Monthly Archives: December, 2000

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Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it selected Agere Systems as the new name for its microelectronics spinoff. The spinoff is expected to be completed by...

Siemens selects SignalSoft location technology

BOULDER, Colo.-Siemens AG selected SignalSoft Corp.'s location technology to enhance its deployment of WAP gateways.The software will allow mobile network operators to combine the...

Comsat launches direct Internet access

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Mobile Communications said it launched direct Internet access for mobile satellite users.Customers connect directly to the Internet and e-mail, eliminating the need...

Power Play: Li-Ion Polymer batteries hold promis but face cost, marketing challenges

While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to...

RIM scores contract with EarthLink

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. scored a significant customer last week as EarthLink, the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, agreed to provide the BlackBerry...

SalesMountain signs AT&T, Sprint deals

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-SalesMountain, a wireless advertising network, scored an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS to have the carriers offer its...

AvantGo launches professional services programs, education iniªtiatives

AvantGo Inc., a wireless Internet provider, unleashed a barrage of new initiatives last week, beginning with the creation of two professional services programs designed...

Appiant offers unified communications for corporate customers

As wireless phones become smaller on the outside, their usefulness to the outside world continues to grow. In addition to wireless Internet capabilities, newly...

SyncML initiative releases specification v1.0

The SyncML initiative publicly released version 1.0 of the SyncML specification, a protocol designed to support universal data synchronization of both remote and local...

Supreme Court hears cell-phone privacy case

WASHINGTON-Can the news media disseminate information of public significance even if that information is stolen?That is the question before the U.S. Supreme Court which...

TSR closes operations

TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's largest privately held paging carrier, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late Friday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for...

MWIF finalizes recommendations for Layered Functional Architecture

FREMONT, Calif.-The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum announced it has finalized its recommendation for a new Layered Functional Architecture, designed to provide a unified structure...

Swiss UMTS licenses awarded

BIENNE, Switzerland-The auction of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Switzerland ended quickly last week, with only four companies bidding on four licenses, raising...

It’s official: Unicom to deploy CDMA

The great wall between China and the deployment of CDMA technology may finally fall. And soon.After a year-long soap opera with Qualcomm Inc. over...

Brits to invest $10M on health research

WASHINGTON-The British government, acting on recommendations of a blue-ribbon scientific panel, called for $10 million in new mobile phone-health research on Friday and for...

Swisscom completes SmartServ agreement

STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. and Swisscom announced they are concluding definitive agreements to allow Swisscom to license SmartServ's Web and wireless application technology.The technology...

White Electronic receives W-CDMA memory order

PHOENIX-White Electronic Designs Corp. announced it received a $1.1 million order for its memory solution supporting wideband CDMA base station applications.The company said its...

Missed opportunity?

Time to sit up and pay attention. Last week, a Navy midshipman was cleared of vehicular manslaughter charges after he was involved in an...

AT&T Wireless faces class-action lawsuit

NEW YORK-A law firm said it was continuing a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on behalf of AT&T's shareholders, alleging the company...

University of California program includes wireless Internet research

NEW YORK-Basic research for wireless Internet development received a multi-million-dollar stimulus as one of three parts to the new California Institutes for Science and...

Lehman Brothers launches private equity fund

NEW YORK-For telecommunications companies that believe the capital markets have become like Ebenezer Scrooge, Gerald W. Thames, a principal of the new Lehman Brothers...

Itronix to supply handheld computers to Federal Express

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itronix Corp. announced it would supply its 780 Husky fex21 handheld computers to Federal Express in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Hello Direct to offer Vox2 product

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass.-Vox2 Inc. announced its new Vox.Link, which combines cellular phones with other traditional phones in a home or office, will be available from...

Year ends on bleak note for Motorola

The year is ending on a bleak note for Motorola Inc. after it cut its fourth-quarter sales and earnings expectations, causing its stock to...

Iridium picks up Pentagon contract

WASHINGTON-The Iridium satellite network has found a home, in part, at the Pentagon, which agreed to pay $36 million a year to Iridium Satellite...
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