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 total, according to industry analyst firm Strategy Analytics.The firm noted the prediction, which is...
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 companies were not disclosed, InphoMatch Chief Executive Officer Neville Street described the agreement as "a...
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 offer the first video services to about 400,000 customers. Siemens will integrate its media...
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 the cry of RIM's competitors, anyway.RIM's flagship BlackBerry e-mail device fuels the demand in the...
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 will supply GSM radio network, core network and cellular transmission equipment under the agreement. This...
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 is called, will also threaten to make multimedia messaging services obsolete. But its arrival...
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 is now arriving in our industry, and that we are succeeding with our enterprise-wide initiative,...
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 turned over as it launched what it termed commercial UMTS services in four markets...
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...
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 testing it for deployment. The glitch is in the interface between the SiRFLoc Multimode...
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 transmission of A-GPS-enabled location information for E911 Phase II location services for the handsets...
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 solution includes Zeevo's new ZV4301 Bluetooth processor, ZSound software and reference designs for a variety...
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 end of the year.Siemens plans to supply China Mobile with additional transmission and receiving...
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 handset to access the carrier's EDGE network.The carrier said that customers who already own...
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 software expansions for the core, radio and microwave transmission networks, as well as GPRS packet...
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 MIMO as we currently know it, said it is pleased the industry is embracing the...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group reported that the Bluetooth industry is shipping more than 2 million units per week worldwide, which is less than nine months after the Bluetooth SIG said the industry had passed the 1-million-units-per-week mark."Bluetooth wireless technology is definitely...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group reported that the Bluetooth industry is now shipping more than 2 million units per week worldwide, which is less than nine months after the Bluetooth SIG said the industry had passed the 1-million-units-per-week mark."Bluetooth wireless technology is...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has extended the scope of its EDGE-based high-speed wireless data service to south Florida, providing customers with access to network speeds of up to 170 kilobits per second using either the Sony Ericsson GC82 PC Card or slower speeds using Nokia...
Camera phones are the most rapidly accepted consumer electronics device in history. Yet it appears that wireless carriers-a group many assumed would reap the rewards of a camera-phone revolution-are sitting on the sidelines of this mass adoption, watching and waiting.Annual sales of camera phones...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. named Mikael Backstrom to head the company's North American Global Services group where he will lead the company's expansion of its services business in North America.Backstrom previously was vice president of systems integration for Ericsson's Global Services unit based in Stockholm....
Wi-Fi, the much-hyped sibling of the wireless industry, might have lost a little of its luster with the closure of one of its more ambitious players and troublesome security warnings from governmental agencies.The once-hailed Wi-Fi company Cometa Networks Inc., originally backed by power players...
Wireless messaging applications in the United States typically involve voting for reality TV show contestants, participating in trivia contests or requesting some sort of information, and most cost a few dollars or less. But one company is hoping to expand the functions of text...
