This week's flurry of investment activity continued Thursday, as several companies reported successful funding rounds. Some notables among Thursday's announcements include: Sorrent raised $20 million in Series C financing led by BA Venture Partners, the California-based mobile entertainment publisher announced. Sorrent officials said the...
The new wireless gizmos may be humming with new applications, but promises keep outweighing results. CDMA, the technology leading the march toward a full third-generation era, continues to confront challenges. Data services have been unfurled, but adoption is still in its infancy. Enterprise players...
SK USA Inc., a division of South Korea's technology conglomerate SK Group, announced the introduction of a new company that will focus specifically on the wireless content and entertainment marketplace. SK USA's new SkyZone Entertainment will offer various applications, including wireless games, wallpapers and...
Handset maker LG Electronics Co. Ltd. will use push-to-talk software from Sonim Technologies in its line of GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA phones. Sonim said it is a member of the worldwide consortium that submitted the PoC phase 1 specification to the Open Mobile Alliance in...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Wireless antenna manufacturer SkyCross has received a $1 million investment from Korea's SK Telecom.Last year, SK Telecom began implementing SkyCross' cellular, GPS and W-CDMA embedded antenna solutions in its new global positioning system-enhanced phones. With this latest investment, the two companies will continue...
SEOUL, Korea-Four senior directors of SK Telecom have tendered their resignations, according to several reports. Chey Tae-won, the company's controlling shareholder and nephew of the founder, and Son Kil-seung, chairman, who were convicted last year on charges related to accounting fraud were among the...
BOSTON-Siemens AG said it will jump into the over-the-air updating game through a new deal with OTA company Red Bend.Siemens licensed Red Bend's vCurrentMobile technology for use in its handsets, a move Red Bend said will allow Siemens to send out software fixes to...
Following are mobile contracts awarded in January 2004:AlcatelChina. With Gansu Mobile Communication Co., a subsidiary of China Mobile, for GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.Value: $14 millionCyprus. With Investcom for GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and mobile core network.Value: UndisclosedNetherlands. With T-Mobile for data over asynchronous transfer mode, gigabit Ethernet transport...
SEOUL, South Korea-Nearly 83,000 South Korean mobile-phone subscribers have taken advantage of local number portability in that country, which began Jan. 1, although in limited form.Subscribers to the country's dominant carrier, SK Telecom, can switch to rival operators KTF or LG Telecom and keep...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile operators SK Telecom and KTF launched their W-CDMA networks last week to meet a year-end deadline, although full commercial services are not expected until March. A lack of handsets is one reason the services will be delayed until next year,...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile operators SK Telecom and KTF launched their W-CDMA networks this week to meet a year-end deadline, although full commercial services are not expected until March 2004. A lack of handsets is one reason the services will be delayed until next...
Sprint PCS' Video Mail launch is just the latest in a series of wireless video moves in the United States, a market that is still very much in its early stages but one that is evolving quietly and rapidly."I think it will be more...
LONDON-MmO2 has inked an agreement with audio compression specialists Coding Technologies under which the operator will use MPEG-4 aacPlus as the audio compression standard for the O2 Music service launched this week.The O2 Music service provides an "over the air" music download service that...
Because operators prefer to manage capacity rather than allow it to dictate their businesses, the nation's expanding subscriber base continues to pose problems.The traditional answer has been to build more equipment, which also creates not only space inconveniences but also cost burdens. Whether in...
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-South Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom announced it will offer over-the-air software upgrades to its customers through a new deal with OTA technology company Bitfone Corp.SK Telecom said it will use Bitfone's mProve product to remotely update the core software image on...
By rolling out services in two U.S. markets, Verizon Wireless has triggered momentum for CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology, barely two years since the first launch of CDMA2000 1X services in the world.The EV-DO launches, which took place in San Diego and Washington, D.C., are...
Jeffrey Glass could be considered a player in the mobile-commerce industry, although you won't find the "m-commerce" designation in any of the literature about his company. However, as president and chief executive officer of M-Qube Inc., Glass for almost three years has been encouraging...
PARIS-French supplier Alcatel Corp. and South Korean mobile-phone operator SK Telecom said they will jointly develop and market mobile applications worldwide. The companies said they will focus on mobile commerce, location-based services, infotainment and gaming services.Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will...
TEWKSBURY, Mass.-SK Telecom said it has awarded its network certification to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd for the Samsung access gateway, called the Starent ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway."The SK Telecom certification process is a comprehensive examination of products that includes several important performance criteria to...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. continued to trumpet is BREW application download service, announcing BellSouth International will offer BREW services in nine areas in Latin America and that South Korean carrier KTF renewed its support for the platform.BellSouth will offer BREW services to a total of...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it received approval from the Ministry of Information and Communication to merge SK Telecom and SK IMT, the W-CDMA arm of the Korean mobile operator. However, under the conditions for the merger approval, SK Telecom must provide W-CDMA-based service...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it received approval from the Ministry of Information and Communication to merge SK Telecom and SK IMT, the W-CDMA arm of the Korean mobile operator. However, under the conditions for the merger approval, SK Telecom must provide W-CDMA-based service...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it received approval from the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to merge SK Telecom and SK IMT, the W-CDMA arm of the Korean mobile operator. However, under the conditions for the merger approval, SK Telecom must provide W-CDMA-based...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom, South Korea's biggest mobile carrier, may face a serious restriction in its bid to expand its business after its sister unit and largest shareholder SK Corporation came under takeover pressure by a European fund.Crest Securities, a unit of Monaco-based fund...
