WASHINGTON-An Illinois state court this week is poised to rule on a proposed $1.4 million health-related privacy suit against the cellular industry, which faces increased litigation as science raises more questions about whether mobile phones can cause brain cancer and other neurological disorders. The...
WASHINGTON-The mobile- phone industry last week opposed a proposed $1.4 million settlement in a health-related privacy lawsuit that provides funds for a registry to be headed by Dr. George Carlo, the epidemiologist who has clashed with industry since discovering genetic damage from phone radiation...
DENVER-A Cingular Wireless executive last week discussed the benefits of EDGE technology as an alternative to true third-generation networks, further evidence that EDGE may still play heavily in future plans for U.S. operators.Anil Doradla, a wireless technology researcher for Cingular, made his comments during...
Clickmarks has agreed to provide its mobile access and critical alert capabilities to Again Technologies Inc.'s customers.Clickmarks, which is a software infrastructure company for enterprise and wireless carriers, will provide its Enterprise Habitat platform for Again Technologies' CompEnterprise 7.0 Enterprise Performance Optimization software."CompEnterprise allows...
NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communication Inc. said its Bluetooth CompactFlash Cards have been successfully used in a Bluetooth wireless technology trial by Japan's NTT and Sumitomo Corp.In the trial, the cards were part of a location-based system that demonstrated Bluetooth connectivity between handheld devices and LAN...
WASHINGTON-A new Swedish study links analog cell-phone use to brain tumors, a major scientific development that comes as lawmakers prepare to introduce legislation that would earmark federal funds for wireless bioeffects research and repeal a 1996 telecom act provision that bans zoning boards from...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. moved to bolster its subscriber base and retail operation by purchasing the paging assets of Radiofone and Beepers Unlimited from Alltel Corp. The company will acquire the existing Radiofone customer base and 33 Beepers Unlimited retail outlets in five southeast states.The...
Dr. George Carlo has missed his true calling. Carlo, who led the six-year, $28 million effort to study any potential links between wireless phone use and cancer, should write self-help books, become a motivational speaker and tour the talk show circuit. He is worth...
Bluetooth's short life has so far been very similar to that of the many boy-bands infesting the airwaves recently. Lots of hype, with little substance.A recent report by Ovum on the state of Bluetooth bolsters the claim, noting the hype surrounding the wireless technology...
Wireless networking recently received a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which said it was proposing new rules regarding frequency hopping spread spectrum systems operating in the 2.4 GHz band that would allow faster data rates than currently available. The move is expected to...
Paging lit up the wireless industry like a white-hot star.It showed that fistfuls of money could be made using wireless technology. It showed that wireless companies could grow by leaps and bounds virtually overnight. Paging showed the industry that millions and millions of people...
NEW YORK-GoAmerica Inc.'s new Mobile Office, touted as a single solution for the growing wireless enterprise marketplace, is attracting attention from various players in the industry.Mobile Office provides mobile professionals with desktop replication capabilities. In includes access to e-mail, intranets and the Internet as...
WASHINGTON-Sources say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has prepared a letter for President Bush that will stop just short of opposing the transfer of military spectrum in the 1700 MHz band to the mobile-phone industry, a major blow to efforts of carriers and manufacturers to...
WASHINGTON-Sources say Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos will drop an $800 million mobile-phone brain cancer lawsuit but will continue to press ahead with class-action lawsuits to force the wireless industry to supply consumers with radiation-reducing headsets, a development that could have a chilling effect on...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission appeared before the House Appropriations commerce, justice, state and the judiciary subcommittee last week to ask for $248.5 million for fiscal year 2002. While Michael K. Powell did not ask for an increase in federal appropriations, he...
This year, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's National Wireless Safety Week aptly fell in the midst of heated congressional disputes regarding risks cellular phone use poses to drivers and potential harm created by cell-phone radiation.But rather than focus on the harm wireless devices...
With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country's second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to race past the United States as the biggest wireless market in the world.The contracts, penned with Lucent Technologies Inc., L.M....
By nature, political debate in the nation's capital is one-dimensional. The predominantly two-party system forces consideration of issues into the narrow confines of Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal. It is at times a black-and-white world, with little shades of gray. Indeed, it...
While some analysts and technology experts sing the dirge of EDGE before it is even born and wonder if Bluetooth will ever chew, a new initiative that hopes to leverage these technologies for location-based services is the new tease.But Philips Corp.-which believes that the...
Edwin H. Armstrong and his role in the development of radio communications paralleled America's rise to greatness at the turn of the century. His story is at once inspirational and tragic. That the nation's 112 million mobile-phone subscribers can talk static-free is...
While many people make a name for themselves by inventing technology that somehow changes the world, James A. Dwyer Jr.'s contribution to the wireless communications industry during the past 40 years is a little more subtle. Instead of earth-shattering technology, Dwyer's contribution involves both...
TORONTO-It is clear that Canada's dominant trunked radio network is going to get much more dominant.Last year's C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) blockbuster deal by Telus to acquire Clearnet Communications means a big boost in Mike, Clearnet's dispatch network. With Mike's iDEN proprietary digital dispatch...
WASHINGTON-RCR Wireless News has learned that a General Accounting Office report scheduled for release next month will sharply criticize the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration for not educating consumers sufficiently on mobile-phone health issues, but the government study will stop...
