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With a new venue, La Fira Barcelona, and more than 50,000 attendees, this year’s 3GSM World Congress combined old and new in a splendid way-and showed once again that the …

WASHINGTON-You may have heard of a CoW or even a CoLT, but how about Mercury? Probably not. And before you start trying to figure out the acronym-it isn’t one. Mercury …

With the announcement of a joint CDMA handset venture between Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. and Nokia Corp., U.S. CDMA carriers could benefit from increased competition among vendors, and mobile virtual …

BARCELONA, Spain—Virgin Mobile is set to be one of the first European operators to launch mobile TV services using a dedicated mobile TV network. The carrier, which operates a number …

ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. announced they plan to form a joint venture to build CDMA phones. The move likely will have major repercussions for the global …

WASHINGTON-Wireless, telecom and high-tech sectors that spend an estimated $300 million a year to change the hearts and minds of congressmen, federal regulators and White House officials are unlikely to …

Motorola Motorola Inc. named Hamid Ahmadi its first chief architect, with responsibility for developing a unified architectural framework and leading strategic hardware and software architecture planning across all business units. …

DALLAS-More than a dozen major developers, publishers, handset manufacturers and technology companies are working to streamline the process for developing and delivering mobile games. Activision Inc., Digital Chocolate, Electronic Arts, …

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it expects to begin shipping TD-SCDMA equipment by the middle of this year, a move the company said shows that its strategy in China will pay …

LAKE FOREST, Calif.-Mobile TV chipmaker Newport Media Inc. said it added $25 million to its funding coffers during a second round of fundraising. The round, led by Oak Investment Partners, …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. scored a minor victory in its legal wrangle with chipmaker Broadcom Inc., managing to move part of the case to its home base of San Diego. The …

PEMBROKE, Bermuda-Qualcomm Inc.’s mobile TV subsidiary, MediaFlo USA Inc., signed an agreement with Intelsat to use capacity on the satellite operator’s Intelsat Americas-8 satellite. The IA-8 satellite, launched last summer, …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. tapped the architect of its BREW business to head the commercial launch of its new mobile TV effort, MediaFlo USA Inc. Qualcomm’s Gina Lombardi was appointed president …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. tapped the architect of its BREW business to head the commercial launch of its new mobile TV effort, MediaFlo USA Inc. Qualcomm’s Gina Lombardi was appointed president …

Telecom equipment vendors posted fiscal first-quarter results and watched their stocks react accordingly. Thanks in part to a $278 million bankruptcy lawsuit ruling, Lucent Technologies Inc. posted a first-quarter net …

BOSTON-German wireless users are unimpressed with mobile TV, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. Poor network performance, a lack of compelling content and inadequate devices are resulting in disappointing …

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Bitfone Corp., which specializes in over-the-air updating technology for mobile phones, said Chinese mobile-phone manufacturer Amoi Electronics plans to use its mProve device management client suite for OTA …

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms. Carriers Robert W. Baird raised its 2006 estimates on BellSouth …

SAN DIEGO-While wireless chip titan Qualcomm Inc. posted strong first quarter results, the company’s stock slipped slightly downward due to warnings of slowing sales in its second quarter. Qualcomm posted …

BOSTON-German wireless users are unimpressed with mobile TV, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. Poor network performance, a lack of compelling content and inadequate devices are resulting in disappointing …

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Bitfone Corp., which specializes in over-the-air updating technology for mobile phones, said Chinese mobile-phone manufacturer Amoi Electronics plans to use its mProve device management client suite for OTA …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced a royalty-bearing deal with wireless infrastructure software maker Vanu Inc. Under the agreement, Qualcomm said it licensed to Vanu certain patents to develop, manufacture and sell …

The Chinese government has given its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology a thumbs up, calling it an officially backed standard, the Xinhua news agency reported. China’s Ministry of Information Industry said the …

LAS VEGAS-What do Intel Corp., Modeo L.L.C., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. all have in common? They are all eager to promote Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld, an open …

BEIJING-The Chinese government has given its homegrown TD-SCDMA technology a thumbs up, calling it an officially backed standard, the Xinhua news agency said. China’s Ministry of Information Industry official said …