Monthly Archives: November, 2000

Digital Angel to provide doctors with real-time wireless patient data

NEW YORK-Applied Digital Solutions Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y., hopes its Digital Angel will take commercial flight within 12-18 months, providing an on-body gauge of vital...

Sun stakes claim in wireless Internet space with broad initiatives

Sun Microsystems Inc. officially threw its hat into the wireless Internet ring last week with a broad set of announcements unveiling a dedicated wireless...

StarHub to up mobile investments

SINGAPORE-StarHub announced it will invest another US$58.8 million to enhance its Singapore mobile network during the next few months. This will bring its investment...

GoAmerica to acquire Flash Creative

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. has agreed to acquire Flash Creative Management Inc., a management and technology consulting agency. The deal will add professional services to...

InterDigital opens design facility in Montreal

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced today it will open a new engineering design facility in Montreal.The company said the new facility will...

Nortel, Verizon complete 3G trial

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Nortel Networks and Verizon Wireless announced today they completed a third-generation, over-the-air trial of data transmission and voice calls using cdma2000 technology.The companies...

i3 Mobile launches m-banking program

STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc. launched a pilot program with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce providing customers and CIBC employees with wireless information services...

Motorola wins 3G pact in Spain

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Metrocall net loss increases

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced third-quarter operating results with a net loss of $60.1 million, or 69 cents per share, compared with $47.9 million, or...

Trinidad and Tobago receives nationwide fixed wireless service

NASHUA, N.H.-Spike Broadband Systems said it won two contracts in Trinidad and Tobago.Borde Communications will use Spike's fixed-wireless broadband technology to provide a broadband...

Amiosonic in GSM deal with Lucent

BEIJING-Amiosonic's new range of GSM mobile phones will be able to interoperate with Lucent Technologies Inc.'s GSM network infrastructure under a deal announced by...

Clinton administration praises emergency-alert prototype

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's top telecom adviser last week urged the mobile-phone industry and other high-tech sectors to follow the lead of a Colorado firm...

Alamosa PCS reports increased revenue

LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa PCS Holdings Inc. posted a 39-percent increase in subscriber revenue for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, to go...

ASP carves niche in mobilizing business applications

While wirelessly enabling various types of applications is generally the one common element among wireless application service providers, most agree that value-added services and...

AT&T Wireless creates home page for teens

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has created a new default home page for PocketNet wireless Internet subscribers geared for teen users, with...

Sprint hopes PCS will bail out long-distance

Sprint Corp. is planning to rely more heavily on its wireless segment and Internet backbone to balance out its faltering long-distance business.The company warned...

Sonera becomes latest high-debt victim

LONDON-Moody's Investors Service changed its rating outlook of Sonera from stable to negative. Sonera follows several other European operators in being downgraded for their...

Alcatel wins Spanish fixed wireless contract

PARIS-SkyPoint, a Spanish telecom operator with a wireless access license in the 26 GHz band, selected Alcatel to supply its local multipoint distribution service...

Russia’s MTS looks eastward for expansion

MOSCOW-The major Russian Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) carrier decided to expand eastward and launched a GSM 900 MHz service in the Urals republic of Udmurtia...

Qualcomm shows 4Q 10-percent increase in net income: Company focused on profitability, future growth

Qualcomm released its fourth-quarter financial results ending Sept. 30 after the stock market closed last Thursday, showing a 10-percent increase in net income for...

Qualcomm completes CDMA location demonstration

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. completed an over-the-air CDMA position location demonstration on a commercial network using a small-form-factor handset with the company's gpsOne and SnapTrack...

Qualcomm delays Spinco IPO

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it is delaying the initial public offering of Spinco common stock until January due to unfavorable market conditions.The Internal Revenue...

Products

SpirentSpirent Communications, which provides performance analysis solutions, announced the InfoDM v2.0 release, which is part of the company's acquisition of InfoSoft Technologies, will supplement...

Kyocera adds to licensing chest

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported an amendment to Kyocera Corp.'s existing CDMA license agreement with Qualcomm to include the development, manufacture and sale of subscriber...

Polish 3G award process threatened with boycott

WARSAW, Poland-The three Polish wireless operators are unhappy with the terms of the government's Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) tender and are reported to...
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