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Venture capital financing wrap-up: BridgeWave, In-Fusio, Miyowa and more

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--BridgeWave: Intel Capital and Core Capital led a $10 million round of funding into BridgeWave, which supplies gigabit wireless...

PODCAST: Martin Cooper and the future of wireless

BARCELONA, Spain - Martin Cooper, widely recognized as one of the lead inventors of the modern cellphone, believes that the "next step of the revolution" is just around the corner. "Digital was supposed to . change our lives, but it really hasn't happened yet," he...

Worst of the Week: Place your bets on those cellphone flameouts

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....

Panel outlines technologies for spectrum-sharing test bed

The Bush administration, seeking to make more efficient use of the nation's dwindling supply of airwaves, took another step toward creating a test bed for sharing spectrum among federal agencies, commercial users and state and local governments. But even with an advisory committee's...

Harris, Kitchen inducted into 2007 Wireless Hall of Fame

RCR Wireless News has inducted Jay Kitchen and Arlene Harris into its Wireless Hall of Fame for 2007.Jay Kitchen led industry trade group Personal Communications Industry Association for 10 years, joining the group in 1994 after it merged with the National Association of Business...

Cooper eyes emergency alerts with MadahCom acquisition

Cooper Industries Ltd. announced it acquired MadahCom Inc. for $43 million. Florida-based MadahCom, which manufacturers wireless emergency control and mass-notification systems, had sales of about $22 million in 2006 and currently has more than 200 installations worldwide at military, government, commercial sites, industrial locations...

Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.You gotta love Nokia. Here is a company that is handily the largest cellphone maker in the world, yet it still has the nerve to bring the...

Worst of the Week: Electrode-nodule module transmits amps monkeys

Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...

Turner Broadcasting: Striving for third-screen content partnerships

From its recent partnership with L.M. Ericsson to develop and deliver its suite of news and entertainment content to the handheld to a variety of other collaborative efforts that reflect the company's forward-thinking strategies in the arena, it's clear that Turner Broadcasting System Inc....

Court dismisses Broadcom’s antitrust claim against Qualcomm

Qualcomm Inc. declared victory after a U.S. district court dismissed an antitrust lawsuit filed by fellow chipmaker Broadcom Corp. Broadcom's complaint, which was filed in July 2005, accused Qualcomm of violating antitrust laws by charging too much to license its UMTS chipset technology and...

Court dismisses Broadcom’s antitrust claim against Qualcomm

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. declared victory after a U.S. district court dismissed an antitrust lawsuit filed by fellow chipmaker Broadcom Corp. Broadcom’s complaint, which was filed in July 2005, accused Qualcomm of violating antitrust laws by charging too much to license its UMTS chipset technology...

Licensed operators encourage caution in spectrum-sharing tests

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's spectrum-sharing test-bed proposal attracted a mix of responses that appear to support parochial agendas among incumbent telecom carriers and others looking for a platform to leverage emerging, smart wireless technologies that may offer solutions to the nation's dwindling supply of...

Voice-recognition firms bank on data to infiltrate wireless

The newest player on the crowded mobile search playground is one of the most vocal. Promptu-known until this week as Agile TV-officially joined the world of wireless, delivering a voice-recognition offering designed to allow users to discover, purchase and download content over mobile phones....

Promptu to use voice recognition to infiltrate wireless

The newest player on the crowded mobile search playground is one of the most vocal. Promptu—known until this week as Agile TV—officially joined the world of wireless, delivering a voice-recognition offering designed to allow users to discover, purchase and download content over mobile phones....

Thumbplay stirs up funding

NEW YORK-Direct-to-consumer wireless content provider Thumbplay Inc. said it raised $7.5 million in second-round funding to go along with an undisclosed amount of first round funding. Thumbplay said it will use the new funds to expand its content business.SoftBank Capital led the latest round,...

MVNOs compete for lucrative wireless youth market

The coming surge of mobile virtual network operators will target virtually every demographic, from ethnic groups to sports fans to rural users. But no group of consumers is being courted as much as America's youth. As wireless enters the multimedia era, the market of...

Mo. Senate approves wireless tax cap legislation

WASHINGTON-The Missouri Senate approved legislation setting a 5-percent cap on wireless taxes, while putting an end to a slew of lawsuits filed by cities to recover back taxes from mobile-phone carriers.The House last month passed a different version of the bill-sponsored by Rep. Shannon...

Missouri may exchange lawsuits for wireless tax cap

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry is backing a bill in the Missouri legislature to raise wireless taxes in exchange for eventually capping the tax at 3 percent and ending a slew of lawsuits filed by municipalities to collect back taxes from cell-phone operators. The mobile-phone industry...

Industry backs Mo. bill to raise, cap wireless taxes

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry is backing a bill in the Missouri legislature to raise wireless taxes in exchange for eventually capping the tax at 3 percent and eliminating a slew of suits filed by municipalities to collect back taxes from cell-phone operators.The mobile-phone industry faces...

Linux platform targets mid-tier phone OEMs

MontaVista Software Inc. today released a version of its Linux platform built specifically for mobile phones. The new offering is also designed for the mid-range handset market-devices that comprise the bulk of the handset industry-an area platform vendors like PalmSource Inc. and Symbian are...

CFA says AWS/Cingular merger will dilute intermodal competition

WASHINGTON-The Consumer Federation of America is quietly circulating a white paper arguing against the $41 billion merger of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. saying that because Cingular is owned by two Baby Bells, it will dilute intermodal competition."The Federal Communications Commission...

Firm nixes steel for lighter weight composite to construct towers

AeroSolutions L.L.C. has found its niche in the oft-neglected wireless tower infrastructure industry. The company said it is being discovered by bigger players that increasingly rely on its expertise to forge their own successes in the wireless business.Steel tower structures physically deteriorate in the...

Dick Clarke's American Grandstand

I suspect there could be something to allegations leveled by former cyber security czar Richard Clarke against the Bush administration. Ditto for former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. Yet there is something unsettling about these guys, these for-profit patriots. What stopped either from taking...

Clarity software to be embedded in Bluetooth in Mini Cooper

TROY, Mich.-Clarity Technologies Inc. announced its Clear Voice Capture (CVC) voice communications software technology will be embedded in Peiker's Bluetooth hands-free system for use in the Mini Cooper automobile."Together there is no denying the ability of Peiker and Clarity Technologies to deliver a superior...