EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-By 2010, less than 5 percent of broadband subscribers will use WiMAX technology as a fixed wireless broadband access solution, said research firm iSuppli Corp. WiMAX technology will serve primarily niche market applications in the near term, said the company. The technology...
FORT LEE, N.J.-SkyZone Entertainment Inc. fattened its wallet with a $13.5 million investment from sister company SK C&C, the mobile entertainment publisher announced. SkyZone offers mobile Web portals, games and ringtones, and holds licenses for franchises including Duke Nukem, Rocky and Stargate SG-1. SK...
CALABASAS, Calif.-Strix Systems announced that the Republic of Macedonia will use the company's Access/One Outdoor Wireless System to create a countrywide, border-to-border Wi-Fi mesh network, bringing wireless broadband services to about 1 million Macedonians who live in rural villages with limited or no Internet...
WASHINGTON-LG Electronics Co. Ltd. hopes to capitalize on the holiday shopping season with a new Internet storefront. The Korean electronics manufacturer launched www.lgusa.com, which offers LG's entire line of mobile phones with services from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp.,...
U.S. Cellular Corp. and parent company Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said they plan to further delay filing their third-quarter financial results in order to complete restatements of prior financial reports. Both companies rescheduled the release of their third-quarter results for Nov. 28, but...
Enough already with the wires, says Airgo Networks Inc. Airgo is touting its new third-generation True MIMO chipset, which the company says will revolutionize the way consumers use technology in the home.Airgo said that in real-world tests, its True MIMO provided TCP/IP throughput of...
FREMONT, Calif.-A wireless industry group known as the FLO Forum said the "forward link-only" air-interface specification, which proscribes protocols used over the airwaves between the FLO network and a FLO device, has been ratified. The FLO Forum said technical requirements captured in the AIS...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc e announced it has launched a mobile e-mail service in the United Kingdom under its own brand of Vodafone Business Email. The company said the service is available in hosted and "behind the firewall" versions to business customers alongside Vodafone's existing...
WASHINGTON-While U.S. companies have made inroads into China's massive telecom market, they say there are still serious obstacles preventing them from competing for business in next-generation technologies and telecom services. U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, who next month must report to Congress on China's...
The hottest trend in video games has nothing to do with 3-D graphics, big-brand tie-ins or real-time multiplayer. It's advertising. And it's coming to mobile gaming.In-game advertising is rapidly attracting the attention of brands looking to get face time with the Holy Grail of...
AT&T Inc., which until last week was SBC Communications Inc., is getting set to stack its wireless deck with plans to launch an AT&T-branded wireless service that will use subsidiary Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s network. AT&T, which changed its name following SBC's $16 billion acquisition...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. tightened their ties with a new deal that calls for Samsung to build Qualcomm's chips for CDMA and W-CDMA phones. The agreement further solidifies the partnership between one of the world's largest mobile-phone makers and one...
WATERLOO, Ontario-BlackBerry investors were forced to tighten their seatbelts again as the company lowered its subscriber forecasts due to product delays. The news sent BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock down more than 4 percent in trading to $64.24 per share.RIM said its...
LONDON-Mobile entertainment publisher Telcogames Ltd. said it has acquired Magic Productions Ltd., a Paris-based developer of games for smart phones running Symbian- and Microsoft Corp. Windows-powered smart phones. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.In addition to broadening its portfolio of titles, Telcogames said...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Strong subscriber growth is driving an increase in GSM-based infrastructure equipment sales, which grew six percent in the third quarter according to the latest Dell'Oro Group Mobility Infrastructure Quarterly Report.The Dell'Oro Group said that in the third quarter the market for GSM/GPRS/EDGE...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced a pair of GSM/EDGE contracts from Digicel Group, a mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean. Under the contracts, Ericsson said it will deliver and install GSM/EDGE networks in Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti. Ericsson said the contracts include radio equipment...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless continued to strike back against spammers. The carrier filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey seeking an injunction against Passport Holiday of Ormond Beach, Fla., for violating federal and state laws by sending more than 98,000 unsolicited...
FORT LEE, N.J.-SkyZone Entertainment Inc. fattened its wallet with a $13.5 million investment from sister company SK C&C, the mobile entertainment publisher announced.SkyZone offers mobile Web portals, games and ringtones, and holds licenses for franchises including Duke Nukem, Rocky and Stargate SG-1. SK C&C...
LONDON-Mobile gambling will hit the mass market next year and explode into a $4.26 billion industry in 2008, according to a report from U.K. media and research firm visiongain.Companies are jockeying for position in the worldwide mobile gambling industry, which will "take off in...
CALABASAS, Calif.-Strix Systems announced that the Republic of Macedonia will use the company's Access/One Outdoor Wireless System to create a countrywide, border-to-border Wi-Fi mesh network, bringing wireless broadband services to about 1 million Macedonians who live in rural villages with limited or no Internet...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. and parent company Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said they plan to further delay filing their third-quarter financial results in order to complete restatements of prior financial reports. Both companies rescheduled the release of their third-quarter results for Nov. 28, but...
WASHINGTON-LG Electronics Co. Ltd. hopes to capitalize on the holiday shopping season with a new Internet storefront.The Korean handset manufacturer launched www.lgusa.com, which offers LG's entire line of mobile phones with services from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp., Metro...
LOS ANGELES-More than 20 percent of teen U.S. cell-phone users have downloaded at least 10 ringtones in the last month, and 12 percent have downloaded 15 or more music clips, according to a survey from Nielsen Entertainment.The firm's first mobile entertainment benchmark found that...
NEW YORK-Sprint Nextel Corp.'s planned acquisition of its largest CDMA affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. revved up investors of fellow affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. The carrier has yet to resolve ongoing litigation with Sprint Nextel. UbiquiTel's stock price surged more than 10 percent Monday to a...
