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More than 20 cyclists will pedal their way across 2,400 miles from Calgary, Alberta, to Austin, Texas, this October to help raise awareness and funds for the fight against cancer. The cyclists can be tracked along the way by their …

After the line from the ’80s movie “Wall Street”-“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good”-insider trading got a bad rap. In that movie, Charlie Sheen’s character was arrested for making money off insider information. However, there are actually …

Balloons as communications tools? Of course, says Chandler, Ariz.-based Space Data Corp. In late August, the Arizona National Guard’s 111th Space Operations Squadron and staff from developer Space Data demonstrated Combat SkySat, a balloon-borne communications system. The military was sufficiently …

The race to bring the much-hyped wireless home to market continued to heat up last week as two major wireless mesh-networking chipmakers gained traction in the nascent market. Zensys A/S, a Denmark-based company, added two new backers for its proprietary …

NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless signed a fixed-rate promissory note permitting the carrier to borrow, repay and re-borrow up to $9 billion from parent company Verizon Communications Inc., with a maturity date of Aug. 1, 2009. The carrier said amounts borrowed would …

JACKSON, Miss.-Regional wireless operator Cellular South, which claims to have been operational in some of the hardest hit areas of Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina Aug. 29, said that as of Sept. 6 it was handling more than 7 million minutes …

T-Mobile USA Inc. again showed that size is not what’s most important to customers. The industry’s smallest nationwide operator posted the highest customer satisfaction performance across all six regions in the J.D. Power and Associates 2005 U.S. Wireless Regional Customer …

RARITAN, N.J.-Wireless data and content delivery will account for as much as 25 percent of overall wireless revenues in five years, generating $50 billion annually, according to a report from the Pelorus Group. The market research firm said mobile Web …

NEW YORK-Software developer Eatoni Ergonomics Inc. has developed a new e-mail application aimed at helping older mobile-phone users more easily send and receive e-mails. Eatoni Mail reduces the number of keystrokes used to type on a telephone keypad, and users …

Motorola Inc. says it is playing its trump card-wireless mobility-in the WiMAX space, skipping over 802.16 Revision D in favor of getting Revision E (the mobile standard) products to market by the second quarter of 2006. The Moto Wi4 portfolio …

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Mobile-phone design and testing company Applied Wave Research Inc. announced it acquired Aplac Solutions Oy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both companies sell software to mobile-phone companies to test the RF functions of handsets. Aplac counts …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Consumption of data-centric W-CDMA technology has been slower than expected, said a report by ABI Research. “We have refined our appraisal of GSM/GPRS/EDGE vs. W-CDMA,” said Lance Wilson, director of wireless research at ABI Research. “The uptake of …

Nextel Partners Inc. lost its bid to stall Sprint Nextel Corp.’s national brand rollout as a three-member arbitration panel ruled Nextel Partners had not demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of its claim that the rollout breached its …

SHAWNEE MISSION, Kan.-Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced two new phones from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to sell over the carrier’s CDMA network. Samsung’s A560 features a speakerphone and voice-activated dialing and will sell for $170 at Sprint stores and Best Buy. …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry averted a potential public-relations disaster, assuring government leaders that wireless services for Hurricane Katrina evacuees would not be cut off for lack of payment. Members of Congress, including Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), whose district includes Houston, where …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday granted Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s waiver of the hearing-aid-compatibility rules, delaying for nearly a year hearing-aid compatible GSM handsets that work in the 850 MHz band and dual-band handsets that work in both the 850 …

Motorola Inc. may cut EDGE technology from the initial shipments of its forthcoming handsets-including the highly anticipated Pebl and Slvr models-due to problems with chips from supplier RF Micro Devices Inc. Motorola earlier this year promised that its forthcoming Pebl …

Canadian operator Telus Mobility regained the top spot in N. Moore Capital Ltd.’s ranking of North America’s top wireless operators based on a handful of second-quarter metrics. The metrics include penetration gain, customer churn, average revenue per user, cost per …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband solutions provider Alvarion Ltd. said it is filling commercial orders and shipping its WiMAX-ready BreezeMAX PRO customer premises equipment, which includes Intel’s PRO/Wireless 5116 broadband interface chip. The company said BreezeMAX is Alvarion’s WiMAX-ready platform that …

While Tier 1 carriers scramble to deploy sexy applications like full-track downloads and on-demand mobile movies, smaller operators are looking in their own backyards to find more practical services for their consumers. In an effort to set themselves apart from …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Franklin, Tenn., and St. Cloud, Fla., have signed agreements to use Hewlett-Packard Co. equipment for their metro-scale Wi-Fi projects. HP said the deal includes its iPAQ Pocket PC, ProLiant servers, consulting and integration services, financial and support services, …

SAN DIEGO-Verizon Wireless said it will sell the new VX5200 clamshell-style phone from LG Electronics Co. Ltd. for $50 with a two-year service agreement. The phone features an integrated camera, speakerphone and voice-recognition capabilities. Interestingly, Verizon Wireless also said the …

WASHINGTON-Internet-based telephone companies have joined cellular carriers in having difficulty meeting federal enhanced 911 requirements, prompting the Federal Communications Commission to give Voice over Internet Protocol service providers an additional 30 days to come into compliance. The FCC, saying progress …

NEW YORK-Virgin Mobile USA Inc. announced an exclusive deal to bring content from alternative rockers the Gorillaz to wireless. The operator said it has launched ringtones, realtones and wallpapers from the band’s platinum album “Demon Days” through Virgin Mobile’s First …

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. became the latest carrier to court the Hispanic market, announcing a deal with the wireless arm of media company Univision to provide Latin content and Spanish-language wireless services to its subscribers. The Tier 2 operator added a …