WASHINGTON-At least two national mobile-phone carriers are unilaterally selling huge amounts of subscriber location data to third parties for city and state traffic management....
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...
WASHINGTON-After an unsuccessful effort to push up by two years the hard date to transfer spectrum from broadcasters, the Senate Commerce Committee voted to...
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...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. completed its $427 million acquisition of affiliate IWO Holdings Inc. The deal includes the assumption of approximately $208 million in...
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...
SAN DIEGO-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...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-New product launches and portfolio updates helped the worldwide phone market surpass 200 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2005, according...
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 RPG,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson described its third-quarter results as solid. The company reported a net profit of $672.8 million, a 22-percent increase from results a...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. posted a disappointing 20,887 internally driven net customer additions during the third quarter, less than half the 58,254 customers the...
LOS ANGELES-The rush to provide TV services to mobile phones heated up Thursday as two established French wireless companies each joined the playground in...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. introduced a new antenna product line designed for use with new broadband technologies such as WiMAX and other OFDM-based systems.The...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless named John Hinshaw vice president and chief information officer.Hinshaw has been an executive at Verizon Wireless since it launched five years...
NEW YORK-MTV Networks International and Motorola Inc. launched a series of eight comedy shorts created exclusively for mobile phones."Head and Body," which depicts a...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to consider legislation Thursday afternoon that will earmark $1 billion for public-safety interoperability and $250 million for implementing...
BRACKNELL, United Kingdom-Macromedia Inc. said it completed its acquisition of Mobile Innovation, a user interface designer for mobile devices. The value of the deal...
TORONTO-Motorola Inc. nixed a smooth transition for its former president and chief operating officer, Mike Zafirovski, to take the top seat at Nortel Networks...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. reported that George Cope, president and chief executive officer of Telus Mobility, has left the company to become chief operating...
PORTLAND, Ore.-Enhanced directory assistance provider Metro One Telecommunications Inc. said it has received notification from Sprint Nextel Corp. that the carrier is terminating the...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. posted a strong third quarter despite disappointing revenues from its mobile content business.The Internet security company reported quarterly income of...
