Cell Phone Industry
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Researchers seek funds to study cell phone safety
News Scientists have long debated whether cell phones pose health risk and are now looking for money to fund research to help resolve issue.
Tags: Cellular phones, Children, public health, Wireless, radio frequency, researcher, health care, agency, radio, Cellular phones
Music exec slams mobile entertainment experience
News Warner Music CEO says buying music and other entertainment on mobile phones is unnecessarily complicated and expensive.
Tags: MP3 players, Mobile platforms/communications, Music, Content management, Mobile commerce
Qualcomm CEO: Cellular and Wi-Fi don't mix
News Breaking ranks with other cell phone industry leaders, Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs said Tuesday that cell phone providers don't need to spice up their mix of offerings with access to Wi-Fi networks.
Sprint's CEO awarded US$2.6M bonus
News Even as Sprint continues to lose money and customers, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse rakes in a hefty compensation package that includes a US$2.6 billion bonus for 2008.
Tags: Benefits, Stock options and grants, Sprint Communications, Cell Phone, Compensation, Hesse, 401(k) plan, Stock options and grants, equity, CEO
Cell phone industry celebrates 25th birthday
News news analysis Twenty-five years ago Monday, the first ever commercial cell phone call was made, using a handset that cost nearly US$4,000.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, Mobile, Cell Phone, Wireless, Service, phone, 4G, Ameritech, revenue
CEOs see wireless as answer to economic crisis
News Verizon and T-Mobile USA's CEOs say that wireless is a growth engine for the economy and could help pull the United States out of crisis.
Tags: Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., wireless industry, wireless service, Wireless, T-Mobile, CEO, financial, network, industry
Video-conferencing 3G phone next year
News Sony Ericsson plans a January launch for its first mobile phone that will run on third-generation networks and can be used for video conferences.
Why the Gphone will fail
News For Google to throw a device into the cell phone business could be an indication that Google is getting in over its head.
Tags: Cellular phones
Samsung aims for cellphone top spot
News Korean industrial giant Samsung has vowed to beat Nokia in the global cell phone market by 2010.
Trojan horses take aim at Symbian cell phones
News Virus tracker discovers 52 malicious programs hidden inside cell phones games, other phone software.
Tags: Viruses and worms
TI expects solid revenue on 2.5G chips
News Although the cell phone industry remains in a funk, Texas Instruments expects to garner half of its revenue in the wireless market from high-speed cellular chips by the fourth quarter.
Cisco defines 'mobility'
News For Cisco Systems, mobility means connecting any device, on any network, anytime, anywhere.
Tags: Cellular phones
'Write once, run anywhere' not working for Java phones
Techguide Sun's Java for cell phones was supposed to let developers write a single program that could run on any handset. Wishful thinking?
'Write once, run anywhere' not working for phones
News Sun's Java for cell phones was supposed to let developers write a single program that could run on any handset. Wishful thinking?
Tags: Cellular phones, Protocols and platforms, Programming languages, Java
Disposable cell phones spur debates
News Expected influx of disposable wireless phones could present problems for criminal investigations.
