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LOS ANGELES-Jamdat Mobile Inc. said it is participating in McDonald’s annual Monopoly contest for the second year. Jamdat prizes include two wireless games-Jamdat Sports NBA Three-Point Shootout and Blue Blocks-as well as Lemonade Tycoon 2, a PC game. “The McDonald’s …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has been dragged into a dispute with potentially far-reaching implications between a major airline and one of the nation’s busiest airports over an issue that has less to do with flying than it does with the …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Vidiator Technology Inc. today announced it will acquire the Platform division of Seoul-based Nextreaming Corp., a move the company said would add extra features and functions to its encoding, transcoding and streaming technologies for mobile phones. Terms of the …

ST. LOUIS, Miss.-Centurion Wireless Technologies, a unit of Laird Technologies, announced it crossed the 1 billion threshold. The company said it has shipped more than 1 billion mobile-phone antennas through the likes of Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and others. “Shipping …

WASHINGTON-Alltel Corp. said it will not meet the Dec. 31 enhanced-911 handset deadline and asked the Federal Communications Commission for a year-and-a-half extension. “Alltel has initiated numerous marketing and communications campaigns encouraging consumers to upgrade their handsets, including eliminating fees, …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said the mobile-phone industry remains competitive and consumers continue to benefit, despite increased consolidation among wireless carriers and questions by a Democratic member of the commission on the methods used to collect data for the report. …

The burgeoning Voice over Internet Protocol industry clipped a hurdle last week as Sprint Nextel Corp. reported that its subsidiary, Sprint Communications Co. L.P., has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against VoIP service providers Vonage Holdings Corp., theglobe.com Inc. and …

DSL provider Covad Communications Group Inc. announced it purchased pre-WiMAX carrier Next-Web Inc. for $24.7 million in cash and stock. NextWeb offers wireless broadband services to 3,000 business customers in the San Francisco Bay Area; Los Angeles; Orange County and …

Regional wireless operator MetroPCS Communications Inc. attracted $600 million in venture-capital funding from Madison Dearborn Partners L.L.C. and TA Associates as part of a $739 million minority equity investment in the carrier. MetroPCS said it will use a portion of …

SanDisk Corp. and Sony Corp. introduced the industry’s third major removable memory card format specifically designed for space-conscious mobile phones. The companies unveiled their new Memory Stick Micro product, a removable memory card that will go up against the MMCmicro …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission ruled to clear the backlog of antenna-siting applications subject to a nationwide programmatic agreement designed to elicit dialogue among tower owners, mobile-phone carriers, Native American tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations of proposed tower construction covered by …

DALLAS-Nokia Corp. will include software from Quickoffice Inc. in its Series 60 platform for smart phones, a move that will give its Series 60 users the ability to view and manipulate Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. “We are committed to …

The wireless Internet is coming to European users in a big way this week, as two European operators launched high-speed mobile Web services. T-Mobile U.K. aggressively is pursuing wireless Web surfers by expanding its “Web’n’walk” service, which uses Google as …

InterDigital Communications Corp. released its HSDPA coprocessor terminal for mobile phones. The company said the chip offering features low-power usage and a small, flexible design. Philips Semiconductor N.V. purchased the coprocessor.

Initial shipments of Motorola Inc.’s long-anticipated iTunes-capable phone appear somewhat sluggish, according to a recent analyst report from Piper Jaffray. The firm said its recent store checks show that some locations are recording strong sales of the device, but the …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-LogicaCMG plc will partner with Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. for mobile location technology for the Galileo satellite program. LogicaCMG announced its participation in the Galileo project last month. CPS will offer its network-based Matrix location technology for the …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Shares of UTStarcom Inc. tumbled more than 25 percent after the company announced a series of warnings, including a drop in revenues, a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and a potential writedown of its assets. The company’s stock dropped …

With little more than a week until wireless carriers begin releasing third-quarter results, industry analysts continue to fine tune their quarterly predictions. Those updated forecasts generally are calling for more robust customer growth than originally anticipated, though most expect total …

WASHINGTON-Communication Technologies Inc. completed a citywide commercial broadband-over-powerline technology deployment in Manassas, Va. BPL technology uses a city’s electricity grid and the wiring in homes to provide direct plug-in broadband access through electrical sockets, rather than over phone or cable …

In a nod to the growing chatter around wireless viruses and hacking, Nokia Corp. announced it would install security software from Symantec Corp. in its Series 60 smart phones, devices that run the Symbian operating system. The move is the …

The mobile TV space continues to heat up, with rumors pegging Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless showing significant interest in the technology. Specifically, a report from Zachary Research predicts Verizon will use Crown Castle International Corp.’s DVB-H mobile TV …

WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. terminated its contract with Hewlett-Packard Co., according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by 724 Solutions Inc. Tuesday. 724 Solutions earlier this week announced HP had cancelled 742 Solutions’ subcontract for its access gateway solution deployment …

TAMPA, Fla.-FTS Group Inc. provided details on its proposed share spinoff of FTS Wireless Inc. The company said it is seeking to acquire a profitable privately held company in conjunction with the share spinoff, and it is involved in negotiations …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Microprocessor company Arm unveiled its newest offering, the Cortex-A8 processor, which the company said will give low-power mobile devices the computing strength of desktop computers. “The rapid convergence of digital entertainment and mobile communications technology requires new levels …

Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. again outranked the competition in a J.D. Power and Associates consumer survey, this time posting the highest retail sales satisfaction among the wireless industry’s six largest operators. The study was based on experiences reported …