Yearly Archives: 2001

Pumatech execs take pay cut to help company back to profitability

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Software and services provider Pumatech Inc. announced all officers and corporate vice presidents of the company will forego 10 percent of their...

CellStar plans stock exchange to retire debt

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp., a provider of value-added logistics for wireless products, has registered to exchange half of its outstanding stock plus $20 million in...

Crisp Partners plans mobile content services company

NEW YORK—Java 2 Micro Edition company LogicChain Inc. announced Crisp Partners acquired an equity stake in the company, and plans to form a new...

TI develops faster chips

SHERMAN, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has developed the fastest family chip that can enhance the overall speed of all networking systems including broadband,...

Moody’s cuts ratings on Marconi

LONDON—Moody's Investor Services has cut the ratings of European vendor Marconi plc to Ba1 from Baa2, the second ratings agency to relegate the firm...

CPP between cellular callers postponed in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—In a new chapter of the judicial battle taking place in Argentina to implement calling party pays (CPP) between cellular callers, companies...

Telefónica Moviles enters negotiations with Vodafone

MADRID, Spain—Spanish mobile giant Telef

Rostelecom to sell stake in Moscow carrier

MOSCOW—The Rostelecom Company plans to sell its 23.5-percent stake in Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC) due to the financial losses the operator has incurred, announced...

Oskar offers ATM transactions through GSM network

BUCHAREST, Romania—Czech GSM operator Oskar announce that its customers can make all payment transactions at ATMs in the Czech Republic. The number of ATMs...

BT Cellnet launches Geoworks developer program on Web site

MACCLESFIELD, England—Mobile Internet infrastructure provider Geoworks Corp. said BT Cellnet launched its developer program on BT's Expidas Web site, a move Geoworks said will...

Ericsson to focus on large operators

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Kurt Hellstrom, Ericsson CEO, has given a downbeat view on the cell-phone market claiming there are no clear signs of a recovery....

Few consumers prefer speech-recognition technology

NEW YORK—A new study shows a surprisingly small number of consumers prefer to use speech-recognition technology; results that possibly dampen recent pushes by wireless...

Formula Telecom Solutions contracts with MobiTel

HERZELIA, Israel—Israel-based Formula Telecom Solutions, a developer and provider of end-to-end telecommunications management solutions, announced it was awarded a contract valued at US$10.5 million...

Adults warming up to SMS chatting

PLANO, Texas, United States—A new study shows short message service (SMS) chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is...

KDDI may sell wireless unit

Japan's second-largest telecom company, KDDI Corp., has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser on the possible sale of the company's wireless unit...

China will be Ericsson’s top market this year

BEIJING—Jan Malm, President of Ericsson (China) has confirmed that China has become Ericsson's top market in the first half of this year with sales...

Repeater cleared to deploy product in China Unicom’s network

SUNNYVALE, California, United States—Repeater Technologies was granted a Network Industry License by China's Ministry of Information Industry, allowing its OA850C network repeater to be...

Ericsson wins contracts in China

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has won contracts to build out the provincial Internet backbone networks for Chinese carriers Shandong Mobile, Shanxi Mobile and...

Repeater receives China Unicom order

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Days after receiving approval from the Chinese government for its CDMA repeater technology, Repeater Technologies Inc. received an $11 million order to provide...

Wireless Services, FreeRein team on wireless data apps

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Wireless data delivery solution provider Wireless Services Corp. and mobile software company FreeRein have entered a joint service agreement to commercially release new...

Adults warming up to SMS chatting

PLANO, Texas—A new study shows short message service chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming...

Cingular selects TruePosition system for E911

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—Cingular Wireless signed an agreement with TruePosition Inc. in which TruePosition's Wireless Location System will be deployed in Cingular's network as...

Bitfone releases multimedia messaging product

LA JOLLA, Calif.—Bitfone Corp. released the company's flagship product, iBroker, in an effort to tap into the growing multimedia messaging market.Bitfone said its product...

Motorola wins GSM deal in India

NEW DELHI, India—Motorola Inc. said it has won a $178 million contract to supply GSM mobile equipment to India's state-owned carrier BSNL for 1.4...

Sensoria launches telematics platform

LA JOLLA, Calif.—Sensoria Corp. launched the Sensoria Telematics Environment, a standards-based telematics platform that allows drivers to share music wirelessly between their PC and...
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