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STAMFORD, Conn.-Wireless applications provider SmartServ Online Inc. announced it will team with Wireless Retail Inc. to sell packaged bundles of wireless data applications inside retail locations. “Wireless Retail’s sophisticated POS …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Citing weaker than expected sales and gross margins of Sprint PCS products and services in its retail outlets, RadioShack Corp. reduced its earnings per share forecast for the …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Ugandan mobile network operator Celtel announced the company intends to increase its coverage to include 38 more towns on its network by March 2003. Richard Mugera, marketing and …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS announced it will begin selling Samsung Telecommunications America’s new SPH-i330 personal digital assistant/mobile phone device. The device is much like the Samsung SPH-i300, but includes support …

The nearly one-year-old Association of Wireless Professionals is offering the industry a new way to better reach its ever-valuable consumer base-through educated wireless retail professionals working on the front lines …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS announced it will begin selling Samsung Telecommunications America’s new SPH-i330 personal digital assistant/mobile phone device. The device is much like the Samsung SPH-i300, but includes support …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS announced it will begin selling Samsung Telecommunications America’s new SPH-i330 personal digital assistant/mobile phone device. The device is much like the Samsung SPH-i300, but includes support …

The nearly one-year-old Association of Wireless Professionals is offering the industry a new way to better reach its ever-valuable consumer base-through educated wireless retail professionals working on the front lines …

NEW YORK-Shipments of wireless local area network chipsets likely will reach between 23 million and 25 million units this year, up from 7.9 million last year, due to strong growth …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-RadioShack Corp. said it will sell new wireless data access products from FutureDial in its 5,100 stores nationwide. FutureDial’s SnapSync software allows mobile-phone users to edit phonebook information directly …

CLEVELAND-United Wireless now counts 22 locations throughout northeast and central Ohio, following the opening of two new retail locations in Streetsboro and Montrose. United Wireless offers wireless solutions from Alltel …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Retailing wireless data technology will be addressed in The Wireless Experience tutorial taking place on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. …

NEW DELHI, India-The wireless market in India could be set for an upheaval. As large basic service operators plan to roll out economical CDMA-based wireless local loop (WLL) services across …

SAN JOSE, Calif.- Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Ltd. will license over-the-air application provisioning technology from DoOnGo Technologies Inc. for use in the company’s Panasonic FOMA mobile phones. Using the new …

NEW YORK-Leading industry players have teamed together to form a new company called Cometa Networks to provide wireless Internet access nationwide to telecom companies, Internet service providers, cable operators and …

SURABAYA, Indonesia-PT Telkom, Indonesia’s state-owned telecom company, launched its limited mobility service to retail customers this week. The so-called TelkomFlexi service employs cdma2000 1x technology and comes with two pricing …

CORVALLIS, Ore.-Startup Pixio Corp., which provides wireless point-of-purchase sales information for retail consumers, announced it appointed Dan Whitaker as the company’s new president and chief executive officer. Whitaker is an …

GOLDEN, Colo.-nReach will deploy new digital vending ports, private label Web sites and prepaid card locations in seven wireless retail chains in the U.S. on Nov. 29. With the new …

Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony’s Music Digital Services division. …

NEW YORK-Proxim Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., has made commercially available its ORiNOCO AP-2500, which it designed as a Wi-Fi option for large businesses that want to provide guest access and for …

LOS ANGELES-Wireless application publisher Moviso LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA, announced it will begin selling prepaid phone cards for buying ring tones through a lineup …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Independent News and Media has strengthened its retail distribution presence through the acquisition of U.K. mobile services group M4. The deal was concluded through the company’s wireless application service …

DENVER, United States-Santa’s helpers will be able to stuff stockings with a new gift this year-wireless data. U.K.-based wireless entertainment and publishing company Digital Bridges plans to sell packaged, prepaid …

NEW YORK-LG InfoComm U.S.A. Inc. expects its two new tri-mode phones to appear on shelves at Verizon Wireless Inc. stores in December, bringing to 10 the total of new handsets …

DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. closed 17 of its wireless retail outlets in six states that the company claimed were unprofitable, according to the Associated Press. Qwest Wireless, which had a …