March 2002

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. The V70 has a rotating cover …

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 could more than double the …

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 per second (Mbps) downlinks and 20Mbps …

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 service. Through the collaboration, realtors will …

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 XTNDConnect Server, mobile devices can …

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 $1.2 million relating to its wireless …

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 several other applications, developed on the …

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 is 40 percent lower than …

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 company said it will use its …

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 by 42 percent. In connection with …

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, has low power usage and …

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 more than 200 real-time information services …

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 spectrum in analog and digital …

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 Fiberless 340 Backhaul Multiplexer and …

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 joining us at CTIA have …

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. KG—coinciding with E-Plus’s launch of i-mode …

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 report from Probe Research Inc. The …

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 allows Cincinnati Bell users to stay …

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 Server software that will allow …

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 once again confirms our high …

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 travelers and people they designate …

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 modes. The solution is targeted to …

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, which the carrier said are …

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 in California that stated Zi’s …

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 the “uncertainty associated with growth in the …