobile phone recycling company CollectiveGood to get its customers to recycle their used mobile phones. Further, Working Assets will donate the proceeds from...
NEW DELHI, India-Sri Lankan operator Celltel Lanka has launched a set of secure m-commerce services on a short message service (SMS) platform.The new service called CellWallet stores encrypted electronic information pertaining to a user's credit cards, debit cards and bank accounts, and allows a...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Although carriers continue to lower the price of new mobile phones in an effort to attract more customers, wireless subscribers are waiting longer to replace their current mobile phones, according to a new study from J.D. Power and Associates.In the firm's "U.S....
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-Wireless instant messaging company Streampath Wireless Inc. released a new instant messaging application for Java-capable mobile phones that the company is offering free of charge to operators, businesses and end users.The company is also offering themed instant messaging applications as an addition...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC said Thailand's TOT Corp. plc will implement ADC's Singl.eView convergent billing platform in its GSM mobile phone network, which it is rolling out now.Singl.eView will be installed by ADC and Samart Corp., a Thailand-based company.
MANILA, The Philippines-While Globe Telecom and Smart Communications are now offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), such issues as interconnection, standards of interoperability and rates have to be tackled, according to Edgardo Bautista, product development head of Smart. As both providers grow their MMS subscribers,...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. is standing by the promise of 3G and releasing new products it believes will position carriers to deploy next-generation networks despite the current downtrodden economic climate."3G is not dead," Eric McHenry, vice president and general manager of the wireless...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has registered a new industry code aimed at improving "consultation by telecommunications carriers when they are planning and installing new facilities, such as mobile phone towers." Failure by any of the mobile operators to comply with the code...
