While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided a platform for the launch of several new wireless handsets. Audiovox Communications Corp. led...
Broadband wireless carrier Clearwire and Intel Corp. said they will join forces to develop and deploy WiMAX wireless broadband networks. Wireless broadband equipment from Clearwire subsidiary NextNet Wireless will be used for the networks. Future Intel silicon products that will support the upcoming 802.16...
TOKYO AND ESPOO, Finland-Following on a series of recent announcements regarding wireless in-car communications, Nokia Corp. and Land Rover said they jointly developed the Personal Telephone Integration system, an integrated automotive communications system especially for Land Rover vehicles. The system offers connections either via...
RESTON, VA.-States and localities increasingly are turning to wireless technologies to attract business and expand broadband penetration to citizens in traditionally underserved areas, according to a report from government market intelligence provider INPUT. INPUT estimates the market for such services will grow from $500...
ESPOO, Finland-Following on a series of recent announcements regarding wireless in-car communications, Nokia Corp. and Land Rover Wednesday said they jointly developed the Personal Telephone Integration system, an integrated automotive communications system especially for Land Rover vehicles. The system offers connections either via Bluetooth...
EDGE and UMTS technologies are both on a roll, says new research. But while EDGE accounts for more deployments, all eyes are on the benefits UMTS can bring. However, CDMA is singing its own song. At the CDMA Americas Congress in Miami, the technology's...
With 802.11n still lurking in the distance, wireless players are stepping up efforts to wed cellular and wireless local area networks while earnestly preparing Wi-Fi for wedded bliss. The "n" protocol will not be ready for a few years, but some carriers have set...
The future of wireless could be the future of most everything. Wireless technology has evolved in leaps and bounds since the first transmission of radio communication signals across the English Channel and then across the Atlantic Ocean a century ago. Wireless technology is being...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration and the high-tech sector oppose Japan's proposal to add a user fee to unlicensed wireless devices, arguing it would undercut consumer demand and stifle development of wireless technologies in the world's second largest economy. The U.S., which expressed its views in...
MAITLAND, Fla.-Two wireless mesh networks were announced yesterday.MeshNetworks Inc. and Cheetah Wireless Technologies Inc. said they have deployed a trial mesh wireless broadband network throughout downtown Las Vegas in conjunction with the Freeway and Arterial System of Transportation organization of Nevada. The city is...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported that carpeting manufacturer Shaw Industries Inc. renewed its contract designating AWS as its primary wireless service provider. The contract calls for Shaw to add "significant numbers of voice users" and evaluate the carrier's EDGE wireless data service for...
UTStarcom Inc.'s $165.1 million purchase of U.S.-based Audiovox Communications Corp.'s wireless handset business establishes the company as a player in the global CDMA market, fulfilling its founders' original vision.The company, which always wanted to develop solutions that could be offered to any company worldwide,...
LONDON-The buildout of third-generation wireless technologies are poised to transform the way enterprises do business, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The analysis also indicates state-of-the-art communications systems must continue to evolve if businesses are truly going to capitalize on the...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa.-ArrayComm Inc. said it has scored its second iBurst broadband wireless system deployment, this one in South Africa. Wireless Business Solutions, a provider of mobile data solutions, plans to deploy the U.S.-based company's iBurst technology throughout South Africa.WBS expects to cover more...
Dobson Communications Corp.'s Dobson Cellular Systems jumped into the converged market last week with the launch of its MERGE product, which the company said would help bridge the gap between traditional wireline and wireless services by allowing customers to access their wireless calling plan...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-ArrayComm Inc. said it has scored its second iBurst broadband wireless system deployment, this one in South Africa. Wireless Business Solutions, a provider of mobile data solutions, plans to deploy the U.S.-based company's iBurst technology throughout South Africa.WBS expects to cover more...
With cell phones, pagers and even wireless computers nearly ubiquitous, dozens of agencies are working to open the door for airline passengers to be able to use wireless communications at 40,000 feet. First, though, they must define the problem with such communications."One of the...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. has joined with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to develop an Amber Alert wireless solution, one of three efforts under way to address the issue of finding missing children quickly via wireless."At Nextel, we believe supporting the efforts...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Short-range wireless technologies like Bluetooth have a promising future, according to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which recently surveyed 5,000 college students on the topic.More than half of the respondents recognized Bluetooth wireless technology, and 11 percent said they are currently using...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc. has announced Charles Giancarlo as its new chief technology officer as part of the company's technology reorganization.He becomes the first CTO since April 2000 when Judy Esrin quit the position.The technology organization is led by Mario Mazzola, senior vice...
WASHINGTON-Leucadia National Corp., the New York investment firm seeking to buy at least 50 percent of MCI Inc., is remaining mum on whether it backs the revamped long-distance carrier's plans to re-enter the wireless space or any other aspect of the proposed telecom purchase."We...
Simultaneously, 17-year-old Maria Sharapova demonstrated both the brilliance and the bane of wireless technology last week-after blowing by Serena Williams to become the women's champion at Wimbledon.Sharapova grabbed her father's cell phone to call her mom from center court. Only the call didn't go...
WASHINGTON-Homeland Security Committee Chairman Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) later today will address the importance of l innovation to national security at a technology showcase on Capitol Hill, an event that comes on the heels of a new government report that criticizes the Department of Homeland...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, having decisively triumphed in health litigation, believes more than ever science is solidly in its corner as a result of a growing number of new studies that have been unable to replicate genetic damage and other biological effects from radiation observed...
