OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Wireless enterprise company Aether Systems Inc. announced it integrate its Fusion wireless module technology with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Sun One product line.The agreement will expand the companies' current collaborative sales, marketing, and engineering efforts. Sun and Aether will work together to sell...
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 system for fleet security, safety and operational effectiveness.Aether also announced U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc....
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 Aether's internal information technology operations and customer care services."The endorsement of a global leader...
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. The product will replace Xpress' existing satellite-only system."The decision to switch from our previous...
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 will have to restate is financial results in relation to the deals.Motient said it...
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 being tendered."We wanted to support our stakeholders by providing this liquidity opportunity and we...
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 PacketCluster Patrol product to wirelessly access real-time information from the newly created New York state...
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 payments.Aether Systems also will act as a host for PocketMerchant."The simple and convenient application...
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., the service will run on Verizon Wireless Inc.' CDPD network. Sharp Mobile Services allows consumers...
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 PC powered device includes a color screen, integrated QWERTY keyboard and dual expansion slots...
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., a provider of software, services and support for connecting the desktop...
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 being replaced. In addition to Wheeler, Frank Bonsal Jr. and Devin Wenig are...
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 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, will use Aether's asset-tracking product to keep...
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 to develop are reason for optimism, albeit cautious amid an economic environment that remains slow...
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 back $20 million in debt."Aether is continuing to optimize our collective and unique set...
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 from @Track Communications. The TrackWare product allows users to monitor the location and status of...
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 $112.9 million, a leap from the $58.2 million the company reported in 2000. For the...
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 of next year.The preview demonstrated that popular business applications are compatible with the Express...
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 of next year.The preview demonstrated that popular business applications are compatible with the Express...
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 users looking to deploy wireless products and services.Specifically, the companies will work to sell...
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 company purchased Aether's MobileMax2 wireless communications system. The announcement comes after several similar sales in...
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 toolkit.
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 has identified another $25 million in savings, partly resulting from the 280 job cuts 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 released Friday that is now circulating on the Internet, Aether Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
