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ORLANDO-Comstar Interactive Corp. unveiled its new ShowInfo wireless lead collection and processing solution at this week’s Expo! Expo! 2002 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando. With ShowInfo, tradeshow exhibitors can …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Retailing wireless data technology will be addressed in The Wireless Experience tutorial taking place on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced Loea Corp.’s president and chief executive officer, Louis Slaughter, will be a featured general session speaker on Jan. 13, the opening day of the Ninth …

BETHESDA, Md.-The Mobitex Operators Association announced it created a new standardized procedure the group said will allow developers more quickly gain worldwide documentation for their Mobitex-enabled devices. “The continued introduction …

SAN DIEGO-Nokia demonstrated its person-to-person IP mobility services at this week’s CDMA Development Group conference. The services are enabled by Nokia’s IP Multimedia pilot system, which provides IP Multimedia Subsystem …

NEW YORK-The Telecommunications Development Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital fund investing in early-stage communications companies nationwide, has made available an online tutorial on good corporate governance for entrepreneurs launching …

LAS VEGAS-Eight industry players received awards at the Comdex show from Andrew Seybold’s Outlook 4Mobility for their contributions to the wireless industry. The companies include AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Digit …

NEW YORK-The Liberty Alliance Project has released for public review on its Web site at www.projectliberty.org a draft of specifications for an open, interoperable standard for federated network identity for …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International urged federal regulators to set rules by early year for fixed wireless broadband service in upper millimeter wave spectrum that promises gigabit- per-second speeds. “I …

SAN DIEGO-Dr. Pieter van Rooyen, founder and chief technology officer of Zyray Wireless, will speak on Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output antenna systems (MIMO) and Space-Time Processing (STP) technologies at two upcoming conferences. …

NEW ORLEANS-Space Data Corp.’s chairman and chief executive officer Gerald Knoblach will lead a discussion on alternatives the tower industry can take to reach rural populations with wireless communications on …

WASHINGTON-The president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last Friday stepped back from comments he made to the press earlier in the week calling for merger guidelines from the …

NEW YORK-Wi-Fi Alliance has laid out new mechanisms for security for the technology to address concerns about possible hacking. The specifications, known as Wireless Protected Access, covers 802.11i standard for …

RESTON, Va.-Actix, which provides software to optimize the performance of wireless networks, is showing its new Enterprise Advance Metrics Solution OSS software at this week’s TeleManagement World. E-AMS allows wireless …

LAS VEGAS-The Association of Wireless Professionals (AOWP) announced at last week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet conference that it has reached a worldwide membership of 1,500. “This announcement marks a …

RESTON, Va.-MapInfo’s chief technology officer George Moon will participate in an LBS Market Panel at this week’s Location-Based Services Symposium, hosted by the GeoSpatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) and …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced alliances with Digital Bridges, End2End, InfoSpace IN-FUSIO and MForma as part of its new Openwave Mobile Connect Program, the newest branch of the Openwave …

LAS VEGAS-Vendors TTPCom, 7 Layers and Analog Devices and carriers AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and T-Mobile will take part in a seminar called “Making EDGE Real-Out of Development and into …

ISTANBUL, Turkey-The GSM Association has announced a restructuring and renewed focus on speeding the implementation of third-generation networks amid continued W-CDMA delays across Europe. The group plans to establish a …

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The Smart Card Alliance announced its 2003 board of directors and executive committee as well as the appointment of Randy Vanderhoof as the new executive director. In addition to …

NEW YORK-The Marconi Foundation announced Andrew Viterbi, who developed the interference suppression algorithm used for major digital standards, will be a panelist at its Nov. 8 conference, “WWW Redux: Trends, …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ernesto Vargas Guajardo, president and chief executive officer of MVS Communications, will deliver the opening keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association’s Ninth Annual Technical Symposium and Business Expo …

SAN DIEGO-Zyray Wireless’ president and chief executive officer Werner Sievers will speak on the convergence of multiple cellular and WLAN standards onto one mobile device at the 2002 International Wireless …

WATERTOWN, Mass.- Scott Guthery has been made chairman of the Architecture Working Group of the Smart Card Platform project, which is headed up by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). …

LONDON-Mobile messaging solutions provider magic4 said its chief executive officer, Simon Wilkinson, will speak at the M Services conference, which takes place Oct. 2 in Paris. Wilkinson plans to discuss …