Monthly Archives: January, 2007
Mitec retreats from U.S., inks deal with Broadband Wireless
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Mitec Telecom, a Canadian firm that designs and sells radio-frequency products for the telecom industry, is closing its U.S. operations in an attempt to...
Sony Ericsson unveils India gambit, takes aim at Samsung with tiered strategy
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P., the world's fastest-growing mobile handset maker, announced it will work with Flextronics International Ltd. and Foxconn to make 10...
Comverse stock headed to Pink Sheets
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Comverse Technology Inc. and its spinoff Verint said they will be delisted from the Nasdaq exchange after failing to meet financial reporting requirements.Comverse, which...
Dell’Oro: W-CDMA set to stomp into CDMA market
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W-CDMA technology will enjoy "exceptional" growth over the next several years, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group, expansion that will come at the expense...
Thumbplay inks EMI deal
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Direct-to-consumer content provider Thumbplay Inc. expanded its music portfolio through a new pact with EMI Music.Thumbplay sells ringtones, games and text-based services from its...
Sprint Nextel taps mFormation for device management
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Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it will use technology from mFormation Technologies Inc. to remotely provision, configure, diagnose and manage its cellphones. The deal is...
Jabra to move offices, cut workforce
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Headset maker Jabra will move its offices from Lombard, Ill., to Nashua, N.H., as part of a consolidation of the company's operations with those...
Obopay buys into ‘social money’ with BillMonk acquisition
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Mobile payment company Obopay announced it bought BillMonk, a company that provides "social money" services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The companies said...
Growth in wireless market to boost telematics
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The telematics sector could be on the brink of worldwide growth thanks to better wireless networks, devices and operating systems, according to new research...
Cingular dials up 15-cents-per-minute PTT
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Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers who have push-to-talk phones now have the ability to use the service on an a la carte basis for 15...
WIRELESS BLAZES AT DEMO: Mobile startups show their wares at semi-annual trade show
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Mobile content and community were the hot topics during the opening day of Demo, a semi-annual conference designed to highlight emerging technologies and new...
Clearwire gets new chief of strategy
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Wireless broadband service provider Clearwire Corp. named Scott Richardson its new chief strategy officer.Richardson joins Clearwire from Intel Corp. where he was vice president...
MyxerT eases image sharing
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MyxerT announced the launch of its MyxerMagicT, a free Internet browser extension that lets users send any online image to their mobile phone directly...
Buongiorno expands U.K. presence with Inventa purchase
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Mobile content behemoth Buongiorno Vitaminic is expanding its video offerings with the $1.3 million acquisition of Inventa, a London-based mobile video production agency.Buongiorno, which...
Cingular settles adware advertising dispute for $35,000
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Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is one of three companies that has settled disputes surrounding online advertising practices in the state of New York. The wireless...
Ntelos posts robust Q4 growth
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Regional telecommunications provider Ntelos Holdings Corp. said it added 9,773 wireless customers in the fourth quarter of 2006, an increase of 18 percent from...
Sprint Nextel boosts Rev. A speed estimates, coverage
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Sprint Nextel Corp. increased its estimates for the speed of its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A network, and expanded coverage in several markets including...
Sprint Nextel slashes price on CDMA/iDEN ‘Blend’ phone
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On the heels of a phone launch it declared a "linchpin" in its efforts to maintain high-value iDEN subscribers while migrating them to its...
Carl Icahn: Motorola’s new backseat driver?
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Carl Icahn wants a seat on the board of directors at Motorola Inc., the company acknowledged in a statement.Icahn and business interests he controls...
Jury clears Broadcom on Qualcomm patent infringement charge
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A U.S. District Court jury on Friday found that Broadcom Corp. did not infringe on two Qualcomm Inc. patents for digital video compression used...
Virgin Mobile USA sweetens Sugar Mama
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Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. is sweetening the deal for its young consumers who are looking to trade their spare time for airtime by adding...
Motorola expands relations with Texas Instruments
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The art of the "announcement" appears to couple specific news with vague hints at future products. Announcements can reassure investors and analysts and seek...
Mobile marketing fire heats up
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The Hyperfactory is expanding its mobile advertising offerings with an ad-buying network designed to generate marketing messages across wireless applications.The New Zealand-based outfit hopes...
T-Mobile USA growth slips in Q4, but mix improves
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T-Mobile USA Inc. didn't do as well during 2006's fourth quarter as it did in 2005, seeing a substantial drop in the number of...
Nokia Siemens Networks steps forward
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Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG announced they are moving forward on their network equipment joint venture after an investigation into financial irregularities at Siemens'...