TheRightSize
TheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers search for their favorite brand and style of clothes. The service also can find sizes for family and friends registered with TheRightSize, and allows users to access personal information while they’re on-the-go. www.therightsize.com.
Nissi
Nissi Wireless introduced its new Air Magic Wireless Headset, which the company said has outstanding acoustics and offers easy one-hand operation. The new wireless headset allows for private conversations over current speaker phone hands-free models, according to the company. (310) 212-0707.
NK Cables
NK Cables USA Inc. introduced its new solid white cable in 1 5/8 inches, which the company said will help with color-coding hardware. The company also introduced a cable in the same size colored black with red stripes. (877) 652-4968.
FileMaker
FileMaker released its FileMaker Pro 5, which the company said allows users to transfer and synchronize data bi-directionally between FileMaker Pro 5 databases on Windows or Mac OS desktop computers and Palm handheld computers. The company said users can select and load the FileMaker data from their desktop to a Palm handheld and synchronize the data later with the Palm HotSync and FileMaker database. (800) 725-2747.
Plantronics
Plantronics introduced the latest edition of its M-Series line of mobile headsets, the M205, which the company said transmits natural-sounding speech and provides a hands-free solution for motorists. The M205 also includes the M206-N1 and M206-N2 variants for Nokia Corp. phones. www.plantronics.com.
Novatel
Novatel Wireless Inc. announced its Minstrel 540 Wireless Modem for the Hewlett-Packard Jornada 540 series Pocket PC is available. The company said its Minstrel is compatible with Jornada’s bundled Pocket Inbox and Pocket Explorer applications. The Minstrel operates as 19.2 kbps using the CDPD network, according to the company. (888) 888-9231.
Electric Fuel
Electric Fuel Corp. released its Instant Power Charger, which the company said requires no electricity while allowing the user to talk on an empty battery during the charging process. The pocket-sized device weighs less than three ounces and plugs into a cellular phone, the company said. According to Electric Fuel, the Instant Power Charger comes with a disposable PowerCartridge, which powers the charger; a SmartCord electronic adapter; and an airtight pouch for storage. The charger technology uses oxygen, begins charging within a minute and is done in two hours. www.electric-fuel.com.
Certicom
Certicom released its Trustpoint suite of flexible public key infrastructure products, which the company said will allow businesses to create secure mobile commerce applications that interoperate with existing PKI infrastructures. The company said its new product provides an open, standards-based security architecture that integrates into any existing wired or wireless security infrastructure. Trustpoint includes Elliptic Curve Cryptography, which the company said provides fast authentications of certificates and removes the performance drag that other authentication methods have on mobile devices or high-volume servers. Certicom said Trustpoint features the certificate authority server, which offers a management system for creating, issuing, publishing and revoking both wireless and wired public key certificates; the PKI portal, which acts as a central repository for collecting, evaluating and integrating data from various sources; and the PKI client, which communicates with existing registration and certificate authority components. (510) 780-5400.
Vocus
Vocus Inc. released a new wireless application for the public relations industry, which the company said will allow users to wirelessly respond to press inquiries, review PR-related activities and coordinate media campaigns. The wireless software, which works with any personal digital assistant and a wireless account, allows Vocus clients to create and manage news releases, target media distribution lists, post information to Web-based newsrooms, research editorial calendars and review profiles, contact data and coverage, according to the company. Vocus Public Relations Wireless also features the ability to provide documents, photos and other files with wireless devices; access to 250,000 editorial contacts; and tracking and measuring features with internal reports. www.vocus.com/wireless.
@Road
@Road introduced its new Landmarks, which the company said is an optional feature for its FleetASAP Web-based mobile resource management solution. The LocationSmart Landmarks option includes enhanced scheduling and reporting capabilities, according to the company, and can post up to 2,000 destinations. It offers such features as a batch file uploaded up to three times a month; a user-definable range for triggering a customer landmark; the ability to locate the nearest 10 vehicles to a landmark; and the ability to display the vehicle name, distance from the landmark and direction. www.atroad.com.
Emergin
Emergin/WirelessDNA introduced its Express Message paging software, which the company said is an easy-to-use, stand-alone desktop product that sends messages to mobile devices, including cellular phone, pagers and personal digital assistants. The software features a modem dial-up or Internet mail dispatching capabilities; the ability to send messages to multiple users; a message log containing the date and time of every message; and canned messages. The company said the Express Message centralizes communications, increases response time to customers, partners and suppliers, and improves efficiency. www.emergin.com/productsservices/expressmessage.htm.
SuperWings
SuperWings Inc. released its SuperWings Equipt, which the company said allows service technicians to install a complete UNIX server and diagnose and repair UNIX servers on site from a RIM device. According to the company, the product combines terminal emulation, messaging, paging, and a customer relationship management interface into one device, eliminating the need to carry laptops. The company said SuperWings Equipt allows access to corporate information and customer data, manuals and diagrams and allows the technician to provide service-call status to customers and headquarters. www.superwings.com.
Wireless Valley
Wireless Valley Communications Inc. introduced its PartsPlanner, which the company said is a tool to create, maintain and distribute electronic catalogs of radio-frequency distribution system components and characteristics within the SitePlanner 2000 program on the Web. The company said users can use the PartsPlanner to create a catalog of components that can be easily exchanged and viewed electronically. The company’s new product features the ability to fully model any type of RF distribution system component; an easy-to-understand interface that allows designers to understand the operation of products; support for RF, optical, baseband, and other media; an XML format; and the ability to export information from Excel or other applications into PartsPlanner. www.wirelessvalley.com.
MobileAware
MobileAware released a new transformation engine, which the company said will enhance its Everix product suite to allow for real-time, carrier-class transcoding of content for any Web-enabled device. The new engine features support for rich mobile multimedia and the ability to aggregate content from a variety of sources, including XML and XHTML documents, the company said. www.mobileaware.com.
CTS
CTS Corp. released its new 3.2x5mm TCXO platform, which the company said combines the benefits of small size, robust performance and cost efficiency.
The company said its new product allows for double-stacked component construction, which enables more components to f
it into a smaller footprint. The TCXO platform also tightens the frequency ranges and outstanding temperature control performance for CDMA handset manufactures, and the phase noise performance ensures lower rates of data error, according to the company. www.ctscorp.com.
Adicom
Adicom Wireless released its 400 MHz frequency products to its Aditus line, which the company said operates in the 370 MHz to 500 MHz band. The new product will offer a high quality of voice and wireless Internet protocol capabilities, and will be integrated with the rest of the platforms in Adicom’s solution. The company said its system uses advanced radio design techniques and can reach up to 28 miles, depending on the topography and other conditions. The architecture of the new product makes it possible to operate a single base station on more than one frequency band in a single cell site, according to the company. www.adicomwireless.com.
NotePage
NotePage Inc. released its new WebGate version 3.6, which the company said uses a Windows paging program to allow PC users to communicate with pagers, personal communications services phones, digital phones, billboards and other wireless devices. The company said WebGate can run on a file server, Web server or any Windows workstation. The new product has two interfaces: One can automatically receive e-mails and send them to any wireless device, and the second allows messages to be sent directly from Web pages to pagers and other wireless devices, according to the company. NotePage said its new product supports multiple paging carriers, multiple dialers, direct connections to paging terminals and group paging. www.notepage.net.
Telus
Telus Mobility introduced its TELUSmail, which the company said is a wireless e-mail service available at no extra charge to its clients in Canada using Surf wireless Web services. The program allows users of Mike and Clearnet personal communications services phones to send and receive e-mail text messages. Users of Surf, Surf Sampler and Surf-A-Lot will get the program for free. www.telusmobility.com.
NowSpeed
NowSpeed Inc. released its Email-By-Voice product, which the company said is an enterprise-class voice e-mail service designed to make e-mail as ubiquitous and available as corporate voice mail is today. The company said the program allows businesspeople universal and secure access to corporate e-mail through any touch-tone phone. The service beats other such offerings because it can be rapidly deployed, supports attachments and is aggressively priced, NowSpeed said. Email-By-Voice can be deployed through an application service provider, and will soon feature calendars, address books and other content, according to the company. In addition, the service offers voice reply, corporate e-mail server compatibility, synchronization and security. www.nowspeed.com.
OnMobile
OnMobile Inc. introduced a new product, OnStock, which the company said is an end-to-end, voice-enabled solution for financial institutions. OnStock is an open-standards application allowing users to get personalized information in real-time through almost any medium, including the Internet, telephone and wireless devices such as WAP phones, pagers and the Blackberry handheld computer, according the company. OnMobile said its new product features more than 15,000 equity and fund names, and allows users to trade stocks in any of the major stock exchanges. In addition, OnStock features price changing capabilities, earnings alerts, analyst recommendation changes, average daily volumes and end-of-day reports. www.onmobile.com.
Wireless Knowledge
Wireless Knowledge Inc. introduced its new Anystyle software, which the company said is a complete solution for accessing business data from wireless devices. Wireless Knowledge said its software extends the capabilities of its Workstyle Server solutions-offering mobile access to corporate e-mail, calendar and contact information-to devices with offline capabilities. The company said Anystyle automatically synchronizes data over the air whenever a device is in range and then stores the data on the device for offline usage. The product also features mobile corporate e-mail, mobile calendar and mobile contact capabilities. www.wirelessknowledge.com.
Mediaplex
Mediaplex Inc. released its MOJO ASP, which the company said is a single-platform technology that enables self-service creation, launching and tracking of banner campaigns for online and wireless mediums. The company’s new product performs a variety of online services, including trafficking tags for publishers, creating real-time reports, analyzing results and optimizing campaigns. Mediaplex said MOJO ASP also can be enhanced with its client services consulting or campaign management services. (415) 808-1900.
TX RX
TX RX Systems Inc. introduced its new Class B, one-way paging signal booster, 61-96-00400-G1, which the company said covers the broadband 929-932 MHz range and features an output level control greater than +70 dB of gain, 1 Watt of output power and a choice of painted or stainless steel housing. (800) 866-TXRX.
Mobilaris
Mobilaris AB released its new product, Wireless Portal, which the company said allows wireless carriers to build location-based information databases by letting content owners enter their information in the database while being automatically positioned. Wireless Portal enables the network to automatically position subscribers while they enter information, and the information is immediately accessible to all location-based services offered by the operator, the company said. This will allow content owners to publicize their location-specific content and will give mobile users access to live, dynamic location-based services, according to the company. www.mobilaris.se.
Espial
Espial introduced its DeviceServer system, a solution the company said enables service providers to customize, deliver, manage and bill for personalized information services to both wireless and wireline devices. The solution works across device and network types, the company said. DeviceServer is an extension to a service provider’s operations support system, functioning as a module that extends the ability to profile, track and activate the different functions of individual smart devices. It includes the DS Central database that maintains device and user profiles, the DeviceTalk protocol with an open application programmer interface and a transcoder that converts Web content for wireless devices based on the DS Central device and user profiles. www.espial.com.
Waves
Waves Ltd. unveiled its MaxxStream 3.0 hardware and software product line designed to enable audio to be pre-processed and streamed over the Internet. The 3.0 hardware incorporates a multiband compressor, allowing customers to control the dynamics of multiple bands simultaneously; enhanced control, allowing all hardware settings and parameters to be changed within the MaxxStream application itself; and professional-level connections, offering both professional and consumer standard audio connections. (865) 546-6115, ext. 11.
First Choice
First Choice Solutions introduced its eZCompare Pro, which the company said is aimed at assisting manufacturers’ marketing, sales and product development employees with product planning, market positioning and competitive product analysis. The company said its new product allows manufacturers to retain control of the way their products are presented in online stores and on Web sites of retailers using eZCompare retail solutions. eZCompare Pro acts as an uploading and updating utility, the company said, allowing manufacturers to control pricing, specifications and graphics. www.eZCompare.com.
Motorola
Motorola Inc. introduced its V.series V100 personal communicator, which the company said combines text messaging, phone functionality, Internet access and GSM
technology with a QWERTY keyboard. Motorola said its product’s keyboard makes writing messages and typin
g phone numbers simple and easy. The V100 features a rubberized keyboard and a 2.2-inch by 1.4-inch backlit screen. For calling, the V100 has a color-matched headset accessed through an external phone jack, and features voice-activated dialing, call waiting and conference calling. Motorola said the V100 would sell for about $250. www.motorola.com.
Marconi
Marconi Commerce Systems announced it developed a new product to make wireless payment options available to retail stores. The company’s new device uses radio-frequency identification technology, which the company said will allow customers to wave an RFID device, like a key tag, in front of a reader to pay for purchases wirelessly. The reader works with the point-of-sale device and host network to complete sales transactions. The key tag and reader use RFID technology from Texas Instruments. www.marconi.com.
NDC
The National Dispatch Center Inc. introduced its Corporate MessageYes! service, which the company said will allow users to send text messages to any individual or group regardless of their wireless device or carrier. The system operates through a MessageYes! Web site, which includes a list of all the people in the organization subscribing to NDC’s service. A user may look up any name or group and type and send a message. The MessageYes! system also offers a variety of other features, including online message retrieval and documentation, an electronic calendar, message forwarding and security functions. www.ndcwireless.com.
