ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. this week signed several interconnection agreements with Bell Atlantic Corp. and a three-year bundling agreement with AnswerNet Network.The interconnection agreement provides...
Fresh from his turnaround performance leading MobileMedia Communications Inc. out of bankruptcy, former president and chief executive officer Ron Grawert has been named CEO...
SEATTLE- Tegic Communications, a company that specializes in text entry solutions for wireless devices, signed a licensing agreement with NEC Corp., which allows NEC...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to hold field hearings in rural America on the best ways to connect those areas of the country to...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS will offer both dual-mode and single-mode Web-capable handsets from Nokia Corp., according to a contract the two signed that could...
WASHINGTON-Vice President Gore last week promised high-tech tax cuts and increased information technology research funding as part of his official announced candidacy for president."I...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. and Aether Technologies Inc. have formed a new company called OpenSky, created to extend corporate intranet and Internet-based information to...
PLANO, Texas-EDS introduced a service offering that will enable Internet service providers, phone companies and others to brand, sell and bill for the latest...
Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, entered the public realm with a bang last Friday with an initial public offering that proved exceptionally successful in...
NEW YORK-For bond investors, high-yield debt deals by telecommunications and media companies are hard to ignore since they have constituted 30 percent to 40...
SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun's Java runtime environment...
WASHINGTON-David Aaron, undersecretary of Commerce for international trade, told wireless executives last week the Clinton administration intends to press the European Union to affirm...
LONDON-Symbian introduced the latest version of its EPOC technology to developers and licensees with several new features and architectural advances.EPOC Release 5 features messaging,...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks' President Dave House plans to leave the company by the end of August.House joined Nortel as part of the company's acquisition of...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Telecommunications industry wholesale revenues will more than double during the next five years, according to a preliminary survey of the industry conducted by...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-ShopKo Stores Inc. plan to sell MobileComm branded paging products in its 158 stores beginning in September, under an agreement with Arch Communications...
Scandinavian Softline to license WAPHELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavian Softline Technology has agreed to license Nokia Corp.'s Wireless Application Protocol technology to deliver value-added data solutions for...
Last week proved a significantly productive one for wireless data service bureau provider Saraide.com as the company acquired a value-added service provider in Europe...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access digital pdQ smart phone can offer the Palm Computing platform and support full-time access to the Internet,...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it is beta testing a service that will allow mobile users to comparison-shop wirelessly, by scanning product barcodes and...
NEW YORK-Mitsubishi Materials Corp. recently completed field trials of a new system designed to provide Internet access to vehicular and other mobile terminals.Mitsubishi said...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. introduced myTalk, a free ad-supported Internet service allowing users to manage their e-mail using the phone and spoken word commands.The...
WASHINGTON-A technical committee for Code Division Multiple Access technology development is working on an adjunct standard of the technology that could be used for...
