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Icewrx
has been chosen by Ericsson to showcase its innovative sports information
application as part of Ericsson's world-wide 3G trials. |
| New Sharp Sha-Mail Wireless Phone launched |
| J-PHONE Co announced it will begin selling its newest Sha-Mail (picture messaging) handset, the "J-SH09" manufactured by Sharp Corporation |
| Norwegian 3G Wireless Carrier is Cramer's First Scandinavian Customer |
| NetCom, Norway has chosen Cramer to provide a strategic network inventory solution for its next generation network. |
| $12 billion for wireless data services in 2005 |
| Todays telecom industry woes will trigger explosive growth in wireless information services and the subsequent fielding of distributed software applications. |
| Hutchison 3G Awards Wireless Location-Based Software Contract To TCS |
| TeleCommunication Systems announced that in the first quarter of 2002 it was awarded a contract to provide location-based software products and services to Hutchison 3G UK Limited |
| 3G Wireless Spectrum Allocated in Malaysia |
| The MCMC announced the award of two spectrum blocks for the implementation of the IMT 2000 services (3G) in Malaysia |
| New Audio Power Amplifier Targets GPRS and 3G Wireless |
| By eliminating the output filter and improving the common-mode input range, the total solution size is 30 percent smaller |
| Public WLAN service may be an additional source of competitive differentiation for 3G wireless operators |
| It is UMTS Forum's belief that WLAN and 3G are generally complementary within a total mobile data services portfolio. |
| Sierra Wireless Selected as 3G Embedded Wireless Modem Provider |
| Sierra Wireless announced it has been selected as a provider of 3G embedded wireless modems for wireless-enabled notebooks and handheld computers. |
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"(Wireless)
customers are being added at a rate of 30 every minute of every day,
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A
strategic alliance to jointly develop and supply integrated radio frequency
(RF) power amplifier and RF conditioning unit solutions for the 3G wireless
infrastructure base station market has been formed.
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The
G SeriesT represents the highest performance, efficiency, isolation
and selectivity available for tri-band wireless devices.
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European
consumers devote €101 billion per year to communicating via fixed
phone, mobile, and post -- but their spending on all forms of content
combined totals a smaller amount of €89 billion.
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NADIGICS
announced the launch of three new 4mm x 4mm high linearity power amplifiers
(PAs) modules for use in wireless CDMA handsets and personal digital
assistants (PDAs).
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Fifteen
real-life 3G applications, including real-time sports apps, face-to-face
video calling and exciting team games, are being delivered to 40 operators
by Ericsson
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Conglomerate
Hutchison says its third generation mobile network will launch in Britain
and Italy in October but users will suffer dropped call problems.
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NTT
DoCoMo announced that it will market a new Pocket PC 2002 PDA. The musea
will be the first PDA compatible with DoCoMo's M-stage visual, a video
content distribution service
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The
PICCI-3G design has been optimized for high-volume applications where
cost is a critical factor.
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. today announced a partnership with the Lucky Strike B.A.R
Honda Formula One team to apply its mobile communications technology
on Formula One racing circuits.
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Volantis
Systems announced funding of US $11m from Accel Partners and existing
investors Kennet Venture Partners and Softbank Europe Ventures
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3G
LAB and OSE Systems announced that they will integrate the OSE Wireless
Platform and 3G LAB's Trigenix User Interface Engine.
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Moody's
Investor Services today announced that it has downgraded the long-term
credit rating of Ericsson from Baa3 to Ba1 and continues to review its
rating.
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£5bn
lost by European giants as other firms face failure : By JIM STANTON
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Legend
recently launched a wireless application solution package named the
"Wing of Mobile" for Legend Soleil notebook computers.
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Hop-On
announced that it has received approval from the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) for the world's first CDMA disposable cell phone.
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Hitachi
Releases HD66776 / HD667P10 LSI chipset for Low-Temperature Polysilicon
TFT Color Liquid Crystal Display System using for Mobile Phones |
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A
new report from the UMTS Forum is relating to the implementation of
UMTS/IMT-2000 in Central and South American countries, including information
on current usage of the frequency bands for public mobile networks below
3 GHz
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MMS
pricing is difficult to get right and dangerous to get wrong
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KDDI
Corp is to begin GPS MAP, a new location service that takes advantage
of the location measuring capabilities of KDDI's third-generation CDMA2000
1x GPS KEITAI
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The
Edge is an alliance program designed to promote cooperation and knowledge-sharing
between communications application developers
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It provides the means to access the data in mobile
networks and refine it into a value-added asset i.e. the data that is
there in the network can be turned to real asset.
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NTT
DoCoMo announced today an agreement under which , the world's most popular
mobile internet service, will be launched in Spain in the first half
of 2003.
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The
Telefonica Board of Directors decided to freeze the activities of its
mobile telephone affiliated companies in Germany, Austria, Italy and
Switzerland
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The
card will deliver the same reliable, mobile, wide-area broadband experience
as the IPWireless pocket-sized Advanced 3G modem that customers are
using worldwide today.
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New
services are proof of how Nokia supports operators in realizing the
full potential of their investment
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New
European research suggests that mobile telephone operators must be prepared
to provide a broad range of innovative services if they are to persuade
consumers that they should sign up for 3G services when they are launched.
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Comptel
Corporation and Vodafone have agreed on a substantial delivery project
for Vodafone Omnitel's 3G and value added services in Italy.
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Lucent
Technologies announced it has supplied the first third-generation 3G
CDMA 2000 1X wireless network in the Australia / New Zealand region
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Artesyn
Communication announced it is collaborating with Motorola to give OEMs
and service providers flexible, high-performance interface solutions
for their 3G wireless infrastructure.
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3G
Americas applauds the United States federal effort to identify 90 MHz
of 3G spectrum.
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Non-communicative
teenagers are a thing of the past thanks to the mobile phone according
to new research carried out by the Digital World Research Centre.
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. have signed a memorandum
of understanding to jointly showcase third-generation (3G) mobile communications
service in the United States.
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Despite
being one of the veterans in the arena of wireless technology, Bluetooth
still has a long and bumpy road ahead of it before the technology can
realise its full potential.
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Digital
Bridges and iomo announced that they have struck a twin mobile phone
development deal to develop wireless games based on Cartoon Network
characters.
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Celeritek,
Inc announced availability of a new power amplifier module (PAM) designed
for transmit functions in CDMA2K 1X (3G) cellular multi-mode, data-enabled
handset
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Tektronix,
Inc. announced a new solution for real-time monitoring and analysis
of the latest Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) mobile
networks elements.
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Unity
Wireless Corporation announce that it has demonstrated its first Smart
Power Amplifier product designed to significantly increase the efficiency
and linearity of today's power amplifiers.
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Brooktrout
Technology and Hughes Software Systems announced that they have collaborated
to integrate Hughes MEGACO Media Gateway Toolkit with Brooktrouts
TR2020 voice over packet platform
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BellSouth
Ecuador has selected Nortel Networks to upgrade its national wireless
network in Ecuador with the deployment of a third generation infrastructure
using CDMA2000 1X technology.
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will restructure its European subsidiaries
to improve its effectiveness and to integrate the company's European
operations, especially in regard to promoting its i-mode and 3G services.
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Agere
Systems Inc. unveiled its second-generation PayloadPlus® network
processor for high-performance deep-packet networking and communications
applications.
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SkyTower,
Inc., in collaboration with the Japan Ministry of Telecommunications
and NASA, successfully completed a series of commercial telecommunications
tests
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Denali
Software, Inc announced CellularRAM( TM ) memory. Micron Technology,
Inc., and Infineon Technologies both anticipate shipping CellularRAM
memory to customers within twelve months.
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Demonstrating
its commitment to the global wireless community, the CDMA Development
Group has expanded its membership and active participation in leading
telecom industry associations.
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Convergys
Corporation announced today a Geneva ( TM ) billing solution contract
with TMN the leading mobile operator in Portugal.
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Nesmertec
AG and eValley Inc announced an alliance to develop embedded Java and
iAppli technology for mobile devices such as cellular phones, car navigation
systems, PDAs and other consumer products for a worldwide market.
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that
the i-shotTM center system has been adjusted, effective July 18, to
eliminate occasional transmission failures.
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The
Mobile Presence Solution provides device availability, which tells if
the phone is on, in use or off.
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In
order to successfully enter an established market place, a 3G operator
not only needs to provide a high quality network, but also to differentiate
its services from the competition.
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Users
of 3rd Generation (3G) mobile systems can expect to benefit from superior
interoperability of mobile terminals and other user equipment, thanks
to a newly-released set of test suites.
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Magex
announced that leading systems-integrator SchlumbergerSema has made
an equity investment in the company, which will help them pioneer new
2.5 and 3G mobile payment/mCommerce solutions.
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Kirusa
together with SpeechWorks International, Inc. announced the initiation
of a multimodal trial on the French mobile operator Bouygues Telecoms
GPRS networks
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Vitaminic
SpA - Europe's leading value added digital music solution provider -
will be the content provider for H3G's radiomobile network
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The
new betting service came through its baptism of fire with flying colors
during the recent football World Cup. Soccer fans could use their mobiles
to put their money on the outcome of any of the matches
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3G
Americas will become an active supporter of CITEL's objective of promoting
the continued development of telecommunications
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Effnet
has concluded an agreement with NEC Corporation, one of the worlds
leading suppliers of telecom equipment to licence Effnets Robust
Header Compression (ROHC) technology.
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CDMA2000
commercial roll-outs are providing operators with significant 3G advantages
over other wireless technologies in the areas of voice and data capacity
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Western
Europe's incumbent telecoms operators must look beyond their collective
EUR240 billion long-term debt and define their strategic options now
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Ericsson
has been selected by the Spanish operator Amena to supply its end-to-end
MMS Solution.
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Aicent
and BT announced that the interconnection between their GPRS Roaming
Exchange (GRX) networks has enabled US operator AT&T Wireless and
Singapore operator StarHub to launch GPRS roaming services
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This
is a major step forward in the development of E-OTD technology in the
US |
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Enabling
network planning and optimization personnel to spend more time engineering
and less time collecting data and developing reports
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SmarTone
introduces the first capture-and-send-anywhere MMS-enabled service in
Hong Kong
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Sierra
Wireless announced that it has been selected as a provider of third-generation
(3G) CDMA2000 wireless modems for Lucent Technologies' Secure Mobile
Data Solutions for Enterprises
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BTG
announced the decision by the European Patent Office (EPO) to uphold
its patent relating to GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile communications.
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RF
Micro Devices announced that it has begun high-volume production shipments
of power amplifier (PA) modules to Samsung.
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iPass
Inc announced it is working with Lucent Technologies and several industry-leading
companies to deliver solutions that will make it easier for mobile operators
to provide enterprise customers
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Mobile
games are the wireless Internet's killer application and 3G handsets
with color displays are its killer devices.
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NCT
Group announced that Sharp has incorporated its ClearSpeech(R) Adaptive
Speech Filter (ASF) algorithm into its new line of Third Generation
Cell Phones (3G Phones)
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DiskOnChip-based
MCP packs all the memory components onboard a typical handset into one
minimal BGA package
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With
increasing functionality demanded from today's mobile phones for e-mail,
packet communication and Internet access, as well as demands for longer
talk-time performance, module power efficiency is a critical factor
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Willtek
Communications today launched as a new company following a management
buy out of Acterna's Wireless Instruments Operations
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Qualcomm
has said that it will trial Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
( BREW ) in Japan.
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced that it will establish a wholly owned subsidiary
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Advanced
messaging services like Instant Messaging take text messaging to the
next level, allowing end-users to send and receive messages containing
content such as pictures, music, images and graphics.
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QUALCOMM
Incorporated and Alcatel announced that they have signed a CDMA equipment
patent license agreement.
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Four
groups of telecom operators and equipment makers have lodged bids to
operate and market the expanded phase of the CDMA mobile-phone network.
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Mobile
phones, PDAs and other mobile devices are about to be transformed by
the addition of 3D graphics, which will greatly enhance the marketability
of content services to consumers.
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Nokia
applauds the publication of CDMA2000 1xEV-DV (data and voice) by the
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
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QUALCOMM
has granted NEC a worldwide license under QUALCOMMs CDMA patent
portfolio to develop, manufacture and sell third-generation (3G) WCDMA
and TD-SCDMA ASICs products.
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IWORX-P
links the timeslot based infrastructure to the digital, ATM systems
now in wide use and adopted for emerging 3G wireless networks.
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ACCT
Technologies announced that Manx Telecom has successfully migrated its
entire wireline and wireless network mediation to XACCT's Network-to-Business
(N2B(TM)) Platform.
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Digital
Bridges and MJ Entertainment announce that some of the world's most
popular and highly acclaimed arcade games--including the landmark title,
King Of Fighters
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3G
LAB and OSE Systems announced that they will integrate the OSE Wireless
Platform and 3G LAB's Trigenix User Interface Engine.
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Motorola
and VoiceStream Wireless announced an offer for Austin Powers fanatics
to transform their mobile phones and put some mojo in their Moto.
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The
most rapid growth of subscribers to advanced wireless networks will
occur in Latin America and North America, doubling each year in some
cases
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Sprint
and Namco are joining forces to bring these games to Sprint wireless
customers on 3G-enabled PCS Phones.
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Hutchison
and So-net HK announced the collaboration to bring So-net Mobile's entertaining
colour contents and applications to Orange users in Hong Kong.
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Malaysia
will announce the winners of its third-generation (3G) mobile phone
licences on July 30, two sources said on Friday, but may not award all
three of the licences it offered.
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The
application was selected by Ericsson for its initial WCDMA Systems,
bringing 3G technologies closer to commercial reality.
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Zesium
has now ported the first release of its UMTS protocol software on Philips
Semiconductors Optimized Philips UMTS Solution
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the company will begin marketing two
new models of i-shotTM compatible phones, the D251i and the mova F251i,
beginning July 15, 2002.
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Lucent
Technologies announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply
third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 technology to KTF
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Nortel
Networks has shipped its first commercial EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates
for GSM Evolution) radio and base station equipment to Cingular Wireless.
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BitFlash´s
market-leading player into their 2.5G and 3G mobile phones and wireless
PDAs
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Following
the unexpected success of SMS the expectations facing its successor
MMS are enormous.
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Winphoria
Networks has been selected as a "Hot Start-Up for 2002" by
Telecommunications Magazine as part of the publication's June issue.
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NMS
Communications has partnered with Colibria to offer European mobile
operators a range of revenue-generating voice-controlled applications
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Matsushita
Communication Industrial and Nokia announced an agreement whereby Matsushita
will license the Series 60 Platform from Nokia
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Mirapoint
announced its multimedia messaging platform, an architecture built on
the Mirapoint Message Server which meets all the criteria for high-performance,
multi-services messaging.
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MEC
is set to use Oplayo's streaming technologies to deliver content over
2.5G and 3G mobile networks.
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ANADIGICS
announced the opening of a new wireless technical development center
in Aalborg, Denmark, which will focus on GSM, EDGE, and W-CDMA RF solutions
support for European and Asian wireless handset designs.
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NMS
Communications and PacketVideo have established an agreement to develop
two-way video communications systems that bring together the power of
voice and video for real-time communications.
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Using
new technology users can now simply point a seeing handset
at a bar code and content is delivered straight to the mobile phone.
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IBM
will market Nokias delivery server software for mobile content
downloading.
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Unity
Wireless Corporation to supply power amplifiers to leading manufacturers
of wireless network equipment located in Europe and North America.
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced that it will market a new 3G -compatible two-part
terminal - a PDA base unit with a BluetoothTM wireless handset.
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J-Phone
announced plans to launch two new "Sha-Mail" capable handsets
in July, 2002. The handsets are the J-D06 "graphica" (Mitsubishi)
and the J-T07 (Toshiba).
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Wireless
multi media company Pedagog Ltd believes it has the technology to make
third generation mobiles profitable
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elelogic
announced that InterDigital has utilized its Tau SDL Suite to develop
3G technology, for which Nokia is the first customer.
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Vodafone
has chosen ChangingWorlds patent pending personalization solution ClixSmart
Navigator to deliver individualized mobile information services
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Com2uS
Corporation was recognized with a BREW(TM) Award for "Best Use
of Graphics / Audio" at QUALCOMM's BREW 2002 Developers Conference
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Ericsson
has won a contract for supplying 2.5G (GPRS) mobile handsetplatforms
to TCL Mobile Communication Ltd., China
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NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will market the LookwalkTM, its
first PHS videophone compatible with DoCoMo's M-stage service.
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Last
week Hutchison 3G announced its brand name as 3. What does this mean
to the man on the street - Your Guess Is As Good As Mine.
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Nokia
unveiled a phone with a refreshingly new look and design and enhanced
local language features. The Nokia 3610 is another product developed
at Nokia's Product Creation Centre in Beijing
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Alcatel
Shanghai Bell, the newly established China's global telecom solutions
provider, debuted at the ELE/EXPO COMM SHANGHAI 2002
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Intel
Corporation has introduced a new family of microprocessors specifically
designed to bring high performance and long battery life to wireless
communications devices.
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China
stands to benefit from increased economic growth and overseas trade
by confirming its choice of UMTS/WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) technology combined
with TD-(S)CDMA to develop 3G networks.
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A
new security algorithm, known as A5/3, will provide users of GSM mobile
phones with an even higher level of protection against eavesdropping
than they have already.
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Ovum
predicts that wireless gaming over a cellular network will be worth
4.4 billion globally by 2006 putting the spotlight on early success
stories in South Korea and Japann
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A
demonstration of a full-color, active-matrix OLED cell phone prototype
produced by Samsung SDI
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Alcatel
officially launched its 3G Reality Centre in Cascais today.
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Mobile
International, the wireless subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom announced
that internationally acclaimed Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones will
be its global spokeswoman.
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Mobile
Location Centre, a location-based wireless services solution developed
in Australia by Nortel Networks is now being deployed in North America
with plans to market globally.
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Rocket
Mobile is contributing to the Verizon Wireless national launch of over-the-air
downloadable applications
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Hantro
Products announced a software demonstration for capturing, playing and
wirelessly sending a video message with a mobile phone.
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Philips
Electronics and Bird -- the largest producer of cellular phones in China
announced the start of a long-term partnership focused on the advancement
of GSM handset designs.
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Emblaze
Systems Ltd announced that it has reached an agreement for the acquisition
of all assets and operations of UCnGO Inc.
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The
AD6634 is a new member of ADI's VersaCOMMTM family of RSPs which serve
as the interface between the DSP and high-speed converter in a multi-carrier
transceiver.
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Singapore
mobile operator MobileOne (M1) has signed an agreement with Nokia for
the supply of a complete end-to-end multimedia messaging (MMS) system
for M1's GSM network.
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Overloaded
- Pocket Media, an Amsterdam-based newcomer in the telecommunications
market, will soon launch a comprehensive content range for the latest
generation mobile phones.
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Now
you have heard that our name is 3, we hope you cannot forget it
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Legend
Mobile and Kiloo announced today an agreement to develop branded versions
of Kiloo's award winning mobile game, Popstar. Legend expects to develop
separate versions of the game for its licenses with Christina Aguilera
and Nelly.
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Artera
Group Inc announced a wireless application for Artera Turbo(TM) Virtual
Broadband(TM). Wireless Internet browsing can be achieved using a cellular
phone to deliver Virtual Broadband to the PC
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From
the leading independent producers of speech and natural handwriting
recognition software, the smARTspeak XG brings phonemic recognition
to wireless mobile devices for the first time.
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3G
Americas announced that global TDMA and GSM subscribers reached 763.2
million as of March 31, 2002 and the milestone 100 million global TDMA
subscribers was attained in May 2002
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EuroTel
announced that the Telecommunications Office of the Slovak Republic
awarded EuroTel a license a UMTS public mobile telecommunication network.
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To
meet the current and future needs of mobile business applications users,
IBM and IFS are collaborating on a solution that takes a new approach,
online when available, rather than always online or always
offline.
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Maxim
Integrated Products introduces the MAX9987/MAX9988, the industry's first
integrated +20dBm LO buffers/splitters designed to meet the demanding
requirements of today's wireless infrastructure applications
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Residential
prepaid users to generate EUR16 billion in GPRS and UMTS non-voice revenue
by 2007 if operators enable such prepaid services by early 2003.
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Hutchison
3G has asked It's Alive to produce a NEW compelling game for 3G Phones
as detailed below.
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New
analysis reveals that this industry generated worldwide revenues exceeding
$45 billion 2001 and is projected to near $75 billion by 2007.
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magic4
announced a partnership with LG Electronics to incorporate its Enhanced
Messaging Service client into the range of CDMA and 3G handsets.
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The wireless mobile device
combines the features of a mobile telephone handset, PDA and gaming
device into a concise consumer product
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Asia-first
per-message and sending-party-pay tariffing; largest number of exclusive
applications; richest MMS content and widest MMS roaming coverage
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Mobile
phone users in the UK ditch their handsets annually in search of greater
functionality and true web access
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We
are projecting annual revenues of $1.8 billion from European PWLAN services
by 2007, with 7.7 million active users of the technology.
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Centurion
Wireless Technologies announced the availability of the Multi-Band Microsphere.
The Multi-Band Microsphere is designed to enhance mobile phone connectivity
inside buildings
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Nextel
Communications and Motorola, Inc have teamed up to add color to the
mobile phone user's life with the first color display, Java(TM) technology-enabled
phone in the U.S.
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Pinnacle
Systems has entered into a development partnership with PacketVideo
to integrate standards-compliant MPEG-4 encoding capability into Pinnacles
StreamFactory
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OMRON
announced that they have developed the most optimal Java[tm] processor
for cellular phones and starts to provide its sample chips and evaluation
kits for mobile device makers.
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| 3G Services Today - Rocket Style |
| mmO2 unveiled a new and mobile publishing service which allows users to send large documents at 3G speeds over their existing GPRS connections. |
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Picture
shows LGE member of staff showing W-CDMA IMT-2000 handset (Model: LG-K8000).
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Legend
announced 5 GSM mobile handsets - Legend G808, Legend G601, Legend G608,
Legend G007 and Xoceco G678 together with 1 CDMA mobile handset.
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Contrary
to negative speculation on the uptake of 3G wireless technology, consumers
have given a (qualified) thumbs-up to the services which will be on
offer.
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Alcatel
announces it has set up in Madrid a wide range of innovative 3G/UMTS
mobile services, conducting voice, data and video communications.
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E
Ink Corporation announced its demonstration of the world's thinnest
active-matrix displays.
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| New Report Addresses Western European 3G Future |
| A new 214-page report by BENCHMARK IT profiles and compares the biggest five European mobile operators and 15 Western European mobile markets. |
| Wireless Camera Phones Sales Going Well in Japan |
| NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s "SH251i," a cell phone with a built-in camera, was in second place in the sales ranking of cell phones |