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The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Handset and infrastructure vendors–Credit Suisse First Boston lowered its estimates on …

No one can miss the dark clouds streaming overhead, but analysts say that without the expected growth in smartphone sales, those clouds might blot out the sun altogether. Handset sales, …

SAN FRANCISCO — Nine more companies have joined the Symbian Foundation as its group members work toward developing an open and complete mobile software platform that will be free for …

The pressures of the mobile chip business, plus a fit in products and customers, has driven Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST Microelectronics-NXP Wireless to join forces, the two companies said …

Pesky Wall Street.No matter how well you perform, the stock market – understandably, because it reflects investors’ view of future prospects – is all about “what’s next”?Qualcomm Inc., riding a …

NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics will combine their wireless businesses to compete in a cutthroat environment for chip makers. The two companies said in a statement they would aim to complete …

WHEN A BEHEMOTH SHAKES ITS TAIL, some rise, some fall. The behemoth benefits.That appears to be the upshot of Nokia Corp.’s announcement last week that it had selected four main …

Welcome to our Friday feature, Week in Review. Every Friday, RCR Wireless News will run through the major events of the past week, outlining what happened and speculating on what …

Nokia Corp. is accelerating its research-and-development efforts in software to enable mobile Internet services while scaling back on research and development in chip-based radio technology. In tandem with this strategy, …

GENEVA-Chip supplier STMicroelectronics said it’s jumping into the WiMAX market with a new offering for WiMAX base stations. The company said it plans to bundle its STW51000 base-station modem system-on-a-chip …

The following information includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.

The following wireless companies received upgrades or downgrades from financial and investment firms this week. Moody’s Investors Service assigned a B3 rating to the proposed senior secured credit facilities of …

The following wireless companies’ ratings were changed by financial services companies this week. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service raised its corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Agilent Technologies …

Nokia Corp. is in advanced discussions to purchase CDMA EV-DO phones from the phone-making subsidiary of Korean CDMA carrier SK Telecom, according to a report from Reuters. A Nokia spokesman …

MANHASSET, N.Y.-The WiMedia Alliance said it has merged with the MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group. The combined group will be known as the WiMedia Alliance Inc. Both groups plan …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and STMicroelectronics suffered a beating on Wall Street following warnings of sluggish earnings and margins. AMD announced its revenues for the fourth quarter will …

Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Motorola Inc.’s former semiconductor subsidiary, became a free, independent company following the completion of the spin-off. As a result, Motorola issued its shareholders 0.110415 of a share …

LONDON-A global alliance of wireless carriers that is working to define mobile-phone interface standards said it has added new members and outlined its work to date. The Open Mobile Terminal …

LONDON-A global alliance of wireless carriers that is working to define mobile-phone interface standards said it has added new members and outlined its work to date. The Open Mobile Terminal …

ESPOO, Finland-STMicroelectronics said its line of multimedia application processors known as Nomadik for third-generation mobile devices will now support Nokia Series 60 Platform. Nomadik allows devices like mobile phones and …

A group of companies have come together to submit a proposal to the IEEE for a global 802.11n standard, a protocol described as a next-generation Wi-Fi technology. The proposal, which …

HELSINKI, Finland-In an effort to standardize the increasingly popular camera component in mobile devices, Nokia and STMicroelectronics are releasing a new specification for camera modules. The new Standard Mobile Imaging …

HELSINKI, Finland-In an effort to standardize the increasingly popular camera component in mobile devices, Nokia and STMicroelectronics are releasing a new specification for camera modules. The new Standard Mobile Imaging …

DALLAS-Two marquee chipmakers Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics said they are sampling what they describe as the first standard CDMA2000 1x EV-DV solution. The chips will be embedded in cell phones, …

Two marquee chipmakers Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics said they are sampling what they describe as the first standard CDMA2000 1x EV-DV solution. The chips will be embedded in cell phones, …