Yearly Archives: 2004

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...

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...

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...

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...

Justchex offers funds verification through text messaging

OXNARD, Calif.-Justchex L.L.C., an online check processing company, said it now provides wireless access to funds verification services through text messaging.When the system receives...

Alcatel, TCL handset venture begins operations

TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones Ltd., a joint venture between TCL Communication Technology Holdings Ltd. and Alcatel Corp., has officially begun operations.The companies announced...

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...

RFID firm plans Smart Buckle car seat for children

DALLAS-AirGate Technologies, a subsidiary of The X-Change Corp., said it has completed an RFID prototype for car child safety seats.The prototype uses the company's...

The Age of the Chase

Information is flowing faster over more media with increasing ease like no time in history. The good news for industry is all those pixeled...

Wireless computing devices will build data access revenues

LONDON-Smart phones, personal digital assistants and notebook computers will generate more than $130 billion in data access revenues by 2009, according to ARC Group's...

Syniverse to acquire EDS subsidiary

TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies announced it plans to acquire EDS Interoperator Services North America, a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems Corp., for $57 million cash.IOS...

News Briefs

Nextel Communications Inc. affiliate Nextel Partners Inc. completed its 30,000-square-foot customer care center expansion in Panama City Beach, Fla., which the carrier said would...

Vendors raise solutions, applications stakes with M&A buys

No company is an island. With three major acquisitions last week, Cisco Systems Inc., ARM Ltd. and Eastman Kodak Co. have demonstrated that many...

Cingular Wireless names Axalto SIM supplier

AUSTIN, Texas-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has named Axalto a supplier of Subscriber Identity Module cards for its GSM wireless services, extending the companies' previous relationship....

Vodafone, Nokia partner on Java phone standards

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-The world's largest carrier has partnered with the world's largest handset manufacturer to simplify software in Java-enabled cell phones.Vodafone, which boasts 139...

Reg fees up carrier revenue

Regulatory fees have been a contentious item for both wireless carriers that claim they are just passing along government-mandated charges and customers who have...

Verizon Wireless wins permanent injunction against spammer

WASHINGTON-A judge in New Jersey has granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction against Jacob Brown, a text-message spammer from Rhode Island. "We got him...

Brand confusion

Who is your wireless carrier?A question that used to be answered easily is becoming more complicated as mobile virtual network operators gain traction in...

Firms try sky as wireless platform, but technology stays at trial stages

Sanswire Networks L.L.C. is not alone in targeting the sky as a new platform from which to base wireless communications. SkyTower Inc., owned by...

Mforma continues buying spree, PowerByHand buys Mobile2Day.de

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Two U.S. content companies made European purchases. Mforma Group Inc.'s spending spree continued as the mobile entertainment publisher acquired U.K. gaming company Blue...

Nextel Partners OK’ed for universal-service subsidies

WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau granted Nextel Partners Inc. eligible telecommunications carrier status, making it eligible to receive universal-service subsidies for the customers it...

Sprint, SBC sign Wi-Fi roaming pact

Sprint Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. announced they have entered a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement. Through the partnerships, the carriers' customers will be able...

Complaint by blind woman leads to new handset, settlement

WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless said it reached a settlement with Dr. Bonnie O'Day over a 2003 complaint filed with the Federal Communications Commission in which she...

Health issue rises over fire stations Firefighter union seeks $1M for study

WASHINGTON-Mobile-phone firms are again confronting a health issue that industry lawyers have successfully beaten back in court to date.The controversy over whether radiation-emitting wireless...
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