Yearly Archives: 2004

Hop-on, Brightstar sign Latin American distribution deal

IRVINE, Calif.-Disposable cell-phone and wireless accessory manufacturer Hop-On has signed a distribution agreement with Brightstar Corp., making Brightstar Hop-on's exclusive distributor for select carriers...

RIM stock hits 52-week high on positive Q1

Research In Motion Ltd. is trading up more 12 percent at $66.71 per share-surpassing its previous 52-week high by $4-following the release of earnings...

LogicaCMG gets $6M contract with Tata

BANGALORE, India-LogicaCMG has been awarded a $6 million contract to implement a CDMA-based next-generation Short Messaging Solution Center for Tata Teleservices Ltd. Tata Teleservices...

Tektronix to acquire Inet for $325M

BEAVERTON, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it will acquire Inet Technologies Inc. for $325 million in cash and stock, enhancing its position in mobile data.Richardson, Texas-based...

Cingular extends GSM network to La.

NEW ORLEANS-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said its GSM network is available throughout Louisiana as part of the carrier's plan to invest $85 million in its...

Motorola premieres new camera phone

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. released the A630 wireless handset at a gala last week in New York City.The candy bar-shaped device features a hidden QWERTY...

Navini Networks secures financing

RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc., a broadband wide-area wireless network provider, said it secured $30 million in series D financing.The funding round was significantly oversubscribed,...

STMicroelectronics, Nokia offer specs for camera-phones

HELSINKI, Finland-In an effort to standardize the increasingly popular camera component in mobile devices, Nokia and STMicroelectronics are releasing a new specification for camera...

Orange U.K. to launch W-CDMA July 19

LONDON-Orange U.K. said it will launch its third-generation W-CDMA network July 19. The launch will include the country's major cities. The company's French subsidiary...

Flextronics extends manufacturing reach with plant buys from Nortel

Signifying a strategic shift away from infrastructure manufacturing, Nortel Networks Ltd. reached an agreement last week to divest certain production operations and related activities...

States new battlefield for wireless regulation

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry continues to find its battlefield expanding, with carriers increasingly drawn into fights with one state after another on issues ranging from...

SEC inquiry highlights importance of wireless subscriber numbers

Subscriber numbers are an important metric for the wireless industry because the industry is still growing, so an inquiry by a federal agency into...

Verizon picks up Qwest assets

In a move expected to bolster its spectrum position and coverage in the western United States, Verizon Wireless reported late last week that it...

Cell phones (mostly) get clean bill of health

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, having decisively triumphed in health litigation, believes more than ever science is solidly in its corner as a result of a...

Users’ control of RFIDs will allay privacy fears

Radio Frequency Identification tags-labels the size of a credit card or smaller containing a silicon chip and an antenna-are destined to replace the ubiquitous...

N.J., D.C. distracted-driving laws take effect

New Jersey motorists should think twice before they reach for their cell phones while driving as a state law took effect July 1 banning...

Swedish carriers seek altered license terms

STOCKHOLD, Sweden-A handful of wireless operators lodged a joint application with Sweden's National Post and Telecom Agency that calls for altered license terms for...

Capitol catharsis

Freud is looking down on us, smiling at how the most powerful, the most-manly city on earth has learned to cope with the stress...

Cities and counties deploy Wi-Fi as part of economic strategy

Metro-scale broadband networks based on Wi-Fi technologies are popping up across the country, with big and small industry players alike endorsing the systems for...

RFID tags should track inventory, not people

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." -Bruce SchneierImagine a world where your every possession-clothes, books,...

Vodafone closes public offering on Vodafone K.K.

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported the closing of the public offering made by its wholly owned subsidiary Vodafone International Holdings B.V. for the shares that...

Crown sheds U.K. assets

Crown Castle International Corp. last week confirmed it is selling its U.K. business, including 3,600 tower sites, to British utility company National Grid Transco...

Autodesk, Verizon offer text traffic alerts

Autodesk Location Services and Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of location-based traffic alert services for Verizon's vtext.com text-messaging portal. With the service, Verizon...

Alamosa cuts fees with new Sprint pact

LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. said it has amended its management and services deals with Sprint PCS for back-office billing and service...

CPA refers licensing probe to Iraqi gov’t

WASHINGTON-As one of its final acts of business before handing over limited authority to an interim Iraqi government two days ahead of schedule, the...
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