Monthly Archives: May, 2000

TIA in overdrive as House nears vote on China trade

WASHINGTON-The House, aided by intense Clinton administration and high-tech lobbying as well as legislative commitments to monitor any import surges and human rights, is...

Justice probe of WorldCom-Sprint link-up likely

WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust lawyers reportedly oppose the proposed $115 billion merger between WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp., a major snag that-if true-could kill the...

Nortel, China agree to cooperate on R&D

OTTAWA-Nortel Networks and the State Development Planning Commission of China signed a memorandum of understanding outlining long-term plans to cooperate on research and development...

Entrust joins standards group

HAYWARD, Calif.-Entrust Technologies Inc., CV Cryptovision and Scopus Tecnologia joined the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group.The group was formed in 1998 to develop interoperable...

Cell-Loc receives patent

CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. announced the U.S. patent office has allowed Cell-Loc to claim as its property the delivery of handset-based wireless location content and...

BellSouth buys stake in operator

SAO PAULO, Brazil-BellSouth Corp. said it acquired 16.5 percent of the total capital of Brazilian cellular operator Tele Centro Oeste Cellular for $229 million,...

BulletIN.net closes $15M financing round

ATLANTA-BulletIN.net, which develops and supplies wireless Internet messaging products, closed on $15 million in first-round venture funding from Milford Investment Partners.BulletIN.net noted it would...

BroadBand Wireless begins internal probe

CISCO, Texas-BroadBand Wireless International Corp. said Ronald L. Baker resigned as a director of the company on May 3, at which time an internal...

Powertel unveils GSM chat serªvice

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a personal communications services provider serving the southeastern United States, introduced its PowerChat text message service designed to deliver messages...

Gov’t must help bring telecom to underserved

This is a copy of a letter sent to President Clinton in response to his recent American tour exposing the lack of wireless telephony...

TowerCom adds West Coast towers

ATLANTA-TowerCom Enterprises L.L.C., a company that owns, develops and manages wireless communications towers, said it purchased certain tower assets in California and Arizona and...

PCIA asks for CALEA extension on two-way paging to 2001

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association said it has asked the Federal Communications Commission to extend the digital wiretap deadline for two-way pagers to 2001."The...

Consumers want wireless access to e-mail, surveys say

Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail.Telephia Inc....

Telenor acquires Thai stakes

OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and...

TeleCorp turns on Lucent switch

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company's westward network expansion and to...

Telespatial to use infoUSA services

MCLEAN, Va.-Telespatial Inc. will use info-USA.com's online directory content, under a licensing agreement between the two companies.Telespatial is a wireless application services provider of...

Sybase subsidiary to support business users

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support.Sybase...

Sunday partners for 3G development

HONG KONG-Sunday Communications Ltd. announced plans to work with Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard and PacketVideo to develop wireless Internet services for customers in the...

SkyGo announces wireless marketing platform

SAN MATEO, Calif.-SkyGo unveiled plans for a wireless interactive marketing platform that will be available for licensing to credit card companies, wireless services providers...

Sina.com to deliver WAP content to Chinese

BEIJING-Sina.com, an Internet media and services company geared toward the Chinese community, signed separate memoranda of understanding agreements with L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and...

SigmaOne licenses Radix location technology

LOS ANGELES-SigmaOne Communications and Radix Technologies Inc. announced a joint agreement under which SigmaOne will have an exclusive license to Radix Technologies' GeoPhone Code...

Motorola garners GSM contract in China

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded a $5.8 million contract by China Telecom to provide seven Global System for Mobile communications...

ADC CEO to retire next year

MINNEAPOLIS-William Cadogan, chairman, president and chief executive officer of ADC Telecommunications Inc., said he will retire from ADC after a transition to a new...

PhotoJet licenses CDMA technology for digital cameras

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and PhotoJet L.L.C., a developer of wireless imaging technologies, entered a worldwide Code Division Multiple Access license agreement for wireless digital...

Products

Interactive SolutionsTeltronics Inc. announced its subsidiary, Interactive Solutions Inc., developed a new product offering, the MentisSoft iCommunicator system, which makes verbal communications possible between...
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