After contemplating the matter for years, Motorola Inc. has decided to jump feet first into the global smart card business.The Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer has created a new business unit to take advantage of the enormous potential it sees for plastic cards embedded with microprocessors.Technical...
NEW YORK-RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. is gearing up for a national rollout, starting in the New York City metropolitan area, of an interactive, two-way messaging service designed to compete head-on with SkyTel Corp.-brand paging.At a news conference March 11, RAM Mobile Data officials...
HANNOVER, Germany-InterDigital Communications Corp. and its two manufacturing partners say their B-CDMA wireless local loop equipment will be commercially available during the first half of 1998.InterDigital is in an alliance with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Siemens AG to create "the world's first" broadband...
Natural MicroSystems Corp. announced the latest member of its TX family of communications resource boards, the TX3000. The TX3000 is an ISA bus card that provides a powerful and highly flexible hardware platform for a wide variety of data communications and networking applications, including...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. and Wavecom S.A. said Swiss manufacturer Ascom is the first manufacturer to launch a handset based on the VLSI/Wavecom Global System for Mobile communications GTI2000 concept.GTI2000 integrates VLSI's silicon GSM baseband chipset with Wavecom's first generation GSM system design,...
CINCINNATI-GTE Wireless launched its personal communications services network in the Cincinnati major trading area, which covers greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The network uses Code Division Multiple Access technology.GTE won the PCS license for Cincinnati during the Federal Communications Commission's A- and B-Block auctions...
FEBRUARY23-25 Mobile Insights '97, by Mobile Insights Inc. The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Calif. (800) 640-6497.24 The Wireless Buildout-Pacific Northwest, by RCR Publications Inc. and the American Planning Association. Seattle Marriott, Seattle. (800) 608-9641.24-25 Wireless Telecommunications Real Estate and Permit Acquisition for the 90s, by...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector said it is volume shipping its 68175 FLEX chip paging protocol IC worldwide.The FLEX chip IC processes information that has been received and demodulated from a FLEX radio paging channel, selects messages addressed to the paging device...
FEBRUARY19 Auctions '97, by the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Communications Business Opportunities and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Kim Sescoe at (202) 546-4356.19-21 The 1997 GSM World Congress, by IBC Technical Services Ltd. Le Palais Des Festivals, Cannes,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Semiconductor sales increased by less than 1 percent in North and South America and in Asia-Pacific markets in December, while sales declined 2 percent in Europe and Japan, according to research conducted by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization. The results of...
DSP Communications Inc. expects to see continued growth in 1997 and 1998, when the company may reap rewards from its new product, a wireless branch exchange system.The company reported revenues of $88.9 million for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, an 118 percent increase...
JANUARY16-17 Expanding and Enhancing Wireless Emergency Services, by AIC Conferences. Vista Hotel, Washington, D.C. (800) 409-4AIC.19-22 19th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, by the Pacific Telecommunications Council. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. (808) 941-3789.22-23 Local Service Resale-Creating Optimum Operational Readiness for Local Markets, by ICM...
JANUARY7-8 Telecommunications Business Environment Conference, by the International Telecommunications Group. Denver. (303) 779-4141.9-12 Consumer Electronics Show '97, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas. (703) 907-7674.19-22 19th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, by the Pacific Telecommunications Council. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. (808) 941-3789.22-23 Local...
"And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, and a new one just begun." This old John Lennon song looped through my head as I reviewed stories RCR printed during the past 12 months. During 51 publishing cycles, I...
JANUARY7-8 Telecommunications Business Environment Conference, by the International Telecommunications Group. Denver. (303) 779-4141.9-12 Consumer Electronics Show '97, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas. (703) 907-7674.19-22 19th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, by the Pacific Telecommunications Council. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. (808) 941-3789.22-23 Local...
DECEMBER9-10 Wireless in the Local Loop, by IBC USA Conferences Inc. The Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. (508) 481-6400.9-10 Universal Service, by IBC USA Conferences Inc. Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, Md. (508) 481-6400.10 Wireless Messaging Integration, by Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products. Dallas Medallion, Dallas. (800)...
NOVEMBER25-26 Personal Communications Services, by Bellcore. Richardson, Texas. (800) 521-CORE.26 European Churn Management Seminar, by DataMind, Lucent Technologies Inc., META Group, Red Brick and Silicon Graphics Inc. Bonn, Germany. 44-1734/25.DECEMBER2-3 The Wireless Buildout: Western Regional, co-sponsored by the Personal Communications Industry Association, APA and RCR...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton has threatened to repeal a key provision of the administration's new encryption policy if it determines that legislation undercuts security safeguards, a move one prominent Republican telecom lawmaker believes is intended to derail his bill to liberalize scrambling technology exports.In a memorandum...
After DSP Communications Inc. announced plans to merge with Proxim Inc. last Tuesday, DSPC's stock dropped 49 percent to close at $35.25 on the Nasdaq exchange. But Merrill Lynch calls the merger a "smart, strategic move" for DSPC toward diversifying its product base and...
The full-size SIM card may lend itself more easily to future services, said Powertel Inc., a U.S. wireless operator that has contracted to buy handsets from one of two manufacturers offering the feature.Two sizes of Subscriber Identity Modules are being deployed by U.S. operators...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's new encryption policy could force wireless firms over time to use scrambling products that are potentially more expensive and less secure, shortcomings that don't sit well with key lawmakers and privacy advocates.The president, acting on recommendations from an inter-agency task force...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc.'s unusual advance warning last week of poor third-quarter expectations raised eyebrows and at least two questions.Is Motorola still the bellwether company, giving early notice of stormy weather ahead for the entire industry? Or are its problems largely attributed to external factors...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is shipping to wireless equipment manufacturers what it claims is the world's fastest digital signal processor.The DSP 1620 operates at 120 million instructions per second with a 3 volt power supply, nearly twice...
