2000

CHICAGO-Commtouch Software Ltd. signed an agreement with MobileID, an open standards-based wireless platform provider, for Commtouch to deliver e-mail and messaging solutions for MobileID’s Integrated Personalization Platform and also extend …

NEW YORK-@Road Inc., a Fremont, Calif.-based provider of vehicle location information, messaging and dispatch services, went public Sept. 28 with an offering of 7 million shares of stock priced at …

TORONTO-Primal Technologies Inc. received a fourth memorandum of understanding with Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply a PrePaid Voice Response Unit in its Primal Service Node. The prepaid system allows carriers …

Sygate Technologies Internet security and access management solutions provider Sygate Technologies Inc. introduced its OneNIC Internet Sharing Solution through the release of the newest version of its flagship software product, …

LONDON-Cable & Wireless Optus announced it is conducting an ongoing review of structural and strategic options for all three of its operating businesses, Data and Business Services, Mobile and Consumer …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. will supply its @ctiveLink two-way wireless messaging module for the Handspring Visor computer to Metrocall Inc., which Metrocall will distribute through its various channels. In addition, …

MERIDEN, Conn.-Radio Frequency Systems signed a two-year contract with BellSouth Mobile Systems to supply its full RFS product line of Flexwell coaxial cable, connectors, base station and microwave antennas and …

CHICAGO-In a wireless data environment increasingly cluttered with multiple email addresses and multiple wireless devices, Postini Corp. is hoping to score with a simple solution-enabling end users to read emails …

CHICAGO-Telcordia Technologies Inc. said last week it will now offer the Telcordia Service Management Gateway for Wireless Number Portability. The announcement comes two years before wireless carriers must begin wireless …

SAN DIEGO-Nextel Communications Inc., Wireless Knowledge Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. have agreed to co-market and sell an enterprise solution enabling business customers to access business information on their Nextel Internet-capable …

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-Sierra Wireless Inc. will use PrairieComm Inc.’s PCI3800 integrated baseband processor to enable a next-generation TDMA/EDGE wireless modem now in development, allowing notebook computers and other mobile computing …

ATLANTA-Domestic United Parcel Service customers can now track packages, find the nearest UPS drop-off location, calculate shipping rates and determine transit times for shipment via any wireless device, including one- …

While the convergence of computing and communications may be the future, and the future may be now, the convergence of ideas to actual product line takes longer to reach fruition. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Palm Inc. are collaborating to create a new smart phone that combines Palm handheld computer functionality with a mobile phone. The two have agreed to develop …

WASHINGTON-There’s a reason the waning weeks of Congress are collectively called Silly Season. It is because anything is possible during this fall ritual, when lawmakers scramble-against all odds-to complete spending …

ATLANTA-SED International Holdings Inc., an international distributor and value-added services provider of computer and wireless technology, reported decreased financial returns for the company’s fourth quarter and mixed earnings for full …

CHICAGO-One of the first commercial deployments of EDGE technology could be in Mexico next year based on presentations and interviews at the PCIA GlobalXchange event. Mexico’s largest wireless carrier, Telcel, …

CHICAGO-Was last week’s Personal Communications Industry Association GlobalXChange show a success? It depends on who you ask. While some exhibitors complained loudly about the lack of traffic, others said they …

AKRON, OHIO-A panel of telecommunications experts at a conference this month in San Antonio will discuss design trends and business prospects for that hot market, as well as the potential …

DURHAM, N.C.-Instead of making plans for what they wanted to do once they graduated from high school, Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman were making plans on how to raise money …

NEW YORK-The full-time profession of Henry J. Ritter, an attorney and accountant, is to put himself out of a job. Ritter & Associates, headquartered in North Bethesda, Md., steps in …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, having recently declared that state courts are not pre-empted by federal law from awarding monetary damages in wireless consumer fraud lawsuits, has now been asked to …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Palm Inc. shipped 1.5 million handheld computers during its first financial quarter of 2000, ended Sept. 1, up from 600,000 units shipped during the same quarter of 1999, …

ATLANTA-Mobile e-commerce security provider Certicom Corp. announced it is accepting applications for participation in a beta testing program of a WinCE handheld virtual private network client for Pocket PC users. …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Software developer Pixo Inc. licensed Certicom Corp.’s security technology for the Pixo Internet Microbrowser for wireless phones. Certicom said its Elliptic Curve Cryptography technology and MobileTrust digital certificates will …