Yearly Archives: 2005

Brightpoint scores Skype distribution deal

PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. announced a deal to distribute phones for Internet voice service provider Skype. European Consulting and Computer Business S.A. (ECCB), which manufacturers...

Compete unveils customer loyalty platform

BOSTON-Online predictive market research firm Compete Inc. unveiled its VoiceBox customer communications and loyalty platform, which the firm said is designed to help wireless...

SMS to LOSE W8

LOS ANGELES-Fans of NBC's reality series "The Biggest Loser" can get weight-loss tips from the show with a new text messaging service. The subscription...

Cognio adds to spectrum analysis products

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Cognio announced enhancements to its line of spectrum analysis tools, which the company says enable wireless Internet service providers, municipal Wi-Fi operators and...

Intellisync e-mail platform offered on Dopod smartphone

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intellisync Corp. released its wireless e-mail and mobile software platform for the Dopod 900. The Dopod 900, is a 3G smartphone running...

Lucent retirees file lawsuit over health benefits

WASHINGTON-Lucent Technologies Inc. has been hit with a lawsuit by two retirees who allege the U.S. telecom network vendor cut back on health benefits...

Motorola goes to court to stop Zafirovski from taking Nortel’s top job

Motorola Inc. nixed a smooth transition for its former president and chief operating officer, Mike Zafirovski, to take the top seat at Nortel Networks...

N.C. tower law may be blueprint for nation

WASHINGTON-North Carolina's potentially precedent-setting telecom tower standard has gone into effect, despite objections from the National Association of Tower Erectors to a fall-protection provision...

Doom goes mobile

LOS ANGELES-Jamdat Mobile hopes to bring a little hell to your handset with a mobile version of Doom. The game-maker launched the much-awaited Doom...

Wisconsin gets Wi-Fi fever

Wireless Facilities Inc. announced a contract win to provide network design and deployment services for Madison, Wis.'s proposed municipal Wi-Fi network. The company said...

Cingular pushes Oz e-mail to users

Few killer apps have fizzled the way mobile e-mail has. Although it seems nearly every U.S. consumer has at least two e-mail accounts-one for...

Carriers post choppy quarter

Expectations for a strong third quarter got off to a rocky start as early reports from three of the industry's five largest operators have...

Senate Commerce approves creation of emergency alert system

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved legislation to create a national emergency alert system designed to take advantage of wireless, Internet and other advanced...

In-Fusio, Alcatel add to TV offerings

LOS ANGELES-The rush to provide TV services to mobile phones heated up as two established French wireless companies each joined the playground in separate...

Movida to use Q Comm’s prepaid services

OREM, Utah-Q Comm International Inc. announced it's teaming with Movida Communications to offer prepaid airtime cards, pins and handsets to Hispanic customers. Q Comm...

Senate committee earmarks $1B for public-safety interop

WASHINGTON-Legislation guiding the transition to digital TV is creeping along as a Senate committee aims to address policy issues on the matter this week,...

NTP likely to ask court to make RIM stop selling product

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Research In Motion Ltd.'s motion to stay further proceedings in a patent case between...

Ericsson earnings solid, vendor expects market growth

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Calling its third quarter financials solid, L.M. Ericsson reported a net profit of $672.8 million, a 22-percent increase from results a year ago...

House subcommittee questions FCC’s role in E-rate program

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may not be the best agency to oversee the E-rate program, according to a House Commerce subcommittee report critical of...

World Briefs

CHINAAlcatel Corp. deployed its Mobile Next Generation Network in China for Zhejiang Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile. Alcatel said its Mobile NGN was...

RadioShack’s wireless sales jump 15%

FORT WORTH, Texas-RadioShack Corp., which sells wireless products and services from Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Tracfone Wireless Inc., reported a 15-percent increase...

KGI to place towers on Kum & Go stores

AUSTIN, Texas-Tower company Kampen and Greenwell Inc. announced a deal with Kum & Go L.C. to license space on the chain's 425 or so...

Manx Telecom to launch HSDPA network Nov. 1

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man-O2, Manx Telecom and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that Europe's Isle of Man will have a commercial HSDPA network by Nov....

GPS-the newest tool for fighting crime

Technologies that employ some aspect of tracking and monitoring are all around these days, and although many people might consider such applications an invasion...

Wireless broadband comes to Slovakia, Czech Republic

Slovakia and neighboring Czech Republic are set to get a taste of high-speed broadband wireless access via a trio of deployments taking place across...
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