Novatel Wireless Inc. strengthened its position as the No. 1 supplier of PC cards in the United States in the second quarter, finally beating long-time rival Sierra Wireless Inc. Sierra has dominated the PC card market, but several critical missteps paved the way for...
LONDON-Navicore Personal launched its next-generation navigation system for handsets. The product uses a proprietary routing algorithm to respond to directions taken by users. Reportedly, calculating routes of hundreds of miles takes only a few seconds.Navicore Personal is sold as a complete retail package including...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. and Siemens AG joined the growing list of handset manufacturers selling devices that can connect to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless e-mail service.Sony Ericsson announced Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. in Singapore will sell its P910i smart phone with...
LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday.Your Destiny TV is behind the service, which reads photos of users' palms and delivers text messages with the reading. The...
MUNICH, Germany-Novatel Wireless Inc. said it signed a frame agreement with O2 Germany for the purchase of mobile communications equipment, which includes the supply of Novatel Wireless' new Ovation MCU1000 third-generation wireless multimedia application consoles powered by Conversa software suite. O2 Germany will brand...
MUNICH, Germany-Novatel Wireless Inc. said it signed a frame agreement with O2 Germany for the purchase of mobile communications equipment, which includes the supply of Novatel Wireless' new Ovation MCU1000 third-generation wireless multimedia application consoles powered by Conversa software suite.O2 Germany will brand the...
LOS ANGELES AND LONDON-The 25 top Academy Award acting and directing nominees will receive a special-edition black Motorola Razr V3 with three months of complimentary service from Cingular Wireless. Features include a camera with digital zoom, mpeg video player, speaker phone and quad-band technology...
LONDON-BlueStar Mobile has developed an official handset for the BRIT Awards, the British equivalent of the Grammys, the mobile content company said Wednesday. The customized Samsung e330 includes a package allowing users to access ringtones, wallpaper and animated logos based on four BRIT categories....
LONDON-U.K. content company Wasted said it has partnered with MmO2's U.K. division to offer music, wallpapers, logos, pictures and text competitions on O2's Web site to customers."We are launching the Glitzzi Girlz, who will be releasing their first single at the end of January...
SLOUGH, United Kingdom-U.K. customers of carrier MmO2 can make animated invitations, greeting cards and other messages through a new service, the operator announced Tuesday. Users with WAP 2-enabled phones can create their own animated content through "Fun Zone," O2's online storefront that offers entertainment-based...
SLOUGH, United Kingdom-U.K. customers of carrier MmO2 can make animated invitations, greeting cards and other messages through a new service, the operator announced Tuesday.Users with WAP 2-enabled phones can create their own animated content through "Fun Zone," O2's online storefront that offers entertainment-based applications,...
LONDON-I-mode services are coming to the competitive U.K. market, in addition to Ireland and the second such service in Germany, through a new deal between U.K.-based MmO2 plc and Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. Under the long-term strategic agreement, MmO2 will launch the i-mode mobile...
LONDON-The Starmap Mobile Alliance, an alliance of 11 European wireless carriers, said it is rolling out a new multi-country corporate service for customers across Europe.Aimed at multinational customers, the service initially will be made available in seven countries-Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and...
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 to the O2 Active wireless Web service. The clamshell-style e101 offers a second external...
BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom-Motorola Inc. unveiled six new clamshell handsets in the hopes of expanding its popularity among wireless users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The new devices are designed to exploit network services such as Vodafone Live, T-Mobile t-zones, O2 Active, Orange...
LONDON—Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless Inc. have agreed to supply U.K. carrier O2 with their wireless UMTS PC card modems known as Merlin U530. This will give the carrier's business customers access to services such as streaming video and audio and secure mobile...
LONDON-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Novatel Wireless Inc. have agreed to supply U.K. carrier O2 with their wireless UMTS PC card modems known as Merlin U530.This will give the carrier's business customers access to services such as streaming video and audio and secure mobile access...
NUREMBERG, Germany-Coding Technologies, which provides audio compression for mobile communications, said the Third-Generation Partnership Project has standardized its aacPlus audio codec.The codec currently is used for the music download services of European carriers O2 and Vodafone, and it is widely adopted in digital broadcasting...
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 Ericsson Mobile Communications and NEC Corp. will cooperate to create a standard that will...
Autodesk Location Services and Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of location-based traffic alert services for Verizon's vtext.com text-messaging portal. With the service, Verizon customers can log into www.vtext.com and set up specific routes for which to view traffic information and choose a time,...
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in March:Ireland With Meteor for a core GPRS solution.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With First Cellular of Southern Illinois for MMS Proxy Relay, WAP Gateway and Push Proxy Platform products.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With MetroPCS for MMS equipment.Value: UndisclosedEricssonIreland With Meteor...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Danish mobile carrier Sonofon is joining a European alliance of wireless operators. The Starmap Mobile Alliance consists of 10 small European mobile operators representing a total of more than 46 million mobile customers."Ideally, our customers should be able to access the same services...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Danish mobile carrier Sonofon is joining a European alliance of wireless operators. The Starmap Mobile Alliance consists of 10 small European mobile operators representing a total of more than 46 million mobile customers."Ideally, our customers should be able to access the same services...
Software provider Seven Networks Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock, to be sold by both the company and selling stockholders. The company also announced...
