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, Obstacles, Potential."Viterbi will take part in a session on the global reach and future...
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 on Jan. 13 in San Jose, Calif. Guajardo is expected to speak on the...
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 Symposium being held Oct. 2-4, 2002, in San Deigo."The next generation wireless devices represent...
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).Guthery is a co-founder of Mobile-Mind Inc., a developer of trusted wireless and smart card...
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 enhanced messaging services and the evolution to multimedia services. In addition, magic4 will demonstrate its...
LOWELL, Mass.-M/A Com Inc. began its multicity, nationwide Interop 2002 Tour this week in the northwestern United States to demonstrate NetworkFirst, a solution for communications interoperability between public-safety agencies.At each stop on the tour, the company said it will connect to the existing communications...
SAN DIEGO-Zyray Wireless said it will show off its SPINNERchip 1.0 WCDMA baseband development platform in the Xilinx booth at the 2002 Communication Design Conference this week in San Jose, Calif.The platform offers WCDMA modem functionality, including Adaptive Interference Cancellation (AIC), packet switched data,...
LONDON-The GSM Association said it will continue its annual awards program into 2003 and officially called for entries. The association also said Intel will be the headline sponsor for the awards and Motorola will sponsor the applications and services categories. Other categories include technology...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Wireless Communications Association announced an Intel Corp. executive, Sriram Viswanathan, managing director of strategic investments for Intel Capital, will deliver an afternoon address to open its Ninth Annual Technical Symposium & Business Expo on January 13 in San Jose, Calif.Viswanathan, who has...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Protecting subscriber privacy while building wireless directory assistance and directory inquiry/enquiry (DA/DQ) databases will be deliberated at The Kelsey Group's Global Directories & Databases Conference taking place in Alexandria, Va., November 6-8.Dr. Alan F. Westin, professor of public law and government at Columbia...
SAN DIEGO-The agenda for the 2002 CDMA Americas Congress, to be held December 3-5, 2002, in San Diego, has been released.Confirmed speakers include Ralph de la Vega, president of BellSouth Latin America; Pascal Debon, president of wireless networks for Nortel Networks; Irwin Jacobs, chairman...
AUSTIN, Texas-Mobile financial software company HillCast Technologies launched its new HillCast User Group, which the company said will serve as a platform for users to exchange ideas and tips on how to enhance and optimize the user experience."We intend to provide a place where...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Wireless Communications Association announced Dr. Roger B. Marks will deliver a keynote speech at its January 13, 2003, session.Marks, founder and chairman of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), will be chairing...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Michael Dell, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Dell Computer Corp., has agreed to deliver the first International CES Industry Insider presentation, a one-hour discussion on current trends in the consumer electronics industry.The speech is scheduled for January 9, 2003,...
SAN DIEGO-The first International Wireless Symposium, scheduled to be held October 2-4, 2002, in San Diego, will be attended by wireless experts specializing in third-generation technologies, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, according to the symposium's organizers.Among several others, confirmed speakers at the show include: Adam Gould,...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Inc. named Anders Edlund marketing director where he will initially focus on increasing the worldwide focus on SIG marketing efforts, developing long-term plans to educate the end user and wireless operator marketplaces and continuing the SIG's education...
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J.-The Smart Card Alliance announced it will hold its annual conference October 7 to 9 in Scottsdale, Ariz.U.S. government agencies, financial services firms and retail organization will be represented to discuss policy decisions, standards and new infrastructure implementations. "In our conference, we...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association will hold a seminar on wireless infrastructure siting and zoning on October 23, 2002, in Arlington, Va.The seminar, "Strategies for Telecommunications Siting: Navigating the Zoning Process," will explore local-level legal, regulatory and business issues that affect wireless infrastructure...
NASHVILLE-Catalyst Communications Technology, provider of Internet Protocol-based dispatch solutions for the public-safety mobile radio market, made two interoperability announcements at this month's APCO show in Nashville.Catalyst announced that its IP Base product will now interoperate with RELM's BK Radio GBH desktop base station. Under...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Herschel Technologies said Aug. 14 it has joined other telecommunications industry participants in the "OSS through Java Initiative," which is engaged in guiding development of the business-critical Inventory Application Program Interface. The IAPI defines J2EE- and XML-based interfaces between inventory repositories and...
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.-Landmark Communications Inc. acquired a majority interest in Shorecliff Communications Inc., a privately held trade show, conference and magazine publisher specializing in the wireless broadband and wireless infrastructure industries, Shorecliff announced.Shorecliff owns and produces the annual Tower Summit and Trade Show...
NEW YORK-Scott Cleland, chief executive officer of The Precursor Group, and John Eade, president of Argus Research, formed on July 24 Investorside Research Association, which plans to promote investor trust by providing investment research aligned with investor interests.To join the association and use its...
CAMPBELL, Calif.-SnapTrack Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., announced it has concluded its second annual gpsOne Carrier Workshop where representatives for 18 CDMA carriers from North America, Asia-Pacific and Latin America met to review gpsOne-based wireless location solutions.E911 deployment and location-based services...
SAN DIEGO-Zyray Wireless announced it is establishing a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) that will consist of several university and industry experts with extensive wireless communications experience.Initial board members include: Sujit Dey, professor in electrical and computer engineering department at University of California, San Diego,...
