According to reports in Corriere della Sera, mobile operator Omnitel does not expect to launch 3G services in Italy until May 2003. The Italian daily paper claims that the Vodafone-owned company will conduct a full test of its next generation mobi…

Texas Instruments has announced a new wireless LAN (WLAN) chip which requires up to ten times less power than existing solutions.

TNETW1100B is an integrated 802.11b (Wi-Fi) Medium Access Controller (MAC) and baseband processor (BBP). It uses j…

Psion has reported a small operating profit for the first half of 2002 despite falling revenues and difficult conditions in its core Teklogix business.

Revenues for the first six months of the year fell 29.6% to GBP 70.8m. Profit at the operati…

PacketVideo, the pioneering wireless media platform provider, has announced that it will support Microsoft’s Windows Media 9.

PacketVideo provides an end-to-end solution for streaming interactive media to mobile devices over virtually any wirel…

First Hop has announced Message Router 3.0, a server product for connecting mobile messaging applications with message centres.

Message Router sits between back-end applications which generate message alerts and an operator’s short or multimedi…

West Midlands Police, the UK’s second largest police force, is using technology from mobile messaging specialist XIAM to extend its services to deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired people.

XIAM, which sells mobile messaging application pla…

Vodafone is preparing to make an unsolicited cash offer for SFR, the French mobile phone company controlled by Vivendi Universal, in spite of indications by advisers to Vivendi that the media group hopes to hold on to its stake. Analysts have esti…

British mobile phone giant Vodafone Plc said on Friday it had bought troubled media group Vivendi’s 50 percent stake in their web portal joint venture Vizzavi for EUR 142.7 ($140.6 million). The much-touted move comes as Vivendi, the world’s secon…