Monthly Archives: March, 2000

Nextel announces alliances

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with Aether Systems, Amazon.com, eDispatch.com, Wireless Data Inc., IBM and MicroStrategy to offer wireless Internet applications unique for...

Nokia launches `how-to’ Web site for handset users

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Oy launched a new Web site designed to provide information on how to use the features available on any of the company's...

Nokia, ICL Finland form e-business company

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Oy and ICL Finland have formed a joint venture to further support Nokia Information Management's e-business development.The new venture, called Nice-business Solutions...

Motorola, Cadence unveil module design

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. and Cadence Design Systems Inc. introduced a fully integrated FLEX Messaging Module reference design that can be integrated into a variety...

Nokia debuts new phone models at CeBIT 2000

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp.'s mobile phones division introduced four new phones covering a broad range of services and uses at CeBIT 2000 in Germany.The 9110i...

Compaq broadens wireless interests

NEW ORLEANS-Compaq Computer Corp. added to its wireless interests this week, unveiling its Mobile Internet Platform for e-commerce solutions, as well as a long...

Conita technology turns handset into voice portal

COLUMBIA, S.C.-Conita Technologies Inc. has a simple plan to provide business people easy access to company databases using voice-recognition technology with a tool they...

Motorola completes layered VoIP/3G packet-data call

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384...

Motorola study negative for cancer increase

WASHINGTON-A new study failed to find an increase in cancer and other diseases among nearly 200,000 employees who worked at Motorola Inc. from 1976...

Technology enhancements start new standard debate

NEW ORLEANS-A standoff over 1XRTT technology enhancements began to brew at last week's Wireless 2000 show, as Motorola Inc. challenged the business case of...

Motorola names new W/O Wires program partners

HANOVER, Germany-Motorola Inc. named several new partners to its Web W/O Wires Alliance Program, including Amazon.co.uk, Digital Bridges, Sports.com and AvantGo.com, allowing users to...

Sony licenses Microsoft browser for GSM handset

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced handset manufacturer Sony Corp.'s Digital Communication Europe division has licensed its Mobile Explorer microbrowser for its CMD-Z5 Global System for...

Pacific Century wins Cable & Wireless HKT bid

HONG KONG-After courting competing bids for several weeks, Cable and Wireless plc accepted a $35.9 billion cash and stock offer for its Hong Kong...

The Free Network to sell Arch products

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said The Free Network, a multilevel marketing company with some 55,000 marketing representatives, will sell Arch's paging products to...

C&W HKT appoints committee to review PCCW offer

HONG KONG-The board of directors of Cable & Wireless HKT has appointed an independent committee of the board to consider the terms of the...

FCC to decide this month about re-auction rules

NEW ORLEANS-The Federal Communications Commission will decide by early April whether to restrict bidding in the scheduled re-auction of personal communications services C- and...

Cyber crime: no quick fix

WASHINGTON-In the aftermath of the recent wave of cyber attacks, President Clinton immediately called for and hosted a high-profile summit with Net and telecom...

Web access to be set by relationships

NEW ORLEANS-Just how wireless Internet access will explode may depend on how carriers work with Internet players, executives said at last week's Wireless 2000...

McCaw opts out of Iridium funding

Craig McCaw's Eagle River Investments L.L.C. announced it will not invest in Iridium L.L.C., forcing Iridium to look elsewhere for financial backing to pull...

Microsoft persistent in courting wireless

There's an ancient Japanese custom in which a man wooing a woman leaves romantic haiku poems tied to flowers or branches on her front...

Paging auction closes, bids total $4.1 million

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 985 licenses at 929 MHz and 931 MHz for paging services closed late Thursday, after 28 rounds, with...

Palm IPO hits market big

NEW YORK-3Com Corp. spun off 4 percent of its Palm Computing unit March 2 in an initial public offering of 23 million shares that...

Kennard wants quicker transition to digital TV

NEW ORLEANS-Bidders in the upcoming 700 MHz auction should be able to negotiate with incumbent broadcasters to facilitate a quicker transition to digital TV...

Lightbridge, Corsair form strategic alliance

NEW ORLEANS-Lightbridge Inc., a provider of customer acquisition, retention and risk-management solutions, and Corsair Communications Inc., a real-time business solutions provider for the wireless...

Siemens plans re-entry into handset market

NEW ORLEANS-Siemens AG announced it will re-enter the U.S. mobile-phone market in 2001, about two years after it left the market unable to compete...
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