Through the end of January, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer business customers a free Sony Ericsson GC-82 EDGE wireless modem card when they trade in a similar modem card from any national wireless carrier and sign a two-year contract for unlimited...
As the holiday season approaches, the industry's mobile-phone players are working to gear up for a quarter most predict will be gangbusters.First up is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which announced it will sell its SGH-x426 through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The phone features a...
LONDON-European carrier Orange plc announced it will offer wireless streaming-video services starting early next year through a new deal with PacketVideo Network Solutions, which was purchased by Alcatel Corp. only a few weeks ago.Orange said it will install PacketVideo's pvServer and pvAuthor products in...
Jon Tetzchner wants to kill WAP. And he's not alone."It makes no sense to have two systems," said Tetzchner, chief executive officer of Internet browsing company Opera Software ASA.Tetzchner is hoping to kill WAP by making it obsolete. He's got company-Nokia Corp., Sony Ericsson...
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. are missing from the membership list of Khronos Group, an open standards alliance that is pursuing open application programming interfaces for dynamic media in the wireless space.In spite of stellar members like Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc. and Motorola...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is looking to join Nokia Corp. in its legal disagreement with wireless technology company InterDigital Communications Corp. Samsung is requesting international arbitration in its fight against InterDigital and that its case be combined with that of Nokia.InterDigital outlined the legal...
European carrier Orange announced it will offer wireless streaming video services starting early next year through a new deal with PacketVideo Network Solutions, which was purchased by Alcatel only a few weeks ago.Orange said it will install PacketVideo's pvServer and pvAuthor products in its...
Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming-video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."Video...
With much fanfare at this year's Comdex electronics show in Las Vegas and multi-page advertisements in nationwide newspapers, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its high-speed EDGE-based service last week, claiming it now operates the highest-speed nationwide wireless data network in the country. The launch...
Mobile-phone operating system company Symbian Ltd. offered a positive outlook on its third-quarter results, showing more than 1 million Symbian phones shipping in the quarter and total revenues of about $16 million."Symbian has continued to make good progress in Q3 2003," said David Levin,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its nationwide EDGE network at this year's Comdex technology show in Las Vegas. The carrier said the network would provide customers with average data speeds of between 100 and 130 kilobits per second.The carrier noted the network technology is...
Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not...
Less than a month after Nokia Corp. introduced its first foray into the video gaming realm, hackers have managed to break the security settings on the company's N-Gage mobile phone/video game device and are making pirated copies of N-Gage games available on the Internet.The...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Wireless devices will be high on holiday gift lists this year, according to a survey released by Staples Inc. The retailer predicts wireless handheld computers will be in high demand among both personal and business users. Staples expects business executives to flock to...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless technology company L.M. Ericsson announced a new music product through a partnership with Sony Music Germany that delivers bundled packages of artist pictures, ring tones, music clips, artist news, and music recommendations. Swisscom Mobile launched the service, dubbed M-USE, as part of...
SAN DIEGO-Technology giant Qualcomm Inc. announced it will sell streaming video technology to handset makers, and heavy hitters such as Kyocera Wireless Corp., LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sanyo Corp. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Inc. have licensed the technology for future...
LondonFollowing its launch of an MVNO service in the United Kingdom promoted through a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, British Telecommunications Inc. launched a new service, BTringtones.com, on its public Internet kiosks. The new service offers ring tones, as well as multimedia messaging service backgrounds, logos,...
A new study shows the mobile-phone industry grew 21.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, with most of the world's major phone makers seeing increased gains.The new study from research firm IDC, which comes after similar results from research firm Strategy Analytics, shows Nokia...
As first reported by RCR Wireless News Oct. 14, LG Electronics formally announced today its first GSM phones for the U.S. market, devices it will sell through Cingular Wireless."Cingular offers the widest variety of innovative and stylish phones that support our newest services, including...
A new study shows the mobile-phone industry grew 21.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, with most of the world's major phone makers seeing increased gains.The new study from research firm IDC, which comes after similar results from research firm Strategy Analytics, shows Nokia...
How about a movie about a powerful House committee chairman with a $155,000 salary who buys a million-dollar piece of prime hunting property in Texas with guidance from a seasoned wireless lobbyist, all amid riveting rumors and dumbfounding denials about the lawmaker leaving Congress...
A new report shows the mobile-phone industry could hit almost 500 million shipments this year, a number driven by demand in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America and sales of color- and camera-enabled devices."We see positive signs from vendors and carriers that this...
Wireless data service speeds-which for years have been cast aside as less important than the applications running over the networks-were again the topic of discussion for many carriers at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association IT & Entertainment 2003 show. The loudest discussions...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association today launched a new campaign to bring awareness to its own phone recycling program and the recycling efforts of several of its members."The wireless industry has been a leader in encouraging the safe management of its used hardware,...
