ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) announced John Sherlock, its chief operating officer, will give the morning keynote address at the Wireless Arena Marketplace Strategies 2002 conference, scheduled for April 4 in Arlington, Va.Sherlock plans to focus on growing opportunities for use of...
ORLANDO—VeriSign was busy at CTIA Wireless 2002, making five announcements plugging new partnerships and services.First, VeriSign outlined its telecommunications strategy, since its acquisition of Illuminet Holdings Inc. and H.O. Systems Inc., for delivering services that carriers can use to expand their data and voice...
ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association wrapped up CTIA Wireless 2002 today with a final keynote address by Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union.Gorbachev encouraged companies to work with Russian companies, scientists and engineers, describing the Russian wireless market as small but...
ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association honored three recipients of its 2002 President's Awards last night. The annual awards go to individuals and companies who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry throughout the last year.Smith Bagley, founder and chief executive officer of...
NEW YORK—The Mobile Marketing Association issued a series of guidelines to raise awareness of and spur debate about privacy issues involved in location-based targeting at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 tradeshow.Focused on satisfying subscribers, operators and mobile marketers, the MMA recommends:Its members not merge...
ORLANDO—ViaFone will team with EDS and Hewlett-Packard at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando.ViaFone will join HP to show off the Quickstart Mobile Sales Solutions from HP and ViaFone. The solution allows sales representatives to manage orders, contacts and opportunities from the field across popular...
ORLANDO—Boingo announced it will enable the Orange County Convention Center with 802.11b broadband Internet access for CTIA Wireless 2002.In addition, CTIA has partnered with Boingo and Avaya to offer show attendees the following deal: attendees who sign up for Boingo Pro, which is $24.95...
HANNOVER, Germany—Marco Boerries, developer of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice office suite, unveiled his new company VerdiSoft at CeBit in Hannover this week.Boerries demonstrated VerdiSoft's CrossPoint Server software that will allow service providers to manage and send data to various wireless devices. It will, for example,...
CALGARY—The OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) Forum, an association promoting one global OFDM standard for cost-effective, high-speed wireless networks, announced the addition of several new members. Fujitsu PC and Wipro Technologies have joined as new associate members; the National University of Singapore's Centre for...
HANNOVER, Germany—More than 100 million customers across 27 countries in Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and Israel enjoy GSM high-speed data service, including international roaming. The networks use high-speed circuit switched data."This feature enables subscribers of GSM networks to transmit and receive data at...
WASHINGTON—Dr. George Carlo, the epidemiologist who caused an uproar two years ago after publicizing findings of genetic damage from low-level radio-frequency radiation, is launching a Web-based registry next week that will collect health complaints from mobile phone users and analyze them to detect any...
HANNOVER, Germany—Commil Ltd. said it will present plans for its Cellarion Bluetooth network system at next week's CeBIT 2002 show in San Francisco.The system will use access points and gateways to support roaming and seamless session handover indoors, in places including office buildings, shopping...
SAN FRANCISCO—M-Systems will display its flash disk technology at next week's CeBIT embedded systems trade show. The company's flash disk products include DiskOnKey, DiskOnChip, FFD and its latest offering, Mobile DiskOnChip. Mobile DiskOnChip is a flash-based data storage product for the mobile handset market.
NEW YORK—The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) plans to hold its next quarterly general meeting in Orlando on March 19 in conjunction with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2002 show."All indications point towards 2002 being a groundbreaking year for wireless marketing, with all...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—The Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) announced it has changed the date of its annual Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and it will now be held March 17 to 21 in Orlando to coincide with CTIA's Wireless 2002 show."Combining both...
WASHINGTON—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association held the first meeting of its Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council last week.The council said it will address hurdles facing the U.S. market in wireless data and mobile Internet products and services. In its first day-long workshop, the...
ARLINGTON, Va.—William T. Esrey, Sprint chairman and chief executive officer, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Information luncheon presentation at Supercomm in Atlanta on June 5.Esrey said he will discuss the transformation of the telecom industry."The telecommunications...
FREMONT, Calif.—Embedded software and server solution provider Access Systems America has joined the CDMA Development Group (CDG)."We have been closely working with the CDG to define next-generation data service requirements, so we look forward to being an active member," said Sergei Krupenin, senior product...
TOKYO—Three Japanese carriers and three industry associations are going to set up an organization to evaluate mobile Internet content on 28 February. The organization, called Mobile Content Evaluation System Association, will work out a system to evaluate mobile Internet content and discuss the cost...
NEW YORK—International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and a few other companies are coming together to form an alliance known as the Web Services Interoperability Organizations to form standards for business transactions over the Web.Other companies expected to join the group...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO—Java-based wireless application server software provider Aligo Inc. announced it added Applied Systems Analysis & Processing Inc. and Caribou Lake Software to its Mobile Application Systems Integrators group.Applied Systems offers corporate technology and Caribou Lake is a technology consulting firm.
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it has joined the TDD Coalition, an organization formed to promote third-generation Time Division Duplex (TDD) technology."There is growing interest in TDD technology, an integral component of the 3GPP solution," said Dr. Alain Briancon, chief technology officer...
BOSTON—The Salt Forum, a group of companies working to create an independent markup language for speech-enabling applications, announced 18 additional contributors have joined to further the group's goal.Compaq, Glenayre Electronics, InterVoice-Brite, NMS Communications and VoiceGenie are among the new contributors.
