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TOKYO-NEC Electronic Corp. wants to make chips off its old block. The semiconductor unit of NEC Corp said it will work together with the parent company to develop dual-mode chipsets …

As the new No. 1 carrier in the United States, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is in the position to greatly tighten its control over its handset suppliers. And with a subscriber …

Network equipment divisions performed better for major wireless vendors in the third quarter than their handset businesses did. At Nokia Corp., handset sales figures still topped equipment sales, but infrastructure …

TOKYO-Japanese wireless giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. released its latest line-up of advanced handsets for its FOMA third-generation network. The carrier’s new 901i series of mobile phones feature advanced video calling, …

HONG KONG-Siemens AG said it is ramping up its third-generation efforts in the network market in Asia even as it jointly presented a new base station line with NEC Corp. …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has completed its assisted global positioning system technology call on W-CDMA/GSM/GPRS networks for location-based services. The company said the call took place independently with four …

While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year’s CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided …

LONDON-NEC announced today that O2 U.K. launched the NEC e101, a GPRS-enabled camera phone, on O2’s Pay&Go tariff. Combining a WAP 2.0 browser and JAVA engine, the e101 offers access …

KAWASAKI, Japan-NEC Electronics Corp. launched three single-chip melody LSI solutions that offer sound technology for mobile phones. The product line-up consists of the microPD9993 chip, which offers 64 polyphonic tones …

LONG BEACH, Calif.-L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG have formed a Cooperative Open OSS Project (CO-OP) under the framework of the TeleManagement Forum. The participants …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-InnoPath Software Inc. has added Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. to its list of clients, agreeing to provide its over-the-air software on Sanyo’s 3G handsets. InnoPath’s DeltaUpgrade Plus software …

Vodafone announced plans for 10 new third-generation handsets expected to hit the European and Japanese markets in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. The line-up consists of Sharp Corp.’s …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has collaborated with NEC Corp. to complete what it describes as both companies’ first phase of interoperability testing for Internet Protocol multimedia subsystems. Both vendors …

No longer will EDGE technology belong to the list of protocols with an uncertain future. As some industry experts look at it, EDGE is ramping up in spite of its …

A flurry of announcements Friday brought European mobile users one step closer to watching video broadcasts on their handsets. In three separate announcements: Handset manufacturers Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc., Sony …

Sprint Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. announced they have entered a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement. Through the partnerships, the carriers’ customers will be able to access each other’s public Wi-Fi …

Motorola Inc. and Motorola Japan Ltd. will work with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to develop a handset for business users on the Japanese carrier’s high-speed third-generation FOMA network. The GSM/GPRS handset …

LONDON-U.K. third-generation operator 3 added a new NEC handset to its portfolio with the e228, the Japanese company’s sixth 3G device to launch in the United Kingdom. The bar-format handset …

KAWASAKI, Japan-NEC Electronics Corp. and its NEC Electronics GmbH European subsidiary released new software for microcontrollers that they said can detect counterfeit battery products in mobile phones and digital cameras. …

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission official today defended a $2.5 billion government program that subsidizes Internet connections for schools and libraries, but conceded there is room for improvement. “There has been …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it will score an upfront payment of $27 million thanks to an expanded licensing deal with handset maker Sanyo Electric Co. InterDigital’s stock …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it scored its ninth i-mode carrier partner as Greek operator Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications SA announced it will launch the wireless Internet service on its GPRS network. …

BEIJING-With flagging sales in Japan, NEC Corp. said it is setting up a new company in China to develop the third-generation mobile market in that country. It is working with …

Camera phones are the most rapidly accepted consumer electronics device in history. Yet it appears that wireless carriers-a group many assumed would reap the rewards of a camera-phone revolution-are sitting …

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice Thursday announced the biggest guilty plea yet in a two-year investigation of fraud and abuse of the E-rate program, which uses telephone taxes to connect schools …