QUALCOMM and Arasor Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arasor International Ltd., have announced they have entered into a subscriber unit license agreement. Under the terms of the royalty-bearing agreement, QUALCOMM has granted Arasor a worldwide license under its CDMA patent po...

Skyhook Wireless has announced the availability of the newest version of Loki, the location-based Internet toolbar. Building upon its strong adoption since May, this version introduces significant new features, local advertising capabilities, and performance improvements. Loki is a fre...

Nortel has announced further details of its new Global Operations Center of Excellence in Turkey. Located on the R&D campus of Nortel's Turkish subsidiary Nortel Netas in Umraniye, Istanbul, the new Operations Center of Excellence will create approximately 300 jobs for graduates and ex...

Volantis, the supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation solutions for the Mobile Information Age, has announced the availability of BuzzCast. This newest addition to the Volantis Suite of Mobile Content Applications represents a revolution in information access for mobile devices, ena...

Google is taking another crack at sending Gmail e-mail messages to cell phones and unchaining users from their desktops and their BlackBerries. In this particular case Yahoo and Microsoft are ahead of it.

Nortel has opened a sophisticated new facility in Beijing to strengthen its R&D capabilities in China and support the development of products for customers in Asia and global markets. The facility will develop next-generation communications technology designed to help drive customer pr...

Nortel has extended its already broad channel partner 'Assurance' services portfolio for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the addition of the small and medium business (SMB) Partner Assurance Contract (PAC). PAC has been developed and packaged specifically for the use of thos...

Traditionally, the use of active RFID in military applications has involved longer range than passive tags but still a portal-based, speak-when-spoken-to approach in most cases. However, the ideal supply chain, and, for that matter, the ideal management of standing assets, should invol...

Today at the Innovation Summit in Beijing, Microsoft has announced the first-ever licensing of technologies to two Chinese software companies, Comtech Group and Hunan Talkweb Information System (Talkweb). The innovative mobile communications technologies were developed by scientists at...

QUALCOMM has announced the commercial availability of the new OmniVision System for Transportation, the next-generation wireless enterprise system for the transportation and logistics industry. Based on the all-new OmniVision mobile computing platform, the flexible, scalable system has...

QUALCOMM has reported that the Federal Court in San Diego has enjoined Broadcom from any further solicitation, use or dissemination of QUALCOMM's confidential WCDMA trade secrets, including source code. Broadcom's agreement to the injunction and its imposition by the Court demonstrate ...

QUALCOMM has announced an open call for submissions for the BREW 2007 Developer Awards. BREW publishers and developers are invited to submit their top BREW applications for consideration by completing an online entry form and providing a demo of their application. The submission deadli...

Edith Cowan University in Perth has chosen Nortel as its preferred supplier for a next-generation data network to support its academic program over the next five years. The new network, estimated to be valued at over AU$5 million, is replacing the existing data network with the aim of ...

The Times Company has selected Nortel's integrated communications solution for its new headquarters now under construction in Times Square. This will include Nortel IP phones, VoIP, unified messaging, contact center, data and security solutions to be provided through a Nortel channel p...

HP and Cingular Wireless have announced that beginning Oct. 31 Cingular will be the first carrier in the United States to offer a new HP iPAQ handheld device with five wireless communications technologies. With the HP iPAQ hw6920 series Mobile Messenger, customers can use Cingular?s na...

QUALCOMM has announced that the Company's Engineering Services Group (ESG) now works with more than 120 network operators in more than 60 countries, which collectively reach nearly 90 percent of 3G wireless subscribers worldwide. ESG, which was begun in 2001, assists network operators ...

Motorola is the Official Corporate Host of ISPCON Fall 2006 to be held Nov. 7 - 9, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif. As part of its sponsorship, Motorola will provide attendees networking opportunities at a 'Meet Up Lounge' on the show floor and through IS...

NEC and Matsushita Electric Industrial (MEI) subsidiary Panasonic Mobile Communications will establish a joint venture next month tasked with creating a common hardware and software platform for mobile handsets. The 'Esteemo' Co. will be based in Yokohama City, and have 130 employees, ...

QUALCOMM, a developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, has announced that a total of more than 200 million mobile handsets worldwide have shipped featuring the Company's gpsOne Assisted-GPS technology. gpsOne technology sup...

QUALCOMM has announced that it was honored by both the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and Training magazine for its innovations in employee development. ASTD selected QUALCOMM as a winner of the organization's annual BEST Awards in recognition of QUALCOMM's approac...

Common Platform technology founding members IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics, have announced that they have successfully produced 90-nanometer (nm) chips for QUALCOMM in their respective 300mm fabs.

Nortel has announced new municipal wireless deployments that demonstrate the Company's strength in helping governments embrace broadband wireless as a strategic way to deliver efficient services that keep communities safe and productive, as well as economically competitive.

Nortel Government Solutions, a U.S. company wholly owned by Nortel has attained an elite process improvement rating based on assessment of its performance in managing on-time delivery of high-quality services and products to U.S. Federal Government agencies.

Dataprobe, a leading manufacturer of innovative technology solutions for networking, systems and site management, announced that Parco Wireless, the leading provider of wireless radio frequency identification systems (RFID) and real-time tracking technology for the healthcare industry,...

IBM and 3Com, a provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions, have announced that customers have begun deploying the first-ever scalable IP telephony solution designed to run on a single system along with a customer's core business applications.

Motorola has announced it has signed a contract with Airwave O2 to supply Motorola MTC100 PDAs (personal digital assistants) that operate on TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) networks. The agreement is the world's first commercial contract for TETRA PDAs. Motorola will start the shipme...

QUALCOMM, China United Telecommunications Corporation (China Unicom), China's major telecom operator, and the two parties' joint venture Unicom-BREW Telecommunication Technologies Ltd., have jointly announced that 3.4 million China Unicom wireless subscribers have securely downloaded m...

Neuf Cegetel, the alternative operator in France, is using an IMS-ready solution from Nortel to deliver TWIN, the country's first affordable fixed/mobile convergence service. The GSM/WiFi TWIN service will enable subscribers to save between 10% and 30% on their mobile phone expenditure...

QUALCOMM, a provider of business-to-business wireless enterprise applications and services, and TMTsoftware, the provider of fleet maintenance software, have announced the full integration of TMT's TRANSMAN, a best-in-class maintenance management solution, with QUALCOMM's GlobalTRACS e...

Sprint Nextel has announced an agreement to use QUALCOMM's QChat solution to provide high performance push-to-talk services to its customers. Sprint, which currently offers the industry-leading Nextel Walkie-Talkie push-to-talk service to its customers on the Nextel National Network, e...

Microsoft and Sprint, have announced a strategic alliance through which the companies will develop and deliver a range of innovative new service offerings for Sprint's business and consumer customers. The first consumer offering in this collaboration enables Sprint customers to use Win...

Cingular Wireless, Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) and Microsoft today unveiled the BlackJack, a robust, slim smart device packed with the power and functionality desired by business customers and consumers alike. With the BlackJack customers can get rich entertainment fea...

Nortel has conducted the industry's first wireless transmission using Uplink Collaborative MIMO to demonstrate the ability for operators to serve up to double the number of mobile broadband subscribers supported in a cell site as current wireless technologies allow, says the company.

QUALCOMM has announced the selection of finalists for the Company's Wireless Reach BREW Application Funding Program. As part of QUALCOMM's Wireless Reach initiative, the USD1 million fund is designed to increase the availability of useful wireless applications in countries around the w...

The mobile industry is at the dawn of a new era of convergence that has been primarily driven by three key factors. First, mobile network operators (MNOs) have made huge investments over the past five years in 3G and 3.5G licenses and in building out high-speed data networks. This has ...

Cingular begins offering its 3G mobile wireless broadband service throughout Memphis. Nearly the entire Memphis area -- south to Nesbit and Cockrum, west to West Memphis, north past Rosemark and Gallaway, and east to Piperton -- is now a Wi-Fi hotspot.

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today that the first international 'AJAXWorld(TM) Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com), taking place on October 3-4, 2006, at theSanta Clara Convention Center, California, will offer AJAXWorld University - Developer Bootcamp progr...

IBM has announced a new intelligent wireless project with Heineken, international shipping company, Safmarine, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam) in conjunction with Dutch Customs, UK Customs and US Customs and Border Protection. The new project, called the 'Bee...

Optaros, an open source software consulting and integration firm announced the development of Swisscom Mobile Labs, an innovative web platform and testing environment for Swisscom Mobile that all Internet users can access. The environment allows the leading Swiss telecommunications com...

Sybase iAnywhere has unveiled the next generation of the AvantGo mobile Internet service, featuring a fully enhanced wireless experience that enables users to have always-available access to their favorite Web content, automatically synchronized to their mobile device.