Chinese operators top mobile rankings
“China Mobile’s total subscriber base of 123 million subscribers means Vodafone is more than 20 million subscribers behind the world’s largest mobile operator, although it is the world’s largest global investor,” said Elizabeth Hall, Senior Analys…
Bsquare announces .NET reference design
Bsquare, a provider of Windows embedded technology solutions and professional services, has announced a reference design for a Windows CE .NET handheld.
The Bsquare Power Handheld has a 640 x 480 TFT colour screen, retractable QWERTY thumb-boar…
Wireless Knowledge acquires Mobilocity staff, expertise
Wireless Knowledge, Qualcomm’s enterprise wireless solutions provider, has acquired key staff members and the intellectual property assets of Mobilocity, a boutique consultancy.
Mobilocity, established in 1999, expanded rapidly to become one of…
Sony voices support for handset venture
Following Friday’s report in the Wall Street Journal that Ericsson may pull the plug on its handset venture with Sony, its fellow parent has stepped in to defend the new company. Kunitake Ando, president of the Japanese electronics firm said there…
Scan acquires Mobile Channel Network
Scan Mobile has acquired Mobile Channel Network (MCN), a provider of branded content services such as MTV ringtones.
MCN will operate as a separate business unit within Scan Mobile, continuing to provide its content services and OTA Manager, a …
Palm to deploy Pico Bluetooth network
Pico Communications is to construct the world’s largest corporate Bluetooth network for Palm’s Solutions Group and PalmSource.
PicoBlue access points will cover an area of over 160,000 square feet, spread across four buildings in two separate l…
Orange to launch own handsets
A report published in Total Telecom outlined that Orange is to become the first major operator to launch its own handsets. The handsets will be based on Microsoft’s OS.
Orange spokesperson in Denmark, Linda Juul Nielsen, told Total Telecom the …
CDMA2000 extends 3G dominance
According to figures published by the CDMA Development Group (CDG), 99% of all 3G subscribers worldwide are currently using CDMA2000. By the end of July there were 15 million CDMA2000 users around the world and, according to the CDG, 1.8 million n…