Japanese mobile telecommunications operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. has struck a deal with Koninklijke KPN NV to buy 15 percent of the voting rights to the Dutch operator's mobile telecommunications subsidiary KPN Mobile NV for 5 billion euros (US$4.5 billion).
Users of mobile phones are at increased risk of developing brain tumours, especially if they use older analogue phones, a team of Swedish medical investigators has suggested.
Shares in Alcatel SA rose sharply in early trading today as the French company reported net income of 258 million euros (US$231 million) for the first quarter of 2000, as compared to a net loss of 18 million euros for the same period last year, on top of a 41.8 percent sales increase.
SAP AG will extend its MySAP.com offering, adding business-to-business payment processing functions and support for mobile users connecting via devices that use the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), the company said today.
Handspring Inc., the company founded by former employees of 3Com Corp.'s Palm handheld computer subsidiary, opened for business in Europe today, launching an e-commerce Web site and naming local channel partners. But French consumers will have to wait a little longer for their turn.
Xerox Corp. has found a new investor for its Internet content management spin-off ContentGuard Inc.: Microsoft Corp. is to take a stake in the digital rights management (DRM) subsidiary, the companies announced today.
IT equipment distributor Ingram Micro Inc. yesterday announced that net income for the first quarter, which ended 1 April, 2000, was $96 million, or 65 cents per share, compared to $42.3 million or 29 cents per share for the corresponding period last year.
Europe has a technological head-start in the mobile communications market -- but North America is closing the gap fast, venture capitalists and Internet entrepreneurs heard here today at the Upstart Europe conference.
Customers and community are more important than cash and capital, entrepreneurs were told here today at Upstart, a conference for European startups and venture capitalists.
Starting next month, France Télécom SA plans to give customers of its Itineris mobile phone service direct access to the Internet, the company announced yesterday.
Deutsche Telekom AG has maintained its level of income despite increases in competition and a reduction in call charges in its home market, the company announced today.
France Télécom SA has revealed its plans to open up the local loop to competing providers of broadband Internet access services over ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) .
Voila, the French-language Internet portal site of telecommunications operator France Télécom SA and U.S. company eGroups Inc. have fallen out. EGroups formerly provided electronic mailing list management services to communities of Voila subscribers on behalf of the French carrier.
Hong Kong telecommunications operator New World Telecom will later this month begin testing a third-generation (3G) mobile communication system from Finnish equipment manufacturer Nokia Networks, a division of Nokia Corp.
Internet-based supply chain management (SCM) services are slow to take off in Europe because the market is not yet ready for them, according to a new study released yesterday by research group International Data Corp. (IDC).