Like '70s disco or roller skates, the wireless portal is now retro cool. Dude.In the heyday of the late 1990s, the wireless industry was awash with the wireless Internet and the possibilities therein. Wireless players from carriers on down to startups imagined opening Yahoo!-style...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it will expand Russian mobile operator MegaFon's mobile-phone network under a $94.2 million contract.The agreement covers the extension of the carrier's GSM network with switching and transmission technology in the Volga and Ural regions. Siemens will also supply an intelligent...
WASHINGTON-A Supreme Court ruling has thrown into question whether brain cancer and health-related consumer lawsuits currently pending in federal court should be sent back to state court, a venue mobile-phone carriers and equipment manufacturers have managed to largely avoid to date.In health lawsuits, scientific...
While the industry looks to foster the growth of third-party software, many of the industry's advanced phone makers will not replace a ruined device if that same third-party software caused the problem."It hasn't been an issue yet," said Michael King, senior analyst at Gartner...
TOKYO-IPMobile said it has received a trial license to deploy a trial system using TD-CDMA technology in Japan.The company said it has built three cell sites inside the Tokyo metropolitan area with subscribers using PCMCIA cards and modems with USB and Ethernet interfaces."The major...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-Analyst firm Communications Industry Researchers claimed the market for wireless local area network chips will rise to $1.7 billion in 2007 from $938 million in 2003 based on a survey of original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers."The survey reveals that OEMs/ODMs place...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Intersil Corp. and Vixs said they have agreed to work together to create a single set of chips that will enable developers to improve the transmission of video over wireless networks.This will include allowing consumers to share resources such as printers and exchange...
For some time now, the U.S. government has legislated that state emergency service authorities and cellular operators comply with an enhanced911 initiative that would ensure that mobile calls to emergency services would also forward the caller's number and location. The Federal Communications Commission issued...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced that the Bluetooth specification version 1.2 is in its final testing phase. The new specification includes a number of improvements compared with the previous 1.1 specification designed to improve the reliability and performance of wireless technologies...
The Bluetooth industry is set to welcome the latest standard for the short-range wireless networking technology as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is expected to introduce the 1.2 specification this week at the third annual Bluetooth World Congress in the Netherlands. Unlike the...
RESTON, Va.-Expanding the usability of its handset offering, Nextel Communications Inc. reported a deal with handset manufacturer Motorola Inc. and Symbol Technologies Inc. to provide a bar code scanner attachment for select Nextel handsets, including the i88s and i58sr.The companies said Symbol's one-ounce PSM20I...
Just as it blazed the third-generation trail, NTT DoCoMo is hedging its bet on fourth-generation wireless technology with a field trial in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture, the center of its research and development. This is not the first time the carrier has unveiled its next-generation...
Just as it blazed the third-generation trail, NTT DoCoMo is hedging its bet on fourth-generation wireless technology with a field trial in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, the center of its research and development. This is not the first time the carrier has unveiled its next-generation...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. activated 150 of a planned 1,000 Wi-Fi transmission stations throughout New York City, which the company said would allow its Verizon Online customers to have access to high-speed Internet services up to 300 feet from the so-called Verizon HotSpots located...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Inc. released its first quarter 2003 results and announced changes to certain agreements with Verizon, affecting two Crown joint ventures.The company's total revenue was $216.7 million, down from the year ago quarter's $220.6 million. The decrease in total revenue reflects the...
Wireless streaming video over mobile phones is now available at a store near you.Internet video company RealNetworks Inc. today planned to launch a wireless Web site featuring streaming content from several media companies, as well as a promotional program for content providers and carriers....
LAS VEGAS-Bayly Communications Inc., which manufactures network access and transmission products for telecom companies, said it is deploying its TI Base Station Access Platform solution aimed at helping regional wireless carriers deploy Enhanced 911 services cost effectively."In today's economy, doing more with less has...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed a contract to supply carrier 3 with W-CDMA equipment in Denmark.The deal comprises radio and transmission, as well as core gear."The network will be fully integrated with 3's Swedish network, which is also supplied by Ericsson," said...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo and four credit card firms jointly announced they would launch in June an experiment for payment services using mobile phones, targeting to launch a commercial-based service in the second quarter of 2004.The four credit companies are Visa International, Nippon Shinpan, OMC Card...
MOSCOW-The Russian Communications Ministry finally gave the go-ahead for Bluetooth technology to develop in the country, and satisfied producers and dealers are predicting a sales boom. The State Commission for Radio Frequencies (GKRCh) officially allowed Bluetooth to use the 2400-2483.5 MHz band. It cancelled...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch flat-rate PHS service in April, NTT DoCoMo said Thursday. DDI Pocket, a PHS operator of KDDI Group, launched Japan's first flat-rate PHS service in mid-2001.Winning support from mainly business people, DDI Pocket's service, called...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, will launch flat-rate PHS service in April, NTT DoCoMo said Thursday. DDI Pocket, a PHS operator of KDDI Group, launched Japan's first flat-rate PHS service in mid-2001.Winning support from mainly business people, DDI Pocket's service, called...
