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Heinz Corp. Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz’s projects for …

GoBeam Inc. GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible …

NEW YORK-The Wireless Advertising Association released the first few parts of its standards and measurements for mobile advertising, which the association hopes will become accepted as industrywide guidelines. The standards …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-With a growth rate above 50 percent during 2001 and a 20-percent penetration, cellular telephony has proven itself as the main communications vehicle in Paraguay. Four operators compete …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts. Streaming media is …

NEW DELHI, India-The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing a rapid growth of short message service (SMS), which is not only beginning to contribute significantly to operators’ revenues, but is also setting …

LONDON-The market for mobile services in the Middle East continues to show strong growth, with the ever-increasing number of new cellular operators barely keeping pace with growing customer numbers. An …

Mobile devices Alcatel Alcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal …

SINGAPORE-The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore said the number of prepaid card subscribers in Singapore has doubled in the 12 months ending January 2001 from 306,600 to 741,200 users. The …

In Beijing, it is uncivilized for a lady to talk on a mobile phone while walking, according to a report on the Beijing Evening News. It seems cultural rules of …

MobileSys Inc., a wireless infrastructure provider, acquired wireless application software company BITMO, a move MobileSys said will allow it to add voice browsing, speech-recognition and device- independent browsing to its …

NEW YORK-Not surprisingly, the number and size of mergers and acquisitions for which a dollar value was made public declined markedly in all industries when compared to the same period …

Vodafone Group plc has contracted with Cable & Wireless “to facilitate a European General Packet Radio Service data roaming trial,” the companies said March 20. Cable & Wireless will provide …

NEW YORK-China Mobile Hong Kong does not need 3G to take advantage of opportunities in a populous country with rising per capita income and low penetration by personal computers and …

HELSINKI, Finland-New World Mobility, a mobile operator based in Hong Kong, has selected the Nokia Artuse Unstructured Supplementary Services Data Centre, a platform that offers faster interactive messaging services within …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Austrian GSM operator, Max.mobil, has deployed Comverse’s Intelligent Short Messaging Solution (ISMSC), thereby expanding its mobile-originated and mobile-terminated short messaging services. Comverse’s ISMSC offers connectivity to the Web and …

SAN FRANCISCO-Aspiro and Wysdom Inc. signed an agreement that enables Aspiro to deliver short message service traffic within North America and Wysdom to deliver SMS traffic to the European market. …

BEIJING-Mobile-phone subscribers in East China’s Zhejiang Province have complained about unwanted or false ads received through China Mobile’s and China Unicom’s short message service (SMS). Operators have no control over …

Audiovox Audiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. “is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes,” Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Internet Software and …

Handsets Sendo European mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light …

NEW YORK – Audiovox Communications Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y., has tapped into the computer expertise of its 5 percent owner, Toshiba Corp., to develop a combination cell phone and personal digital …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Airflash, a wireless location technology developer, unveiled an interactive short message service location service that it claims is the first within the wireless industry. The firm said that, …

Although U.S. trade negotiator Richard Fisher called the mobile Internet arm candy, the delicacy may have to improve into an eye candy for Americans to call it sweet. But, so …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Once again the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has been consigned to the dust bin of failed technology by the U.K. consumer magazine Which?. The independent guide said the …