ATLANTA-Sierra Wireless' new Voq Professional Phone will use Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc.'s smARTspeak NG engine for digit dialing, voice tag dialing and commands."The Voq Professional Phone is designed to provide the mobile professional with the ultimate phone experience. By combining ART's smARTspeak NG voice...
ATLANTA-Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. signed a cooperation and co-marketing agreement with Renesas Technology Corp. that will allow Renesas' SH-Mobile Consortium to offer ART's speech and handwriting recognition solutions to its customers.Renesas was formed by the merger of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.'s semiconductor...
Leap Wireless International Inc. said it will begin soliciting bids for the sale of what it termed "excess spectrum" in the Columbus, Ga., market in an attempt to raise capital. The auction, which was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District...
Motorola Inc. showed off a new lineup of phones in an effort to follow through on promises of bolstering its phone efforts. The announcement comes after the company failed to ship several key handsets in the critical holiday shopping season. Motorola made its announcement...
KRAKOW, Poland-Motorola Inc. showed off a new lineup of phones in an effort to follow through on promises of bolstering its phone efforts. The announcement comes after the company failed to ship several key handsets in the critical holiday shopping season.Motorola made its announcement...
LUXEMBOURG-Siemens AG said it has entered a contract to deliver UMTS network infrastructure for operator LuXcommunications S.A.The contract will cover both radio and core networks. The dollar amount was not disclosed."The contract also covers the maintenance and upgrades of the network in line with...
ATLANTA-Several wireless-related companies started the New Year with reports of new funding.c DoOnGo technologies Inc., provider of over-the-air mobile device software management, announced it closed $18 million in venture capital funding, which it plans to use for product development, business expansion in the United...
Several wireless software firms said this week they have garnered new funding.DoOnGo technologies Inc., provider of over-the-air mobile device software management, announced it has closed $18 million in venture capital funding, which it plans to use for product development, business expansion in the United...
ATLANTA-Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc.'s SmARTspeak XG phonemic speech recognition solution has been ported to the latest additions to Texas Instruments' TCS line of antenna-to-applications chipset solutions for 2.5-generation wireless devices.The solution will allow users with phones equipped with TI's TCS chipsets to take advantage...
TEL AVIV, Israel-ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., announced its smARTspeak XG speech is now available on wireless phones based on Nokia's Series 60 platform.The companies demonstrated ART's speech technology via the Nokia 7650 and 3650 devices at Symbian's developer conference this week in London.
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas-Sprint PCS launched its Rhapsody 411 music service providing its PCS Vision customers with access to Listen.com's library of digital music and information services. The service reportedly allows users to browse thousands of music recommendations, artist information, full-color artist images and album...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As calls grow for the large-scale consolidation of European-based cell-phone operators, at the top of many financial analysts' list is U.K.-based MmO2. While the company recently announced better-than-expected first-half growth figures, the mobile operator is being increasingly viewed as not being able...
NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially launched its GSM service in New York City today, placing the nation's second-largest carrier in 43 of the top 50 markets nationwide and covering 217 million potential customers. The service uses VoiceStream Wireless Corp.'s GSM/GPRS network as part of...
ATLANTA-Ahead of its planned launch of wireless service in New York City next month, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. opened a Cingular Zone in Rockefeller Center allowing potential customers to try out the carrier's service and announced title sponsorship of the Nam June Paik art exhibit...
ATLANTA-ART Technologies Inc. and SVOX have signed a technical cooperation and co-marketing agreement under which the companies will offer a joint speech recognition and text-to-speech solution for wireless devices and automotive systems. "SVOX expects this cooperation agreement with ART to lead to a whole...
ATLANTA-Ahead of its planned launch of wireless service in New York City next month, Cingular Wireless opened a Cingular Zone in Rockefeller Center allowing potential customers to try out the carrier's service and announced title sponsorship of the Nam June Paik art exhibit Transmission.At...
LONDON—ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. announced it will port its speech and natural handwriting recognition solutions to the new Intel PXA250 and Intel PXA210 applications processors."Recognition technologies like those from ART are important in driving the next generation of user interfaces for wireless devices,"...
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans was the keynote speaker at today's Spectrum Summit. Following are his prepared remarks.As I stand here in our Department auditorium, I am reminded of the first time I stood on this stage. It was Jan 23rd. I...
BLACKBSURG, Va.—LGC Wireless said it has successfully provided in-building systems for four wireless service providers in every indoor athletic venue in Salt Lake City.LGC credited Wireless Valley's SitePlanner design, measurement and archiving software for its success. "Designing in-building systems at this level is really...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, United States—The local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) provider formerly known as Advanced Radio Telecom (ART) emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will change its name to First Avenue Networks, the company announced. The corporate offices will be relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia,...
This sad story could have involved any wireless carrier and anybody, but the phone Lazaro Leiva allegedly talked on while driving a Ford Explorer last March happened to be connected to a Nextel Communications Inc. network. Leiva, according to the Miami Herald, goosed his...
WASHINGTON—The Pen&Internet division of Parascript has partnered with the International Child Art Foundation in developing an interactive art room that will enable young children to draw, doodle or scribble online through riteMail electronic ink e-mail technology.The art room features an interactive art gallery, consisting...
LONDON—French telecommunications regulator ART has said that it will cut the price of calls from fixed lines to mobile phones by nearly 40 percent during the course of the next three years. The decision will affect Orange and SFR, the country's two largest mobile...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Superconductor Technologies Inc. has sued ISCO International Inc. following ISCO's complaint against STI for infringement of its patent for "Cryoelecronically Cooled Receiver Front End for Mobile Communications System."STI originally denied ISCO's allegations and asked the court to declare ISCO's patent invalid and...
