Just as it blazed the third-generation trail, NTT DoCoMo is hedging its bet on fourth-generation wireless technology with a field trial in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture, the center of its research and development. This is not the first time the carrier has unveiled its next-generation...
As open standards and alliance building become the Holy Grail of the wireless industry, some industry watchers see them as oxymoron and schemes to capture market share."Standard groups are paper tigers," remarked Isaac Ro, senior analyst, mobile and wireless technologies with the Aberdeen group...
The fate of wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. is unclear, and industry watchers have little faith that the company's destiny is a bright one."I don't really know what they bring to the table," said Michael King, senior analyst with Gartner Inc. "I do wonder...
Just as it blazed the third-generation trail, NTT DoCoMo is hedging its bet on fourth-generation wireless technology with a field trial in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, the center of its research and development. This is not the first time the carrier has unveiled its next-generation...
NEW YORK-IT consulting firm Business Technology Partners, with ticket vendor Ticketmaster, has designed and implemented a wireless point-of-sale ticketing system for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum for use during upcoming Fleet Week.Ticketsellers will sell admission tickets from wireless tablet PCs from New York's Pier 86...
The wireless community is this week promoting the importance of safe use of wireless phones and public-safety uses of wireless, in addition to celebrating the instances wireless technology has been used as a safety tool. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and its members...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed last Thursday to make 255 megahertz in the 5 GHz band available for unlicensed devices. The FCC praised the proposal, which suggests that devices built to use this spectrum deploy dynamic frequency selection to avoid government systems.The proposed rules...
Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...
DRAPER, Utah-Fixed wireless technology manufacturer Broadband Central said it entered a profit-sharing agreement with an undisclosed private sponsor to provide high-speed Internet access using the 802.11 standard to 85 percent of Utah's residents by August.Broadband Central said the agreement involves awarding an exclusive contract...
WASHINGTON-Just as in 1993 when the current wireline industry probably didn't expect its customers to be cutting the cord in favor of mobile phones, the licensed-wireless industry should watch out for unlicensed technologies replacing them-not only for data but also for voice, according to...
WASHINGTON-The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History received a collection of early cell phones and other wireless technology devices hailing from as long ago as the 1970s. Daniel Henderson, inventor and co-founder of PhoneTel Communications, donated the products."Wireless devices like the ones we are...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Cambridge Silicon Radio said it has started delivering its Bluetooth-based BlueCore wireless technology to entertainment network adapter technology provider BridgeCo AG for its wireless speaker design.CSR noted BridgeCo's wireless speaker design included MP3 decoding plus a built-in TCP/IP stack that when paired with...
Though staged at the White House, Commerce Secretary Don Evan's launch of the Digital Freedom Initiative on March 4 did not attract much press attention. Perhaps deservedly so. The White House tends to host such photo ops all the time. The DFI-combining efforts of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today said it will allow public safety entities to share spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band with commercial entities but all shared operations must be in the promotion of homeland security.While the FCC applauded the spectrum flexibility promoted in the...
WASHINGTON-The Mobile Enterprise Alliance, a not-for-profit organization formed to promote mobile and wireless technologies for business, will officially launch its U.S. efforts at the end of this month in conjunction with the Networld + Interop show in Las Vegas.The group, formerly announced during the...
WASHINGTON-If the Federal Communications Commission thought that the regulatory issues for mobile wireless were challenging, the issues for broadband wireless could be overwhelming."Broadband-wireless technologies are not yet at a point where one can say that they are able to provide high-speed access points into...
ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Chinese electronics maker TCL Mobile Communication used technology from Wavecom SA as the basis for its new S320 and S500 mobile phones, a move Wavecom said shows the company is one of TCL's preferred wireless technology suppliers."As a key technology partner for TCL,...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-TTP Communications plc, which sells wireless technology designs, announced its $3 million acquisition of Mobisys Telecom Co. Ltd., a Korean GSM/GPRS terminal integration and design company.TTP said the move is a major step in building its ability to offer GSM terminal systems...
WASHINGTON-The congressman representing San Diego, hometown of CDMA developer Qualcomm, introduced legislation that would require the Department of Defense and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to deploy CDMA wireless technology in post-war Iraq."In entering into any contract with a private entity to...
WASHINGTON-A U.S. congressman representing California, home state of Qualcomm-the developer of CDMA technology-is urging lawmakers to sign onto a letter to the Department of Defense to deploy CDMA technology, not GSM networks, in post-war Iraq."I urge you to sign on to a letter to...
WASHINGTON-The congressman representing San Diego, home of CDMA developer Qualcomm Inc., introduced legislation that would require the Department of Defense and the United States Agency for International Development to deploy CDMA wireless technology in post-war Iraq."In entering into any contract with a private entity...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Wireless application and technology company Summus Inc. scored a deal with international news agency Agence France-Presse to offer wireless news and photo content."AFP is excited about the opportunity to collaborate with Summus on ground-breaking and advanced ways to deliver news," said Yves de...
ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Wavecom SA will integrate wireless technology into on-board terminals designed by Grundig AG's Car Intermedia System business unit for use in trucks in Germany's Toll Collect system.Toll Collect is an electronic motorway toll program for heavy commercial vehicles in Germany. With Wavecom's wireless...
WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said he will push a proposal this spring to unleash a huge chunk of the airwaves for unlicensed wireless broadband service.Powell revealed his plans in March 14 letters to Sens. George Allen (R-Va.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). The...
