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OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Wireless solution provider Aether Systems Inc. has joined with TransCommunications Inc. and the Mobilacomm Eagle division on BOT Engineering to launch GeoLogic, an event-driven, exception-based satellite asset monitoring …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. scored a massive deal with technology services giant EDS, under which EDS will manage and resell Aether’s wireless technologies and services. EDS will also manage …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Wireless enterprise company Aether Systems Inc. announced it will equip the 5,500-vehicle fleet of trucking company U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. with its MobileMax wireless communications and tracking product. …

RESTON, Va.-Wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced it is in talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the accounting of several business deals in 2000, and whether the company …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Wireless data company Aether Systems Inc. announced it completed its tender offer for a portion of its debt securities, with $38 million in principal amount of the notes …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Action in the wireless enterprise space continues, with two providers scoring government contracts. First, Aether Systems Inc. announced that the Garden City, N.Y., Police Department will use its …

SEATTLE-First Data Corp. announced it developed a new product, dubbed PocketMerchant, which allows merchants to use a mobile phone or Palm OS handheld as a point-of-sale terminal for accepting electronic …

SAN DIEGO-Sharp Electronics Corp. launched Sharp Mobile Services, the consumer edition of wireless data service for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant. Developed in partnership with Aether Systems Inc., …

SAN DIEGO-Sharp Electronics Corp. unveiled a consumer edition wireless data service for its Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant designed to run on Verizon Wireless Inc.’s CDPD network. The Microsoft Pocket …

NEW YORK-Merrill Lynch & Co. and certain of its stock analysts are the target of at least two class action lawsuits filed in June in connection with Aether Systems Inc., …

OWINGS Mills, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. said Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler and two other board members are stepping down from the financially struggling wireless data firm and …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Part of the U.S. Air Force’s research and evaluation division will use a wireless data tracking product from Aether Systems Inc., the company announced. The Materiel Systems Group …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Echoing the guarded optimism expressed by several other wireless data companies, Aether Systems Inc. reported sluggish first-quarter sales but hope for the coming months. “The positive trends beginning …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Wireless data services provider Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy back $15 million in convertible debt, a move that comes about a year after the company bought …

ORLANDO, Fla.—Numerex Corp. agreed to supply Cellemetry data service throughout North America for Aether Systems Inc.’s deployment of TrackWare and 20/20V GPS asset-tracking solutions. Aether recently acquired the tracking products …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—In its fourth quarter results Aether Systems Inc. reported a huge increase in revenues compared with a year ago, but also a widening loss. Last year Aether earned …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless reported promising results from participants in it Express Network preview, setting the stage for the planned commercial availability of its 1XRTT Express Network in the first half …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless reported promising results from participants in it Express Network preview, setting the stage for the planned commercial availability of its 1XRTT Express Network in the first half …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Handspring Inc. made its latest in a series of announcements aimed at the corporate market, inking a deal with Extended Systems to provide education and training to business …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc., proving it can still sell in a tight economic environment, announced yet another wireless data sale, this time to motor carrier Oester Trucking. The trucking …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. and wireless security company Certicom announced they will team to upgrade Aether’s PocketBlue mobile government application to Advanced Encryption Standard technology using Certicom’s SecurityBuilder cryptographic …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. said it will surpass its efforts to reduce its annual expenses by $78 million and has released guidance for upcoming quarters. The company said it …

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland, United States—According to sources, Aether Systems will cut an additional 280 jobs in an effort to cut costs and meet its financial goals. In an internal memo …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.—Aether Systems Inc. announced partnerships with Handspring Inc. and EON InfoTech Pte Ltd., moves furthering the company’s Fusion software layer. Under its deal with personal digital assistant maker …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. said Wisconsin-based motor carrier County Transit Inc. purchased its MobileMax2 wireless communications system, which Aether said will help County Transit enhance communications between drivers and …