ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Digit Wireless has joined the Personal Communications Industry Association's Global Initiative.Digit Wireless, founded in 2000 by former Apple Computer executive David Levy just introduced its first product, the Fastap keypad, a mobile-phone interface designed for fast and intuitive text input."We believe PCIA's activities...
LOS GATOS, Calif.—Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and a longtime leader in the computer industry, announced he is jumping into wireless with a new company called Wheels of Zeus.While details of the company's plans remain vague, it will be supported by $6 million...
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Danger Inc., creator of the hiptop mobile service and device, announced that one of Silicon Valley's most notable figures, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., has joined the company's board of directors.Danger said its wireless data and Internet device will be...
LONDON-The viability of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is growing more questionable as its speed continues to lag behind that of wireline LANs, according to one Frost & Sullivan research analyst."The disk drive is a simple technology that does what it was designed...
Network coverage is the unexciting side of the wireless industry. Sure, most carriers proclaim to have excellent coverage in their markets, but real-world results are often lacking. Someone in the wireless industry recently discussed a conversation she tried to have with an executive of...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced a new line of printers that feature a range of Internet-enabling technologies. Among their capabilities, the new printers enable users to scan documents directly to the Web, remotely manage printers and supplies, and print directly from wireless devices.The HP...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
After 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum set in 1996."This most recent auction demonstrated the...
Most analysts expected the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses to finish up late last week. Instead, there were 37 eligible bidders placing 27 new high bids on licenses during round 70 of the auction. The new high bids brought...
Wireless operators may now have to take some of the blame for New York residents feeling somewhat superior to the rest of the country. Through 49 rounds of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's re-auction of PCS licenses, the Big Apple is the only...
LAS VEGAS-Socket Communications Inc. introduced a new version of its Digital Phone Card, which the company said supports Internet-ready mobile phones for Nextel Communications Inc.'s network.Socket, which made its introduction during the 2001 International Consumer Electronics Show, said the card would be available in...
With the home rapidly becoming an extension of the workplace, consumers increasingly are turning to wireless home networking equipment as a way to keep connected. According to an IDC report, worldwide local area network shipments are expected to top 4 million in 2003, with...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
Score one for the wireless industry. The D.C. Federal Court of Appeals last week ruled that the Federal Communications Commission must use a narrower legal standard in interpreting the Communications for Law Enforcement Act, a 1994 digital wiretap law designed to help law-enforcement officers...
NEW YORK-SBC Wireless hopes to take a bite out of the Big Apple as one part of a territorial and services expansion plan accompanying combining its wireless operations with those of BellSouth Corp.With the closing of the joint venture agreement, which is expected in...
LOS ANGELES-Econ One's most recent survey of wireless service prices in 25 major markets found consumer cost remained the same between February and March.The survey, which measures monthly wireless phone service prices across 30-, 150-, 300- and 600-minute plans, showed the average price of...
While Steve Case, Gerald Levin and Ted Turner were cartwheeling last week over AOL's planned purchase of Time Warner, others were not jumping for joy over this or anything else digital.A world away, in Jerusalem, top ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis pulled the plug on the...
If a big pay day is what you're after, there are the conventional avenues: winning the lottery, answering Regis, suing Big Tobacco and having the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol ring your doorbell on Super Sunday.But there's an easier way. And the pay is better: Go...
REDWOOD|CITY-Sometimes the greatest inventions aren't inventions at all, but the successful application of an idea common in one industry to a problem faced by another.Alain Rossman did exactly this when he created an application environment enabling Internet applications to run on wireless networks using...
CoherentThe Coherent original equipment manufacturer division of Tellabs launched a complete design verification kit for its CEC-128 Integrated Echo Canceller multichip module. The kit consists of a CEC-128 plug-in module and a CD with full operating software, application notes and data book. The module...
When did the universe get so topsy-turvy?(I'd venture to guess right around the time the Dow hit 8,000 for the first time?)The stock market rules.Global Crossing Ltd.-an unknown telecom venture by most accounts-can make a bid for Baby Bell U S West Inc., and...
New Enterprise AssociatesNew Enterprise Associates, a Palo Alto, Calif. venture capital firm, appointed Nobel Laureate Arno A. Penzias as a partner. Penzias is the senior technology adviser for Lucent Technologies Inc. He has written two books, Ideas and Information and Digital Harmony. Penzias won...
Is this it?Is the wireless data market sitting on the runway to (finally) take off, offering instant text applications anywhere on the planet?Like a child before Christmas, I anticipate the day when wireless data applications make my life easier, when I easily can use...
