CHICAGO—U.S. Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., say they need still more time to file their year-end 2005 reports and their financial results for the first quarter of 2006, and have also rescheduled their annual shareholder meetings. The two...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intel Corp. will sell its communications and application processor business to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. for $600 million in cash or a combination of cash and Marvell stock, and assumption of some debt, the two companies announced today. Intel and Marvell are...
BETHESDA, Md.—Broadband wireless carrier MobilePro Corp. announced plans to acquire Clearwave Communications L.L.C., a competitive local exchange carrier that provides service in southern Illinois. The companies did not release terms of the agreement. The deal, which has not yet been completed, is subject to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Nothings spells "major contract win" like Lucent Technologies Inc.’s deal to supply Verizon Wireless with CDMA 1x EV-DO Revision A hardware and software as the carrier upgrades its nationwide network. Verizon’s Rev. A announcement comes as no surprise; the carrier has previously...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Google Inc., Nokia Corp., Vodafone Group plc and others are hoping to spur uptake of the wireless Web with a set of development guidelines for Internet publishers. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) unveiled the initial draft of instructions for developers "on how...
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.—Sprint Nextel Corp. continued the work of reeling in its affiliates, as the national carrier closed on its acquisition of Nextel Partners and, just hours later, UbiquiTel Inc. stockholders approved Sprint Nextel’s purchase of the PCS affiliate. UbiquiTel’s shareholders voted to sell the...
ST. LOUIS—Amdocs is looking to tap the booming market for off-deck mobile content with a new Web-based offering targeting media companies looking to build direct-to-consumer Internet storefronts. The product, dubbed OpenMarket Exchange, is designed to support digital purchases and minimize revenue leakage from third-party...
AUSTIN, Texas—Fabless semiconductor company PulseWave RF Inc. said it raised $30 million in its third funding round. Oak Investment Partners led the round, and existing investors Austin Ventures, Bay Partners and Genesis Campus also participated.PulseWave said it plans to use the funding to commercialize...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Good Technology Inc. unveiled the IBM Lotus Domino version of its e-mail service, making good on a year-old vow to support the popular enterprise software. Good Mobile Messaging, which is slated to ship in July, will include continuous two-way, push-based wireless synchronization...
VALENCIA, Calif.—Attorneys for Naztech Wireless Technologies have served a cease-and-desist notice to Wireless Xcessories Group Inc., alleging that products on the latter’s Web site copy "every aspect" of Naztech products. Naztech said the situation has caused customer confusion and irreparable damage to its business....
DALLAS—Somera Communications Inc. and Telmar Network Technology announced they have agreed to merge, saying they have reached a deal to pay Somera shareholders $4.60 per share, which is a 123 percent premium above the stock’s Friday closing price of $2.06 per share. The agreement...
NEW YORK—Phones stored in the back of airplane seats operated by Verizon Communications Inc. will be shut down by the end of this year. Verizon plans to shut down much of its Airfone business, which has been offering air-to-ground communications for about 20 years,...
SAN FRANCISCO—Mobile gamers in the United States continue to opt for puzzle and strategy games instead of first-person shooters and other console-type titles, according to the latest figures from Telephia. Casual titles were the top four revenue-generating mobile games during the first quarter of...
JENKINTOWN, Pa.—Despite the growing reliance on wireless phones as a primary communications device among an increasing number of households, a good percentage of Americans still believe wireline phones are the most important communications product in their home. Thirty-seven percent of respondents to a new...
Qualcomm Inc., Crown Castle International Corp. and Aloha Partners LP are each spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build dedicated networks for multimedia mobile content. And, analysts say, one of them is probably going to lose. Consumers will flock to mobile television services...
Golden, Colo.-Christina Hemphill has been hired as Promotions Manager for RCR Wireless News. Hemphill will be coordinating all trade show activities for the publication in addition to handling general promotions and marketing responsibilities. Hemphill was most recently the Marketing Manager for W & J...
Ah, the second quarter-no big holidays and the momentum from fourth quarter sales is but a distant memory. Still, it hasn't been an idle three months for the wireless industry: several carriers have revamped sections of their pricing plans, and mobile virtual network operators...
Companies looking to monetize surfers on the wireless Web should consider giving stuff away. That was the consensus of the three speakers featured last week in RCR Wireless News' first webinar, "Wireless portals: Who owns the mobile Web user?" While content providers and carriers...
In an ongoing advertising battle between Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint Nextel Corp., Cingular seems to have won the latest round-but did not emerge completely unscathed. Sprint Nextel had challenged a slew of Cingular's advertising claims about the largest carrier's network and push-to-talk service,...
Flash Lite-essentially a stripped-down, mobile version of the popular Flash Player for computers-has quietly gained impressive ground since NTT DoCoMo Inc. introduced handsets enabled with the software in 2003. DoCoMo recently touted surpassing the 2 million subscriber mark to its i-channel service, which uses...
In the municipal Wi-Fi arena, few companies have had such a mutually beneficial relationship as Motorola Inc. and Tropos Networks Inc. Yet that relationship came into question last week as Motorola launched its HotZone Duo Wi-Fi network equipment. Motorola has been reselling Tropos' MetroMesh...
So the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ruled that Cingular does in fact have the "fastest national wireless data network" and "the largest push-to-talk network in America." The National Advertising Division also said the nation's largest wireless operator could...
LONDON-It appears users in the United Kingdom like Chocolate as much as their South Korean counterparts. LG Electronics Co. Ltd. said it sold more than 1 million of its slim, slider Chocolate phones worldwide, and British retailers are having trouble keeping the handsets in...
In a move that said much about Nokia Corp.'s new leadership as well as the fragmented global market for CDMA handsets, the global leader in mobile phones said it would dissolve its joint venture with Sanyo Electronics Co. Ltd. and instead pursue CDMA in...
