May 2001

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless entered into an agreement with Brightpoint North America L.P. to distribute Sierra Wireless data modems and software products to wireless carriers, retailers and value-added resellers in …

Wireless companies in the United States are holding their breath, waiting for the widespread use of wireless data products and services, and-according to a variety of recently released reports-those companies …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling said last week that restricting the broadcasting or publication of an illegally intercepted cellular-phone conversation violated the First Amendment because the contents …

The General Accounting Office said a new procurement program established by the Department of Defense to ensure that new weapons systems do not interfere with commercial wireless systems appears to …

GoBeam Inc. GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible …

DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that CTIA President and Chief Executive Officer …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association late Friday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reallocate spectrum assigned to struggling mobile satellite firms to cellular phone carriers struggling to capture additional …

As the news swirls around Wall Street, analysts think a possible merger between Alcatel Alsthom of France and Lucent Technologies Inc. may not only be the biggest acquisition of a …

LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc has offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Digital Island Inc. at $3.40 per share, which would make Digital Island a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable …

BRAZIL Transcrypt International Inc.’s subsidiary, EFJohnson Co., has been awarded a $2 million contract to supply its LTR-Net communication system to the State of Santa Catarina Police Department in Brazil, …

Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry may be an unwitting accomplice to mass-scale looting of an African mineral used in mobile-phone capacitors, a situation some believe is prolonging war, causing environmental destruction and …

LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular’s Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last …

HERNDON, Va.-Instant communications company Ikimbo Inc. announced a partnership with wireless data software provider Broadbeam Corp. to jointly offer time-sensitive communication products to the business community. Under the deal, Ikimbo’s …

TORONTO-Handspring Inc. today announced a distribution agreement with Hartco, which the company said would extend the retail distribution of its line of Visor personal digital assistants and Springboard expansion modules …

WHEATON, Md.-According to a new study by The Shosteck Group, we may not be as ready for location-based services as many would like to think. “Standards are not defined, interoperability …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Tality Corp., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc., has developed a GSM/GPRS handset design solution, a platform that Tality said will accelerate the way to GSM/GPRS handsets. …

LONDON-In yet another setback for third-generation technology, Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of British Telecommunications plc, has postponed its mid-May launch of 3G services on the tiny Isle of Man. The …

With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country’s second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to race past the United States as …

LONDON-U.K. cable company NTL and France Telecom’s Orange announced a partnership, whereby Orange will provide mobile-phone services to NTL’s 3 million residential customers. A contract is due to be signed …

ATLANTA-EMS Technologies Inc. has acquired CI Wireless Inc., a supplier of wireless signal distribution products, including repeaters. With the acquisition, EMS Wireless plans to extend indoor RF coverage with indoor …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Parthus Technologies plc, which designs mobile platform-level technology, said it acquired Chicory Systems Inc. for $41.4 million in cash and stocks, a move which coincides with the company’s release …

NEW YORK-The Wireless Advertising Association released the first few parts of its standards and measurements for mobile advertising, which the association hopes will become accepted as industrywide guidelines. The standards …

Just days before embarking on an unprecedented merger under concurrent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, Metrocall Inc. pulled out of its deal with WebLink Wireless Inc., citing WebLink’s recently announced layoffs …

NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into …