Wireless carriers continue to struggle with service outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast region when it came ashore Monday morning. News reports indicate that wireless services are severed completely in many communities due to power outages caused by...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it received a $901 million tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service Tuesday. The payment included a refund of $816 million plus interest of $86 million. The refund was part of a previously announced agreement between Lucent and the...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. released its fiscal third-quarter results Tuesday, reporting net income of $23.9 million, or 20 cents per, a considerable increase from last year's third-quarter net loss of $14.3 million, or 12 cents per share.However, the company's outlook fell short of Wall Street...
Music rights company Broadcast Music Inc. said it has acquired the music recognition technology from U.K. software developer Shazam Entertainment Ltd. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.BMI, which collects royalties for musicians and publishers, formed Landmark Digital Services, a subsidiary that will...
Electronics manufacturer Pantech announced it will bring its various mobile-phone operations closer together. The company said its mobile-phone affiliate Pantech Co. Ltd. will merge with its recently acquired SK Teletech Co. business. "With the completion of this merger, we will have moved one step...
RARITAN, N.J.-Wireless data and content delivery will account for as much as 25 percent of overall wireless revenues in five years, generating $50 billion annually, according to a report from the Pelorus Group.The market research firm said mobile Web browsing and Internet connectivity services...
IRVINE, Calif.-Las Vegas gamblers will be able to pay for parking using their mobile phones and credit cards under a new service from Reino Enforcement Technology and Peppercoin Inc. The service is currently available on 15 parking meters covering a total of 150 parking...
WASHINGTON-A privacy group petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to require mobile phone operators and other telecom carriers to better safeguard subscribers' calling records. The Electronic Privacy Information Center said the FCC has focused to date on notice and disclosure requirements necessary to disseminate consumer...
Nortel Networks Ltd. is going to Hawaii as the sole infrastructure supplier for Coral Wireless, a new mobile operator planning to launch an unlimited-use wireless voice and data network in early 2006. Nortel will build a network based on CDMA2000 1x infrastructure on the...
LONDON-French mobile-phone company Orange plc teamed with broadband provider Wanadoo to offer Orange customers home broadband service for about $17.86 a month.The offer is available to new Orange subscribers as well as existing customers who extend their mobile contracts. Orange also launched a half-prince...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. said late Tuesday it is buying into the Internet-calling arena with the acquisition of 2-year-old startup Teleo Inc. The software behemoth said it will use Teleo's Voice over Internet Protocol technology to expand voice capabilities to its instant messaging service, MSN...
HOUSTON-Mobile-software company Vuico Inc. said it closed a preferred equity investment led by Aegis Capital through its Aegis Texas Ventures Fund. The company's mobile marketing and messaging offerings include the mMarketer, mSecretary and Vuico Go Wireless products and services.Vuico said it will use the...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Open access to Wi-Fi hot spots is now be available in 128 of Singapore's McDonald's restaurants thanks to a deal between Airpath Wireless Inc. and SkyNetGlobal, a wireless broadband provider in Australia and Asia.SkyNetGlobal is using Airpath Wireless' InterRoam application to enable roaming...
TAMPA, Fla.-Wireless retailer FTS Wireless Inc. reported a deal with regional wireless operator MetroPCS Inc. to sell MetroPCS' unlimited calling service in the Tampa, Fla., area. FTS said it has secured approval for certain FTS Wireless locations to begin selling MetroPCS products and services...
LONDON-Billing company Cerillion Technologies Inc. said it signed a contract with Manx Telecom that calls for the company to provide a new mediation solution to support Manx's launch of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access technology.The first phase of the project calls for Manx to use...
WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America said progress is being made unionizing Cingular Wireless L.L.C. 's workers in the South, particularly former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employees. Larry Cohen, chosen to succeed Morton Bahr as long-time president of CWA at the union's annual convention in...
WASHINGTON-European researchers said a major study found consumers are not apt to have a nervous-system tumor known as acoustic neuroma develop during the first 10 years of mobile-phone use, but cautioned that an increased risk after longer use could not be ruled out. The...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless Inc. reported roaming agreements that will add 36 airports in North America and Europe to its roaming system that now includes 169 airports worldwide.Boingo said the North American roaming agreement with Opti-Fi Networks includes 30 airport locations in the United...
