Mobile Phones

With its feet in the New York Stock Exchange and an eye toward the future, Siemens AG has advanced a package of products and strategies to make it a major player in the U.S. wireless space. Making its big debut …

Sadly lost in the debate over wireless E911 is life itself. The mobile-phone industry and we in the press are engrossed in an E911 debate focussed on deadlines, waivers, costs and technologies. Then comes the tragic story of Karla Gutierrez. …

Nokia Networks will partner with IBM’s Lotus Development Corp. to deliver business-critical Lotus messaging and collaboration solution to users of the Nokia 9210 Communicator. With Lotus Mobile Notes, Nokia 9210 Communicator users will be able to access information management systems, …

WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office this week is expected to send drafts of a mobile-phone health report to key government agencies, suggesting congressional investigators are on track to complete by early May an investigation whose results could greatly impact wireless health …

LAS VEGAS-GiantBear, a provider of wireless technology and services, will acquire Savos, a global wireless company that delivers streaming audio to the mobile public. GiantBear’s proprietary technology, AudioCub, enables wireless carrier’s subscribers to request and receive information from the wireless …

NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems made an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to license the Windows Media Audio and Video Format using the Emblaze-based solution for video over wireless 2.5-generation and third-generation networks, mobile phones and other low-resource handheld devices. According to the …

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Greek GSM operator Panafon announced three new services for its customers. The services can link customers to the Internet through their mobile GSM phones. The Panafon NetOffice package of services now allows users to send and receive e-mails through …

NEW YORK-With the March 12 commercial debut of NetProfile Wireless Edition, Bridgewater Systems, Kanata, Ontario, is offering a chance and a challenge to mobile operators seeking a profitable way out of their walled gardens of data delivery. The new software …

NEW YORK-The Multi-Service Networks Division of Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, is poised to deliver on the promise of convergence by enabling Internet service providers, cable TV operators and local exchange carriers to offer seamless connectivity to mobile communications. The technologies …

The New Jersey state government is considering a bill that would prohibit the erection of, enhancement or addition of equipment to a tower within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, any area zoned residential, or a public park, …

The idea sounds compelling. With Web-enabled cellular telephones, users can dial up their favorite merchants to make automated purchases. It’s called mobile commerce, but for skeptics like Lawrence Steinert, it’s more a promise than reality. When it comes to new …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-FortuneCity’s WapDrive portal integrated mobilePosition’s friendPosition service, a mobile location technology. The technology enables users to locate friends via their mobile phones. People voluntarily sign up for the service and give approval for their mobile phones to be located.

NEW YORK-The Wireless Multimedia Forum, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is on schedule in building a framework for content that must be written just once for delivery to any device over any network. Earlier this year, the WMF released …

Now that the United States appears to be entering a recession, the economics behind deployments of third-generation wireless systems are even trickier than new math. Carriers and vendors are walking a tightrope trying to find the proper balance between offering …

LOS ANGELES-Telemac Corp., a provider of network-independent billing and accounting technologies for the wireless industry, announced it has been granted broader U.S. and European patents covering a network-independent, handset-based prepaid wireless system. The patented system includes Telemac’s IMA-Module software and …

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc customers on seven of the company’s networks in Europe now can use their normal “short code” dialing numbers to access services such as voicemail, directory assistance and customer service when traveling outside their home country. “Allowing customers …

WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself vulnerable to consumer litigation on a …

BUCHAREST, Romania-At the end of February, ONE began offering GPRS service throughout Austria. Billing is based on the data volume transferred. The handsets for the network are the GPRS-enabled Motorola Inc. Timeport 260 handsets. “Our customers merely have to pay …

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC, a fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services supplier for broadband, multiservice networks, announced Singl.eView Web, a new application for its Singl.eView platform. Singl.eView Web is an Internet-based convergent billing and customer management solution. With this new solution, …

Audiovox Audiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal …

Infowave Thomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.’s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft’s Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company’s worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll …

As the wireless industry in the United States moves ahead at a staggering and frantic pace-with new technology introduced practically every day-some Americans can’t image surviving without their mobile phones, e-mail accounts and personal digital assistants. But while technology continues …

In a marriage of convenience, carriers are signing temporary dotted lines to outsource their network management to vendors as they migrate to the next generation of wireless technology. The trend, which concedes to vendors a pivotal role in positioning carriers …

NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step toward landline replacement. In late 1999, Rob Mechaley founded the …