BELLEVUE, Wash.-3G Americas signed a memorandum of understanding with the Association of Telecommunications Enterprises of the Andean Community that calls for the mutual cooperation regarding wireless communication issues in the region, including the sharing of technical information and participation in related wireless events. ASETA...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc. announced it purchased privately-held Wi-Fi company Airespace Inc., based in San Jose, Calif., for $450 million in stock. Cisco said the deal would add wireless local area network controllers, access points, management and location software and security technology to...
WASHINGTON-Often times when people go to trade shows, it is a business trip that feels nothing like being at home. CTIA hopes to change that this year at its show in New Orleans in March.It is building a 7,000-square foot home-the back porch of...
WASHINGTON-On Wednesday, the Government Printing Office awarded contracts to four additional companies for testing electronic passports that use radio-frequency identification technology.On Track Innovations Ltd. said its U.S. subsidiary won one of the contracts. OTI is based in Israel."We are very pleased that the GPO...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration today directed federal agencies to provide estimated spectrum-relocation costs by mid-September, a key step prompted by a new law that clears the way for the auction of third-generation wireless licenses in 2006. The notification was contained in letters to agency heads...
And once again the wireless industry (and the world) prepares to face the implications of the further permeation of wireless technology into our lives and culture with the pending prospect of wireless connectivity coming to airline travel.Once the early hurrahs over the convenience for...
More than 1.5 billion people subscribe to wireless services. The vast majority of those wireless users see their mobile phone as a device that allows them to talk to other people-and nothing more. The wireless industry, however, is spending billions of hours and dollars...
Pantech&Curitel, a South Korean manufacturing company comprising the mobile-phone operations of Curitel Communications Inc. and Pantech Group, announced ambitious plans to sell 10 million Pantech-branded mobile phones in the United States in 2005. However, industry watchers believe the company faces a major uphill climb...
Will ZigBee wireless technology have an effect on Bluetooth? Once envisioned as the solution to all personal-area wireless connectivity, the reality of rapidly growing multimedia file sizes, connectivity needs and reliability have proven to be challenges for Bluetooth as it attempts to redefine itself...
After years of what seemed like endless hype, Bluetooth wireless technology has become a mass-market consumer product technology, having shipped in more than 240 million units with price points of less than $3 per chip. It is the only wireless technology that enables interoperable...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Teens are continuing to drive the adoption of new wireless technologies and services, according to a report by consultancy IDC. The study indicates that 40 percent of 15- to 19-year-olds are wireless subscribers, and these "classic early adopters" are helping wireless applications such...
Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it purchased a $3 million stake in Linux developer MontaVista Software Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif.DoCoMo recently standardized on two operating system platforms for its mobile phones: Linux and Symbian. The carrier also offers a Linux- or Symbian-based...
Sprint PCS launched two new content services Monday, continuing its lead in the advanced content arena.The carrier announced a radio-like service that will deliver short video clips and six channels of streaming audio to subscribers via their handsets.Music Choice Today, which is available to...
RALEIGH, North Carolina-A local news TV station in North Carolina will offer news stories, pictures, traffic information and weather forecasts through a downloadable Java application. The application will be available over Sprint's network. Local TV station WRAL-TV said it teamed with sister company DTV...
WASHINGTON-Cable TV channel Speed said it will offer an interactive promotion campaign using mobile phones that will allow viewers to guess at the value of various classic cars. The channel is offering the service through a deal with wireless technology vendor Proteus Inc. "Speed...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telecom revenue assurance and fraud management company Visual Wireless and inCode, a wireless technology and business consulting firm, have signed a strategic partnership agreement. InCode brings wireless integration experience to the partnership, while Visual Wireless provides its revenue assurance solution. The two companies...
SAN FRANCISCO-WiMAX and other new high-speed wireless technologies will garner more than 40 percent of the wireless broadband market, while third-generation technologies will capture the remaining 60 percent by 2009, according to a new report from Telecom View. The report, "Wireless Broadband: Will it...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Teens are continuing to drive the adoption of new wireless technologies and services, according to a report by consultancy IDC. The study indicates that 40 percent of 15- to 19-year-olds are wireless subscribers, and these "classic early adopters" are helping wireless applications such...
Wireless technology and service company InPhonic Inc. enjoyed a major initial public offering last week, raising a total of $108.9 million in net proceeds. The company initially expected to raise about $83.5 million. InPhonic's stock began trading at around $19 per share, but quickly...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration launched a new initiative to study the use of radio frequency identification technology to improve the safety and security of drugs, an effort with major implications for high-tech vendors and systems integrators that parallels plans of major retailers and...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new initiative to study the use of radio frequency identification technology to improve the safety and security of drugs, an effort with major implications for high-tech vendors and systems integrators that parallels plans of major retailers...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry told the Federal Communications Commission that integrating wireless technology into the nation's outdated Emergency Alert System could be more difficult than expected and warned policy-makers that scrapping the current regime would be unwise. CTIA-The Wireless Association said policy-makers should proceed cautiously...
WASHINGTON-Lockheed Martin Corp. said it is heading a team that will use third-generation wireless technology to build the Mobile User Objective System, an advanced narrowband tactical satellite communications system intended to improve communications for U.S. soldiers. The first satellite is scheduled for launch in...
What a week! CTIA's I.T. show in San Francisco was weird, good and educational. A show that started out as a way to reach CTOs and CIOs of top businesses to explain the benefits of using wireless technology outside the office has evolved into...
