2003

SEATTLE-Wireless retailer Car Toys said it added Sprint PCS products and services to its 59 outlets across the country, bringing the company’s total wireless selection to five of the top six nationwide providers, including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Nextel Communications …

Motorola Inc. bowed to investor clamor for an outsider with the appointment of former Sun Microsystems Inc. president Edward Zander as the new helmsman, officially ending the reign of the Galvin family. Zander, who is at private equity company Silver …

LOS ANGELES-Compact Power Systems Inc. introduced its flagship product, Cellboost, which the company said is a disposable mobile-phone battery/re-charger that powers up to 60 minutes of talk time and 60 hours of standby time. The company said the charger will …

NEW YORK-Wireless enterprise company Antenna Software Inc. announced it acquired mobile systems integrator RPA Wireless Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Antenna said the move creates a combined company with more than 90 enterprise customers and thousands of users worldwide. Antenna …

Amdocs attempted to assuage shareholders Tuesday, following news earlier in the week that Sprint has backed out of a previously announced billing migration project, by reiterating its revenue and earnings guidance for the first fiscal quarter 2004, which ends Dec. …

TORONTO-Williams & Moore Capital Corp., private equity investment arm for the Reliance Aerotech group of companies, will become a strategic investor in Sinclair Technologies Inc., according to a recently signed letter of intent. “We are strongly attracted to the growth …

Music and TV fans will soon have new outlets for their tastes through a series of new announcements in the wireless space. First, Crisp Wireless announced a new music application for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. customers with Nokia Corp. 3300 …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. closed on its previously announced $25 million acquisition of rural telecommunications provider HickoryTech Corp.’s wireless business, which included two cellular and PCS licenses serving southern Minnesota. Western Wireless paid $12.9 million in cash and just over …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. is reportedly planning to cut more than 1,000 jobs, including positions from its previously announced exit from the payphone business, during the first quarter of next year. The company, which controls 40 percent of Cingular Wireless L.L.C., said …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a distribution agreement with iPass Inc., enabling corporations to access T-Mobile USA’s HotSpot Wi-Fi network through the iPass virtual network and its iPassConnect service interface. The agreement, which T-Mobile USA said represented its first inbound …

Through the end of January, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer business customers a free Sony Ericsson GC-82 EDGE wireless modem card when they trade in a similar modem card from any national wireless carrier and sign a …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it expects its wireless division to post full-year losses at the low end of previous guidance of 43 cents to 48 cents per share, and its full-year adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization …

DUBLIN, Ireland-O2 Ireland said it began limited third-generation services in Ireland, equipping 25 customers with Nokia 6650 handsets. O2 Ireland said its 3G network coverage extends to more than 35 percent of the population and covers major urban centers, exceeding …

The Federal Communications Commissions’ Auction No. 55 of Specialized Mobile Radio service licenses in the 900 MHz band will take place as scheduled Feb. 11, 2004, despite requests for a postponement from the United Telecom Council and Southern Communications Service …

Following on a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into its local number portability implementation, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a report with the agency outlining the troubles the carrier has encountered with the LNP mandate, as well as the steps it …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration sidestepped a confrontation with poor nations at the World Summit on Information Society in Geneva after officials from around the world agreed to ask U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan to create a blue-ribbon panel to study and …

While Intel Corp. was reorganizing its operations to adjust for disappointments in its chip business, Texas Instruments Inc. was presenting an upbeat picture for the fourth quarter last week. Looking forward, though, both companies say business is not bad. That …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Telcordia Technologies Inc. has acquired intellectual property from DAX Technologies Corp. related to the DAX Optima Performance platform. With the acquisition, Telcordia will create Telcordia Network Vision and Telcordia Performance Vision, two new products for wireless carriers within its …

WASHINGTON-The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation rejected the government’s argument that towers along scenic highways are the same as large signs and other improvements to increase traffic flow and safety. “The ACHP must object to the Federal Communications Commission’s effect …

NEW YORK-Software company Scanbuy announced a new service that allows camera-phone users to scan bar codes. The company said the technology could allow users to scan the bar codes on retail goods and then search for lower prices from competing …

NEW YORK-Nearly 10 percent of current wireline customers surveyed by Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Services said they would take their wireline numbers to wireless carriers based on the recently implemented local number portability mandate, which S&P noted could intensify …

There are plenty of contentious questions in the operating system business. Will Microsoft Corp. dominate the mobile-phone field as it has done in the desktop computer business? Will Symbian manage to escape Nokia Corp.’s shadow and entice broad support? Will …

LONDON-LogicaCMG said its merger so far has gone according to plan. “Trading overall during the second half of the year has developed in line with our expectations,” said Martin Read, LogicaCMG’s group chief executive officer. “The benefits of the merger …

LOS ANGELES-Richard Helferich, Wireless2Web founder, has been awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for its LinkPush technology included in Wireless2Web’s multi-modal TalkBack feature that enables cell-phone users to verbally respond to text messages. With LinkPush, cell-phone …