SAN DIEGO-Applied Micro Circuits Corp. said it has settled a securities class-action lawsuit against the company and certain current and former officers and directors.The four-year-old lawsuit alleged the company failed to warn shareholders of a downturn in business. The settlement, which must still be...
LOS ANGELES-WMD Holdings Group Inc. said it will use broadband connectivity from Verizon Wireless for the company's Navitouch Interactive Broadcast Network.Navitouch is an interactive video and audio network that can be used by advertisers and provides a source of services and information for consumers,...
SEATTLE-M-commerce software developer Qpass announced Tuesday that it had acquired ucp morgen, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of content delivery software for network operators and content providers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Qpass said it will use the acquisition to broaden its product line...
SHANGHAI, China-Puca Technologies, an Irish company that provides mobile messaging and data services, announced an agreement to acquire Beijing-based Mobile-Factor, which provides marketing applications, employee communications solutions and business-to-business messaging applications. "Our strategy is to continue Puca's growth by developing and expanding strong and...
MIAMI-BatMax Corp. said its BatMax cell-phone battery-life booster is now in production and being shipped to retailers and wholesalers around the world. BatMax, based on a nanoceramic material called IonXR, is a small rectangular sticker that attaches to mobile-phone batteries. The company said the...
LOS ANGELES-French mobile-game publisher In-Fusio continued to move into the U.S. market with the acquisition of Thumbworks, a Tustin, Calif.-based provider of entertainment content.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Specializing in the "connected gaming" arena, In-Fusio has established footholds in Europe and China. The...
The venture capital arm of Siemens said it will join Cardinal Venture Capital and Garage Technology Ventures in investing $3 million in wireless technology company PhoneBites. PhoneBites is developing a mobile-phone application that will allow users to interject sounds into a voice conversation. The...
LOS ANGELES-Idetic Inc. has brought its live, mobile TV service to Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers.Cingular customers can now get MobiTV, a 22-channel broadcasting service featuring content from MSNBC, ABC News Now, Fox Sports, C-Span and other providers. The service is available on four Cingular...
Internet search provider Ask Jeeves plans to launch a search service for wireless devices later this year, the company confirmed Tuesday. A spokeswoman declined to give specifics of the planned service, but confirmed that Ask Jeeves will join fellow Internet search providers in the...
Despite a rash of operational difficulties during the past several years that led to its eventual sale to rival Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Forrester Research Inc. found that AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was the leading wireless provider of next-generation business services, according to a survey...
ANDORRA LA VELLA, Andorra-Wireless carrier Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra, which operates in the European country of Andorra, selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to provide a UMTS network. Nortel did not disclose the value of the contract, but said it will provide circuit and packet core...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-The Dutch government has sold 150 million shares in KPN Telecom to Lehman Brothers, cutting its stake to about 14 percent. The shares represent about a 6-percent stake. The government also plans to reduce its stake further in the future, according to...
The twists and turns in Research In Motion Ltd.'s legal battle with NTP Inc. continues with a new, separate lawsuit that pits NTP against a company that claims it actually owns the patents that NTP and RIM are fighting over. The lawsuit further complicates...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed an exclusive managed services contract with H3G Italy for the overall management of H3G Italy's third-generation network, which has more than 2.6 million subscribers. The value of the contract was not disclosed, but Ericsson noted the deal's importance. "This is...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it will expand its Spanish-based "Nextel. Ya." advertising campaign to Hispanic communities in Orlando and Tampa, Fla.; Boston; Philadelphia; Fresno and Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington, D.C. The campaign, which was created by Accentmarketing, builds on the carrier's "Nextel. Done."...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-Rural telecom and wireless services provider Ntelos Inc. said it has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Quadrangle Capital Partners L.P. and Citigroup Venture Capital that calls for the recapitalization and sale of Ntelos to Quadrangle and CVC. Published reports indicated a...
WASHINGTON-Homeland security-as an overarching national policy and an omnipresent mindset created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks-has been a mixed blessing for a wireless industry which already had a good thing going generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually from...
WASHINGTON-Several Supreme Court justices appeared not to buy arguments that municipalities are liable for attorneys' fees and damages when they lose antenna-siting court cases. The case has huge monetary and indirect policy implications, but it will not settle the divisive federal-state issue of antenna-siting...
Mobile workers are discovering there's nothing more tethering than wireless devices. As advancing technologies enable 24/7 communications and monitoring capabilities, the once-clear lines between "company time" and "private time" are blurring. Employees are wrestling with how to be accessible without sacrificing their personal lives,...
As the nation's largest wireless carriers consolidate, large questions remain about what these companies should do with their existing wireline businesses. And carriers are talking openly about potential plans to shed these slow-growing parts of their operations in favor of the explosive wireless business.Indeed,...
Don't be alarmed by those Canadians who seem to be wrestling with their cell phones. They're probably just fishing. More accurately, they're likely playing "Swordfish," a new game that allows players to locate their quarry, drop a virtual line and reel in the big...
The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and The Consultant Registry, with the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, conducted a test to show how background sounds, which are important to 911 call-takers, are transmitted over a Voice over Internet Protocol system. Since VoIP does...
WASHINGTON-Softbank Corp., the Japanese Internet company trying to muscle or possibly buy its way into that country's mobile-phone market, has crashed the party here by breaking with U.S. and foreign mobile-phone carriers that do not want any further American intervention into rates charged by...
WiMAX may be one technology, but the players involved with it are issuing a number of discordant notes. While some news outlets published reports last week that the certification date had been postponed from this month to July, and that therefore a WiMAX standard...
