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WASHINGTON-Senate Judiciary Committee members last week voiced serious concerns about the proposed $160 billion America Online Inc.-Time Warner Inc. merger, a deal that takes on added significance in light of …

NEW YORK-3Com Corp. spun off 4 percent of its Palm Computing unit March 2 in an initial public offering of 23 million shares that received enthusiastic investor reception. The IPO, …

DENVER, United States-Qualcomm is putting a financial stake in the ground to push CDMA technology in Europe. Qualcomm announced plans to acquire U.K.-based Tellit Communications, a cellular handset design and …

British Telecom and AT&T said they are beginning trials to test roaming services for high-speed Internet phones. The tests will involve General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology and partnerships with …

Handsets Philips Philips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon …

Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian announced a wireless computing platform for …

NEW ORLEANS-Cellport Systems announced it will begin shipping in March its Cellport 3000 universal hands-free system, capable of supporting a variety of phones through the use of changeable pocket adapters. …

BOSTON-Continued consolidation, emerging location-based services, mobile-commerce applications, as well as new marriages between communication, entertainment and Internet players, will be the defining market trends during the next five years, according …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected L.M. Ericsson’s wireless 911 call-completion plan as deficient, but gave the Swedish phone manufacturer a three-month extension to comply with new rules that kicked in …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Symbian initiative unveiled several new product enhancements through deals announced at the Symbian Developers Conference. An agreement with Communication Intelligence Corp. added the company’s Jot handwriting recognition …

WASHINGTON-The `consensus’ reached by a government-industry panel on a third-generation mobile phone position that the Clinton administration can take to the World Radiocommunication Conference this spring underscores the complexities faced …

Mexico Mexican wireless company Unefon launched initial service Feb. 10 in Toluca, a city outside Mexico City. The company plans to begin services in 20 cities during the next year …

ESPOO, Finland-Vodafone New Zealand agreed to trial Nokia’s General Packet Radio Service core network solution and Wireless Application Protocol platform. Nokia said it will deliver its Internet Protocol core network …

SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia and Visa International signed a global agreement to cooperate on the development of payment solutions for mobile electronic commerce. The deal calls for the companies to develop ways …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia signed an agreement to expand New World Mobility’s network in Hong Kong. Nokia will deliver mobile switching equipment, base stations, high-capacity base station controllers, a full range of …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Oy announced the early availability of its open Iu Interface for third-generation mobile networks. Nokia said it will provide full compatibility to the Iu Interface-according to the 3G …

In an unprecedented move to bring the Internet to mobile phone users, AOL Europe announced last week it entered into agreements with Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson to develop and …

Nokia reported it is developing a solution enabling immediate access to mobile commerce sites via Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones. Partnered with Hewlett Packard, IBM and Nocom, the collaboration hopes to …

Scandinavia Millicom International Cellular S.A., a worldwide cellular telephone and telecommunications company, said it sold 900,000 class B shares from a total of almost 6 million class A and class …

Alcatel is banking on the next generation of wireless systems to make inroads in the U.S. Global System for Mobile communications market. With a GSM foothold in Europe and several …

NEW YORK-Qualcomm’s meteoric stock price appreciation in 1999 may well be a unique phenomenon that other companies are unlikely to replicate. Nonetheless, other established and new telecommunications players seem poised …

General Packet Radio Service technology is a powerful proposition for Global System for Mobile communications operators anxious to comb in the huge revenues packetized wireless Internet access promises. That’s why …

Although some rumblings continue over Geoworks Corp.’s licensing program for Wireless Application Protocol technology, WAP-related announcements continued making news at last week’s GSM World Congress in Cannes. Phone.com Inc. announced …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported its strongest annual operating results in the company’s history for the 1999 fourth quarter and year. Net sales grew 48 percent for the year from $13.4 …

When you’re moving at Internet-speed, a lot can happen in a year. Those targeting the wireless remote access market found this out quickly. About a year ago, several companies emerged …