• Mobile coupon service Cellfire said U.S. Cellular is its latest carrier partner. Cellfire’s stable already includes Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Alltel, MetroPCS, Cellular South and others.
• Glu Mobile said it will lay off an unspecified number of employees to save $13 million in non-GAAP operating expenses. Also, CEO Greg Ballard said he will take a 25% pay cut.
• KDDI, Japan's second largest cellular operator, will deploy a next-generation LTE wireless network using a core networking solution from Hitachi collaborating with Nortel. The new LTE network from Hitachi and Nortel will provide an overlay to the existing CDMA mobile network.
• HP announced that Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has deployed a standards-based media server from HP to reduce costs and shorten time to market for new services. NTT DoCoMo is currently migrating its 54 million customers to the HP OpenCall Media Platform, which is designed to enhance the quality of voice-activated services. The server supports NTT DoCoMo offerings such as voice mail services, customized ringback tone services and interactive voice response services.
• Radiant Networks announced that the city of Solon, Ohio, has deployed a public access mesh network using Proxim Wireless' ORiNOCO Wi-Fi Mesh and Tsunami MP.11 point-to-multipoint product lines as the foundation. Radiant Networks, one of the country’s leading wireless engineering companies, performed the initial site survey and feasibility study to design a redundant wireless network. Working with Winncom Technologies– a Solon-based wireless distributor – to supply the hardware, Radiant then provided the turn-key installation and certification of the network.
• Peter Deliso joined Executive Counsel, a law firm consisting of veteran lawyers who have been general counsels for public or private companies. Deliso served more than 14 years as general counsel and secretary to LCC International. Before that, he was corporate counsel to Mtel/SkyTel.