Monthly Archives: March, 2002

Cingular will be first with Motorola V70 handset

ORLANDO—Motorola Inc. announced Cingular Wireless will be the first North American carrier for the Motorola V70 handset at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 tradeshow....

AT&T Wireless enhances capacity, unveils phone, signs FedEx deal

ORLANDO—AT&T Wireless made several announcements to bolster its presence at CTIA Wireless 2002.The carrier announced it will install Adaptive Multirate Vocorder (AMR) technology that...

NTT DoCoMo plans experimental 4G system

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced its plans to construct an experimental system for fourth-generation packet wireless communications that will feature transmission speeds exceeding 100 mega-bits...

Motient announces Real Estate app.

RESTON, Va.—Motient Corp. announced WhereToLive.com, which offers a Web-based productivity platform to the real estate industry, will resell wireless handhelds fortified with Motient's eLink...

Extended Systems partners with HP

BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems announced its XTNDConnect Server software will be packaged with Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Jornada 560 series PDAs and 928 Wireless Digital Assistants.With the...

Audiovox revises results

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.—Audiovox Corp. announced last week it revised its previously released results for fiscal year 2001 and has recorded an additional net charge or...

Air2Web now supports BREW

ORLANDO, Fla.—Air2Web announced its Mobile Internet Platform now supports the BREW application platform and that the company will demonstrate wireless e-mail, as well as...

DT implements four-point debt plan

LONDON—Deutsche Telekom announced it will implement a four-point plan to keep its debt reduction program on track:A dividend of 37 cents for 2001, which...

NetConnX offers IT experts for infrastructure setup in Afghanistan

LOS ANGELES—NetConnX Technologies said it has offered a team of IT experts to assist the newly formed Afghanistan government in technology infrastructure setup. The...

Metawave cuts 42 percent of work force, terminates SpotLight GSM product

REDMOND, Wash.—Metawave Communications Corp. is terminating its SpotLight GSM product line, closing its Taiwan facilities and reducing headcount in China and the United States...

DTI unveils 3G test receiver product

GERMANTOWN, Md.—Dynamic Telecommunications Inc. unveiled its 3G PN Scanning Receiver, designed for the OEM drive-test receiver market.According DTI, the receiver is compact in size,...

PocketGenie app available on SkyTel devices

CLAREMONT, Calif.—Wireless software developer WolfeTech Development Corp. announced its PocketGenie application is now available on SkyTel two-way paging devices. PocketGenie offers users access to...

SIGFX begins two-way system field trials

RIDGELAND, Miss.—SIGFX L.L.C. announced field trials of its two-way wireless communications systems are now underway at company headquarters in Ridgeland, Miss.The network uses vacant...

Ensemble makes mobile backhaul system available

SAN DIEGO—Ensemble Communications Inc., supplier of next-generation broadband wireless systems, announced its mobile backhaul solution is now available.The solution consists of the Ensemble's new...

Qualcomm, developers demo BREW apps

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced it will join 13 BREW application developers and publishers to demonstrate BREW applications at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando."The companies...

Yamaha provides ring tone download service to E-Plus

HAMAMATSU CITY, Shizuoka—Yamaha Corp. announced it will provide a 16-note polyphonic cellular ring tone download service to German carrier E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co....

Probe Research examines pay-per-use applications

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.—To be successful, pay-per-use applications need to meet three criteria: an accurate bill, happy customers and happy developers, according to a new...

InfoSpace launches wireless data service with Cincinnati Bell

CINCINNATI—InfoSpace launched a new wireless data service with Cincinnati Bell that the company said dramatically simplifies user provisioning of SMS alerts. The new service...

VerdiSoft demos software at CeBit

HANNOVER, Germany—Marco Boerries, developer of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, unveiled his new company VerdiSoft at CeBit in Hannover this week.Boerries demonstrated VerdiSoft's CrossPoint...

Allgon to supply antennas to Swedish operators

TABY, Sweden—Allgon announced it will supply base station antennas to Swedish UMTS network operators 3GIS and Hi3G."We won the contracts in hard competition, which...

Travelocity.com launches wireless notification tools

FORT WORTH, Texas—Travelocity.com launched My Messaging, a suite of wireless travel notification tools for travelers.The service, available for free following any Travelocity.com booking, enables...

Airtuit products allow users to work in online, offline modes

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Airtuit announced its BlueMoon 4.0 Mobile applications Server and BlueMoon Micro Edition, which allow mobile users to work in both online and offline...

Verizon introduces per-megabyte pricing for data service

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless introduced per-megabyte rate plans for its Express Network data service as an alternate to its originally announced per-minute plans.The new plans,...

Zi wins patent suit against Tegic

CALGARY—Zi Corp. announced it won its second patent suit against Tegic communications, a unit of AOL Time Warner.The latest ruling follows a recent decision...

Moody’s downgrades Brightpoint

NEW YORK—Moody's Investors Service Inc. has downgraded the debt of Brightpoint Inc., Indianapolis, citing the "recent decline in profitability" of the company and...
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