Wireless Technology

The business of stealing cars is a $7 billion game that every year saps the resources of law enforcement and results in a financial and personal loss for car owners. A wireless technology exists, however, that can track the location …

NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it. By contrast, the 5 GHz band is wide open territory. The HiperLAN2 …

Spirent Spirent Communications, which provides performance analysis solutions, announced the InfoDM v2.0 release, which is part of the company’s acquisition of InfoSoft Technologies, will supplement Spirent’s CDMA test solution with high-speed, over-the-air data logging and a data playback feature. The …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. launched a global cooperation agreement with Andersen Consulting to help corporations and service providers build their own WAP-based solutions. The initiative calls for the two to provide a packaged offering of wireless technologies and integration skills to …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s top telecom adviser last week urged the mobile-phone industry and other high-tech sectors to follow the lead of a Colorado firm that has developed a way to alert Internet users of violent weather and other local emergencies. …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, in October granted the government’s request for more time to respond to lawsuits seeking to have the high court hear …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg in New York. Slowing rates of growth in …

Not one operator around the world has rolled out third-generation services yet, but discussion of fourth-generation technology is already under way. An industry that began offering a basic communications tool is evolving into something much flashier, much more futuristic and …

WASHINGTON-A relatively minor mobile-phone case in Illinois state court-involving allegations of privacy invasion and health risk coverup in connection with an epidemiology study-has mushroomed into one of the largest class-action lawsuits in U.S. history. Judge Ellis Reid of the Circuit …

The wireless industry is hoping to mirror the wireline industry in one aspect: the money-making potential of Internet advertising. But big questions remain. How will consumers react to advertising on their wireless devices? If they do, on which devices will …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Mobile developers Zucotto Wireless, RF Micro Devices and PacketVideo have each announced separate plans to establish research and development centers in Europe. These companies, which are following in the path of many other high-tech firms, including Intel and …

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 …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company’s Microelectronics business, which will be spun off …

Lutris Technologies Inc. released Lutris Enhydra Wireless, the certified and supported version of its Open Source wireless software platform that provides developers and systems integrators the source code, support and services to deliver Java and Extensible Markup Language applications to …

With the home rapidly becoming an extension of the workplace, consumers increasingly are turning to wireless home networking equipment as a way to keep connected. According to an IDC report, worldwide local area network shipments are expected to top 4 …

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. …

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 …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg, New York. Slowing rates of growth in voice …

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. entered a joint-venture agreement with Chinadotcom Corp., a pan-Asian integrated Internet company offering e-business strategies and portal and online marketing services. The agreement calls for CellStar to perform fulfillment, sales and distribution for the venture, with Chinadotcom …

On any given day, you can pick up a newspaper and read about killings and suffering abroad due to political unrest; ethnic, religious and racial rivalries; border and territorial disputes; declarations of independence; and expressions of nationalism. Indeed, it seems …

Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market as early as mid-1999. Those early predictions seemed believable at …

WASHINGTON-A bill that would allow low power TV broadcasters to offer high-speed access to the Internet passed the Senate last week, said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) chairman of the communications subcommittee and the bill’s sponsor. Burns’ bill would allow LPTV …

Voice portal company iNetNow Inc. reported a co-branding agreement with Arelco Inc., an independent licensee of National Car Rental, allowing customers at select Arelco-owned National Car Rental stores to receive a complimentary iNetNow Platinum Card entitling them to 30 free …

WASHINGTON-A Motorola Inc. technician who was a mobile-phone trouble shooter for 10 years plans shortly to sue Motorola Inc. and possibly others for allegedly causing his brain cancer. The man went on disability last fall after being diagnosed with a …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and LG Information and Communication Ltd. announced a collaboration to accelerate next-generation wireless services based on CDMA wireless technology supported by Lucent’s network infrastructure and LG’s digital terminals. The agreement will include joint marketing, pre-sales …