FRANKFURT, Germany-Siemens AG reported a fourth-quarter loss of $968 million, although it exceeded analysts' estimates.However, the company, which attributes its loss to the down...
While 802.11b, otherwise known as Wi-Fi, has made huge inroads as the wireless local area network technology of choice, many companies providing equipment and...
TORONTO-Nokia Corp. said it has unveiled its Nokia 6360 phone for enterprise users with such features as built-in calendar notebook, calculator, browser, voice-dialing and...
ATLANTA-The University of South Florida plans to use Air2Web's wireless platform to extend wireless services to students, faculty and staff beginning in January.The University's...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. and Tele2 AB have agreed on a price of $80 million for Tele2 to purchase MIC's Russian cellular telephony...
DETROIT-OnStar is working with Verizon Wireless to make it cheaper for OnStar Personal Calling customers to forward calls from a handheld Verizon phone to...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless unveiled www.vtext.com, a short text messaging Web site designed to help customers send text messages to individuals and groups and set...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Iridium Satellite L.L.C. and Icarus Instruments Inc. announced the availability of the SatTalk II, a satellite-based aeronautical voice and data communications system.All voice...
LAS VEGAS-Microsoft Corp., along with its hardware and software partners, unveiled prototypes for its new computing device, the Tablet PC.The device, which the company...
MIAMI-Brightstar Corp. announced its third-quarter revenues showed it remains the market share leader in Latin American wireless outsourcing.The company's $161.5 million in revenues was...
NEW YORK-Fraud is following the course of least resistance, trending largely but not exclusively toward subscriber identity theft and away from the use of...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hitachi Semiconductor Inc. said it has unveiled a new Flash memory product, called Mobile Media Chips, which saves space and enhances storage...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Wireless said it will acquire the majority of bankrupt MobileStar Network Corp.'s equipment and contracts for an undisclosed sum, although the mobile...
LONDON—The London-based Investors International consortium has been named the preferred bidder for a 51-percent stake in Nigeria's state-run Nitel. The consortium is backed by...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and Nokia, the world's largest mobile handset vender, announced they will jointly develop a common middleware...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Agilent Technologies says it will cut another 4,000 jobs, making the total job reductions 8,000 since August, representing 19 percent of its...
MIAMI, United States—Brightstar announced its third-quarter revenues show it remains the market share leader in Latin American wireless outsourcing.The company's US$161.5 million in revenues...
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel) said it is suing Israeli cellular operators Pele-Phone and Cellcom for the illegal infringement on its market and...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says Finnish transport and communications minister Olli-Pekka Heinonen has placed "the first inter-continental UMTS phone call' to Finland."This was the first...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it won a US$26 million contract to further expand the GSM network operated by Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), including an upgrade...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia agreed to supply KPN with its Nokia Gateway products for the operator's wireless local area network (WLAN) networks."With the Nokia WLAN ADSL...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—SchlumbergerSema and Compaq Computer have unveiled a mobile services solution targeted at network operators that have acquired licenses in new and emerging...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Coinciding with its Telecom Africa 2001 event this week in Johannesburg, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released a report detailing the state...
