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Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. revealed early last week that their second-quarter report cards would be less than stellar. Add Texas Instruments to the list. All three companies offered common …

The 2003 JavaOne Developer Conference witnessed a collision of giants as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. pushed their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia has begun shipping the Nokia 6650-according to Nokia, the world’s first dual-mode GSM/WCDMA mobile phone-to operators and retailers in Europe and Asia, including Japan. “The Nokia 6650 is …

VALHALLA, N.Y.-Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. and Summus Inc. announced Fujifilm’s “Get the Picture” mobile photo service application, powered by Summus’ BlueFuel, is now available through AT&T Wireless Service Inc.’s …

Motorola Inc. said the Court of Appeals of England and Wales dismissed a number of appeals brought by Cem Uzan and Aysegul Akay, members of Turkey’s Uzan family, upholding Worldwide …

MEXICO CITY-Nokia Corp. reported that Mexican wireless operator Telefonica Moviles Mexico has selected the infrastructure provider to supply at least 50 percent of the radio-access system and all of the …

BOSTON-Vodafone U.K.’s Vodafone Speaking Phone, which features an application based on technology from SpeechWorks International Inc. and Brand & Grober Communications GbR, allows visually impaired customers to access mobile communications …

The 2003 JavaOne Conference is witnessing a collision of giants, as Sun Microsystems and IBM Corp. are pushing their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Infowave Software inked an agreement with T-Mobile International for Infowave’s wireless messaging product. The technology will be part of T-Mobile’s new Instant E-mail service for smart phones in …

Nokia Corp. has shown it is not immune to the multiple problems of SARS, the weak dollar and a soft market and projected its handset sales for the second quarter …

PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services. The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony …

HELSINKI, Finland-TeliaSonera will standardize its multimedia messaging system across four Nordic countries using equipment from Nokia Corp. The Finnish vendor said its equipment will replace different MMS solutions previously implemented …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia announced a new mobile data service in Sweden called Telia Go, which offers user-friendly menus and preset mobile phones, including the Nokia 3650 and the Sony Ericsson P800 …

LONDON-Tesco, one of the United Kingdom’s major supermarket chains, announced plans to launch its own mobile service in partnership with MmO2. The supermarket will offer branded mobile services to the …

WASHINGTON-Nokia Corp. reached an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to fix a glitch in one of its U.S. mobile phones that does not meet the FCC’s enhanced 911 requirements, …

HELSINKI, Finland-TeliaSonera will standardize its multimedia messaging system across four Nordic countries using equipment from Nokia. The Finnish vendor said its equipment will replace different MMS solutions previously implemented in …

LISBON, Portugal-Portuguese mobile operator Optimus said it will include Opera Software’s mobile Web browser on Optimus Zone, its new multimedia service supported by the Nokia 3650 and 7650 smart phones. …

LONDON-U.K. newcomer Hutchison 3G U.K. will slash prices for its third-generation services beginning Monday. The two new service packages offer up to a 50-percent savings compared with similar plans on …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will partner with its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to offer residential customers a single bucket of share-calling minutes between their wireline …

BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. has joined other vendors to defy SARS with a new wave of investment in the Chinese market. The vendor has committed $50 million in research and development …

In a significant contract win, Lucent Technologies Inc. will provide MmO2 with UMTS gear, including packet technology and services for voice and data. Many industry watchers had counted out Lucent …

Bucking an anti-investment tide generated by the SARS epidemic, two major wireless players, Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp., announced initiatives to pursue CDMA investments in the Chinese market. Qualcomm said …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia announced a new mobile data service in Sweden called Telia Go, which offers user-friendly menus and preset mobile phones, including the Nokia 3650 and the Sony Ericsson P800 …

Just as it blazed the third-generation trail, NTT DoCoMo is hedging its bet on fourth-generation wireless technology with a field trial in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture, the center of its research …

As open standards and alliance building become the Holy Grail of the wireless industry, some industry watchers see them as oxymoron and schemes to capture market share. “Standard groups are …