OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Speech recognition technologies will play an important role in the financial services and telecommunications industries, according to a new study from Allied...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-The heated and rancorous legal battle between corporate wireless e-mail companies Research In Motion Ltd. and Good Technology Inc. moved another step forward,...
LOS ANGELES-Bluetooth manufacturer Blue-Gene.com said it will begin marketing its BT-300C Bluetooth Compact Flash card targeted at Pocket PC and notebook computers. The company...
PHILADELPHIA, United States-Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the U.S. telecommunications industry to "cautious" from "in line," according to a Reuters report.The firm cited...
LONDON-Arabic news network Al Jazeera said it will offer a breaking news service to mobile-phone users. The text messaging service, operated through content company...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said it will launch a new satellite mobile handset that provides 64 kilobits per second (kbps) packet communications. Users of the satellite...
BEIJING-China Unicom announced it had completed upgrading its CDMA network to CDMA 1x, enabling a host of new services, including multimedia messages and high-speed...
MANILA, The Philippines-Ayala-owned Globe Telecom announced it posted a consolidated net income of 6.84 billion Philippine pesos (US$129 million) in 2002, 59-percent higher than...
OSLO, Norway-Norway's Reitan Group, a retail giant best known for its grocery chain and franchise holdings, made a bid for Sense Communications International, the...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Indosat confirmed its plan to merge its cellular subsidiaries Satelindo and Indosat-M3 in compliance with the company's strategy to strengthen its core business...
MOSCOW-The Russian Communications Ministry finally gave the go-ahead for Bluetooth technology to develop in the country, and satisfied producers and dealers are predicting a...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Vodafone announced it will launch its Vodafone Live! service from 21 April. The service offering will include multimedia messaging service (MMS) and polyphonic...
BEIJING—Hong Kong is suffering from a mysterious illness called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). On 1 April, a rumor surfaced that the whole city...
TOKYO-Oki Electric, a leading electronic manufacturer in Japan, plans to expand sales for semiconductors for PHS handsets to meet far-expanding demand for PHS units...
BOSTON-Speech technology provider SpeechWorks International Inc. announced Bob Kellegrew has joined as vice president and general counsel.Kellegrew joins the company from American Tower Corp....
DUBLIN, Ireland-Scottish firm Eurosource Europe announced plans to establish a presence in the United States, having carved a lucrative niche in Europe. The company...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following the acquisition in March of wireless local are network (WLAN) operators Megastream and Munich-based WLAN, fixed-line carrier Swisscom, which now has...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The National Telecommunications Commission in Honduras prequalified BellSouth, Entel Chile and Megatel-EMCE for the band A personal communications services (PCS) cellular telephone...
BEIJING—In a report entitled "Management and Development of China Telecom in 2003," equipment manufacturer Zhongxing Telecom (ZTE) predicted fixed-line carrier China Telecom will adopt...
