Monthly Archives: October, 2000

Stellcom to use Air2Web platform

SAN DIEGO-Stellcom Inc. said it has agreed to use a platform from Air2Web Inc. in a solution to extend enterprise applications to wireless devices.Specifically,...

Endwave offers 6M shares in public offering

NEW YORK-Endwave Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of radio-frequency subsystems, went public Oct. 16 on Nasdaq with an offering of 6 million shares of...

Spike Broadband joins industry forum

NASHUA, N.J.-Spike Broadband Systems Inc., a provider of fixed wireless access solutions, announced it became a member of the Broadband Wireless Internet Forum. The...

Quickdot announces messaging extension

WALTHAM, Mass.-Quickdot introduced an extension of its free Web-based messaging service to support wireless devices.The Quickdot Web service allows users to post messages at...

AT&T promotes text messaging

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer free and unlimited two-way text messaging services through Feb. 28. After the free promotional period...

Synapse to bridge gap between farmers, customers

NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data Inc. has begun providing its trademarked Synapse to bridge the divide between rural farmers and their city customers.The pilot program,...

Glenayre partners with PhoneOnline.com

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies entered a strategic relationship with PhoneOnline.com, a wireless development and professional services firm, to support interoperability between PhoneOnline.com's BlueMoon mobile software...

3G auction begins in Italy

ROME-The Italian auction for five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses began last Thursday. Italy is Europe's largest cell-phone market, with six groups participating in...

ThinAirApps gets Extended Systems pact

NEW YORK-ThinAirApps Inc. said it will supply Extended Systems a wireless Internet platform that provides secure, real-time access to data from wireless devices. Extended...

Mean street

In recent weeks, we've seen Wall Street unmercifully punish wireless and blue-chip high-tech firms because of lower-than-expected quarterly earnings. Maybe punish is the wrong...

@Track revenues down slightly

RICHARDSON, Texas-@Track Communications Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $28 million, slightly less than the $29.1 million in revenues...

Sharp extends CDMA license agreement

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it amended Sharp's existing CDMA subscriber unit license agreement, expanding the licenses to include the development, manufacture and sale of...

Telecom factory sales increase 24 percent for first half of 2000

ARLINGTON, Va.-U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment reached $47.9 billion for the first half of 2000, a 24.4 percent increase from the same period...

Telephia expands into untethered Internet access monitoring

Noting the importance of wireless Internet and data services to wireless service providers, along with Goldman Sachs findings that more than 50 percent of...

Unimobile.com licenses technology to V-Mail

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Wireless text messaging provider Unimobile.com will license its 3.0 business platform technology to V-Mail, a developer of Internet communication and data compression...

Sports Ticker files injunction

JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Sports Ticker Enterprises L.P., ESPN Inc.'s real-time sports and news information service, announced it obtained a permanent injunction from the U.S. District...

KDDI discusses foreign links, signs 1X contract with Motorola

TOKYO-KDDI, the newly formed telecom group in Japan, said it is talking to several foreign carriers regarding alliances, international press reports said. A possible...

Paradigm4 to offer BlackBerry service

WATERLOO, Ontario-Wireless network services provider Paradigm4 Inc. will offer Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to its customers, as well as offering...

AvidWireless releases product

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-AvidWireless released AvidRapidTools, a Java server and set of reusable Java beans that require developers to only use one source code to...

Telus, Clearnet merger complete

BURNABY, British Columbia-Telus Corp. and Clearnet Communications Inc. reported that all of the conditions of Telus' offer to purchase Clearnet have been satisfied and...

Troy XCD debuts Bluetooth device

SANTA ANA, Calif.-Troy XCD debuted its wireless printing device, which enables a Bluetooth-enabled mobile data device to connect with a printer within approximately 30...

Barshefsky looks to next president to continue trade advances

WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, avoiding the dicey question of whether China will live up to trade commitments to open wireless and other markets,...

Hollings foreign-ownership legislation dropped, for now

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) last week said a controversial provision that would kill the Deutsche Telekom AG-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. merger was dropped...

Twenty one

Two disparate, but parallel tracks are emerging in the wireless Internet world: the business track and the consumer track. The business track is developing along...

Nortel Networks, Sprint PCS cooperate on network test bed

BOSTON-Nortel Networks Corp. and Sprint PCS said they are cooperating to build the first access technology-independent wireless network test bed using Internet Protocol technology...
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