Wireless Technology

SAN DIEGO-Integrated circuits producer Philips Semiconductors formed a strategic alliance with Widcomm Inc. to speed up the development of its Bluetooth wireless technology products and to provide customers with a …

The business of stealing cars is a $7 billion game that every year saps the resources of law enforcement and results in a financial and personal loss for car owners. …

NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it. By contrast, …

Spirent Spirent Communications, which provides performance analysis solutions, announced the InfoDM v2.0 release, which is part of the company’s acquisition of InfoSoft Technologies, will supplement Spirent’s CDMA test solution with …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. launched a global cooperation agreement with Andersen Consulting to help corporations and service providers build their own WAP-based solutions. The initiative calls for the two to provide …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s top telecom adviser last week urged the mobile-phone industry and other high-tech sectors to follow the lead of a Colorado firm that has developed a way to …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, in October granted the government’s request for more time to …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for …

Not one operator around the world has rolled out third-generation services yet, but discussion of fourth-generation technology is already under way. An industry that began offering a basic communications tool …

WASHINGTON-A relatively minor mobile-phone case in Illinois state court-involving allegations of privacy invasion and health risk coverup in connection with an epidemiology study-has mushroomed into one of the largest class-action …

The wireless industry is hoping to mirror the wireline industry in one aspect: the money-making potential of Internet advertising. But big questions remain. How will consumers react to advertising on …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Mobile developers Zucotto Wireless, RF Micro Devices and PacketVideo have each announced separate plans to establish research and development centers in Europe. These companies, which are following in …

Endwave Endwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman …

Lutris Technologies Inc. released Lutris Enhydra Wireless, the certified and supported version of its Open Source wireless software platform that provides developers and systems integrators the source code, support and …

With the home rapidly becoming an extension of the workplace, consumers increasingly are turning to wireless home networking equipment as a way to keep connected. According to an IDC report, …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, last week granted the government’s request for more time to respond to …

WASHINGTON-The mobile phone industry is expected shortly to unveil a privacy policy to guide carriers as they reinvent business plans to capitalize on the Internet and new location-based wireless technology. …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for …

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. entered a joint-venture agreement with Chinadotcom Corp., a pan-Asian integrated Internet company offering e-business strategies and portal and online marketing services. The agreement calls for CellStar to …

On any given day, you can pick up a newspaper and read about killings and suffering abroad due to political unrest; ethnic, religious and racial rivalries; border and territorial disputes; …

Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market …

WASHINGTON-A bill that would allow low power TV broadcasters to offer high-speed access to the Internet passed the Senate last week, said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) chairman of the communications …

Voice portal company iNetNow Inc. reported a co-branding agreement with Arelco Inc., an independent licensee of National Car Rental, allowing customers at select Arelco-owned National Car Rental stores to receive …

WASHINGTON-A Motorola Inc. technician who was a mobile-phone trouble shooter for 10 years plans shortly to sue Motorola Inc. and possibly others for allegedly causing his brain cancer. The man …