ATLANTA-Although wireless banking services have suffered from low subscriber numbers and uninterested customers, Premier America Credit Union recently launched a new text-messaging service the firm said is enjoying some success.Premier America teamed with Digital Insight and wireless technology company Air2Web to launch a wireless...
ATLANTA-Federal Bank of India said it signed up more than 70,000 subscribers to its new text-based alerts service, which works over technology from Air2Web. The service alerts users to balance and account information."The response has been tremendous. Many of our new customers have opened...
LAS VEGAS-Two new acquisitions highlight the potential of the wireless data market, as well as the growing valuations for the players involved. First, wireless data mainstay InfoSpace Inc. announced it purchased mobile media company Moviso from Vivendi Universal Net USA for $25 million in...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Following the exit of the company's majority shareholder, European mobile commerce company Paybox said it will shut down its consumer-oriented services-which totals 750,000 users-and will focus solely on the business-to-business market."We deeply regret this step. We are not only losing customers and merchants,...
ATLANTA—Wireless platform provider Air2Web will partner with the National Football League to broadcast the 2002 NFL draft on wireless devices.Air2Web will provide free up-to-the minute news on draft picks as well as news regarding teams, rounds and positions to WAP-enabled phones, devices capable of...
ORLANDO, Fla.—Air2Web announced its Mobile Internet Platform now supports the BREW application platform and that the company will demonstrate wireless e-mail, as well as several other applications, developed on the BREW platform CTIA Wireless 2002 this week. The Air2Web Airmail application allows BREW-enabled handset...
ATLANTA—Air2Web said it closed its acquisition of 2Roam.Under terms of the agreement, Air2Web acquired 2Roam's Wireless Solution, its customer base and retained its co-founder and Board Chairman Bryan Wargo. Wargo now is Air2Web's vice president of strategic accounts.2Roam's shareholders Lightspeed Venture Partners, @Ventures and...
ATLANTA—The University of South Florida plans to use Air2Web's wireless platform to extend wireless services to students, faculty and staff beginning in January 2002.The University's IT department is developing applications including wireless notifications of events, class schedule changes, payment deadline reminders and emergency closures....
RESTON, Va.—Dimension Data and Air2Web have joined to offer the QuickStart Advantage Program, a complete, cost-effective solution that assists enterprises in providing customers and employees with wireless communications abilities.The four-week program combines Air2Web's wireless platform with Dimension Data's consulting services to allow companies to...
ATLANTA—Wireless platform provider Air2Web announced it will launch its Mobile Email Platform, which will provide wireless access to Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange applications, in November.The platform, which supports all digital wireless devices, offers access to e-mail, calendars, contact data and attachments, and securely...
ATLANTA—Wireless platform provider Air2Web announced version 4.0 of its Air2Web Mobile Internet Platform will be supported by VeriSign Inc.'s wireless digital certificate technology and payment services."The ability to strongly secure wireless transactions will encourage wireless users to direct funds, access corporate intranets and authenticate...
ATLANTA—Atlanta-based Air2Web, whose Mobile Internet Platform lets companies extend enterprise applications to any wireless device, has closed a $20 million round of venture-capital financing and expects an additional $5 million later this month, the company said Oct. 9.Participants in this third round of funding...
Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is now announcing the release of the third version of its already successful Mobile Internet Platform."In fact, we're doing quite well,"...
ATLANTA-Arizan Corp., which develops wireless document technology, has partnered with Air2Web, a wireless platform provider, to integrate the Arizan Mobile Document Platform with Air2Web's Mobile Internet Platform, allowing the delivery of document content to any wireless user."Access to document information is the Achilles' heel...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
A huge number of wireless companies hope to make money by helping businesses replace their cumbersome cords and wires with the freedom of wavelength-the hot phrase lately seems to be "enabling the wireless work force."The market for creating these wireless systems is "fairly big,...
NEW YORK-In a new agreement between the two companies, Air2Web will offer its mobile Internet platform to ING Barings clients, allowing them to access account information from wireless devices.ING Barings provides financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
ATLANTA-Alerts.com, a provider of detection and notification services for high-traffic Web sites, plans to go wireless under a new deal announced with Internet platform Air2Web Inc.The deal will allow visitors to Alerts.com-licensed sites to receive personalized alerts and content on any wireless device.
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Air2Web Inc. and TheFirstNews.com are taking a technological step backward.Instead of using cell phones' increasingly detailed screen to provide information, the two companies plan to get their information across using the oldest form of communication-sound.Wireless application service provider Air2Web and TheFirstNews.com, a...
SAN DIEGO-Stellcom Inc. said it has agreed to use a platform from Air2Web Inc. in a solution to extend enterprise applications to wireless devices.Specifically, Stellcom said it will create applications to allow data from enterprise legacy systems to feed through Air2Web's XML-based application programmer...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
ATLANTA-NetBank, an Internet-only bank, has chosen Air2Web Inc. to wirelessly enable its banking services, such as accessing account balances, and viewing recent checking and money market transactions.
