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CANNES, France—A new initiative, “European Friends of 3GPP” (EF3), was founded at this week’s 3GSM World Congress to fund the organization and support of 3GPP meetings in Europe. Alcatel, Ericsson, …

CANNES, France—Nokia Corp. stamped its feet at the 3GSM World Congress with a series of announcements ranging from open architecture, live demonstrations and Internet Protocol mobility networks. Nokia introduced its …

CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. will offer mobile handset manufacturers and application developers a complete open and standards-based reference platform, combining Nokia’s Series 60 software and development kit, …

NEW YORK—PayPal Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif. start-up company providing mobile and electronic commerce payment services, saw shares of its initial public offering, priced at $13 late Thursday, rise to …

CHICAGO, United States—The Uzan family, owners of Turkish wireless carrier Telsim, warned the lawsuit recently filed against them by Motorola and Nokia could force them out of business. The Uzans …

BOSTON, United States—According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, Samsung will fall below Siemens in 2002 global cellular market share results, and Sony Ericsson may push Samsung down even …

MEXICO CITY—Nokia launched its 8270 model phone, a CDMA 1900 MHz “fashion” phone, at Expo Comm Mexico 2002. Shipments of the phone, which is Nokia’s first CDMA fashion phone for …

MEXICO CITY—Nokia launched its 8270 model phone, a CDMA 1900 MHz “fashion” phone at Expo Comm Mexico 2002. Shipments of the phone, which is Nokia’s first CDMA fashion phone for …

BOSTON—According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, Samsung will fall below Siemens in 2002 global cellular market share results, and Sony Ericsson may push Samsung down even further. Analysts …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—With the first signs that European cell-phone operators are generating better revenues than expected, the major handset developers are gearing themselves up for better days after many months …

BERLIN—The mobile division of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, has forcefully indicated that it plans to be the first to launch third-generation (3G) services in Germany. The company announced plans to deploy …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has successfully made its first third-generation wideband CDMA packet-data calls between its commercial network infrastructure and terminals in its laboratories. “This milestone, which we have …

BEIJING—Nokia expects its handset sales in China to grow by 10 percent to 15 percent this year, the China Daily reported. Motorola leads the market, but Nokia is closing in. …

MOSCOW—German vendor Siemens overtook Finland’s Nokia, the worldwide mobile-phone sales leader, in handset sales in Russia in 2001, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider …

BOULDER, Colo.—GlobalDining, mobile location-based restaurant directory and reservation network, announced it reached more than 1.5 million WAP page views in the three month period beginning November 2001. The company said …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it will integrate Macromedia Inc.’s Flash Player into its Mediaterminal, which combines digital video broadcast, full Internet access, personal video recorder technology and gaming. The Macromedia …

NEW YORK—The lawsuit Motorola and Nokia brought last week against the owners of Telsim and the counterclaims in response have shone a spotlight on equipment vendor-financing practices of recent years …

LINUXWORLD—Open source Development Lab has allied with industry leaders like Alcatel, Cisco, MontaVista Software, Nokia and Toshiba to create working groups to develop feature roadmaps for Linux in the enterprise …

OTTAWA, Canada—Spotwave Wireless announced it worked with Rogers AT&T Wireless to provide the in-building wireless solution for the Nokia Cup, which took place inside Belleville’s Yardman Arena. Spotwave’s SpotCell 100 …

BEIJING—Nokia has partnered with Chinadotcom to launch a platform for short message services (SMS) and other wireless services such as ringing tone download, picture message download and operator logo. “Owners …

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States—In an unusual joint move, Motorola Credit and Nokia will file a lawsuit against the Uzan family, the Turkish billionaires who are controlling owners of Turkey’s major …

ANKARA—Turkish wireless operator Telsim denied the fraud charges filed against it earlier this week in a $3 billion lawsuit by Motorola and Nokia and said it will countersue for compensation.

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has signed a contract to continue to supply GSM equipment to Pannon GSM of Hungary in a deal valued at more than $50 million. Nokia …

HELSINKI, Finland—Those who can afford Ferraris and Rolex watches will have a new choice in mobile phones, courtesy of Vertu, an independent subsidiary of Nokia launched Monday. Vertu plans to …

HELSINKI—Nokia said it will ask shareholders at its annual general meeting to approve plans to buy back up to 220 million of its own shares, which will either be used …