Rogers, Ericsson to test UMTS/HSDPA and IMS in Toronto 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Canada's Rogers Communications announced last week that it will work with long-time vendor Ericsson on a trial of UMTS and high-speed downlink packet access technology and applications...

Symantec: Mobile virus threat low  

By: By Dan O'Shea

Security software firm Symantec, which recently aligned with Nokia to enhance security for that vendor’s Series 60 smartphones, believes the threat posed by mobile viruses remains low for now...

Why security is the key to wireless profitability 

By: By Cam Cullen

Behind the door to profitability lurks a significant and burgeoning threat. Already, more than 100 viruses have targeted PDAs and other mobile devices. That number is expected to grow as hackers turn their attention from the wireline to the wireless infrastructure...

Qualcomm sampling faster HSDPA chip 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm has begun sampling the second installment of its high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) chipset, the MSM6280, which raises the theoretical capacity ceiling for a UMTS network to 7.2 Mb/s...

Rogers, Ericsson to test HSDPA, IMS 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Rogers Communications said it will work with long-time vendor Ericsson on a trial of UMTS and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology and applications, as well as a converged IP multimedia mubsystem (IMS) architecture...

Leap chooses EV-DO vendors 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Leap Wireless said today it has selected Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies to supply CDMA infrastructure and suppliers for its planned expansion in five states and its migration to 3G...

GSM vendors eyeing 450 MHz 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Challenging CDMA’s growing popularity in the 450 MHz bands in Europe, Ericsson and Nokia said today they would produce GSM infrastructure and handsets on the former analog radio frequencies...

Fast Forward: Eric Shepcaro, AT&T 

While it awaits a pending acquisition by SBC Communications, AT&T is not resting on its innovation laurels. Read the full-length interview here...

InterDigital releases HSDPA ASIC 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

InterDigital today said it has prepared its high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) co-processor chip and is now ready to begin licensing the 3G technology to its vendor partners. ...

Nortel wins piece of SK UMTS deal 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel Networks and LG Electronics have started their second UMTS rollout under their new partnership, this time with South Korea’s largest carrier SK Telecom...

Bluetooth is back, getting bigger 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone shipments will more than double this year, and the number of overall Bluetooth-enabled devices, including phones, stereo headphones, keyboards and other gear, is expected to increase from 316 million units in 2005 to 866 million in 2009, according to a new report from InStat...

CTIA: Cingular selects Real for TV platform 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SAN FRANCISCO—Cingular today revealed it would use RealNetworks Helix platform to power TV and other streaming video services over its new UMTS/High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) networks scheduled for launch by the end of the year. ...

OMA issues six new enablers 

By: By Dan O'Shea

International standards body the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), has announced the public availability of six new enabler releases supporting greater usage flexibility of MMS applications, location-based services and other features. ...

CTIA: Motorola, Lucent building application ecosystems 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SAN FRANCISCO--Motorola and Lucent Technologies revealed new mobile application strategies at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment, both with the same goal of bringing mobile content to the network but with completely different approaches...

NeuStar to provide Root DNS for GSM Operators 

By: By Tim McElligott

The GSM Association has awarded NeuStar the job of managing Root Domain Name System services for its membership, which accounts for more than 680 global GSM mobile operators....

Firetide eyes multi-mesh management 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Firetide, one of several mesh wireless networking vendors eyeing better prospects ahead in the increasingly active market for municipal networks, announced a new software suite allowing service providers to better manage large-scale networks consisting of multiple mesh topologies....

CTIA: High-end handsets spark cross-vendor deals 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SAN FRANCISCO--At CTIA’s Wireless IT & Entertainment show, some of the most unusual bedfellows struck deals to create the new generation of smartphones...

Nortel performs HSDPA-to-mesh video handover in China 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Nortel Networks reported today from its research and development center in Guangzhou, China, that it has conducted a SIP-based video call handover between a live HSDPA network and a wireless mesh network...

Intellisync tackles unified messaging 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

SAN FRANCISO -- Intellisync today unveiled a new unified messaging platform built over its enterprise push messaging solution, combining e-mail, voicemail, SMS and IM into the same client. ...

TV wars go wireless 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

As the mobile industry ventures into the realm of digital TV, it's faced with two competing standards, Qualcomm's FLO and DVB-H. The match-up rehashes the old technology wars of the '90s, pitting standards versus proprietary technology. Which will win out?...

BREW progresses in Europe, but still seeks GSM foothold 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm landssecond BREW contract with European CDMA carrier...

Mobile data gets optimized for handsets 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Mobile data optimization is coming to the handset and just in time...

Qualcomm, Philips integrating CDMA, WLAN 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Qualcomm said today it is building into its line of Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets support for Philips WLAN module...

At VON, the search for cool apps is on 

By: By Ed Gubbins

The drive toward fixed/mobile convergence is accompanied by a lot of auspicious anticipation over the next batch of applications to be born of that convergence and the added revenue they will bring, but there’s less certainty over exactly what sorts of applications will fulfill those expectations....

AOL integrating SMS, VoIP into AIM 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AOL this week is testing a new integrated communications version of its AOL Instant Messenger service, which incorporates SMS into VoIP functionality into its mobile and PC clients...