DENVER, United States-Qualcomm and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main line new...
U.K. wireless handset manufacturer Sendo announced a global strategic partnership with Virgin Mobile. Virgin Mobile will be the first operator to offer Sendo's phones to consumers later this year. Virgin Mobile initially plans to introduce two Sendo phones, which will be marketed as Virgin...
New ZealandNokia Corp. will integrate its General Packet Radio Service core network solution into Vodafone New Zealand's network, providing mobile Internet access to Vodafone's subscribers. Vodafone plans to launch commercial GPRS service during the fourth quarter.TaiwanNokia will deliver its General Packet Radio Service core...
PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector outlined plans for supplying cdma2000 1x Evolution-Data Only, the next generation of cdma2000 technology, as the next step in the evolution of third-generation wireless systems based on Qualcomm Inc.'s CDMA High Data Rate technology.Motorola said the technology...
The Personal Communications Industry Association made another move designed to evolve the association into one that serves the global mobile Internet market.PCIA last week announced the PCIA Global Initiative, a new PCIA division designed to provide consumer and market data for the mobile Internet...
Qualcomm Inc. and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility last week, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main-line new...
Qualcomm Inc.'s transformation is complete.The CDMA innovator last week announced it intends to spin off its chipset and software business, leaving the company as primarily one that collects royalties from CDMA technology.Qualcomm started out this way. It developed CDMA technology for mobile systems, patented...
InterWaveWireless networking provider InterWave Communications International Ltd. introduced TurboMax, a macro network product offering wireless community network service providers extended coverage capabilities to meet the needs of community networks with dispersed populations. The company said the solution is ideally suited for network expansion where...
WirelessNorthPersonal communications services carrier WirelessNorth named David Charles president of the company. Charles served as director of operations with Montana Power Co., where he was responsible for 120 employees serving 110,000 electric and natural gas customers in the Missoula division, covering Western Montana. In...
WASHINGTON-A coalition of government agencies including the Coast Guard, the Federal Highway Administration and the Air Force are in the process of building a system that will increase the accuracy of the global positioning system from 50 meters to one to three meters, said...
While still slow to be adopted by wireless operators, wireless location service providers have accelerated their efforts to deliver effective technologies that can determine a wireless user's position within the network.SignalSoft Corp., a platform and applications developer, formed an agreement with Telcordia Technologies Inc....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported an addition to Sanyo's existing Code Division Multiple Access subscriber unit license agreement granting Sanyo a license under Qualcomm's essential CDMA patent portfolio to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber equipment for all modes of the third-generation CDMA standard.In return for...
NEW YORK-Struggling satellite communications provider Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said it billed more than twice the number of minutes in the second quarter than in the first, and reported net revenues for the quarter of $708,000.However, the company reported a net loss of $216.7 million,...
Qualcomm Inc.'s financial results came in line with consensus estimates last week, but the company expects falling chip sales because of slower handset sales anticipated in South Korea.Marc Cabi, managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston, downgraded Qualcomm to a "hold" rating, and reduced...
Forget watching the TV show "Survivor." After all, how many times can you watch people eat bugs and rats without getting queasy? Instead, take care of your voyeuristic tendencies with the wireless industry's own version of Survivor.While there have always been instances of Company...
TOKYO-Qualcomm Inc. unveiled a digital chipset and system software solution that it said facilitates development of Code Division Multiple Access handheld devices suitable for wireless Internet services and applications.The Mobile Station Processor 1000 solution is a microprocessor system designed to perform the functions associated...
The term wireless application service provider has been tossed around a lot lately. But what exactly is a wireless ASP and why is it so popular at this stage of the wireless Internet industry?A traditional ASP model is the implementation of an application that...
WASHINGTON-Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has begun preparing for the likelihood that many mobile-phone carriers will not meet upcoming deadlines governing location-based 911 wireless emergency service rules.Meanwhile, Sugrue and his staff are mired in other prickly 911 policy issues dealing...
NEW YORK-Korea Telecom Freetel, the second-largest wireless provider in South Korea, is leaning toward deploying new technology in the third-generation license band.As recently as late June, Y.D. Hong, KT Freetel's chief financial officer, told securities analysts at a public forum in New York that...
Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. introduced the latest version of its WorkStyle Server, version 3.0, which the company says completes its vision of allowing any device on any network to access a user's corporate data on a mobile basis.Release 3.0 adds support for Palm devices, Pocket...
It's been a wild roller-coaster ride for Qualcomm Inc.'s stock this year.The former Wall Street angel is fighting a public-relations battle that says a move to wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology is a move away from Qualcomm.Such is the story in South Korea,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported it was laying off approximately 200 workers, or roughly 3 percent of the company's 7,000 employees, in what Qualcomm said is a companywide employee adjustment.Diana Baldwin, a Qualcomm spokeswoman, said the move was part of an ongoing company adjustment to...
Motorola Inc. plans to divest its interests in more than a dozen international wireless operators to free itself from potential conflicts with customers.The new wholly owned subsidiary, Propel Inc., filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week for an initial...
