U.S. wireless carriers ultimately want to get every American on their networks. In this utopian dream, everybody would be a paying customer. Subscribers would make all their voice calls from their mobile phones, they would gobble up services like downloadable music and mobile TV,...
Motorola Inc. says it is playing its trump card-wireless mobility-in the WiMAX space, skipping over 802.16 Revision D in favor of getting Revision E (the mobile standard) products to market by the second quarter of 2006. The Moto Wi4 portfolio of mobile WiMAX solutions...
SEOUL, South Korea-Electronics manufacturer Pantech announced it will bring its various mobile-phone operations closer together. The company said its mobile-phone affiliate Pantech Co. Ltd. will merge with its recently acquired SK Teletech Co. business. "With the completion of this merger, we will have moved...
Electronics manufacturer Pantech announced it will bring its various mobile-phone operations closer together. The company said its mobile-phone affiliate Pantech Co. Ltd. will merge with its recently acquired SK Teletech Co. business. "With the completion of this merger, we will have moved one step...
At times, it's hard to see beyond the world of mergers, stockholder lawsuits, broadband, global terrorism and dropped calls.Last week, the World Health Organization signaled in strong terms that it has real fears about the possibility of a global avian flu pandemic and the...
Clearwire Corp. raised an additional $250 million in financing, according to reports, bringing the carrier's total war chest to a staggering $600 million. The news highlights investors' apparent interest in the wireless broadband space, as well as the technology's potential to agitate entrenched wireless...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Wireless technology has become an essential tool for many teenagers, according to a new study from the Consumer Electronics Association and KDA Research.The study, "Youth Wireless Behaviors: An In-Depth Look," allowed researches an in-depth perspective on their study group by using rich-media blogs...
Is xMax the next big thing or just technology hype that will disappoint? XG Technology L.L.C., the privately held Sarasota, Fla.-based company developing xMax, describes it as a spectrum-sharing technology, a ground-breaking radio-frequency modulation and encoding technology that enables faster, farther and cheaper communications,...
L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and ZTE Corp. joined Asia-Pacific's largest mobile alliance group, Bridge Mobile Alliance, increasing the membership base from eight to 11. The vendors joined the alliance through a new associate-membership scheme, which extends membership to global technology partners and breaks from...
L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and ZTE Corp. joined Asia-Pacific's largest mobile alliance group, Bridge Mobile Alliance, increasing the membership base from eight to 11. The vendors joined the alliance through a new associate-membership scheme, which extends membership to global technology partners and breaks from...
RA'ANANA, Israel-Technology company Emblaze Ltd. announced it acquired video-communications company VCON Ltd., which is based in Israel. Emblaze said it will continue to offer VCON's mobile-video solutions to its customers, which include Renault in France, the Italian government, Wind Telecommunications SpA in Italy, Telstra...
Has another town fallen in love with Wi-Fi networking? So it seems, as Tropos Networks recently announced it has added Malden, a staunchly small-town city 5 miles north of Boston, to its list of more than 200 municipal clients. The City of Malden, population...
Qualcomm Inc. augmented its wireless reach with the $600 million acquisition of OFDM technology startup Flarion Technologies Inc., a move that pushes the company beyond its CDMA roots and gives it a solid position in the race to fourth generation. Indeed, Qualcomm recently changed...
Motorola Inc. will score $4.4 billion in accumulated earnings in the third and fourth quarters thanks to a federal tax incentive. The company said the incentive will add $200 million to its net income in the third quarter. The incentive comes from the American...
LUANDA, Angola-Movicel, an African CDMA provider, has selected Nortel to upgrade its wireless broadband network to CDMA2000 1x EV-DO technology in Angola.Movicel has 350,000 subscribers and expects the upgrade to boost capacity of its MoviNet service and supply nationwide demand for wireless data services...
Qualcomm Inc. positioned itself squarely in the race to fourth-generation technology with the acquisition of OFDM technology startup Flarion Technologies Inc. Qualcomm said it will pay about $600 million for the company. "With this acquisition, Qualcomm will be in a stronger position to support...
SAN DIEGO-InCode, a wireless technology and business consulting firm, said it has acquired Stockholm, Sweden-based Northstream, which provides advisory services to wireless companies.Northstream co-founders Bengt Nordstrom and Jonas Twingler will become chief strategy officer and managing director of the Technology and Strategy Group EMEA,...
LONDON-CSR plc, which provides Bluetooth and wireless local area network single-chip solutions, announced it will purchase UbiNetics' Volume Product Technology wireless software company. The deal is valued at $48 million.UbiNetics sold the other part of its business, the test and measurement division, to Aeroflex...
Cell phones are operating again in busy New York City tunnels, after being turned off July 7 following terrorist attacks in subways in London.Service in the Lincoln and Holland tunnels was stopped for nearly two weeks. Questions had been raised about the process that...
Even with strong public statements on U.S. broadband deployment (and the role of wireless technology in meeting the 2007 universally affordable target date), neither President Bush nor Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin sent telecom and tech stocks on the kind of joy ride...
NEW YORK-The technology sector could be on the verge of a turnaround in terms of economic growth, according to a new report form outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which provides a quarterly technology job-cut report.The firm said its latest report on tech-sector downsizing...
HONG KONG-Motorola Inc. opened research and design centers in Bangalore, India, and Taipei, Taiwan, aiming to boost technology development in Asia-Pacific markets. The new centers will focus on optimal solutions for seamless mobility in telecom switching, embedded communications, broadband and ultra-wideband wireless solutions.The Bangalore...
WASHINGTON-Broadcom Corp. filed an antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc., a move closely following Broadcom's patent-infringement complaint against the San Diego-based firm in what appears to signify a strategic move by Broadcom to pursue entry into the CDMA wireless space. Qualcomm said the lawsuit is...
CHICAGO-Pctel Inc. said it has acquired all the shares of Dublin-based Sigma Wireless Technologies Ltd. from Sigma Communications Group Ltd. SWT develops antennas for public-safety applications as well as for the UMTS market. The company will become part of Pctel's Antenna Products Group, which...
