SEOUL-South Korean electronics vendor Pantech Group said it plans to increase its handset sales in the United States by 20 percent this year. The company also said it will work to sell its products directly to U.S. wireless carriers. "Even though we are a...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. is the lucky winner of a handset deal with Google Inc. as the Internet giant turns its considerable focus toward wireless. Motorola said it has designed a handset with a Google button that connects users to Google's wireless Internet services. The...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Antitrust regulators have given their blessing to Alltel Corp's spin off of its wireline business.Alltel announced in early December that it would spin off its wireline operations, merging them with Texas-based Valor Communications Group Inc. in a $9.1 billion transaction. The move will...
LAS VEGAS-Kyocera Wireless Corp. unveiled its Strobe handset, which the company said is designed to simplify messaging and e-mail functions.The candy-bar-style CDMA phone opens lengthwise and includes a second color display and full QWERTY keyboard inside. Kyocera said the handset includes a feature that...
WASHINGTON-A coalition of rural wireline carriers is stamping out its ground on telecom reform as Congress and the Federal Communications Commission consider issues including universal service, intercarrier compensation and a rewrite of the Telecommunications Act of 1996."Our policies are integral to the continued deployment...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced an extensive agreement with camera company Eastman Kodak Co. that calls for the two players to collaborate on mobile imaging and printing. Specifically, Motorola announced it will use Kodak's CMOS sensors in its upcoming camera phones and will include software...
LAS VEGAS-As the Consumer Electronic Show winds down in Las Vegas, content players are front and center launching new products. Handmark Inc. and Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. are offering TV Guide listings for the Palm Treo 700w smart phone from Verizon Wireless. Through monthly...
LAS VEGAS-Amid all the plasma TV hoopla and car speaker madness of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. used the event to quietly show off its first W-CDMA phones. South Korean vendors Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co....
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersFitch Ratings affirmed its A+ issuer default rating on Verizon Communications Inc. and removed it from Rating Watch Negative, where it was placed nearly a...
LISBON, Portugal-Vodafone Group plc said it launched two-way video calling between PCs and third-generation phones to its subscribers in Portugal.The company said its 4 million or so customers can link their cell phone number with their PC, thus allowing them to receive and place...
WALL, N.J.-Centennial Communications Corp.'s earnings plummeted in its second quarter, despite an increase in revenue. The carrier reported $8.2 million in income from continuing operations during the quarter, compared with $18.6 million for the same quarter a year ago. The year-ago quarter had included...
WASHINGTON-Brian Kidney, CTIA's chief operating officer, is leaving the wireless trade association, CTIA confirmed to RCR Wireless News. "Brian Kidney and CTIA President Steve Largent had different management styles and have mutually agreed to part ways," said John Walls, CTIA vice president of public...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc., a wireless chip designer, for $56 million in cash. Silicon Valley-based Berkana provides metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits, or RF CMOS chips, to the wireless industry, and Qualcomm said it expects Berkana's...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless upped its fourth-quarter expectations to $37 million in revenue, and also announced a new deal with laptop maker Hewlett-Packard Co. The news helped boost Sierra's stock by 14 percent to $13.19 per share. Sierra has been in...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless has unveiled its new music service, Vcast Music, which will offer consumers the ability to download full-length digital songs and transfer them between their handset and a Windows XP personal computer. The service is a collaboration between Verizon Wireless and Microsoft...
ATLANTA-Wireless machine-to-machine vendor Numerex Corp. announced it acquired Airdesk Inc., which produces digital M2M products including radio modules. The companies said the deal is worth around $4 million, with an additional $1.5 million in the form of an earn-out. Numerex said it plans to...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association blasted the lapse of the research and development tax credit, which helps fund the R&D budgets of U.S. telecom and high-tech equipment manufacturers. The credit expired in December.The tax break is one of the most-favored tax breaks of the high-tech...
PHOENIX, Ariz.-The wireless content space is now a little more crowded as Mobileload.com, a mobile games distributor, announced it is launching in the United States. The company has been online since July 2003, and it said more than 10 European carriers currently use its...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-John Garcia, senior vice president of strategic partners for Sprint Consumer Solutions, will head up the joint venture between Sprint Nextel Corp. and cable companies Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. The joint venture will focus on quadruple-play...
NEW YORK-Alex Green has joined Heavy.com as senior vice president and general manager with responsibility for running the company's new mobile content division. Previously, Green was senior vice president of business development and vice president of sales at Mforma, where he worked to develop...
EDISON, N.J.-Mobile device management software company mFormation Technologies Inc. announced it acquired Aepona Ltd., which supplies software for over-the-air settings and automatic device configuration. Mark Edwards, chief executive officer and chairman of mFormation, said the deal bolsters the company's position in the MDM market....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. partnered with mobile content provider Motricity to launch a new version of Alltel's Axcess Web wireless Internet service.The service, which costs $6 a month, gives subscribers easier access to ringtones, wallpaper and Internet browsing, according to Alltel. For example, users...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless is offering Palm Inc.'s Treo 700w smart phone running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system for use on its EV-DO network.Verizon, Palm and Microsoft last year announced plans for a Windows-based Treo exclusively on Verizon's network. Previously Palm built all of...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Trimble Navigation Ltd. acquired Advanced Public Safety Inc. in an all-cash transaction, the companies announced.APS is a privately held company based in Deerfield Beach, Fla., that develops mobile software for use in public-safety applications. The software allows real-time information to be delivered to...
