Monthly Archives: November, 2001

SkyGo to offer marketing technology to J-Mobile

REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—SkyGo has been chosen to provide Japan Mobile Communications (J-Mobile) with the wireless marketing technology to deliver advertisements across J-Sky,...

Yamaha wins second agreement in Taiwan

HAMAMATSU City, Shizuoka, Japan—Yamaha said it will distribute a range of single-tone ringing melodies for subscribers of KG Telecommunications igogo service in Taiwan beginning...

Vodafone Albania continues with rapid network expansion

BUCHAREST, Romania—Albania's newest mobile telephone operator, Vodafone Albania, said it is building out its network at record speed. Vodafone Albania has extended its coverage...

ACT Mobile to appoint marketing partner

NEW DELHI, India—Thailand's ACT Mobile, the GSM 1900 MHz company floated by government telecom agencies TOT and CAT, has decided to appoint a marketing...

China adds 50 million mobile subscribers in first 10 months

BEIJING—The number of mobile-phone subscribers in China increased to 136 million in the first 10 months of the year. The country also has 175...

MobileGIS launches location-based services platform

BELLEVUE, Washington, United States—MobileGIS announced the availability of GeoMobilIT, its single platform for development and deployment of location-based services.According to MobileGIS, the new platform...

NEC, Matsushita consider handset JV

BEIJING—NEC is having talks with Matsushita Communications Industrial to explore details of establishing an advanced cellular phone handset joint venture focusing on the Chinese...

Third mobile operator launches in Jamaica

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Centennial Digital Jamaica has become the third company to bring mobile cellular service to Jamaicans.Chief Operating Officer James Beneda said the company's use...

LPG to integrate brokering platform with IBM’s WebSphere

HELSINKI, Finland-LPG Innovations announced that as a result of a recent partnership agreement with IBM, its fixed and mobile Internet service brokering platform, sBroker,...

TIW announces recapitalization plan

MONTREAL—Telesystem International Wireless Inc. (TIW) announced its investors have agreed to a recapitalization plan including the restructuring of its subordinated debentures and an increase...

Bandspeed, Open Interface launch WLAN product

AUSTIN, Texas—Broadband technology company Bandspeed Inc. and Bluetooth protocol stack provider Open Interface North America announced a new product that combines Bandspeed's AFH HubMaster...

Telus tests voice portal for location services

BURNABY, British Columbia—Telus announced it is currently conducting a trial of a voice portal service that delivers location-based information on businesses, restaurants, events, movies...

IVB introduces Omvia Advantage strategic initiative

DALLAS—IVB Network Solutions, a division of InterVoice-Brite, introduced its Omvia Advantage strategic initiative to provide multi-tiered value propositions for network operators designed to promote...

Nokia wins contracts in Lithuania, Thailand

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia has signed an agreement with Omnitel, a Lithuanian GSM operator, for the supply and installation of additional switching capacity to expand Omnitel's...

Honeywall, XM Satellite Radio use Certicom security technology

HAYWARD, Calif.—Certicom announced its Digital Rights Management and content protection security technology and services are being used to provide secure data transmissions in new...

NTT DoCoMo to market PHS handsets with Bluetooth

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin marketing Personal Handyphone System handsets compatible with Bluetooth technology beginning Dec. 3. The wireless carrier said the...

Palm meets guidance but cuts more jobs

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Personal assistant maker Palm Inc. said it would report second-quarter revenues of between $250 and $280 million—meeting the upper end of its...

Appear Networks delivers provisioning product

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Appear Networks announced the delivery of its Appear Provisioning Server 2.0 for enterprises and wireless service providers.According to Appear, the server extends the...

Nokia allies with financial world

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has allied with companies with banking and financial expertise to produce and market software for mobile and online financial services using...

Fujitsu, licenses Symbian OS

TOKYO—Fujitsu Ltd. licensed Symbian's operating system for use in the company's third-generation mobile phones, further adding to the long list of Symbian licensees.Fujitsu joins...

Rovenet releases new P-Fax software version

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.—Rovenet Inc. has released the latest version of its P-Fax software, which permits users of handheld computers to send, receive and, for the...

Jurassic Park disposable phones coming

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.—Fans of the "Jurassic Park" movie series will soon be able to get their hands on what is likely a wireless industry...

eONE Global completes acquisition of Brokat division

NAPA, Calif.—eONE Global has completed it acquisition of the M-Business division of Brokat Technologies, and it announced plans to operate it as Encorus Technologies,...

Telenor opens 3G network to lack of market

OSLO, Norway—Norway's Telenor Mobile said it will open its third-generation network on Dec. 1 according to its license conditions. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System...

SchlumbergerSema facility certified by GSM Association

SINGAPORE—SchlumbergerSema announced that its Hong Kong smart card manufacturing facility has been certified by the GSM Association's Security Accreditation Scheme (SAS).SchlumbergerSema is the first...
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