June 2001

NEW YORK-The bad news, according to Jerry Newman, senior managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., “is word of a 50-to-75 percent decline in new venture capital investments” so …

In a triangular deal, German-based operator T-Mobil is partnering with Agere Systems to adopt Samsung’s General Packet Radio Service class 8-cell phone. The phone, which will be made available commercially …

NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. shareholders approved June 7 the creation of separate tracking stocks, which pursued separate pricing paths at the close of their first day of trading on Nasdaq June …

WASHINGTON-Diveo Broadband Networks Inc. announced it is the first dedicated hosting provider in Latin America to receive IBM hosting advantage approval. To qualify for the hosting advantage program, Diveo said …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Columbitech said it demonstrated secure network roaming between a public GSM wireless network and a Bluetooth local wireless hotspot with a handheld device. The demonstration, held at the Bluetooth …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Palm Inc. has made further headway in the Asia-Pacific region through an announcement with Acer Inc., under which Acer licensed the Palm Operating System through 2005. Under the agreement, …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, has expanded its successful Donate-A-Phone program so that carriers and other wireless retailers may donate $2 to …

The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Hewlett-Packard Co. and Aether Systems Inc. announced the launch of Wireless Management for HP’s OpenView, which is a combination of HP’s OpenView and Aether’s device management solution. The …

LONDON-BT Cellnet will use Seven’s mobile software architecture to launch its Connected wireless Internet service. Connected, which is a mobile Internet portal and suite of services for business customers in …

MONTE CARLO-Centro de Tecnologia de las Communicaciones S.A. has integrated Agilent Technologies Inc.’s equipment into test solutions designed to help manufacturers meet the industry certification requirements for Bluetooth devices.

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge Inc. and Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced they are partnering to offer mobile applications for businesses using the Kyocera QCP 6036 smart phone. “With our custom applications and …

MANCHESTER, N.H.-Public Service of New Hampshire is offering its General Construction and Maintenance Facility in Hooksett, N.H., to Cellular Specialties Inc. to test the company’s wireless in-building amplifiers, antennas and …

BOSTON-MessageMachines Inc., which provides advanced messaging solutions, and Mirapoint Inc., which provides Internet messaging infrastructure products, have teamed to enhance the messaging and notification capabilities of Mirapoint’s product lines. In …

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. said it may cut more than 10,000 jobs, the figure the company projected in February as part of its drive for efficiency. The company said it …

NTT DoCoMo applies for stock listings, calls back handsets NTT DoCoMo Inc. has applied for listings this fall on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, according …

The economy cast a pall over the vendor space last week with major equipment makers wallowing in job cuts, negative credit ratings, earnings forecast reviews and downgrades. The companies involved …

Tower companies tend to fall into a safe and cozy place in the hard driving, fast moving wireless machine, seemingly immune to the pitfalls that plague carriers and network equipment …

144 kilobits/second or higher in high mobility (vehicular) traffic; 384 kilobits/second for pedestrian traffic; 2 Megabits/second or higher for indoor traffic.

DENVER – A survey commissioned by wireless device management provider Reason Inc. and conducted by nVision Research of corporations that use wireless devices revealed that half of them have no …

Verizon Wireless is considering either using wideband-CDMA technology as its third-generation network standard or adding the technology to its CDMA-based network. Company spokespeople assert the move is not new-or news-but …

Executives for personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week discussed the possibility of splitting the company’s operating system business and its device manufacturing segment into two separate companies, an …

WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee heard testimony last Thursday on what Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called “the most compelling issue to come before it this year: ” enhanced 911 deployment. But …

802.11b, otherwise known as WiFi, is growing into one of the most buoyant fountains of money in the wireless industry, challenging big and small vendors to seek differentiating models in …