BOULDER, Colo.-SpectraLink Corp. announced it has provided its NetLink Wireless Telephones for a Wi-Fi network deployment at the HP Pavilion sports and entertainment arena in Northern California.The arena is home to the San Jose Sharks.The HP Pavilion installed more than 100 Airespace Inc. 1200...
"The future is in the software," said Nayeem Islam, vice president of NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s mobile software laboratory in San Jose, Calif. "The hardware is a commodity." Islam's assertion, spoken with equal measures of confidence and conviction, defines DoCoMo's past as well as its...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies said it is providing products and services for WAP, short message service and multimedia messaging service delivery for eight U.S. mobile carriers. InterOp said it has helped the following operators go live with wireless data services: Advantage Cellular in Tennessee;...
The world's two most popular consumer electronics devices may soon be combined into one-the mobile TV phone. Behold. Although one is designed for sedentary, passive entertainment and the other for portable, two-way interactions, technology companies the world over are scurrying to build devices that...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOp Technologies is providing products and services for WAP, short message service and multimedia messaging service delivery for eight U.S. mobile carriers, the company announced Tuesday. InterOp said it has helped the following operators go live with wireless data services: Advantage Cellular...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International announced the launch of a suite of Latino-themed content for subscribers using its Cricket service.AG Interactive, a division of American Greetings, will provide Univision Movil bilingual content, including downloadable Tejano music and ringtones and celebrity wallpaper, through Cricket Clicks, a...
It's no mystery why so many content and messaging providers are working so hard to pry the lid off the booming Chinese wireless data market. The question is how to do it. According to statistics released by China's Ministry of Information Industry last week,...
Mobile instant messaging is expected to take another step forward this week with an announcement that Nokia Corp. will expand its offerings of IM-friendly handsets. The world's largest handset manufacturer will build on a two-year relationship with Oz, a Canadian software developer, to embed...
Wireless technology and service company InPhonic Inc. enjoyed a major initial public offering last week, raising a total of $108.9 million in net proceeds. The company initially expected to raise about $83.5 million. InPhonic's stock began trading at around $19 per share, but quickly...
Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications. The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock placement to increase its stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures from 29.5 percent to 38.6...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s integration of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. gained steam last week as Cingular converted more than 1,000 AWS retail outlets to the Cingular moniker. The timing of the conversion was important as Cingular had previously stated it wanted to provide a seamless...
A new study shows that businesses are most likely to look to wireless carriers-instead of device makers or computer suppliers-for their wireless data needs. Further, the business market represents a major opportunity for wireless, as enterprises have increased their spending on the technology by...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-GSM technology continued its supremacy among wireless technologies, recording an annual growth rate of 124 percent in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, according to 3G Americas, an advocacy organization for the protocol.This figure doubles the number of GSM customers in...
Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. appears to be returning to the industry from which it originally sprang-satellite communications.The company last week raised $126.4 million in a private stock placement to increase its stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures from 29.5 percent to 38.6 percent,...
Wireless technology and service company InPhonic Inc. enjoyed a major initial public offering Monday, raising a total of $108.9 million in net proceeds. The company had initially expected to raise a total of $83.5 million.InPhonic's stock began trading at around $19 per share Monday,...
ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Citing low levels of customer satisfaction, a Harris Interactive Inc. study found that 13 percent of wireless customers have switched wireless providers during the past 12 months, an additional 13 percent are probably or definitely planning to switch carriers within the next year,...
The rash of consolidation and spectrum deals that have recently swept through the wireless industry could have a substantial impact on the Federal Communications Commission's Auction 58 set for late January, as the carriers with a history of being the most aggressive bidders have...
WASHINGTON-The bankruptcy judge overseeing NextWave Telecom Inc. has given the company until Dec. 6 to file its reorganization plan and until Feb. 11, 2005, to solicit comments on it. The proposal will detail the company's plans for its remaining assets following the sale of...
Following weeks of speculation, Verizon Wireless inked an agreement late last week to acquire bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and its remaining spectrum licenses for $3 billion. The deal, which is subject to government approval as well as approval from NextWave's bankruptcy court, will add...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc. say they have buried the hatchet on several issues. The truce included the companies dropping their lawsuits against each other and a pledge by Verizon Wireless to stop protesting the Federal Communications Commission's plan to solve public-safety interference...
WASHINGTON-The fanfare surrounding last week's government approval of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. proved to be short-lived, with Moody's Investors Service reacting immediately by downgrading long-term debt ratings of the new No. 1 U.S. mobile-phone carrier and its...
What a week! CTIA's I.T. show in San Francisco was weird, good and educational. A show that started out as a way to reach CTOs and CIOs of top businesses to explain the benefits of using wireless technology outside the office has evolved into...
SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile music, games and enterprise applications are beginning to flood the market, creating a buzz the industry hasn't seen in years. But while insiders salivate over "hockey-stick" projections for wireless data revenues, developers that haven't cultivated relationships with established carriers, publishers or well-known...
SAN FRANCISCO-WiMAX got a boost last week as Intel Corp. and broadband wireless carrier Clearwire announced they will join forces to develop and deploy broadband networks based on the technology. Clearwire subsidiary NextNet Wireless will provide broadband equipment for the project, and future Intel...
