wireless phones

Corsair Communications Inc. joined the ranks of companies hoping to capitalize on the Federal Communications Commission’s mandate on wireless 911. The company, whose product history is in the fraud-prevention arena, …

WASHINGTON-Teachers and principals from 120 U.S. schools that were supplied with wireless phones said the phone would be their first choice for a communications tool to have in the classroom, …

Wireless carriers in the United States have been focusing a great deal of attention on a government mandate concerning emergency calls made from wireless phones. The United States has in …

If the promise of enhanced wireless services was a hot-fudge sundae with lots of toppings, about the only thing wireless customers have been served so far is vanilla ice cream …

L.M. Ericsson head Sven-Christer Nilsson told the Japanese press late last week his company will continue negotiations with Qualcomm Inc. and said it is ready to reach some form of …

WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming NPS lands. Instead, NPS decided each …

WASHINGTON-In perhaps the strongest signal to date of congressional concern about U.S. global competitiveness in the future third-generation mobile phone market, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) pressed the Clinton administration to …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry and the hearing-impaired community appear headed on a collision course over the implementation of the 1996 telecom act’s mandate that equipment and service be accessible and usable …

WASHINGTON-A decision to allow law enforcement access to location information as part of the digital wiretap upgrade may have an impact on which technologies are deployed under the enhanced 911 …

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), compromising with Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on privacy, liability and cancer-research funding, won bipartisan approval last week on legislation to improve E911 wireless …

NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming …

WASHINGTON-The Congressional Budget Office has informed House telecom subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) that his 911 federal land antenna-siting bill will not generate the huge windfall projected by the cellular …

Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd., said the company. Comverse said it is the first vendor exclusively dedicated to providing …

WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card …

APEC countries Trade ministers from the 18 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies endorsed the completion of a mutual recognition arrangement for telecom equipment conformity assessment covering about US$45 billion …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association unveiled an updated brochure aimed at consumers with hearing disabilities. The brochure, entitled “Access,” is intended to help educate deaf and hard of hearing …

Lucent Technologies Inc. added several new applications to its Cooperative Innovations alliance program, which is meant to supplement Lucent-developed and -branded solutions. Lucent tests applications marketed through Cooperative Innovations for …

SAN FRANCISCO-Lucent Technologies Inc. researchers have developed new software tools that promise to speed the design of radio frequency integrated circuits used in wireless phones and base stations. Lucent said …

PRINCETON, N.J.-WolfeTech Corp. announced it will offer NewsAlert’s real-time news service to two-way pagers, wireless phones and other wireless devices equipped with the PocketGenie application. Users who enter a company’s …

Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the competitive landscape. IBM Corp.’s Microelectronics division …

VLSI Technology Inc. today announced it is shipping samples of its new Code Division Multiple Access chip solution, which it is calling the first real alternative to Qualcomm Inc.’s CDMA …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week went on the offensive to put in place a technical standard that will allow carriers to alert subscribers of an impending natural disaster …

WASHINGTON-CTIA last week at its fourth annual Cellular Telephone Industry Association Foundation Achievement Awards Dinner paid tribute to Dennis F. Strigl, Newt Gingrich and the 50 winners of its Vita …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it has established an online purchasing site for customers in the United States to buy wireless phones, two-way radios and accessories as part of its product …

NEW YORK-Texas Instruments, Dallas, announced June 8 the release of its new TRF3040 Modulator/Synthesizer, designed to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture lighter dual-band, dual-mode wireless handsets that use …