Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will partner with its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to offer residential customers a single bucket of share-calling minutes between their wireline and wireless phones later this year. Cingular said the MinuteShare service would include a...
MIAMI-Nearly $1 million worth of Nokia Corp. wireless handsets destined for Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket service were recovered in Florida after having been reported stolen from an Advantage Wireless retail outlet in Colorado last weekend.The nearly 11,000 phones were recovered after two men...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems said it has unveiled six chips with a view to improving the capacity, size, total system costs and time to market for next-generation wireless equipment.The products include APP550, APP530, TAAD Lite, TAAD UltraLite, SAR-1K and SAR-500, and they target such functions...
The wireless community is this week promoting the importance of safe use of wireless phones and public-safety uses of wireless, in addition to celebrating the instances wireless technology has been used as a safety tool. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and its members...
Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...
LOS ANGELES-Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about...
SAN DIEGO-A Leap Wireless International Inc. survey conducted by an independent research firm showed customers of the carrier's Cricket service who do not also have regular phone service at home increased from 26 percent last June to 37 percent this year. The...
AUGUSTA, Ga.-Nextel Partners Inc. said it launched wireless service in Augusta, Ga., and Aiken, S.C., allowing customers to use the service along Interstate 20 east from Atlanta through Appling, Evans, Grovetown, Martinez and Augusta, Ga., to North Augusta and Aiken.Along with the launch Nextel...
AUGUSTA, Ga.-Nextel Partners Inc. said it launched wireless service in Augusta, Ga., and Aiken, S.C., allowing customers to use the service along Interstate 20 east from Atlanta through Appling, Evans, Grovetown, Martinez and Augusta, Ga., to North Augusta and Aiken.Along with the launch Nextel...
TEL AVIV, Israel-ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., announced its smARTspeak XG speech is now available on wireless phones based on Nokia's Series 60 platform.The companies demonstrated ART's speech technology via the Nokia 7650 and 3650 devices at Symbian's developer conference this week in London.
NEW ORLEANS-Wireless industry leaders have agreed to implement universal short codes, and wireless users could see cross-carrier short code applications within the next few months.The board of directors for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association voted Wednesday to go ahead with the plan. The...
NEW ORLEANS-Anritsu Co. introduced cdma2000 1x hardware and software options that enable its MT8820A Radio Communication Analyzer to test wireless mobile terminals according to IS-2000 and 3GPP2 standards.With the new measurment software, the MT8820A can conduct very high-speed transmitter and receiver measurements of cdma2000...
CLEVELAND-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has expanded its next-generation network to the Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., markets"Now, western New York residents and businesses can enjoy innovative wireless services that will help them manage and simplify their lives," said Dave Davidson, vice president of AT&T Wireless....
NEW ORLEANS-Openwave Systems Inc. made a slew of announcements this week at CTIA Wireless 2003:the company introduced Openwave Voice MMS which integrates voice and data messaging capabilities;Openwave will partner with Network Associates to integrate McAfee Security's anti-virus technology into its MX messaging platform;RealNetworks Inc.'s...
NEW ORLEANS-Audiovox Communications Corp. launched new wireless phones this week at the CTIA show in New Orleans.The CDM-8400 series includes moderately priced tri-mode CDMA phones with full-color displays, two-way built-in speaker phone and voice-activated dialing The CDM-8400 and CDM-8450 handsets are cdma2000 1x capable...
NEW ORLEANS-Samsung Telecommunications America and Verizon Wireless launched the i700, a Microsoft Windows-powered Pocket PC with wireless voice and data capabilities. The i700 features access to Pocket versions of Microsoft applications, speaker phone, an IR port, a USB sync, an SD expansion slot, a...
SAN FRANCISCO-Critical Path Inc. will make commercially available in April its new SyncML server, which enables over-the-air synchronization of data with wireless phones and personal digital assistants to avoid the need for re-entering up-to-date information multiple times."SyncML also addresses a major pain point with...
Once the domain of top secret British agents with licenses to kill, wireless handsets that include cameras are now available to the common man as wireless carriers and handset manufacturers continue to slowly introduce the devices.Like most high-tech electronic equipment, these hybrids got their...
WASHINGTON-The New Jersey State Senate has joined in the distracted driving ban chorus by passing legislation that would ban the use of handheld wireless phones while driving.The bill has now been sent to the New Jersey State Assembly. If it is passed by the...
LAS VEGAS-Personal technology retail giant Gateway Inc. launched its Mobile Wireless Solution that uses Verizon Wireless' Express Network this week at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002.The service will be available this week in Las Vegas, Dallas and Houston, in additional markets later this...
GREEN BAY, Wis.-Cellcom announced it is partnering with St. Norbert College in Wisconsin to provide 50 students living in a new campus dorm with wireless services.Students in the new dorm received a wireless phone instead of a traditional landline phone. The wireless phone offers...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Chips for wireless phones and network equipment have witnessed a rise in demand so far during the third quarter of this year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association."The July data and the year-on-year increase confirm that a moderate but sustainable recovery continues,...
CHICAGO-The Council of Residential Specialists, a Chicago-based trade group for realtors, has teamed with InPhonic Inc., Washington, D.C., to provide wireless phones and messaging devices, service plans and unified communications capabilities to nearly 40,000 real estate agents nationwide.Under the agreement announced August 19, InPhonic...
MEDFORD, Ore.-U.S. Cellular Corp. donated a mobile cell site, 50 wireless phones and service to the Oregon Department of Forestry and local rescue workers battling the Squire Creek Fire, which has burned more than 2,600 acres and forced more than 200 residents to evacuate...
