PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc.'s North American business will team with RadioShack Corp. to offer handset repair and refurbishment services, the companies said Thursday.RadioShack will provide the services at the phone distributor's headquarters in Plainfield, Ind. Brightpoint said it hopes the expanded offerings give its carrier...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago-Caribbean wireless carrier Digicel said it expects to invest more than $190 million in its mobile telecommunications operations in Trinidad and Tobago. L.M. Ericsson is supplying the network equipment for the GMS/GPRS network."We are planning to make an immense...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced it will sell Nokia Corp.'s clamshell-style 6101 for $150. The device also will be added to the carrier's T-Mobile To Go prepaid offering. The device features an integrated camera, FM radio and speakerphone."Nokia and T-Mobile have a long history of...
WASHINGTON-An Arizona appeals court Tuesday led that text messages sent by autodialers are illegal just as telemarketing calls to mobile phones using autodialers are illegal. Acacia Mortgage Corp. sent two text messages using a mass e-mail program to Rodney Joffe in 2001. Joffe sued...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Nokia Corp. announced two new happenings in Taiwan. Nokia opened its third-generation Mobile Services Development Center in Taiwan and announced a partnership with Chunghwa Telecom to launch mobisodes, short videos designed for viewing on mobile phones.Nokia said its new MSDC is a joint...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is reaching out to public-safety officials in Texas to make sure they know that 911 calls should be rerouted if a public-safety answering point is damaged by Hurricane Rita, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told reporters Thursday morning.Martin was summoned to...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Navini Networks Inc. reported that BellSouth Corp. has launched a wireless broadband trial in Athens, Ga., using Navini's pre-WiMAX Ripwave equipment to transmit signals between local radio towers and non-line-of-sight desktop modems. The network uses BellSouth's licensed BRS and WCS radio spectrum holdings...
PARIS-InfraWorlds has acquired California-based publisher Mobile Digital Media to expand its offerings for personal digital assistants and smart-phone users.The Paris-based company said it bought MDM's assets from former parent company Quickoffice Inc. for an undisclosed sum. MDM develops and distributes consumer software such as...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. released its new 2652 phone for emerging markets, which the company said will sell for around $122. The new phone comes on the heels of news that Nokia has sold more than 1 billion mobile phones worldwide since the company began...
NEW YORK-More than 75 percent of U.S. mobile phone and personal digital assistant users say 48 hours of active battery life would be the most important feature of the perfect converged device, according to a report by U.K. research firm TNS.TNS drew the results...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has surpassed the 20 million wireless subscriber plateau, two and a half years after it reached the 10 million customer milestone. The carrier has added more than 1.9 million customers through the first half of this year and...
Third-party content provider Jamster! has once again come under fire as an independent U.K. regulator upheld nearly 300 consumer complaints about the company. Jamster!, a subsidiary of VeriSign Inc., failed to block the publication of a scathing rebuke from the Advertising Standards Authority, which...
Microsoft Corp. announced a new structural reorganization that will combine the company's wireless efforts with its Xbox video game and TV platform businesses. The software giant said it will realign its businesses into three new divisions: Platform Products & Services, Business and Entertainment &...
WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic senators said they are close to introducing legislation to overhaul the nation's emergency-alert system to take advantage of cell phones, the Internet and other widely used digital communications technologies.The lead sponsor, according to lawmakers, will be Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.),...
WASHINGTON-The National Transportation Safety Board has urged states to prohibit inexperienced teenage drivers from using cell phones while they are learning how to operate motor vehicles. "An average of more than 120 young people die every week in vehicle crashes in this country. It's...
SAN BRUNO, Calif.-IPWireless Inc. debuted its UMTS RailLink, offering high-speed broadband connectivity and Wi-Fi access on fast-moving trains.IPWireless said that during a 24-mile demonstration in Europe, its UMTS RailLink delivered uninterrupted megabit-plus access on a train travelling across several cell sites at more than...
LOS ANGELES-The market for mobile resource management systems could reach more than 5.8 million units by 2009, with annual hardware and service revenues exceeding $2 billion, according to a new report from C.J. Driscoll & Associates.Today, nearly 1.9 million global positioning system-based wireless devices...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. and Avaya Inc. announced a joint agreement calling for the companies to develop and deliver hosted Voice over Internet Protocol wireline and wireless services in North America.According to the pact, the companies jointly will develop, market and support new...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Siemens Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Siemens AG, is investing in metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks supplier Tropos Networks Inc., and said it plans to accelerate Tropos' MetroMesh systems in markets around the world."Mesh techniques represent the next logical step in development of Wi-Fi...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and The Game have accounted for more than 2.5 million music downloads through Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Music Tones service, the carrier announced Wednesday.50 Cent set a record by reaching Platinum/Gold status, selling 1 million real tones from one...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Ubiquity Software Corp. signed a partnership agreement to develop end-to-end Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem solutions, pairing Ubiquity's Session Initiation Protocol application server as an embedded part of Huawei's IMS-based portfolio of products.Ubiquity said it expects to deliver...
Qualcomm Inc. upped its guidance for the coming quarter based on what the company said were stronger-than-expected sales of CDMA chips throughout North America, Latin America and the rest of the world, as well as success with its EV-DO and W-CDMA chips. "Consumers continue...
AT&T Corp. said it has signed roaming agreements that add more than 2,100 Wi-Fi hot spots across China, Japan and Greece, as well as in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity through select European and Asian airlines to its Enterprise Mobility Portfolio. The company also said it has...
LOS ANGELES-A group of Treo smart-phone users filed a class-action lawsuit against Treo maker Palm Inc. for making "inherently defective" devices. The suit, filed in a California court, requests a jury trial and seeks damages for all of the estimated 1.7 million Treo 600...
