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WASHINGTON-The law firm of Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, which earlier this year took control of an $800 million mobile phone-brain cancer lawsuit, has joined forces with attorneys in a …

NEW YORK-With NEC Corp. and Sony Corp. serving as “trend setters” among their in-country peers, Japanese electronics equipment companies are poised to follow the lead of their American and European …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-NEC, the Japanese manufacturer, inaugurated a software development center in Argentina, and it plans to invest $100 million over three to five years. Hajime Sasaki, director of NEC, …

Adicom Wireless Adicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo released a new Java-enabled handset, which is manufactured by NEC. The handset will be put into the market on 3 March. The NEC handset will be the third …

TOKYO-NEC Corp. will supply third-generation equipment to Telecom Italia Mobile, according to international press reports. The value of the contract, which is the first win for a Japanese manufacturer in …

TOKYO-The millennium bug was squashed in most industries around the world, with one exception in wireless. Due to a Y2K glitch, short message service (SMS) messages on some types of …

SINGAPORE-Four years after it was first introduced in Japan, PHS technology finally has made some headway in the international telecommunications arena. Taiwanese paging operator First International Telecom (Fitel) recently was …

Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services. PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video …

NEW YORK-The Land of the Rising Sun has emerged as the place to be for investors interested in grabbing onto incipient wireless telecommunications trends, said a managing director of Whitney …

NEW YORK-In this year’s RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment …

NEW YORK-Tokyo-based NEC Corp. has ambitious expansion plans for its wireless handsets and infrastructure business, but the plans do not target North America, said Koji Nishigaki, president. In Asia, the …

TOKYO-The third-generation (3G) business plans and service strategies of three Japanese cellular carriers are becoming more concrete. NTT DoCoMo and J-Phone Group, the mobile business of Japan Telecom, are going …

After pioneering efforts to bring Bluetooth technology to market, Ericsson dropped plans to launch the T36 cell phone, its first Bluetooth-enabled handset, in an attempt to pull its handset division …

TOKYO-Japanese vendors are in the final stages of developing third-generation (3G) terminals. Japanese 3G services are scheduled to be launched earlier than any other country in May 2001 by NTT …

TOKYO-NEC do Brazil, a subsidiary of NEC Corp., won a total of 50 billion yen (US$466 million) in communications contracts from major Brazilian carriers and has started shipping them, the …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services. Latin America in …

WASHINGTON-In addition to new litigation alleging that mobile phones cause brain cancer, the wireless industry also faces possible Supreme Court litigation over government exposure standards and a class-action lawsuit in …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services. Latin America in …

Analog Devices Analog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation …

NEW YORK-Israeli wireless broadband equipment companies have been strutting their stuff on Wall Street lately. Floware Wireless Systems Ltd. sold its 4.5 million-share initial public offering Aug. 1. Credit Suisse …

TOKYO-Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo selected NEC Corp. to supply an experimental, next-generation Internet Protocol core network system for use in mobile communications and to develop application services. NEC said …

Nigeria Motorola Inc. was awarded a $21 million expansion contract from Intercellular Nigeria Ltd. to supply and deploy a Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless loop network in Nigeria. Motorola’s …

WARWICK, England-Crown Castle UK Ltd. announced it won a contract to roll out a third-generation network on the Isle of Man, to be built by NEC and Siemens for Manx …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil’s telecommunications regulatory agency, will not divulge the frequency band-either 1.8 GHz or 1.9 GHz-that band C cellular telephony operators will use until after the World Radiocommunication …