HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—Analyst firm Gartner Dataquest said worldwide semiconductor revenue this year will be $168.1 billion, a 26-percent drop from last year."There...
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, United States—Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Device makers Hanwha and Synertek have signed a memoranda of understanding to port Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless platform to...
SUFFERN, New York, United States—Acticon Technologies, Suffern, N.Y., developer of PC card modems and other PCMCIA form factor communications, has filed a patent infringement...
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, United States—Motorola said it has sold its Integrated Information Systems Group to defense contractor General Dynamics for US$825 million in a...
TABY, Sweden—Aspiro has agreed to deliver GlobalDining's mobile restaurant directory and reservation network to its customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.According to...
NEW YORK—Celltick Technologies, an Israeli interactive mobile broadcasting solution developer founded in March 2000, received US$10 million in follow-on venture financing it will use...
LONDON—Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) has announced it has awarded a joint contract to Swedish telecom heavyweight Ericsson and Finnish mobile giant Nokia. Under the...
LONDON—Saudi Business Machines (SBM), the general marketing and services representative for IBM WTC in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced it has completed the...
MCLEAN, Virginia, United States—Cramer Systems, a provider of provisioning software, announced a partnership with Evolving Systems that it said will help North American wireless...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to have been a politically motivated decision, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has dropped handsets developed by Ericsson...
MINSK, Belarus—Russian carriers for the first time participated in a foreign wireless communications tender and three of them qualified for the final stage of...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Joseph C. Grioli, managing director of Vodafone Malta, officially launched the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) pilot project, which is available to all...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, United States—Motorola has agreed to supply the equipment for the BT Wireless network initiative called Expidas to launch applications for present...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Romanian GSM operator CONNEX announce that it has set the record high number of 1.5 million GSM customers and 100,000 XNET users."These milestones...
FRANKFURT, Germany—As the company grapples with a slackening economy, Siemens may slash 3,000 more jobs to save money in its telecommunications divisions, according to...
LONDON—Standard and Poor's has downgraded U.K. telecom equipment maker Marconi to "BBB-" from "BBB+", just on the edge of junk bond status.The credit ratings...
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Jordanian GSM operator Jordan M.T.S. launched a new service for its prepaid customers.The new service, called Mobile Internet (WAP), allows customers to...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications concluded a service provider agreement with Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait, a telecommunications operator in the region.As part of the...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless technology is entering the home, as evidenced in Comverse's announcement that its interactive TV platform, which provides messaging and...
BANJUL, Gambia—Siemens has signed a US$6.6 million contract to build a GSM network for carrier Africell in the 900 MHz band.Africell expects between 15,000...
