ST. PAUL, Minn.-The American Association of Paging Carriers said it added more than 100 members during its first year of operation, and it hopes to add an additional 100 next year."In the first year of its existence, AAPC proved the vitality of the paging...
LAS VEGAS-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association will play a role in Shorecliff Communications' Tower Summit and Trade Show scheduled for October.CTIA's sponsorship is notable because of the group's clout with wireless carriers-considered valuable attendees at the show because they are tower company...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum, an organization dedicated to the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, announced it has 18 new member companies and has completed initial system profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz...
Numerous wireless companies are making product and partnership announcements at SuperComm in Atlanta this week. Here is a roundup of the news and announcements:SandCherry Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. introduced a joint solution based on the SandCherry SoftServer platform and the new BEA WebLogic...
GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union, the international standards body, said it formed a relationship with the Consumer Electronics Association to work together on wireless and mobile communications, multimedia technologies and cable systems. The two groups plan to share resources and expertise to enhance international standards...
BANGKOK, Thailand-The 3G World Congress trade show has been rescheduled to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 3-7, 2003, according to the Institute for International Research, the show's organizer. The show, originally scheduled for June in Hong Kong, was postponed due to concerns about...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The Smart Card Alliance announced it has admitted 26 new members."For the alliance to be gaining these highly respected commercial and government organizations as members, demonstrates there is real value here," said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the group.Included in the new members...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Location services company Autodesk Inc. said it has been recognized by the Open GIS Consortium as a co-author of the proposed OpenGIS Location Services Implementation Specification.The Open GIS Consortium is working to define an XML-based standard for location service interfaces and help...
WASHINGTON-Mel V. Velarde, president and chief executive officer of Next Mobile Inc. in the Philippines, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address July 11 at the Wireless Communications Association trade show in Washington.Velarde will speak about his company's nationwide rollout of wireless broadband services...
CLAREMONT, Calif.-WolfeTech Development Corp. announced its founder and chief executive officer Surya Jayaweera will participate as a moderator and speaker at Research In Motion's Wireless Enterprise Symposium scheduled for May 5-7 in New Orleans. Jayaweera will moderate the "Case Studies in Enterprise Mobility: Solutions...
LAS VEGAS-The Mobile Enterprise Alliance was launched in the U.S. this week at the NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas.The new industry group, created to promote the benefits of a mobile work force to enterprises and IT managers, originally launched in Europe in March and...
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.
ORLEANS, France-The Open GIS Consortium Inc. released the proposed OpenGIS Location Services Implementation Specification for public comment.The OpenLS specification resulted from the OpenLS 1 testbed initiatives held between October 2001 and October 2002, said OGC."The initiatives are aimed to define and build the 'core'...
LOS ANGELES-The winners of the "World's Smallest Film Festival," an event held in conjunction with last week's CTIA trade show in New Orleans aimed at showcasing films designed for next-generation mobile devices, have been announced.The festival's categories range from animation to commercial to music,...
NEW ORLEANS--The second day of keynote speeches at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans had a similar theme to last year's event with wireless local area network technology dominating much of the conversation as well as repeat appearances by...
NEW ORLEANS-Although much of the news from last week's CTIA show focused on the typical consumer, Research In Motion Ltd. managed to remind the industry of the importance of the enterprise customer with its new BlackBerry Connect licensing program.The new licensing program expands on...
NEW ORLEANS-Openwave Systems Inc. made a slew of announcements this week at CTIA Wireless 2003:the company introduced Openwave Voice MMS which integrates voice and data messaging capabilities;Openwave will partner with Network Associates to integrate McAfee Security's anti-virus technology into its MX messaging platform;RealNetworks Inc.'s...
NEW ORLEANS-A display celebrating the 20 years of commercial wireless services at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show includes a special feature on ArrayComm Inc.'s chairman and chief executive officer Martin Cooper and the wireless phone Cooper used to place the first potable cellular phone...
NEW ORLEANS-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced it has re-named its fall show Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2003 to better reflect the market that the show represents.The show will be held Oct. 21-23 in Las Vegas at the Sands Expo Convention Center.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Michiel Lotter, co-founder and vice president of engineering at Zyray Wireless, will speak on "Optimum Combining" for WCDMA devices at IEEE's upcoming Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, co-located in New Orleans with CTIA Wireless 2003 next week."The next generation of handsets presents...
NEW YORK-Content application provider Pinnacor Inc., formerly ScreamingMedia, will join the Leadership Council of CITA's Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC), an organization devoted to driving adoption of wireless Internet applications.Pinnacor plans to demonstrate its Web and wireless solutions at CTIA Wireless 2003 and Steve Spencer,...
LONDON-Anritsu Corp. was granted approval for 3GPP RF test cases, as defined in the 3GPP terminal conformance specification, during the Global Certification Forum meeting this week. Anritsu also received GCF approval for 13 3GPP protocol conformance test cases using the TTCN developed by the...
HANNOVER, Germany-The march of new, advanced devices continued in conjunction with the CeBIT trade show, with Samsung, Siemens, NEC and Symbol all making announcements.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made perhaps the most interesting announcement with plans to sell a new style of wireless devices based...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Several of Sierra Wireless' wireless data products will be included in the "20 Years of Wireless Commemorative Display" at CTIA Wireless 2003, which will highlight companies and products that have significantly impacted wireless voice and data communications during the past 20 years.In...
