SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc. These industry powerhouses have joined founders L.M. …
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson announced a contract valued at about $100 million with China’s Sichuan Mobile Communications Co. to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network in the Sichuan province. Under …
Analog Devices Inc. today plans to introduce the first digital signal processor to use the company’s TigerSharc DSP architecture. The TigerSharc architecture, which ADI introduced last year, is optimized for …
NEW YORK-Protecting trade secrets may seem impossible in a marketplace characterized by the simultaneous increase in the amount of privileged information and the frequency of employees with access to it …
More spectrum, better call quality and expanded coverage are the battle cries of the wireless industry as of late, and ScoreBoard Inc. in Herndon, Va., said it is offering carriers …
WASHINGTON-Gregory Rohde, President Clinton’s new telecom adviser, last week said the top international telecom issue next year will be finding more spectrum for third-generation mobile telephone systems. “This is going …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world’s largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology to DSP Communications Inc., which Intel …
The Operators Harmonization Group began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied group of four operators trying to end the world’s heated battle over third-generation technology standards. …
The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and technological efforts designed to increase the …
TORONTO-Wysdom Inc., a developer of wireless Internet applications, has received a $7 million private equity investment from The VenGrowth Investment Fund Inc., a Canadian venture capital firm. Proceeds will permit …
China’s on-again, off-again plan to allow commercial deployments of Code Division Multiple Access networks looks like it’s on again. The recent World Trade Organization pact between the United States and …
Adicom Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based provider of wireless access equipment, plans to enter the U.S. market in the beginning of the new year, according to company President and CEO …
HELSINKI, Finland-The Nokia Artus Developers Program, which covers Nokia Networks’ developer activities, said it has advanced to play a major role in bringing top developers and Nokia operator customers together …
The clash between World Trade Organization protesters and police last week in Seattle underscores the problems of balancing new free-trade initiatives with concerns about human rights, the environment and the …
Several big names in the wireless and computing industries last week took additional steps in the process of converting wireless networks from a switch-based to a packet-based environment. Cisco Systems …
SEATTLE-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced there were 30 million worldwide Time Division Multiple Access subscribers as of the end of the third quarter. “We are on track to exceed …
NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip …
NEW YORK-Internet retailer barnesandnoble.com launched a wireless e-commerce initiative called bn.com On the Go, which is designed to allow customers to search for and buy its products from wireless devices. …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile completed its acquisition of Frontier Cellular, which previously was a joint venture of Bell Atlantic Mobile and Frontier Corp. Frontier Cellular will become Bell Atlantic Mobile’s …
SpectraSite Holdings Inc. last week signed a definitive agreement to acquire property management firm Apex Site Management Inc. The stock-for-stock transaction, which is expected to close by the end of …
