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Nortel Networks said it has appointed Clent Richardson to the post of chief marketing officer. Richardson will lead the company’s newly formed global marketing organization responsible for brand development and …

Four years after leaving Microsoft to start their own business, Pete Mansour and Chad Schwitters are coming to market. The co-founders of Sproqit, a mobile software developer, plan to unveil …

KONIGSWINTER, Germany-At a forum in Germany, Siemens AG tested a mobile network with data rates of up to 360 megabits per second (Mbps) using a combination of orthogonal frequency division …

The future of wireless could be the future of most everything. Wireless technology has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first transmission of radio communication signals across the English …

It’s a bird-it’s a plane-it’s a Stratellite high-altitude airship that enables wireless communications from the Earth’s stratosphere? Sanswire Networks L.L.C.’s vision for a national wireless broadband network began as just …

MAITLAND, Fla.-Two wireless mesh networks were announced yesterday. MeshNetworks Inc. and Cheetah Wireless Technologies Inc. said they have deployed a trial mesh wireless broadband network throughout downtown Las Vegas in …

DRESDEN, Germany-Two companies announced High Speed Downlink Packet Access test products yesterday. Radioplan announced a commercial simulation and optimization toolset for W-CDMA’s HSDPA technology. WiNeS 3.1 is the latest version …

LOS ANGELES-SRS Industries Inc. announced it has opened a new cable division. The company provides transmission infrastructure equipment, including harnesses, jumpers, connectors, lugs and a variety of cables in addition …

LONDON-The global wireless industry is expected grow mobile data revenue from $61 billion this year to more than $189 billion by 2009 with person-to-person messaging representing 48 percent of the …

InphoMatch Inc. and Mobileway will merge to create a new U.S.-based mobile messaging company with more than 200 carrier connections. While terms of the deal between the two privately held …

Siemens AG said it has signed a contract to supply solutions that will enable China Unicom to bring video clips and songs to subscribers’ mobile phones. The carrier intends to …

Wireless e-mail stalwart Research In Motion Ltd. should brace for intense competition as converged devices with BlackBerry-esque e-mail functionality and cell-phone features, including voice capabilities, enter the enterprise. So goes …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it won a contract to supply GSM equipment to expand the networks of carrier Indosat of Indonesia, covering East Java, Bali and South Central Java. Nokia …

For all the play Voice over Internet Protocol snags in the wireless arena, a new and broader technology is lurking to gulp it up. Media over packet technology, as it …

Siemens AG and Alcatel Corp reinforced a season of good feeling among wireless vendors as they swung to profitable quarters. “These trends show that improvement in the broader macroeconomic environment …

The end of the year came early for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the carrier made good on its often-repeated plans to offer high-speed wireless data services before the calendar …

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 …

Motorola Inc. and SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. said they have identified a solution for the software glitch that affected six Motorola iDEN phones sold by Nextel Communications Inc. and are …

A “software issue” is affecting assisted global positioning satellite (A-GPS) location services for some Motorola Inc. phones sold by Nextel Communications Inc., forcing the wireless carrier to temporarily disable the …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Zeevo Inc. unveiled its third-generation Bluetooth microcontroller solution that offers the transmission of CD-quality sound over wireless Bluetooth links and meets Zeevo’s “Sound Design for Bluetooth” benchmark. The …

LOS ANGELES-SRS Industries Inc., which provides transmission infrastructure equipment, said it has added an engineering services division to its company. The company provides project management, detail engineering, installation and records.

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it will expand the GSM/GPRS network of China Mobile Communications in the Anhui province under a $41 million contract. The expansion should be complete by the …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will begin offering a bundled device and services package allowing business customers to use Bluetooth-enabled Hewlett-Packard iPAQ Pocket PC devices and Nokia Corp.’s 6820 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a $138 million contract with Serbian wireless carrier Mobtel to expand and upgrade Mobtel’s GSM 900/1800 MHz network. Under the contract, Ericsson will provide hardware and …

Described by its supporters as disruptive, MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology has spawned a triangle of love and suspicion. Airgo Networks, which claims to have pioneered the idea of …