Mobile Phones

Nokia Corp. appeared to be the only mobilephone manufacturer to emerge unscathed from a tumultuous their quarter that saw Motorola Inc. and Ericsson Inc. stumble and their stock prices fall after global handset sales shifted and slowed. Nokia moved its …

In my first journalism class, the instructor gave us an acronym to remember-KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. Little did I know I would some day work in acronym central, otherwise known as the wireless industry. In designing wireless devices, the …

HELSINKI, Finland-Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group joined the MeT initiative, formed earlier this year by Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. to jointly develop an open and common industry framework for secure mobile electronic transactions. Nokia said the …

Endwave Endwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands. The antennas include flat horizontal …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, last week granted the government’s request for more time to respond to lawsuits seeking to have the high court hear their cases. …

TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like green tea, Panasonic’s wireless phones have not achieved the same …

A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first debate between GOP and Democratic presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore, respectively, last Tuesday …

TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial, which manufactures cell phones under the Panasonic brand name, is discussing an alliance on third-generation mobile phones with European mobile carriers, according to a report in the Financial Times. The company did not name potential partners, but …

WASHINGTON-The mobile phone industry is expected shortly to unveil a privacy policy to guide carriers as they reinvent business plans to capitalize on the Internet and new location-based wireless technology. Michael Altschul, vice president and general counsel of the Cellular …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this session has before it three mobile-phone health cases, a sign of things to come in a Digital Age where technology outpaces the law and raises novel questions for the courts. The high court, which returned to …

CHICAGO-Video content may be the new show to watch on the wireless Internet. Content is the name of the game in the wireless Internet evolution going forward. And while it is by no means a new concept, companies are paying …

Verizon Wireless turned the industry on its ear last week, announcing plans to support legislation in Illinois that would ban cell-phone use while driving unless the caller is using a hands-free device. The decision is “in direct response to the …

WASHINGTON-There’s a reason the waning weeks of Congress are collectively called Silly Season. It is because anything is possible during this fall ritual, when lawmakers scramble-against all odds-to complete spending bills before the start of the new fiscal year and …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, having recently declared that state courts are not pre-empted by federal law from awarding monetary damages in wireless consumer fraud lawsuits, has now been asked to rule whether the common mobile phone billing practice of rounding …

The outgoing (and next) Congress and administration should be worried about losing the third-generation mobile phone market to Europe and Asia. Why? Because, in a very real sense, losing 3G is tantamount to losing U.S. high-tech leadership. American high-tech superiority …

CHICAGO-Partnerships are the key to success in the wireless Internet space, was the resounding theme at last week’s PCIA GlobalXChange convention keynote session. “The wireless Internet is like the proverbial wild West or the first blast off into space,” Janiece …

In this time of money-hungry megacorporations, there still exists at least one philosophy that ultimately benefits the little guy-Open Source. Since January of last year, Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Lutris Technologies Inc. has offered its Enhydra software up for public trial …

TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric Corp., revised forecasts for its overall business performance for the first half and annual period in fiscal 2001 due to greater than expected sales figures. The company said the upward revision was due to the continued performance of …

The House Judiciary Committee passed legislation to strengthen the legal standard law enforcement must meet before obtaining mobile-phone tracking information. The bill also places certain restrictions on law enforcement access to electronic communications, including those stored on computers and servers. …

Verizon Wireless’ recent announcement that it would back laws restricting the use of cell phones while driving in Illinois may pump fresh life into attempts by local communities across the country to pass such regulations. The decision also showed the …

HELSINKI, Finland-First Hop Ltd. has introduced a system designed to give mobile phone customers the ability to pay for movie tickets and other passes via what it called digital tokens, billed to the uses’ wireless account. Escio Tokens is meant …

At the GSM Association we believe third-generation Global System for Mobile Communications (3GSM) will truly mean an exciting worldwide revolution in human communications. It will be a revolution that enables people around the globe to have high-speed, personal access to …

Czech Republic The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) has preliminarily decided to issue fixed wireless access mobile telephone network licenses to three companies selected from 13 applicants, CTU Vice President Vladimir Kukra said Sept. 14. CTU is giving final consideration to …

WASHINGTON-In addition to new litigation alleging that mobile phones cause brain cancer, the wireless industry also faces possible Supreme Court litigation over government exposure standards and a class-action lawsuit in New Orleans that claims manufacturers failed to take steps to …

LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. kicked off its Safe School Program in Orange County, Calif., by donating wireless phones, airtime and school supplies to Edison Elementary School in Santa Ana, Calif., as part of a partnership with the Orange County …