Mobile Phones

As the debate rages on in Britain over the possible health effects cellular phones may have on children, a recent survey from London-based NOP Research Group showed that one in 10 British adults planned to give a mobile phone as …

WASHINGTON-A new book describes top cellular lobbyist Thomas Wheeler as obsessed with controlling public relations for industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research conducted in the 1990s and claims he attempted extraordinary measures to downplay suspected health risks. In “Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards …

TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation’s largest privately held paging carrier, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late Friday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark. Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most severe type of …

WASHINGTON-The British government, acting on recommendations of a blue-ribbon scientific panel, called for $10 million in new mobile phone-health research on Friday and for precautions in order to limit radiation exposure to children and teenagers. The implementation of the Stewart …

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said last week he thinks the time has come to mandate digital wireless phones be compatible with hearing aids. “It is time to think about a mandate. … We were very very patient,” …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Under a new partnership, CellPoint Inc. and Swedish game developer It’s Alive! plan to “bring the mobile phone to life” by creating location-based mobile games for short message service phones or WAP handsets. Tom Soderlund, It’s Alive!’s chief executive …

MENLO PARK, Calif.-EVoice Inc. introduced eVoice Premium, a new voice mail service designed for residential and small business customers, the company said. EVoice Premium works with subscribers’ existing phone numbers and e-mail addresses. The “all-access” feature consolidates voice mail messages …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-SnapTrack Inc., a Qualcomm Inc. subsidiary, announced a year-long test of its position-location technology is over and the results are positive. The tests of SnapTrack’s Wireless Assisted global positioning system solution, conducted by a consortium of various industry …

HILLSBORO, Ore.-There are a variety of wireless e-mail services ready to satisfy the needs of e-mail junkies stuck in a meeting or an airport who are dying to know the contents of their beloved inbox. But one service is beginning …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa-Fundamo, a financial services initiative of Sanlam, signed an equity deal with VenFin and Archway Venture Partners to further the company’s goal to establish a mobile payment platform. VenFin acquired a 35-percent equity stake in Fundamo, and …

BEIJING-According to Beijing-based consultancy BDA, reports of the death of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in China have been greatly exaggerated, as 69 million people in China will be accessing the Internet over their mobile phones by 2004. China Mobile …

Digital Paging Digital Paging Co. released its new Hit plus pager, which the company said can carry three different frequencies. The pager also features a hands-on screen programming function, and has an inputted pass code option for resellers. The Hit …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector won another large stake in China’s mobile phone market with a $29 million GSM communications award covering about 370,000 people in the Zhejiang Province. The first award, which was $53 million, came …

NEW YORK-Globalstar do Brasil and South American transportation company Itapemirim have teamed up to put mobile phones on 43 inner-city buses in South America. The service is scheduled to start December 1, and the phones will be installed on all …

NEW YORK-When NTT DoCoMo began planning for what would become its wildly successful i-mode service, Japan’s largest telecommunications company turned to a journalist with an undergraduate degree in French literature. “I-mode is now a mega hit, but I was pushed …

Kyocera Wireless Corp. hopes to reach two fast-growing markets with its QCP 6035 Smartphone, combining the functionality of a tri-mode CDMA phone with a personal digital assistant incorporating Palm Inc.’s latest 3.5 operating system. The hybrid, set to launch during …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-BarPoint.com Inc. announced it is extending its mobile shopping and information service to digital phone users through a short messaging system version of the BarPoint Shopper. The company also introduced a music service allowing users the ability to …

WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, concerned with increased tower construction fatalities and injuries, is putting the tower industry under the microscope. OSHA head Charles Jeffress is expected shortly to write tower owners and mobile phone carriers to emphasize the …

NEW YORK-Globalstar do Brasil and South American transportation company Itapemirim have teamed up to put mobile phones on 43 inner-city buses in South America. The service is scheduled to start Dec. 1., and the phones will be installed on all …

London-based mobile phone giant Vodafone Group plc reported strong interim results for the six months ended Sept. 30, including a 55-percent increase in proportionate customer additions compared with the same period last year, bringing the company’s proportionate customer base to …

Starting Jan. 1, several cities in Utah, including Salt Lake City, Cedar City and South Salt Lake, will levy a $1-per-month tax on cellular phones to tap what city officials see as a substantial revenue source. Salt Lake City Mayor …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission, appearing to be staking out regulatory jurisdiction over the nascent mobile Internet industry, said it will examine a wide range of wireless consumer protection issues next month at a two-day workshop here. “Mobile wireless Internet and …

Cell phones have never been just phones. They’ve always been communicators, but they’ve also had the ability to be deal-makers, marriage-savers, calculators, address books, weapons (Someone somewhere had to use one of those brick phones in a bar-room fight, don’t …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Just as content on the wireless Web is not at the same point as the wired Web, wireless Web security is not at the same level either. But if the wireless Web is to succeed-in the way the wired …

LAS VEGAS-Those who got an early view of the new Ericsson R380 World Smartphone at Comdex here last week quickly dubbed it a “spork.” Developers Ericsson and Symbian didn’t seem to mind the term for their new integrated device that …