SEATTLE-Specialty retailer Car Toys said it will add Cingular Wireless products and service in all of its 24 Wireless SuperCenters throughout Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. Car Toys’ Texas …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Irish Broadband will use Navini Networks Inc.’s Ripwave wireless wide area broadband equipment to provide broadband services to customers in Ireland. Beginning in June, Irish Broadband plans to deploy …
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported growing revenues and earnings in its full-year results. Sales were up 14 percent to $55.7 billion, and free cash flow more than doubled to $8.5 billion …
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. reported a partnership with four prepaid wireless phone card distributors, including CellCards, GTS Prepaid, PRE Solutions and InComm, which the mobile virtual network operator said …
GENEVA-STMicroelectronics has reaffirmed its guidance for second-quarter 2003 revenues and said revenues will be within the range of $1.68 billion and $1.72 billion and gross margins will be about 36 …
LONDON-Mobile entertainment company Amplefuture said it invested an unspecified amount of money in fellow wireless gaming company Macrospace. “This investment represents a great vote of confidence in our business,” said …
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. released its first dual-network third-generation handset, the FOMA N2701, which is backward compatible with DoCoMo’s current-generation network. The handset goes on sale nationwide June 11. One reason …
TORONTO-Redline Communications Inc. announced its AN-30T, a long-range, non-line-of-sight broadband wireless product with a view to helping wireless carriers reduce their dependence on T1/E1 lines. “The cost of leased-line circuits …
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS signed a three-year, $1 million service contract with Velocity Express to provide more than 3,000 lines of voice and data services to dispatchers and couriers accessing …
RESTON, Va.-Broadband communications service provider XO Communications Inc. said Nate Davis, its president and chief operating officer will step down to pursue other business interests. “I am confident I am …
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Alvarion Inc. announced Owensboro Municipal Utilities of Kentucky has deployed its BreezeACCESS point-to-multipoint solution to offer broadband services, including high-speed Internet access, in its service area. Since launching the …
ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom Inc. said it has acquired selected CommWorks’ assets from 3Com, including voice and data products, customer support and professional services. “CommWorks’ products complement our offerings and extend our …
Nearly two years after spinning off its wireless business, AT&T Corp. reported a deal to begin reselling AT&T Wireless Services Inc. wireless service as part of a communications bundle to …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. released a new version of its Mobile Internet Toolkit for developing wireless applications, a product the company said includes support for digital rights management functions. The company’s …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Analyst firm Probe Group believes Bluetooth technology might drive wireless Internet revenues, but remains cautious on its outlook. Analyst David Chamberlain expects one of three uptake scenarios to …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless security software developer Columbitech announced its Columbitech Wireless Suite now offers support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows CE .NET. “We see great momentum in the …
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems said it has unveiled three high-speed chips and software reference design for both current and next-generation multiservice telecom equipment pieces, including wireless. “These bridge chips and reference …
Microsoft Corp. announced two new sales agreements for devices using its Smartphone operating system and reiterated commitments from T-Mobile in the United Kingdom and Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services …
The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there is no indication the tide will …
With the approval of the 802.11g standard by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a number of companies have started to announce plans to roll out products amid fears …
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. is aggressively rolling out plans for a public Wi-Fi network, said company spokesman Michael Coe. “We know we are going to pursue the public hot spot …
In an apparent counter-punch to a recent Nokia Corp.-backed initiative with Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm Inc. has seized the spotlight with a series of chip announcements, drawing attention …
SHANGHAI, China-Alcatel said it plans to open a center to enable application developers in the Asia-Pacific region to jointly create mobile multimedia medical applications to battle the SARS epidemic. The …
WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration shifts gears from overseas battles to domestic issues and the president’s 2004 re-election bid, key personnel changes and political shakeups could delay or derail timely action …
WASHINGTON-Lawmakers stripped out a broadband tax break in the economic growth package passed by Congress Friday, but kept intact incentives designed to stimulate equipment purchasing by small businesses in high-tech …
