Seven Networks expands into Europe with buy   11 Apr 2005 01:50 GMT
Cell phone messaging provider to buy Smartner Information Systems, a supplier of wireless messaging.
Source: ZDNet

Seven Networks expands into Europe with purchase   11 Apr 2005 01:50 GMT
Cell phone messaging provider to buy Smartner Information Systems, a supplier of wireless messaging.
Source: ZDNet

Verizon to buy 13% of MCI from Mexico's Slim   11 Apr 2005 00:00 GMT
Verizon Saturday said it has struck a deal with Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim Helu to acquire his 13.4% stake in MCI.
Source: InfoWorld

What would Gekko do?   11 Apr 2005 00:00 GMT
You can bet the kids' college money on this much: If MCI shareholders do manage to drag the company into Qwest's waiting arms, it will be MCI customers who pay the long-term price.
Source: InfoWorld

First Cell Phone Was a True 'Brick' (AP)   10 Apr 2005 01:36 GMT
AP - "The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995. Clunky and overpriced? Not in 1984, when consumers lined up in droves to buy the first cellular phone as soon as it hit the market. And certainly not to Rudy Krolopp, lead designer of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
Source: Yahoo

MIT, Taiwanese laptop maker Quanta team up on computing project (Canadian Press)   08 Apr 2005 21:12 GMT
Canadian Press - BOSTON (AP) - Taiwan-based Quanta Computer Inc. and the Massachussets Institute of Technology said Friday they are teaming up on a $20 million US, five-year project to get PCs, laptops, cellphones, and handhelds to work together seamlessly, intuitively and in sync.
Source: Yahoo

Raising alarms about 911 over Net phones   08 Apr 2005 20:03 GMT
Regulators in the U.S. and Canada are entering the battle over emergency calls via Internet phones.
Source: ZDNet

First U.S. Commerical Use Of 2.3 Ghz Hums Along   08 Apr 2005 19:06 GMT
BalRivgam today announced the first commercial 2.3 GHz WCS network in the U.S. was up and running.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

The Multiple Ins And Outs Of MIMO   08 Apr 2005 18:39 GMT
MIMO technology dramatically increases WLAN speed and range and will be part of the next Wi-Fi standard. But that's about all anybody agrees about.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Phone Virus Writers Keep Eye on Big Picture (NewsFactor)   08 Apr 2005 17:24 GMT
NewsFactor - Another mobile phone virus has been developed, according to reports by anti-virus and Internet security firms. Mabir.A is aimed at the Symbian operating system running on Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Series 60 smartphones.
Source: Yahoo