NEW YORK, N.Y.-Spirent Plc said it has acquired Ubinetics" CS100 product line and rights to associated intellectual property for $6.5 million in cash."The CS100 3G base station emulator product is used by leading mobile phone manufacturers and chip set developers for the test and...
PARIS-Struggling French handset vendor Sagem said it registered several new contracts for GSM modules for mobile phones and it has received orders for more than 2 million units in the first nine months of 2002. The value of the contracts was not disclosed.Sagem also...
SEATTLE-First Data Corp. announced it developed a new product, dubbed PocketMerchant, which allows merchants to use a mobile phone or Palm OS handheld as a point-of-sale terminal for accepting electronic payments.Aether Systems also will act as a host for PocketMerchant."The simple and convenient application...
BUCHAREST, Romania-The three main mobile Czech operators and the country's five most important banks have founded the Mobile Payment Association (MPA). The aim of the MPA is to develop and support a unified system for mobile-phone payments, thus boosting the development of mobile financial...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Motorola Inc. said it has signed a software contract to certify and offer Smartserv applications on a variety of its mobile phones with Java 2 platform and micro edition technology. The product will ship in North America later this year, according to the...
SEATTLE, Wash.-Tegic Communications Corp. scored an important victory in its patent battle with rival Zi Corp., and the result could cost Zi up to $27 million as punishment.Following a two-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San...
DUBLIN, Ireland-U.K. telecom regulator Oftel has launched a guide designed to help consumers get maximum value for money from their mobile phones. The document offers advice on a range of issues, including choosing between prepaid and contract payments, controlling call costs and moving between...
SAN DIEGO-The first International Wireless Symposium, scheduled to be held October 2-4, 2002, in San Diego, will be attended by wireless experts specializing in third-generation technologies, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, according to the symposium's organizers.Among several others, confirmed speakers at the show include: Adam Gould,...
DUBLIN, Ireland-A group of engineers at a U.K. university have apparently developed a mobile handset design that protects users concerned about radiation emissions from their phones. The team from the engineering department at Warwick University is believed to have had discussions with a number...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following market research, the Belgian GSM operator Mobistar has revamped its call charges. The company said it has launched a new tariff designed for families based on the principle of sharing monthly call time among all members of the family.The study, conducted...
RESTON, Virginia, United States-According to new findings from ComScore Networks, the audience for the wireless Web is becoming big enough that digital marketers should stand up and take interest.According to the firm, almost 10 million U.S. wired Internet users also accessed the wireless Internet...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The Irish Attorney General's office has confirmed that it will bring forward amended regulations prohibiting the use of mobile phones in cars by mid-September.Following the introduction of the regulations in March 2002, Garda
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Worldwide mobile phone sales for the second quarter increased 0.8 percent from second quarter 2001, totaling 98.7 million units, according to Gartner Dataquest Inc.Nokia Corp. continued to dominate phone sales, capturing a 35.6-percent share of the market in the second quarter.Gartner Dataquest...
CHICAGO-The Council of Residential Specialists, a Chicago-based trade group for realtors, has teamed with InPhonic Inc., Washington, D.C., to provide wireless phones and messaging devices, service plans and unified communications capabilities to nearly 40,000 real estate agents nationwide.Under the agreement announced August 19, InPhonic...
BUCHAREST, Romania-EuroTel Praha, the Czech GSM operator, announced it will launch multimedia messaging service (MMS) for its contract customers on 30 August."Multimedia messaging is the natural evolution of SMS (short message service) technology, and MMS takes us a major step closer to third-generation technology,"...
NEW DELHI, India-Navin Communications, which supplies voice messaging services, has partnered with another Indian cellular operator, BPL Mobile, for its VMS services for prepaid subscribers. "The service is free and allows BPL subscribers to be reachable whether their mobile phones are switched off or...
LONDON-As the tech sector continues a shaky recovery and telecom companies in Europe and the United States offer nothing much to write home about, the Middle East continues its love affair with the mobile phone unabated, and its operators continue to see strong increases...
TOKYO-The recycling rate for Japanese mobile phones, including PHS units, in fiscal year 2001 was up 5.5 percent on the year to 35.2 percent, according to a survey compiled by the Telecommunications Carriers Association. The recycling rate is quite low compared with other consumer...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-TTP Communications plc announced a new partnership with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile that will put TTPCom's GSM platform in new Siemens products."This agreement demonstrates the changing nature of the mobile phone market in which leading manufacturers, due to the issue of costs,...
SAN FRANCISCO-Video game giant Sega.com Inc. released its first ever mobile phone game, Sega Monkey Ball, which will work over Sprint PCS' newly launched Vision network.Sega Mobile, a recently created division of Sega which focuses specifically on the North American wireless gaming market, said...
MUNICH, Germany-T-Mobile said two of its subsidiaries will contribute to helping the victims of the flooding in parts of Europe.RadioMobile in the Czech Republic is donating about $16,000 to a special fund announced by the Czech Red Cross to provide humanitarian aid for the...
NEW YORK-Playboy Enterprises Inc. said it has signed a licensing agreement with Legend Mobile Inc. to distribute its content through digital cards and CD-ROM in mobile phones and in other handheld devices from Motorola, Nokia, Palm and Sony, and in Research in Motion's Blackberry.Running...
WASHINGTON-In five years, cellular carriers will no longer be required to reserve a portion of their spectrum for analog users as long as digital mobile phones become compatible with hearing aids.The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday sunsetted the requirement that all cellular carriers use...
