Yearly Archives: 2004

Monstermob Group acquires 9 Squared

DENVER-U.K. mobile entertainment company Monstermob Group acquired Denver-based content provider 9 Squared Inc., the companies announced Tuesday.Monstermob paid $2.95 million in cash for 9...

MultiBand OFDM to announce new group, UWB roadmap

SAN FRANCISCO-The MultiBand OFDM Alliance said it will announce a Special Interest Group and discuss the roadmap for the group's specification for ultra-wideband technology...

Modem-Art secures $8.4M in financing

TEL AVIV, Israel-Modem-Art, which makes baseband processor chips for W-CDMA terminals, said it has closed $8.4 million in funding.Fund adviser Apax Partners with $4.2...

Infowave to pay Visto royalties under patent settlement

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Mobile applications provider Infowave Software, Inc. will pay royalties to use patented products from wireless messaging company Visto Corp., resolving a year-old...

Comverse, Tecnomen announce MMSC wins

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging suppliers Comverse and Tecnomen both announced multimedia messaging service center contracts Wednesday.Comverse said Telefonica Moviles Espana selected its MMSC to be deployed...

Verizon Wireless makes world phone available to consumers

Samsung Telecommunications America and Verizon Wireless have made the Samsung SCH-a790 global phone available to Verizon Wireless customers.The quad-band CDMA/GSM phone allows Verizon Wireless...

French government to reduce France Telecom stake

PARIS-The French government said it will sell a 9.6-percent stake in France Telecom to institutional investors, lowering its holding to below 50 percent for...

LogicaCMG to incorporate Java into messaging platform

LONDON-Anglo-Dutch information technology services firm LogicaCMG will use Sun Microsystems' Java Enterprise System for its wireless data services and messaging offerings, Sun announced Tuesday.LogicaCMG...

Ford selects Sprint for in-vehicle wireless system

Sprint Corp. reported that Ford Motor Co. has selected the telecommunications company to be the preferred wireless provider of Bluetooth phones and services for...

SBC’s FreedomLink Wi-Fi offered in Mich. parks

LANSING, Mich.-SBC Communications Inc. said it will begin providing access to its FreedomLink Wi-Fi service at 10 state parks in Michigan as part of...

Centennial reports fiscal-year financials with increasing revenue

Centennial Communications Corp. reported $214.8 million in total revenues for its domestic and international operations during its fourth fiscal quarter ended May 31 of...

Siemens to equip Turkish pay phones with Wi-Fi-based devices

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG will equip the telephone booths of Turk Telecom, Turkey's largest fixed-network operator, with 70,000 card pay phones and a complete management...

Opera browser available on Windows Mobile software

OSLO, Norway-Opera Software announced the Opera smart-phone browser will become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software.Opera's browsers include Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology, which reformats...

Optimus begins music-recognition service via Musiwave

PARIS-Portuguese mobile carrier Optimus has launched a music-recognition service from Musiwave. The service allows users to identify music via mobile phones.Users are charged about...

LG launches large ad campaign

SAN DIEGO-Consumers can expect to see more of LG Mobile Phones, as the mobile-phone manufacturer has launched its biggest advertising campaign since its 1998...

ZTE income rises significantly

SHANGHAI-Telecom equipment maker ZTE posted net income of more than $46 million for the third quarter, more than three times its second-quarter figures.The company's...

Dwango North America secures $3M in funding

SEATTLE-Mobile entertainment provider Dwango North America has raised $3 million in institutional funding from Weiss, Peck & Greer Investments, the company announced Tuesday.The announcement...

TracFone offers phones for Fla. poll monitors

MIAMI-Election Protection, a Florida voter information advocacy group, said it has partnered with TracFone Wireless Inc. to provide poll monitors with prepaid wireless phones.Poll...

CHL acquired by E-Mobile

PLANO, Texas-Mobile entertainment provider CHL Technologies was acquired by E-Mobile Information Technologies, the companies announced late Monday.The acquisition was necessary for CHL to become...

Samsung to deploy Philips NFC chips

TOKYO-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will deploy cellular devices that use Royal Philips Electronics' Near Field Communication chip solutions.An NFC-enabled mobile phone could connect wirelessly...

Nortel wins 3G contract in Belize

BELMOPAN, Belize-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has agreed to supply Speednet with third-generation, CDMA2000 1x infrastructure equipment to bring advanced voice and data to...

Nortel grants interop. approval to Glenayre’s messaging product

ATLANTA-Nortel Networks Ltd. has granted interoperability approval to a new mobile messaging product from Glenayre Technologies Inc.Glenayre's Versera Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE), which was...

Telus pleased with Canada’s lifting of spectrum cap

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Canadian telecommunications provider Telus Corp. said the government's decision late last week to eliminate the previously existing 55-megahertz spectrum cap for wireless...

Update: Circuit City ousts T-Mobile USA for Verizon Wireless expansion

Verizon Wireless will launch Verizon Wireless stores inside more than 570 Circuit City Superstores around the country via a new store-within-a-store concept meant to...

FCC approves Microsoft OS phone from HTC

A dual-band smart phone from Taiwanese manufacturer High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has been granted approval from the Federal Communications Commission, according to FCC...
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