Yearly Archives: 2004

New distracted driver suit filed in Illinois

WASHINGTON—A new suit filed in Illinois state court alleges a driver talking on a cell phone hit and injured a woman crossing the street,...

Sierra Wireless to supply 1x modules to Symbol

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless said it has agreed to supply Symbol Technologies’ mobile computers with its CDMA2000 1x modules.The modules, known as EM3420, will...

Nokia remote camera integrates motion detector, video capture

HELSINKI—Nokia Corp.’s new Nokia Remote Camera wireless home monitoring solution features an integrated motion detector and video capture with sound.The product includes a digital...

Vodafone launches Greek Wi-Fi network

MUNICH, Germany—Siemens AG said it has supplied a network of wireless local area networks for Greek operator Vodafone Panafon to allow the carrier to...

Cingular’s $12M fine in Calif. sticks

WASHINGTON—The California Public Utilities Commission, unable to reach a settlement with the nation’s No. 2 mobile-phone carrier, today affirmed a record $12.14 million fine...

Millicom sells stake in Argentine company

NEW YORK—Millicom International Cellular said it sold its 65-percent holding in Millicom Argentina, a high-speed wireless data joint venture, to its local partner after...

Andrew cites consolidation for lowered revenue estimates

ORLAND PARK, Ill.—Andrew Corp. has lowered its fourth-quarter guidance, attributing the fall in revenue and margins to carrier consolidation and delays in commitments to...

Webraska to locate Toyota in-car wireless service

PARIS—Webraska Mobile Technologies announced its SmartZone Navigation solution will power the navigation offering in Toyota France’s Toyota Hub consumer telematics services portal, expected to...

Cingular, Triton formalize asset swap

ATLANTA-Following up on a non-binding letter of intent regarding the exchange of operations signed in early July, Cingular Wireless L.L.C., AT&T Wireless Services Inc....

Sprint PCS content speaks up with Audible deal

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS will team with Audible Inc. to offer spoken audio content to the carrier's Vision subscribers.Audible, an Internet-based source of audio...

Simpay payment solutions emerge

DUBLIN, Ireland-M-commerce moved a step closer to becoming reality with two separate announcements this week.Payment software company Valista announced Orange has chosen its payment...

Cricket selects Comverse MMSC

SAN DIEGO-Cricket Communications Inc. will deploy Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Center to offer content to its 1.5 million customers.In addition to offering content to...

Leap Wireless shares down on updated guidance

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc., which recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reported fiscal-year 2004 guidance, including the addition of 50,000 and 100,000...

T-Mobile USA trials new Nortel GSM/UMTS base station

DALLAS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said T-Mobile USA is trialing its new base station for GSM and UMTS networks that is at once compact and offers...

Nokia launches content filter to carriers

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. will launch a product designed to help parents protect children from unwanted content and services on their handsets.Nokia Intelligent Content Delivery,...

Vodafone announces plans for 10 new 3G phones: Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, Sony Ericsson phones selected

Vodafone announced plans for 10 new third-generation handsets expected to hit the European and Japanese markets in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season.The...

Cingular, Sprint add to handset portfolios

Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS both launched new handsets Wednesday.LG Mobile Phones and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. have launched the new L1400 camera phone.The clamshell-style...

Jinny Software offers new messaging product bundles

DUBLIN, Ireland-Messaging provider Jinny Software released two new product bundles designed to deliver short message service, multimedia messaging service and other offerings to mobile...

Ericsson buys systems integration firm Audilog

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has acquired a French company, Audilog, which focuses on systems integration in network management.Terms of the deal, including what...

InHand releases reference platform with Intel processor

BOSTON-InHand Electronics Inc. released its new Advanced Technology Platform, the ATP-27X, a hardware/software reference platform based on Intel's PXA270 embedded microprocessor that incorporates InHand's...

T-Mobile, Verizon to participate in emergency alert pilot project

WASHINGTON-House Democrats today criticized the Bush administration for delays in modernizing the nation's emergency warning system, but a homeland security official told lawmakers progress...

Senate action could allow broadcasters to keep 700 MHz spectrum indefinitely

WASHINGTON-The 700 MHz spectrum situation just got worse. The Senate Commerce Committee voted 13-9 Wednesday to possibly never require TV broadcasters to return spectrum...

Senate committee narrowly passes 411 legislation

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday narrowly passed legislation meant to protect the privacy of wireless consumers if the industry goes forward with a planned...

Verizon Wireless opens new call center in N.C.

WILMINGTON, N.C.-Verizon Wireless opened a $30 million, 160,000-suqare-foot call center facility in Wilmington, N.C., which the carrier said will eventually employee 1,200 people by...

MeshNetworks garners experimental licenses at 2.5, 4.9 GHz

MAITLAND, Fla.-MeshNetworks Inc. said it has received a new experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy a number of fixed and mobile...
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