The story "Mobile emergency alert plans advance" in the July 17 issue should have referred to the Appleton, Wis., mobile-phone carrier as Airadigm Communications Inc.
Nortel Networks Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to provide unified communications with the intent of transforming business communications systems. The companies said they agreed on a four-year deal to share technology and marketing to accelerate the availability of unified communications, breaking down...
The harrowing image of destruction following the July 7, 2005, terrorist attack in London captured with a camera-phone garnered the third-place prize in the 2006 Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards. The image was taken by Alexander Chadwick just after the Picadilly line explosion and was...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. kicked off the industry's second-quarter reporting with an unexpectedly high 1.5 million net customer additions, as well as the company's highest-ever net income of $540 million. The nation's largest carrier also continued to reduce its churn rate, pushing it down to...
Competition can bury you or spur you to greatness. In Motorola Inc.'s case, given its stellar performance in the second quarter, greatness is the result. And that has given the mobile handset vendor the proverbial Big Mo—as in momentum—which Motorola calculates will be further...
TOKYO—Japanese super-carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. has reportedly halted the sale of two international roaming handsets that suffered malfunctions when users returned to Japan after having made calls overseas. The handsets, NEC's Simpureand LG Electronics Co. Ltd.'s Simpure L, were both released earlier this year...
Helio L.L.C. has 90,000 MySpace friends and counting—and how many wireless companies can say that? Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s "Cingular Sounds" MySpace page only has about 35,000 friends, while the "Sprint Guy" character formerly featured in Sprint Nextel Corp. ads has a scant 203 friends....
The battle between Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Cricket Communications subsidiary and No. 4 wireless operator T-Mobile USA Inc. over markets in Texas has escalated into a lawsuit and potentially could affect Cricket's second-quarter numbers, analysts say. Cricket last week slapped T-Mobile USA with a...
MINNEAPOLIS—T-Mobile USA Inc. moved ahead of Verizon Wireless in customer satisfaction, according to a survey by Vocal Laboratories Inc. The survey draws on the experiences of individuals who provide Vocal Labs with feedback on their customer-service experiences. This was the company's 11th quarterly SectorPulse...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Shares of VeriSign Inc. lost ground despite a rebound in the company's mobile content business during the second quarter. The network infrastructure and wireless content company said its Jamster and Jamba businesses generated a combined $74 million during the recent quarter, with...
NEW YORK—UrbanWorld Wireless added several high-profile performers to its stable of content with a new distribution agreement with entertainment management company Czar Entertainment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The mobile content provider said it plans to offer personalized ringtones, wallpapers and video content...
Camella Price, a mother of two girls, is one of eight parents of New York City school children who consider wireless phones a lifeline to their youngsters—and they're suing Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the chancellor of the city schools and the city department of education...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. completed the spinoff and merger of its wireline business, and now is officially a pure wireless player in the telecom industry. Alltel announced in December that it would spin off its landline business and merge it with Texas-based Valor Corp....
My understanding of our elected officials in Washington has dropped below that of anything mathematical and the popularity of country music, thanks to how the Federal Communications Commission is handling the upcoming advanced wireless services auction.What has sent that understanding over the top—or is...
STANFORD, Calif.—Number portability has translated into lower wireless costs for consumers due to increased competition, according to research done at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Since the Federal Communications Commission mandated wireless local number portability in late 2004, average prices for wireless plans...
WASHINGTON—An influential House Democrat said policy-makers should consider requiring wireless carriers and other communications service providers to participate in any overhaul of a Cold War-era emergency alert system. At a hearing last Thursday, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking member of the House telecom and...
FORT WORTH, Texas—A slight increase in wireless sales wasn't enough to offset lagging overall sales and an expensive turnaround program for RadioShack Corp. during the second quarter. The electronics retailer said wireless sales were up 2 percent during the period over the year-ago quarter,...
Qualcomm Inc. is faring well based on fiscal third-quarter results, albeit with a cautious outlook for its fiscal fourth quarter, reflecting the wireless industry's robustness. In contrast, Intel Corp.—the world's largest chip maker, based on its position in the personal computer market—posted disappointing results,...
When discussing the disappointing results for the second quarter by South Korean vendors Samsung Electronics Co. or LG Electronics Co. Ltd., one has to begin by noting the robust performances by Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp., which together account for well over half the...
Boston Communications Group Inc. settled its long-running dispute with Freedom Wireless Inc., agreeing to pay $55.3 million to the patent-holding firm.BCGI suffered a potentially fatal blow last year when a Massachusetts U.S. District Court ruled the company had infringed on two patents for wireless...
RESTON, Va.—Wireless Matrix Corp. stepped into the breach to purchase the intellectual property and customer contracts of bankrupt MobileAria for about $11 million, a day after @Road Inc. announced it would terminate its week-old agreement to make the same purchase. MobileAria, substantially owned by...
LOS ANGELES—Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. is partnering with Warner Independent Pictures and Pantheon Books to offer content based on the new film "A Scanner Darkly." Amp'd Mobile users will be able to access a graphic novel based on the movie, which...
Consolidation in the mobile content space remains white-hot, with Motricity Inc. the most recent player to tap the booming off-deck market with the acquisition of GoldPocket Wireless Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Motricity has gained substantial traction with its Fuel software, which...
WASHINGTON—Internal controversy over the Bush administration's plan to protect wireless telecom networks and other critical infrastructure against terrorist threats and natural disasters broke open last week after a top Department of Homeland Security official and the agency's Office of Inspector General publicly sparred over...
