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Union City, Calif.-based NetPace continues to develop a suite of wireless m-commerce applications, aiming to preview its yet-unnamed flagship wireless application platform next month. “We feel we’re in a position …

SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. has expanded its Programming Division to include consumer application development for mobile devices, re-naming the unit the Consumer Applications & Services Division. In addition to creating wireless …

TORONTO-Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc., through its PowerLoc wireless location division, entered a contract with Atlanta-based Special Circuits Inc. to make SCI a provider of PowerLoc’s L-Biz wireless global positioning system …

WASHINGTON-The private-wireless industry asked the Federal Communications Commission to revise its procedure for classifying systems with trunked operations. Centralized trunked (YG) systems could be converted by a computer database to …

WASHINGTON-Reminding the Federal Communications Commission that a federal appeals court said earlier this month that government must implement the digital wiretap act in a cost-effective manner, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry …

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.-Qsent Inc. has been formed to provide wireless Internet services aimed at the consumer market. Patrick Cox and Kevin Anderson, formerly of Metro One Telecommunications, and Greg Keene …

SAN DIEGO-Quake Wireless Inc. which manufactures subscriber communicators for the Orbcomm low-earth-orbit satellite network, announced the company’s QHE-2500 heavy equipment tracking and monitoring communicator received regulatory type approval from Orbcomm …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has partnered with SalesMountain Inc. to deliver local sale alerts and specials advertising to Metrocall messaging subscribers. Customers may receive SalesMountain’s aggregated sales and specials alerts, as …

SAN DIEGO-Silicon Wave Inc., which supplies radio-frequency systems-on-a-chip for wireless and broadband communications, raised $52 million in its fourth round of financing. The financing included new investments from 3Com Ventures, …

NEW YORK-In November and December, Sonera zed U.S. Inc. “will dip its big toe into the waters of mobile commerce to see if they’re warm,” and it plans user trials …

Almost exactly one year after becoming the first wireless carrier to introduce wireless Internet service to customers, Sprint PCS has introduced a new program to its Wireless Web service that …

BOSTON-Very-small-office employees will generate $20 billion in annual service revenues for wireless companies this year, according to a report by Strategy Analytics. The report, “Very Small Office Wireless Opportunities,” noted …

BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom said it plans to reorganize the company’s corporate structure, transforming the Swiss telecom company into a group of operationally independent companies by the end of 2001. As part …

NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., expects by early next year to complete its project to eliminate the advantageous tax treatment of mergers as pooling of interests, rather …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. finalized its acquisition of analog semiconductor developer Burr-Brown Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction. TI will issue 1.3 shares of its common stock for each outstanding share of …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world’s biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless Internet and networking infrastructure applications. Intel …

BOISE, Idaho-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group placed Version 1.1 of Extended Systems Inc.’s XTNDAccess Blue SDK on its Bluetooth Qualified Product List, ensuring its compliance with Bluetooth interoperability standards. The …

WASHINGTON-Nearly a week after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that wireless carriers can be subject to damages awarded in civil lawsuits, consumers and the industry are reading the ruling differently. …

WorldCom Inc. moved one step closer to officially jumping into the wireless broadband game by filing last week its first round of applications with the Federal Communications Commission to offer …

Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy Cerulean Technology Inc., a provider of public safety software and solutions, for $150 million, adding the public safety vertical market to its growing …

NEW YORK-Marvel Enterprises Inc. has teamed with Nokia Ventures Corp.-funded Riot Entertainment to develop and offer programs and other content for wireless devices based on popular Marvel Comics characters, including …

Easy Access Inc. has selected SeaGull Inc.’s Wireless-to-Host solution to wirelessly enable its EZ-Vote mobile voter registration management system. MG Financial Group has introduced wireless access to Forex market trading …

Score one for the wireless industry. The D.C. Federal Court of Appeals last week ruled that the Federal Communications Commission must use a narrower legal standard in interpreting the Communications …

Seven years ago this month, Congress approved a new, market-based telecom licensing mechanism that would forever change the wireless industry. Spectrum auctions not only revolutionized licensing, but came to permeate …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Broadband technologies will play an important role in the growth of the wireless communications integrated circuit market, according to a study released by Allied Business Intelligence. “ICs used …