Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. This year's choice is Motorola Inc.'s Ed Zander. Since the beginnings of the U.S. wireless industry, Motorola represented...
Siemens AG's equipment is not part of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s initial 16-city UMTS/HSDPA rollout, according to UBS Investment Research. The situation stands as a blow to the equipment provider, and could call into question Siemens' future relationship with Cingular. UBS said Cingular deployed radio...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration asked Japan to promote competitive wireless policies and to improve spectrum management, but some reforms pushed by trade officials here are not necessarily legally embraced in the United States. The office of U.S. trade representative weighed in on wireless issues in...
Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. This year's choice is Motorola Inc.'s Ed Zander. Since the beginnings of the U.S. wireless industry, Motorola represented...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-AirTight Networks, a security provider for Wi-Fi networks, said it closed on a second round of financing worth $12 million. The round raises the total amount of capital invested in AirTight to $22.5 million.Trident Capital led the latest round of funding, and...
Last week, wireless technology again made it into public remarks by the president. It had nothing to do with U.S. spectrum management reform, though its context may partly explain the White House's apparent apathy toward the spectrum initiative. The injection of cell phones into...
The BlackBerry-maker suffered yet another black eye last week in its legal scrap with NTP Inc. A Virginia judge rejected a request from Research In Motion Ltd. to enforce a $450 million settlement with NTP Inc., which claims patents to the wireless technology in...
WASHINGTON-The Commerce Department last week missed key deadlines tied to the Bush spectrum plan, prompting further questions about the political handling and priority of a White House wireless initiative the administration previously touted as important to economic growth, national defense and homeland security. At...
While Bluetooth's emergence into the marketplace was probably over-hyped a couple of years ago, the short-range wireless connectivity technology is coming of age quickly. Last week, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group excitedly released the latest Bluetooth numbers from IMS Research, which found that, globally...
IRVINE, Calif.-Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., announced it began shipping next generation Multiple Input, Multiple Output wireless G broadband routers and PC cards, offering throughput that's up to 10 times faster and offers three times more range than standard wireless G.The company...
In these early days of wireless entertainment, it appears content providers have effectively deployed a variety of Digital Rights Management solutions to protect their wares. But many believe all those "solutions" are actually a problem.Behind-the-scenes haggling over royalties continue between MPEG LA, which holds...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-By 2010, less than 5 percent of broadband subscribers will use WiMAX technology as a fixed wireless broadband access solution, said research firm iSuppli Corp. WiMAX technology will serve primarily niche market applications in the near term, said the company. The technology...
WASHINGTON-Republicans last week criticized a new Democratic high-tech agenda highlighting wireless broadband potential, ratcheting up political rhetoric about which party is providing more support for U.S. high-tech interests. After House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the House Democratic innovation agenda at a press...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-By 2010, less than 5 percent of broadband subscribers will use WiMAX technology as a fixed wireless broadband access solution, said research firm iSuppli Corp.WiMAX technology will serve primarily niche market applications in the near term, said the company. The technology faces...
WASHINGTON-House Democrats today proposed increased federal funding, tax breaks and an educated, skilled workforce to expand broadband deployment access using wireless technology and other alternatives. The three components are part of a new innovation agenda that takes aim at lackluster U.S. broadband penetration under...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators late Tuesday praised CTIA's initiative to classify mobile content into Restricted Carrier Content-available to those above 18 years old-and Generally Acceptable Carrier Content. "This industry effort should really help families who rely on their cell phones, but do not want their children...
PARIS-Alcatel Corp. said it won a contract with the state of Kansas to supply wireless local area network solutions for use in the state's government and educational facilities. The state plans to deploy Alcatel's WLAN access points in locations in Topeka and elsewhere.Alcatel said...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission extended emergency alert rules to digital media technologies, while soliciting additional comment on how the government can integrate wireless technologies into a next-generation public warning network. The FCC said it also is examining how a modern emergency alert system can...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today extended emergency alert rules to digital media technologies, while soliciting additional comment on how the government can integrate wireless technologies into a next-generation public warning network.The FCC said it also is examining how a modernized EAS system can better...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG announced an agreement with ZAO Start Telecom to construct a fixed WiMAX network in Russia based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard. In the deal, Siemens will provide its SkyMAX solution, including base stations, end devices and its NetViewer monitoring and control...
There's little doubt that m-commerce is quickly gaining traction among U.S. users. But exactly what m-commerce means to the wireless industry is far from clear. Contactless payments-speedy point-of-sale transactions that are processed through RFID chips-are being deployed at thousands of merchants in the United...
BOCA RATON, Fla.- Ringo, Inc. launched its location-based services beginning with a network of paid transportation companies that will be linked through wireless technologies to provide consumers with location-based taxi and towing services over wireless phones. Ringo said 190 million on-the-go wireless consumers nationwide...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said the mobile-phone industry remains competitive and consumers continue to benefit, despite increased consolidation among wireless carriers and questions by a Democratic member of the commission on the methods used to collect data for the report. The FCC said the...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. announced a deal with Research In Motion Ltd. in which RIM will use Intel technology in future BlackBerry devices that will run on EDGE networks.RIM is adopting the Intel XScale architecture and will use the Intel PXA9xx cellular processor, code named...
