Broadcom Corp. plans to acquire GPS know-how, products and software by purchasing Global Locate Inc., a privately held firm that currently supplies GPS solutions to handset vendors, the two companies announced.Broadcom will pay $146 million in cash, with up to another $80 million possible...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. could overtake Motorola Inc. in market share for the second quarter, according to projections from analyst Ittai Kidron at CIBC. The share shift would be remarkable, based on 2006 results, which had Motorola at nearly 22% global market share and...
German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom AG has no intention of selling its U.S. wireless operations T-Mobile USA Inc., according to Rene Obermann, CEO of the international operator. Obermann reportedly told attendees at an industry conference that such a sale would be "short-sighted." T-Mobile USA...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. extended its contract with TeleCommunications Systems Inc. for the company to provide hosted E911 services to the flat-rate carrier. The contract between the two companies has been extended for three years; additional terms were not disclosed."The contract extension demonstrates MetroPCS' continued...
Faith West is targeting mobile game publishers with new technology designed to improve gaming audio.The U.S.-based division of Japan's Faith Inc. unveiled mXMFTool, an open-standard technology for developers of ringtones, games and other applications. The San Francisco-based company is bundling the offering with a...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group once again made an ally out of a competing technology, agreeing to take the Wibree Forum under its umbrella.Wibree addresses devices with very low battery capacity such as watches, heart-rate monitors and pedometers, allowing them to communicate with Bluetooth-enabled...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Argentina: L.M. Ericsson said it won a contract to build...
L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a GSM expansion framework deal with China Mobile Communications Corp. valued at $1 billion. Chinese President Hu Jintao and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt were joined by Wang Jianzhou, CEO of China Mobile, and Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and...
If you were wondering whether Nokia Corp. would take advantage of last week's potentially bruising decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban new 3G handsets bearing Qualcomm Inc.'s chips, this news just in: Nokia filed countersuits against Qualcomm in the Eastern District...
Richard Notebaert announced his retirement as chairman and CEO of Qwest Communications International Inc., pending the company's selection of a successor.The company has not set a timetable for naming a new chairman and CEO, but said that a formal search is underway. Qwest said...
InfoSpace Inc. scored another carrier customer for its wireless Web service even as it continued to beat a retreat from the content space.The Seattle-area company expanded its relationship with Verizon Wireless, agreeing to provide hosting, infrastructure and subscription management services for the operator's Mobile...
USA Today is partnering with mobile search provider 4INFO Inc. on an ad-supported, text-message news alert service for mobile users.Consumers can register to receive free SMS alerts about news, sports scores, stock quotes and other topics by sending a message to the short code...
Mobile security software developer AdaptiveMobile said it pocketed $14 million in a second round of funding.Doughty Hanson, an early-stage venture capital fund, led the round, joined by Noor Financial Investment Co. and Intel Capital. AdaptiveMobile said it plans to use the cash to expand...
IBM Corp. announced it agreed to buy Swedish software firm Telelogic for $745 million in cash to raise its profile as a leading software provider to major companies. Telelogic counts numerous wireless businesses, including L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., among...
Fixed-mobile convergence subscribers will number 170 million by 2012 and generate $33.4 billion in revenue, if cooperation increases between all the players in the value chain, according to a new report from Informa Telecoms & Media.More than 145 million consumers are expected to use...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Jupiter Research's Julie...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.The Coca-Cola company announced it will offer a mobile social networking service based on its Sprite soda-pop brand. To be honest, some of us really don't understand...
The production and delivery of mobile video is becoming a two-way street. Although a majority of programming seems to follow a top-down approach from TV studios' more successful programs, those endeavored in the development of original, made-for-mobile content are steadily gaining viewers eyes and...
Virgin Mobile in the United Kingdom said it as has tapped InfoSpace Inc. to provide a suite of mobile search and Internet services.InfoSpace said it will power a mobile search offering for the United Kingdom's largest mobile virtual network operator, allowing users to look...
Wireless and wireline carriers remain vulnerable to lawsuits over the National Security Agency's anti-terrorist wiretapping program, with Congress so far refusing to consider a Bush administration legislative proposal that would give telecom carriers liability protection. In its authorization bill report, the Senate Intelligence Committee...
Perhaps we should all just go back into hibernation for a few weeks until some of this iFrenzy subsides.On the other hand, given that iHysteria will only gather greater force in the weeks ahead from its virtual-life-source-namesake-master-the Internet-we might as well sit back and...
Despite the prevalence of end-to-end billing systems as operators have consolidated in recent years, some companies may prefer a one-shot solution to a particular problem without the expense and effort of replacing an entire system. According to Forrester Research senior analyst Michele Pelino, service...
AT&T Mobility revamped its prepaid play with new add-on package options for its GoPhone Pay As You Go customers.GoPhone users can now choose a calling package of 3,000 off-peak minutes for $20. Messaging packages (which include SMS, IM and MMS) range from 200...
Opposition to a federal-state panel's recommendation to cap universal service fund support in rural areas mounted last week, with a key senator and agriculture groups joining the mobile phone industry in urging the Federal Communications Commission against penalizing wireless technology. Supporters say wireless holds...
