Monthly Archives: December, 1999

Battery life remains Holy Grail for industry

NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent...

UWCC reports 30M TDMA users worldwide

SEATTLE-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced there were 30 million worldwide Time Division Multiple Access subscribers as of the end of the third quarter."We...

Vendors make plans to move to packet networks

Several big names in the wireless and computing industries last week took additional steps in the process of converting wireless networks from a switch-based...

VIEWPOINT: Fine lines

The clash between World Trade Organization protesters and police last week in Seattle underscores the problems of balancing new free-trade initiatives with concerns about...

Nokia program to provide WAP apps.

HELSINKI, Finland-The Nokia Artus Developers Program, which covers Nokia Networks' developer activities, said it has advanced to play a major role in bringing top...

International WLL vendor now targets U.S. market

Adicom Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based provider of wireless access equipment, plans to enter the U.S. market in the beginning of the new year,...

WTO pact, technology transfers pave way for China CDMA

China's on-again, off-again plan to allow commercial deployments of Code Division Multiple Access networks looks like it's on again.The recent World Trade Organization pact...

Wysdom receives $7M investment from VenGrowth

TORONTO-Wysdom Inc., a developer of wireless Internet applications, has received a $7 million private equity investment from The VenGrowth Investment Fund Inc., a Canadian...

Y2K efforts lead paging teamªwork

The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and...

Carriers debate making OHG official

The Operators Harmonization Group began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied group of four operators trying to end the world's...

Qualcomm, Intel reach license pact

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology...

Speculation increases McCaw interested in Iridium bailout

Just weeks after a bankruptcy court approved the first part of his plan to bail out the financially struggling ICO Global Communications, Craig McCaw...
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