The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Mogreet: Ascend Ventures, Black Diamond Ventures and Spyglass Ventures participated in a $5 million round of funding into Venice...
Intel has halted in-house development of ultrawideband (UWB) chips that use the short-range, high-speed approach to signal encoding. UWB has had a rough week with the shutdown of market leader WiQuest; see our story from Sunday, Ultrawideband: Another one bites the dust .
ICO Global Communications said a Los Angeles Superior Court jury verdict could force Boeing Co. to pay up to $707 million in damages in a lawsuit brought by the mobile satellite service company."We appreciate the sacrifices made by the jury in performing their civic...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has been hit with a $1 billion federal class-action lawsuit over early-termination fees, the complaint filed by the same lawyers pursuing relief for consumers in a California state court and just days before the No. 3 wireless provider announced a date...
A mobile device management software company has filed a lawsuit against Research in Motion Ltd. alleging infringement of two patents.Mformation Technologies Inc. filed the lawsuit against the Canadian maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphones in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California....
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Access 360 Media: Mission Ventures led a $8 million round of Series B funding into Access 360 Media, an...
AT&T Mobility, computer-maker Lenovo and infrastructure vendor L.M. Ericsson announced a teaming to knock off $150 from the price of 3G-capable laptops, with an eye toward enticing customers to mobile broadband.The new offer encompasses three Lenovo ThinkPad SL notebooks and all notebooks in Lenovo's...
Billion-dollar lawsuits still raise some eyebrows, but not at Qualcomm Inc. this week. Gabriel Technologies Corp. said Monday it had filed suit against the San Diego-based chip and IP-licensing company in federal court in San Diego alleging patent infringement and misappropriation of technology, and...
Billion-dollar lawsuits still raise some eyebrows, but not at Qualcomm Inc. this week. Gabriel Technologies Corp. said Monday it had filed suit against the San Diego-based chip and IP-licensing company in federal court in San Diego alleging patent infringement and misappropriation of technology, and...
Aruba Networks Inc. launched a new laboratory to promote research on Wi-Fi networks and the all-wireless workplace. The company's Aruba Labs will be comprised of developer and research programs and an environmental-friendly focus.The developer program will aim to add new functionality to Wi-Fi networks,...
The U.S. Department of Justice has given seven companies its approval to move forward with plans to jointly license patents that are essential to deliver radio frequency identification technology.In its decision, the DoJ said the RFID Consortium L.L.C.'s plans could result in cost savings...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--AdMob: Sequoia Capital's Growth Fund led a $15.7 million Series C round of funding into mobile advertising company AdMob....
BOSTON-The battle for 4G is still not expected to hit the ground for several years, but the war over which technology will be used to serve consumers is well under way - and heated.During an opening session at the Mobile Internet World 2008 event,...
Nokia Siemens Networks is reporting it has surpassed its 2007 performance in shipment of W-CDMA/HSPA networks in the first nine months of this year.The company said today that it supplies high-speed mobile broadband networks to more than half of the world's 260 million W-CDMA/HSPA...
I hate to admit it, but during these troubling economic times I have succumbed to the cool, refreshing Kool-Aid the wireless industry is serving. And I gotta tell you, it tastes good.Sure, nearly every company involved in the telecom space has seen its stock...
Mozilla released an early mobile version of its Firefox browser in an effort to get feedback from developers and wireless Web users.The Mountain View, Calif.-based developer unveiled Fennec, a "zooming" browser that features bookmarks, a smart URL bar, popup blocker and tabbed browsing. The...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--BillShrink.com: Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners led an $8 million Series B funding round into BillShrink.com, a service...
Qualcomm Inc. last week won an appeal of an International Trade Commission ruling issued last year that banned the importation of 3G handsets containing a Qualcomm chip that the ITC found infringed on a battery-saving patent owned by Broadcom Corp.The decision is the latest...
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Aegis Mobility unveiled new technology they said manages incoming and outgoing calls and text messages on drivers' mobile phones, a product aimed at reducing - and capitalizing on - the problem of distraction while behind the wheel. ...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Happy belated birthday to you, GSM. Last month, GSM technology celebrated its 21st birthday -...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--BlackArrow: Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners invested $20 million into BlackArrow,...
Sue Spradley has been on the job as head of North America for Nokia Siemens Networks since July 2007. Spradley has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including in services, operations, sales, product line management and customer service, and formerly served as...
