Wireless operator MetroPCS Inc. said it has begun taking delivery of Nokia Corp.'s 2270 handset and will be the first carrier to offer the cdma2000 1x phone to customers signing up for the carrier's unlimited local calling rate plan. Retail price for the 2270...
PHILADELPHIA-As one of the biggest patent names in the wireless space, InterDigital Corp. said it projects to rake in $360 million in revenues from its new royalty agreements during the next year, four times its total takings in 2002.Some of the royalty agreements are...
DALLAS-Wireless operator MetroPCS Inc. said it has begun taking delivery of Nokia Corp.'s 2270 handset and will be the first carrier to offer the cdma2000 1x phone to customers signing up for the carrier's unlimited local calling rate plan. Retail price for the 2270...
Eight of the world's largest consumer electronics companies-including the world's No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile phones.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung...
Sprint PCS reported an expanded agreement with Warner Music Group Inc. and a deal with Sony Music Entertainment that Sprint PCS said will allow it to offer access to real-song ringers, streamed music clips and full-length music tracks from its PCS Vision Music Channel...
The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
What began as a rumor turned into an unpleasant reality last week for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., as the handset maker announced it will shut down its CDMA research and development site in North America, reflecting the company's poor performance in the region....
In one fell funding swoop, the corporate wireless e-mail market has a new major contender.Wireless e-mail company Visto Corp. announced it raised an astonishing $50.4 million during an extended, three-month fund-raising round. The news comes shortly after Visto acquired fellow wireless corporate e-mail company...
The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
In the wake of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' retreat from the CDMA mobile-phone business, Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are re-evaluating their plans to sell Sony Ericsson's newly released CDMA phones.A spokeswoman for Sony Ericsson said the two main CDMA carriers in the United...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The wireless messaging and e-mail market continues its race toward consolidation with news of two new funding and acquisition deals, including a massive $50 million investment in wireless e-mail company Visto Corp.Visto said it extended its recent round of private equity financing...
What began as a rumor turned into an unpleasant reality today for Sony Ericsson Corp. as the handset maker announced it will shut down its CDMA research and development site in North America, reflecting the company's poor performance in the region.Sony Ericsson also said...
MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in Europe and the Middle East late last year.Microcell, which recently reorganized and is now owned by its creditors, hopes the...
Moviso scored an exclusive, one-year licensing agreement in the United States to offer wireless content based on the highly touted summer movie "The Hulk." The company launched a Web site to sell the content in conjunction with the release of the movie, offering ring...
AMSTERDAM-In Europe, Bluetooth technology will outpace wireless local area network hot spots by 2008, according to a new report from Forrester Research."We believe that much of the money being poured into public WLAN today to enable access-from places as diverse as bars, marinas, hotels...
AMSTERDAM-Sony Corp. demonstrated its new Feel technology, which allows Bluetooth devices to instantaneously connect to each other at this week's Bluetooth World Congress in Amsterdam.Feel, unveiled in Sony President Masanobu Yoshida's keynote speech, is a proprietary technology that will provide connectivity between Sony's Bluetooth...
MONTREAL-Canadian operator Microcell said it will become the latest operator to launch the Sony Ericsson P800 smart phone. The phone first became available in Europe and the Middle East late last year.Microcell, which recently reorganized and is now owned by its creditors, hopes the...
PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services.The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony Music artist ring tones that are extracted from the original recordings of songs rather than...
For those who serenade wideband CDMA as the authentic third-generation protocol, Qualcomm Inc.-inspired cdma2000 is no more than a counterfeit David dueling the shadow of the giant to come. When the giant comes, in all its messianic glories of data and voice, cdma2000 will...
The 2003 JavaOne Developer Conference witnessed a collision of giants as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. pushed their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid segmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish company Sapio AB launched a Sony Ericsson Personal Java version of Photostore, a mobile picture messaging community application for smart phones.Sabio already offers a Photostore solution for Symbian Series 60 devices and is following that with the Sony Ericsson P800 version.The application...
The 2003 JavaOne Conference is witnessing a collision of giants, as Sun Microsystems and IBM Corp. are pushing their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid fragmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Infowave Software inked an agreement with T-Mobile International for Infowave's wireless messaging product. The technology will be part of T-Mobile's new Instant E-mail service for smart phones in the United Kingdom. Infowave said its Symmetry product is compatible with Symbian-, Smartphone-, Pocket...
PARIS-European company Musiwave has signed deals with Sony Music Europe and several independent record labels for its technology and services.The Sony agreement will make available to mobile phones Sony Music artist ring tones extracted from the original recordings of songs rather than simple tones....