Mobile Phones

Microsoft Corp. and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. announced an agreement to jointly create a new line of mobile phones based on Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system. Specifically, Samsung will create Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division Multiple Access …

NEW YORK-Although presumably the driver was not watching PacketVideo’s streaming media on a mobile phone as he drove at 80 mph, the technology passed this test, which an undisclosed Las Vegas wireless carrier conducted. “We are in testing with carriers …

WASHINGTON-As the phone tax repeal and electronic signature bills progressed in Congress last week, two other bills of importance to the wireless industry-uniform sourcing and China trade-remained in limbo. On a separate front, the House Appropriations Committee last Wednesday approved …

TOKYO-Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. should reduce its current 67-percent stake in its mobile phone subsidiary, NTT DoCoMo, according to a report from Japan’s Fair Trade Commission. Restructuring of NTT last year has not produced the desired effect of spurring …

We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other “electronic” conveniences. The “e” phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and now wireless customers with questions or problems can access “e-customer service” to find help. Of course, …

WASHINGTON-James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said last week Congress should intervene if mobile-phone carriers continue to refuse to offer early-alert warnings for natural disasters and other local emergencies. “If we can’t get private industry doing …

MADRID-Telefonica denied reports that a virus is getting into the mobile phones of its customers and sending rude messages about the company to phone screens. U.S. computer specialists reported a worm-type virus called “Timofonica” has hit customers of Telefonica’s Movistar …

Tektronix Tektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix Abis Analyzer with Tektronix’s K1205 Signaling Protocol Analyzer. Available as an add-on software package for …

Plantronics Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed offering by a stockholder of 1 million shares of Plantronics common stock. Corrigo secured $12 million in a second round of financing …

The Federal Communications Commission awarded a spectrum license to ArrayComm Inc. to trial its i-Burst wireless Internet system in San Diego, signaling the launch of the San Jose, Calif.-based company’s broadband technology. “Clearly we have to acquire more spectrum, but …

WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America will make unionization of wireless workers a priority when negotiations begin in two weeks on a new collective bargaining agreement with Bell Atlantic Corp., a strategy by organized labor that appears designed to take advantage …

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, challenged with increased use of mobile phones, navigation systems, the Internet and other technologies in vehicles, will hold meetings the next two months on digital distractions and how to curb dangers they pose to …

LONDON-Almost half of cellular phone users in Western Europe expect to use their mobile phones for all voice traffic in the future, with only one-third convinced they will still use a fixed telephone, according to a study published by Strategy …

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission ruling on liability could be issued within weeks, with the completion of a staff proposal that is expected to steer clear of specific litigation issues and instead provide general guidance for state courts evaluating consumer claims …

WASHINGTON-The importance public image holds for competitive wireless carriers was highlighted last week when a major daily newspaper here-pointing to the lack of mobile-phone service in underground subways that run through some poor black and Latino neighborhoods-questioned whether Verizon Wireless …

BUDAPEST, Hungary-Euronet Services Inc. said it signed an agreement with EuroTel, a Global System for Mobile communications wireless service provider in the Czech Republic, allowing consumers to purchase prepaid mobile phone vouchers at Euronet ATMs in the Central European country. …

Cimarron Technologies With the addition of versatile hardware options, Cimarron Technologies’ Skymark VehicleTracker now allows dispatchers to view mapping software in both digital or database formats over a Cellular Digital Packet Data network. The digital map is a scanned image …

Wireless regulation is a temporary state of affairs. Some years from now there will be very few, if any, wireless rules. This is not a bold prediction. It is a foregone conclusion based on a confluence of economic, technological and …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint GmbH, a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., entered an agreement with Nokia GmbH to sell Nokia Corp.’s mobile phone accessories in Germany. The agreement also authorizes Brightpoint to package Nokia Original Accessories.

Formus Communications Inc. filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of its class A common stock. Formus, a wireless broadband carrier, expects to complete the offering by the middle of the year. Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. successfully bid …

WASHINGTON-Peter Angelos, the wealthy Baltimore lawyer and Democratic Party benefactor, said he will decide by early summer whether to file a class-action lawsuit against the wireless industry for alleged health-related injuries from mobile phones. “We have compiled a multitude of …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson’s mobile phones division launched a new advertising campaign in the United States and Latin America, with its return to television advertising on May 31 during the premiere of the CBS television program “Survivor.” The ad campaign is …

Hong Kong Cable & Wireless HKT Mobile Services and Nokia Corp. successfully completed their third-generation trials and the provision of a commercially available 43.2 kbps high-speed circuit switched data service in Hong Kong. Nokia noted that the recently completed second …

WASHINGTON-The United States appears poised to win support for a multiband global spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems heading into the final week of the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey. However, according to U.S. officials last week, there remains …

Nokia Nokia Corp. unveiled its new 8260 wireless phone that the company says blends colorful and stylish options into a small digital handset. The 8260 is Time Division Multiple Access 800 compatible, weighs 3.4 ounces, is approximately four inches tall …