WASHINGTON-A federal judge last Wednesday ordered Microsoft Corp. to be split into two companies, calling the world’s largest computer software maker untrustworthy and a threat to other high-tech sectors. The …
WASHINGTON-The wireless and wireline industries are battling it out at the Federal Communications Commission over how much they should pay to connect the other’s calls. Sprint PCS asked the FCC …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday set aside 14 megahertz of radio-frequency spectrum as the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service to help protect wireless health devices from interference, the transition to …
ARLINGTON, HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector signed a $123.5 million digital cellular network expansion contract with China’s Hunan Mobile Communications Corp., a Global System for Mobile communications network operator. …
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, challenged with increased use of mobile phones, navigation systems, the Internet and other technologies in vehicles, will hold meetings the next two months on …
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Vyyo Inc. launched its LMDS Lite product, which provides broadband Internet access to small office/home office and residential users. Local multipoint distribution service traditionally is targeted toward the large-office …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Ltd., London, has downgraded the speculative grade ratings of $775 million in debt owed by Dolphin Telecom plc, the largest European provider of specialized mobile radio …
BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. announced an alliance agreement with TechnoCom Corp., which provides engineering and product development services in the wireless data and location industries. The agreement calls for TechnoCom …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AlterEgo Networks Inc., a provider of adaptive network services for the wireless Internet, and Inktomi Corp., a developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, will deliver a service-based network …
CALGARY, Alberta-Wireless location service provider Cell-Loc Inc. and InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for wireless devices, reported an agreement the companies say will result in the speedy rollout …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-AltaVista Shopping.com introduced AltaVista Shopping Everywhere, a new Internet source for wireless and handheld devices and applications. The site features wireless applications that allow users of Web-enabled phones …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached a record high of $15.2 billion in April, increasing 35.6 percent from the $11.2 billion reported for the same time last year, the …
NEW YORK-After a year-long collaborative trial with a cellular carrier in its hometown of Mankato, Minn., PrePaid Systems Inc. has begun marketing its handset-based prepaid system, which affords services and …
The eight-year dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission over a pioneer’s preference license ended last week. The FCC granted Qualcomm a $125 million auction-discount voucher applicable during …
LONDON-Almost half of cellular phone users in Western Europe expect to use their mobile phones for all voice traffic in the future, with only one-third convinced they will still use …
There’s a virtual reality about government spending these days. Just ask Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee. Faced with GOP cuts in Clinton-proposed budgets …
ATLANTA-Wireless infrastructure vendors made their wireless Internet plans a major priority at SuperComm here last week, introducing network solutions portfolios that, while different in makeup, have the same goal-to help …
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear a case involving how telecommunications carriers use customer information, thereby allowing carriers to use the information as they see fit-for awhile, …
In the Digital Age, it is no longer good enough to produce a product or service that people want. Today, you must be all things to all people all of …
NEW YORK-ThinAirApps L.L.C. released its ThinAirServer 1.1, which permits two-way, real-time information access to a range of out-of-the-box applications from a variety of wireless devices. The new platform is compatible …
