Multiplier Industries
Multiplier Industries Corp. released its new line of rechargeable replacement batteries for Motorola radios. The line, which features polycarbonate plastic material with greater impact strength, includes the 1,400 mAh capacity M9012; the 1,700 mAh capacity M9012C; the 1,600 mAh capacity M9009; the 2,100 mAh capacity M9009-H; and the 2,700 mAh capacity M9009-HX. (914) 241-9510.
Decibel
Decibel Products introduced the first member of its new line of RXMC products, the DB7300 series Rx MultiCoupler. The new product provides four to 16 channels of receiver in one antenna input, the company said, and can cover the band from 30 to 512 MHz. It comes with 115 VAC, 220 VAC or 13-15 VDC input options and weighs about six pounds. The company said the next product in its new line will be the DB7400, which will cover the 800 to 915 MHz range.
(800) 676-5342.
VIFI
VIFI unveiled its new VIFI Wireless, a wireless Internet banking and bill payment program. The VIFI Wireless will allow customers to view, edit and make bill payments and will be integrated with Internet banking and bill payment sites, which will allow VIFI’s data center and Web server to balance the load. The company said the initial version of the program will allow access through digital phones supporting wireless access protocol, and later versions will support additional devices such as personal digital assistants. (888) 638-8434 extension 7.
ThinAirApps
ThinAirApps Inc. released its new ThinAir Server 1.3, which the company said allows for secure, real-time access to information from wireless devices. The server can access Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino groupware data, including e-mail and address books, from any pocket PC, the company said. It is based on Java architected to be distributable and scalable, according to the company. Some of the server’s features include changing time zones while traveling; customizing e-mail signatures by site; accessing multiple e-mail accounts from any device; and improved support for IMAP access to systems such as Novell Groupwise. www.thinairapps.com (888) 4-EXTENT.
Nokia
Nokia Corp. unveiled its new IP110 platform for corporate satellite offices, which the company said simplifies security policy processes and hardware/software integration problems. The new platform features Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 protection and supports a suite of Internet protocol routing protocols and remote management capabilities, the company said. The IP110 comes with three 10/100 Ethernet ports and is desktop or wall mountable. www.nokia.com.
SiGEM
SiGEM Inc. released its new ePiNG Emerald, a mobile data terminal that the company said will allow fleet managers to track vehicles and communicate with drivers through a display screen. The ePiNG Emerald will advance integration of global positioning systems and wireless technologies, the company said. The new product features a compact design, and its display and keypad will allow drivers to send and receive text messages. In addition, the Emerald has serial ports for printers, credit cards or debit card pin pads, the company said. www.sigem.com.
AgentGO
AgentGO released its new line of Naked Apps, which the company hopes will increase productivity and reduce operating costs and time. The Naked Apps include applications that address specific challenges. The applications offer a variety of solutions, including secure, real-time messaging alerts to mobile individuals, interactive scheduling and monitoring, mobile access to procurement and human resource information, and real-time access to reports and updates of customers. The company also released its agentMDK, a software development toolkit for developers available for free at the company’s Web site. The kit is designed to provide developers with an easy way to write applications to AgentGo’s platform, a mobile infrastructure offering mobile decision support solutions for enterprise customers based on intelligent agent technology. www.agentgo.com
Airbiquity
Airbiquity Inc. introduced a retrofittable wireless phone accessory with global positioning system and wireless data transmission technology. The GPS accessory attaches to Nokia 5100, 6100 and 7100-series wireless phones, providing them with the ability to send and receive location-sensitive information, the company said. (206) 842-9262.
Motorola
Motorola Inc. released its newest StarCore-based digital signal processor product, the MSC8102. The company said the new product integrates four 300 MHz sc140 extended cores and 11.5 Megabits of on-chip memory to deliver 4800 Million Multiply Accumulates per Second of performance. The MSC8102 will allow developers to create next-generation networking products that offer more channel densities while maintaining system flexibility, scalability and upgradability, the company said. The product is designed to support up to 8 ADSL channels, more than 60 universal channels, more than 80 compressed voice channels with 64 millisecond carrier class echo cancellation, and up to 600 noncompressed voice channels. It has 300 MHz EFCOPs, 1436 Kilobytes of on-chip SRAM, dual external industry-standard PowerPC buses, and four independent Time Division Multiplex Interfaces. www.motorola.com.
Ecrio
Ecrio Inc. announced it has developed a wireless instant messaging application for General Packet Radio Service phones. The company said its Rich Instant Messaging Platform enables users to send handwritten notes, drawings, images and text to and from any Internet-enabled wireless or desktop device, including short message service and WAP-enabled phones, Palm OS or Windows CE devices and desktop computers. Ecrio demonstrated the new technology with Omnitel Pronto Italia at a recent conference. (408) 366-7900.
Isochron
Isochron Data Corp., an application service provider, released its new VendCast Mobile system, a tool for wirelessly checking and managing vending machines. Isochron’s new product follows its VendCast System, which provides wireless management for the vending machine industry. The VendCast Mobile applications are designed to work with handheld platforms such as the Palm OS or Pocket PC. The company said its new product will be able to track changes in vending machines so asset managers and route drivers will be able to note problems or shortages when they occur, regardless of where the manager or diver is. According to the company, the VendCast Mobile will also be able to provide “curbside polling” by checking stock levels in the machine from any nearby area. (512) 305-0300.
Metrowerks
Metrowerks released its new CodeWarrior 6.0, a Java development tool for mobile devices. CodeWarrior provides a project manager and build system, a class browser and code navigation system, a text editor, debugger, emulators and a drag-and-drop graphical interface, the company said. The new product works with Sun Microsystems’ Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, PersonalJava and Java 2 Platform Standard Edition. (800) 377-5416.
Mobileaware
Mobileaware introduced several new features in the latest release of its flagship product, Everix 1.2, an infrastructure platform that integrates existing and new Web content and process applications. Mobileaware’s chief technology officer, Brian Kinane, said the product combines Web content with mobility-specific logic, such as location-based services. He said Everix has a toolkit that allows content authors to determine how they want their sites to be displayed on different devices, which eliminates the need to re-author the content for various devices. The company said Everix is compatible with current standards, including XML, XSLT and J2EE application server platforms. (404) 262-1253.
NowSpeed
NowSpeed Inc., which offers device-independent wireless e-mail, released the new Enterprise Edition of its Mobile Email Portal, which the company said gives businesses a turnkey solution to deploying secure e-mail services to their mob
ile workers. The Mobile Email Portal allows instant access to corporate-quality e-mail through wireless devices, such as personal digital assistants, browser-enabled phones and pagers. The Enterprise Edition features support for Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP4 and POP3. It is completely secure, automatically synchronizes e-mail messages across all devices, and has personalized notification of new e-mail, according to the company. NowSpeed said Cyrk, a marketing company, and Natural MicroSystems, a developer and supplier of hardware and software, have signed up to use the Enterprise Edition. (508) 879-2700.
InfoGation
InfoGation Corp., which develops telematics software and services to connect cars to the Internet, released the Odyssey 2000, an in-vehicle navigation product offering real-time traffic updates for U.S. drivers. The company said the product integrates navigation programs with traffic updates, providing motorists with traffic alerts through a moving map display and text-to-speech announcements. Drivers will view icons that are color-coded to the severity of traffic accidents and conditions, and drivers can say “traffic” to command the computer to read details about the accident. The traffic alerts are available in about 60 cities in the United States and Canada. InfoGation developed the program in partnership with Cue Corp., the wireless data network and service provider. (858) 535-9870.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Inc. introduced its CSM5200 Cell Site Modem, part of an end-to-end solution designed to meet the IMT-2000 wideband CDMA mode for the third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. The CSM5200 includes 2 Megabit per second data throughput; six-sector support with 12 uplink antenna inputs and 12 downlink antenna outputs; support for 16 simultaneous data or voice users; an integrated ARM-7 processor; standard 66 MHz peripheral component interconnect interface; and device driver software. Qualcomm said it expects sample shipments to be ready during the fourth quarter of next year. Qualcomm also launched its new line of power amplifier modules, the PA3300 series. The company said the series uses Gallium Arsenide Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor processes and is offered in a 13-pin land grid array. The series integrates advanced bias control and compensation, which provides consistent performance of critical parameters such as gain, quiescent current and conditions of temperature and battery voltage, according to the company. Additional features include a direct Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor interface to QCT’s MSMs and an integrated power detector, the company said. The series is also designed to operate in handsets using a single-cell Li-Ion battery design. www.qualcomm.com.
