RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp.'s board of directors declared a first quarter dividend for the company's common stock of 2.5 cents per share. The dividend is payable March 31, 2006, to shareholders who own common stock at the close of the markets on March 10.Sprint...
PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Investors sent shares of Brightpoint Inc. skyward after the company reported a 33-percent increase in fourth-quarter sales. The mobile-phone distributor reported quarterly net income of $8.9 million, or 21 cents per share, up from $7.5 million, or 18 cents per share, in the...
ATLANTA, Ga.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it completed network enhancements in Connecticut and Mississippi.In Connecticut, the carrier completed $45 million of work last year, including integrating its network with that of the former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The operator incorporated 292 cell sites from the...
WASHINGTON-The White House today clarified that a new budget proposal to set user fees on un-auctioned spectrum would not lead to taxes on frequencies designated for Wi-Fi. But the White House said satellite, taxi and other industry sectors that do not pay for spectrum...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless' Vcast subscribers can access concert footage and audio recordings from last night's concert by The Fugees in Los Angeles. The carrier sponsored the free open-air show from the noted hip-hop band, and is releasing clips from that performance and previous shows...
PHOENIX-Just in case subscribers need a virtual coach on the go, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Bones in Motion launched a mobile fitness application for GPS-enabled CDMA and iDEN phones. BiMActive said the service is the first in a suite of applications designed to let...
LONDON-Next-generation wireless networks are driving multimedia offerings in the United Kingdom and Germany, according to the latest figures from M:Metrics. The Seattle-based mobile measurement firm found that while 3G users remain a small minority, such subscribers are as much as five times more likely...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee seemed cool to the idea that broadband-pipe owners should be able to require some bandwidth hogs like Voice over Internet Protocol providers Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to pay to access their broadband pipes. "I think the refrain of this...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Regional carrier and Sprint Nextel Corp. CDMA affiliate iPCS Inc. reported a net loss of $17.2 million, or $1.03 per share, although the operator's churn rate was down and it had solid net customer additions of nearly 19,000 subscribers for its first fiscal...
SAN DIEGO-Mobile messaging company SMS.ac had a cease-and-desist order issued against a blogger who called the company a "total scam." The law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery served blogger Russell Beattie with a document demanding the removal of two posts referencing SMS.ac. Beattie,...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Plans for an Island-wide Wi-Fi network is coming to the Bahamas thanks to an agreement between Meru Networks, a wireless Voice over Internet Protocol infrastructure developer, and Sawtel Inc., a satellite and wireless telecommunications provider. Sawtel said it plans to implement Meru's wireless...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. named Hamid Ahmadi its first chief architect. Ahmadi will be responsible for developing a unified architectural framework and leading strategic hardware and software architecture planning across all of Motorola's business units. Ahmadi will report to Padmasree Warrior, the company's executive vice...
PEMBROKE, Bermuda-Qualcomm Inc.'s mobile TV subsidiary, MediaFlo USA Inc., signed an agreement with Intelsat to use capacity on the satellite operator's Intelsat Americas-8 satellite. The IA-8 satellite, launched last summer, is expected to provide bandwidth and connectivity to MediaFlo USA's transmitter sites. Qualcomm is...
OKLAHOMA CITY-RadioShack Corp. customers in seven states will be able to purchase cellular phones and services from Dobson Communications Corp.'s wireless subsidiary, Dobson Cellular Systems, under the Cellular One brand. The new distribution agreement, announced by Dobson, involves 54 RadioShack stores in markets primarily...
PHOENIX-Software developer EQO Communications announced a new Java application for mobile phones that the company said allows Skype users to place and receive Skype calls from their mobile phone. EQO said it is offering the service for free during a trial period. The company...
By Jamie LaReau DETROIT-General Motors' OnStar division will offer new technology on some 2006 models and nearly all 2007 models that gives subscribers automated turn-by-turn navigation in their vehicles.GM will unveil the technology at the Chicago Auto Show this week, where it presented the...
TORONTO-Mobile security company Diversinet Corp. said its newest authentication offering is ready for commercial use via cell phones and other mobile devices. The company explained that security tokens, sometimes called hardware tokens, authentication tokens or cryptographic tokens, are small devices people can use to...
It seems like hardly a week has gone by lately without a miner tragedy or a near-tragedy in the news. As the media shines its light on the mining industry, it's clear that mining communications is ripe for modernization. Today most mines have hard-wired...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. is coaxing customers to try its phone-and-computer call management service, iobi Home, by offering the service free for three months. Iobi allows users to route calls from their home phone to any number, such as a cellular phone, and to...
MADRID, Spain-Google Inc. and Skype Technologies SA are among the backers of Fon, a Spanish Internet software company with plans to create a global network of one million shared Wi-Fi hot spots by 2010. In its first round of funding, the three-month-old company said...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has reached an agreement with the Pentagon and vendors on how to test and manufacture new 5 GHz Wi-Fi products that avoid harmful interference to military radar systems, according to sources. The accord paves the way for new 5 GHz Wi-Fi...
LONDON-Mobile video advertising company Rhythm NewMedia opened offices in the United Kingdom. Stephen Upstone is set to lead the company's U.K. office in the role of senior director of U.K. operations. Most recently, Upstone was business development director at Touch Clarity, an advertising and...
ATLANTA-The Weather Channel Interactive announced plans for a mobile marketing campaign targeting wireless Web surfers.The company said it plans to use a clickable banner ad for Aruba Tourism on its mobile Internet pages that will redirect users to an interactive information page. Surfers can...
Alltel Corp. is revamping its prepaid service to try to profit from recent trends. As the U.S. postpaid wireless market saturates, fourth-quarter results showed most carriers, including Alltel, registered a heavier prepaid and reseller mix among newly added customers. The country's fifth-largest carrier introduced...
