Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers that have banded together to make …
SALINA, Kan.-Kansas Cellular, a provider of rural cellular phone service, announced the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. has ranked it the state’s second fastest-growing technology firm. KTEC tracked technology-oriented companies from …
Mr. Silva, I’ve often wondered what’s wrong with our country and then I hear the diatribe like spending on human capital, which falls so easily off your pen and I …
The government may have auction fever, but companies are betting the 2.4 GHz band won’t be disturbed, and it will continue to be a free industrial, scientific and medical band. …
The European Commission has invited comment on the Iridium satellite system and its impact on European mobile communications, although the EC has said it “intends to take a favorable view” …
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and …
ST. PAUL, Minn.-RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. said its wireless data communications solution has made fast, on-site appraisals possible for the Ramsey County of St. Paul, Minn., Assessor’s Office. Ramsey …
Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group unveiled PageWriter, the first wireless device based on the company’s Memos messaging platform. The two-way pager features the familiar QWERTY computer keyboard and a …
There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised. Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable …
A Christian-oriented newsletter editor tells readers he’s found a great investment-shares in a personal communications services venture that could make people millionaires-something that had happened to him in the early …
It was suggested in a recent RCR article that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 answered the question of “Who is in charge here?” by clearly placing the Federal Communications Commission …
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. announced American Portable Telecom Inc. placed an initial order, valued at $6 million, for Comverse’s Trilogue Infinity system, which provides services including call answering, call return …
AURORA, Colo.-ComTec International announced it has signed letters of intent to acquire six operating specialized mobile radio companies. The systems, which represent 178 constructed and operating SMR channels, are generating …
Even in this new era of commoditized wireless competition, sometimes it pays to enter the market by trying to set the bar a little higher. Irvine, Calif.-based Comarco Wireless Technologies …
More than a half million Paging Network Inc. customers started receiving news briefs from CNN Interactive for free last week. Subscribers to PageNet’s alphanumeric service, via Motorola Inc.’s Advisor and …
CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China. Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology …
Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it acquired all the cellular assets of the nonwireline West Virginia 6 rural service area for $16.7 million as part of a property swap agreement …
BOSTON-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has signed a deal to provide its Cellscape service to Walsh Messenger Service Inc., a delivery company serving the New York City metropolitan area. …
NEW YORK-A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni has determined that wireless handsets need a certain aura about them in order to be conveniently hands-free when used. Two years …
WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the …
