WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission last week began looking into the various consumer questions-including privacy-and emerging technologies of the wireless Web by holding a day-and-a-half workshop. “If people can be located …
After months of uncertainty peppered with glimpses of hope, Iridium L.L.C. officially settled into its new home last week as a mobile satellite service provider for government and remote commercial …
Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services. PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video …
NEW YORK-OZ.COM, Reykjavik, Iceland, formed OZ Canada, a Montreal-based subsidiary, through the purchase of a company recently established by L.M. Ericsson and a venture capital unit of Microcell Telecommunications Inc. …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-While Verizon Wireless prepaid customers are topping off their Big Gulps they can top off their calling cards under an agreement between the country’s largest wireless carrier and 7-Eleven …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS launched personal communications services in Fort Walton Beach and Panama City, Fla., through US Unwired Inc., Sprint PCS’ network managing partner in the southeast. Sprint PCS …
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Just a week after rival L.M. Ericsson introduced its first i-mode phone for the Japanese market, Motorola Inc. laid out plans to get in to the i-mode game as …
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Corp. confirmed its forecast for fourth quarter 2000, fiscal year 2000, first quarter 2001 and fiscal year 2001. The company expects revenue in the fourth quarter 2000 to …
Extolling them as “wings of light,” Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter growth, the Internet and communications company …
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. will ship with its suite of mobile developer tools the Lutris Enhydra 3.5 Java/XML Open Source application server, including the Nokia WAP phone emulator, WAP gateway and WAP …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Under a nonexclusive agreement, Lucent Technologies Inc. will market InfoSpace Inc.’s wireless platform to its customers. InfoSpace said its platform provides an end-to-end solution and includes such features as …
About this time last year, “The King of Queens,” the CBS sit-com, aired an episode about a bungled stock market foray by the two lead characters, a parcel service delivery …
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. released FraudBuster 5.0, the newest version of the company’s post-activation fraud detection system. FraudBuster 5.0 is able to detect all known types of fraud, including subscription, technical …
To the Editor: Dick Lyons, president of Cellular One, misses the point when he claims that the “Death Row Ad” is “not about the death penalty.” No one has ever …
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service, a flat-rate local wireless service plan, in Little Rock, Ark., and Salt Lake City. Leap also offers the service …
NEW YORK-The Land of the Rising Sun has emerged as the place to be for investors interested in grabbing onto incipient wireless telecommunications trends, said a managing director of Whitney …
Globalstar USA, in desperate need of some debt relief, announced it launched Globalstar Data Services, which will provide 9,600 bit per-second Internet connectivity for the same per-minute rate as voice …
A week after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey, TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation’s fourth largest paging carrier, announced Friday it will continue to keep its network up …
From left FCC Commissioner Susan Ness, FCC Chairman William Kennard and FCC Commissioner Michael Powell look on as Mikel Thomsen, president and chief operating officer of Western Wireless Corp., and …
NEW YORK-Venture-capital investments in telecommunications and wireless companies reached $5.2 billion during the third quarter, a 186-percent increase from the $1.81 billion investment total a year earlier, according to PricewaterhouseCooper’s …
