Motorola Inc. had its share of ups and downs last week, when news of solid earnings and the launch of three new handsets collided with a software glitch in several of its Nextel Communications Inc. A-GPS-enabled phones. The company's second-quarter earnings reflected strong year-over-year...
Market share mayhemA two-way pager. A digital handset. A clamshell phone. A camera phone. All fine devices, and all devices whose introductions-and delays-have the power to change the fortunes of the companies that produce them.One misstep and it seems the analysts, media and investment...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will begin production and systems integration capabilities for CDMA2000 base stations for the 450 MHz band at its facility in Poland. Lucent said it will improve cycle and delivery times to its Eastern European customers by up to six...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless provider Rogers Wireless Inc. launched Sony Ericsson's GC82 EDGE PC Card across its network following the recent completion of its EDGE technology deployment covering approximately 93 percent of the Canadian population. The launch follows network trials initiated late last year in the...
Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with a 4X...
Second-quarter earnings released last week by major handset manufacturers showed Nokia Corp. losing market share, while Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. increased their sales expectations for the year.Nokia set a dismal tone for the second-quarter earnings announcements, saying it...
SEOUL, South Korea-Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with...
TOKYO-Second-quarter financial earnings released today by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Audiovox Corp. offered further insight into how 2004 might pan out for wireless handset makers. Sony Ericsson said it shipped 10.4 million units in the quarter, a 55-percent increase from the same...
Vodafone Sweden launched multimedia consumer services via its UMTS-based network in Sweden along with promotional rate plans that include up to 120 free minutes of video calls each month to all networks in the country. The carrier originally launched its next-generation network in February...
Symbian Software Ltd.'s shareholders raised their stakes in the company this week, but rivals kept Nokia Corp.'s equity stake below 50 percent, ensuring the operating system developer would maintain its independent image.Nokia, Panasonic, Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications split Psion plc's previously...
Signifying a strategic shift away from infrastructure manufacturing, Nortel Networks Ltd. reached an agreement last week to divest certain production operations and related activities in Canada and Brazil as well as options on its facilities in France and Northern Ireland to Flextronics Inc. for...
LONDON-Orange U.K. said it will launch its third-generation W-CDMA network July 19. The launch will include the country's major cities. The company's French subsidiary will launch 3G service this fall.The European operator noted numerous business applications that would be available with the new high-speed...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said its GSM network is available throughout Louisiana as part of the carrier's plan to invest $85 million in its Louisiana network this year. Cingular noted its EDGE wireless data service is also available in Louisiana, which can be accessed...
When Java came into wireless, it was welcomed with arms half open. Companies like Qualcomm Inc. thought the technology was too open and had to shrink its appeal. Some said it was not open enough because it savored such a wide array of supporters...
Sun Microsystems Inc. made several announcements at last week's JavaOne show in San Francisco, including a new version of the Java platform and two carrier partnerships. "Java powers 1.7 billion devices worldwide and it's rapidly accelerating into the cable TV, gaming, ring-tone and automotive...
LONDON-Orange U.K. said it will launch its third-generation W-CDMA network July 19. The launch will include the country's major cities. The company's French subsidiary will launch 3G service this fall.The European operator noted numerous business applications that would be available with the new high-speed...
NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said its GSM network is available throughout Louisiana as part of the carrier's plan to invest $85 million in its Louisiana network this year. In addition to GSM voice services, Cingular noted its EDGE wireless data service is also now...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish wireless carrier TeliaSonera announced it launched a streaming music service from Sony Corp., following up on an agreement between the two companies first announced in March at the CeBit trade show.TeliaSonera said it will initially offer the service free, minus data transfer...
It appears Hewlett-Packard Co. is gearing up to enter the smart-phone market with a new iPAQ personal digital assistant that features a quad-band GSM/GPRS radio. According to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the new high-end iPAQ Pocket PC h6300 device also supports...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company Visto announced it launched a new wireless e-mail product called Visto Mobile, which is based on technology the company acquired through its purchase of ViAir last year."Visto continues to set the pace for mobile e-mail/PIM development," said Brian Bogosian,...
Nokia Corp. announced a new licensing deal with NTP Inc. for wireless e-mail technology, a move that paves the way for Nokia to sell BlackBerry-capable products in the United States, but also comes on the heels of the legal battle between NTP and BlackBerry-maker...
Nokia Corp.'s bid to buy Psion plc's stake in operating system company Symbian moved one step closer to fruition as the German authority Bundeskartellamt approved the transaction. The move now opens the issue to the rest of Symbian's stakeholders, which can use their pre-emption...
MUMBAI, India-Countering a similar offering by rival wireless provider Tata Teleservices, Indian wireless carrier Hutchison Essar launched Fastmobile Inc.'s push2talk service, which combines walkie-talkie services with instant messaging, short message service, multimedia messaging service and voice messaging.The carrier said the service would be available...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it will score an upfront payment of $27 million thanks to an expanded licensing deal with handset maker Sanyo Electric Co. InterDigital's stock was up slightly after the news to about $17.25 per share.Sanyo, which previously licensed...
