WASHINGTON, D.C.— Susan E. Monahan has been chosen as director of GSM North America (GSMNA), the North American regional interest group of the GSM Association."Sue brings considerable GSM experience to her position, both as a member of GSMNA's voluntary committees and her engineering and...
PARK CITY, Utah—Independent movie enthusiasts at the Sundance Film Festival, running Jan. 10-20, will be treated to a variety of cutting-edge wireless technologies, including wireless access to movie showtimes, customizable itineraries, calendar updates, film shorts, Flash animations and film trailers.FluxNetwork Inc., teaming with Hewlett-Packard...
LONDON—The GSM Association announced GSM-CDMA inter-standard international roaming has been achieved between its Global Roaming Forum (GGRF), Korean CDMA operator Korea Telecom Freetel (KTF) and French GSM 1800 network operator Bouygues Telecom.This launch allows KTF to offer roaming services to GSM subscribers from networks...
WASHINGTON—The Personal Communications Industry Association laid off five people on Wednesday, reducing its staff to 47 people after a similar reduction of nine people last October.While PCIA is "extremely sound fiscally. It is important that we remain viable while the economy is so stressful....
SAN FRANCISCO—CMP Media's Game Developer's Conference announced it will offer an expanded wireless and mobile games curriculum, including a Wireless Game Summit hosted by wireless industry veteran Andrew Seybold.The announcement comes as wireless gaming continues to grow in importance in the wireless industry, and...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United Telecom Council announced Nancy J. Victory, assistant secretary of commerce, will give the keynote address at UTC Telecom 2002 this June in Las Vegas.Victory plays a lead role in the telecommunications industry serving as administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information...
NEW YORK—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute held its first smart card interoperability event in mid-December at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, bringing together 35 industry experts to address three crucial areas. The Third Generation Partnership Project Smart Card Interoperability meeting, organized by ETSI's...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium says it has dissolved its operations, having concluded its five-year program in support of TDMA, WIN and EDGE technologies.A yet-unnamed group will carry out the advocacy of the technology along with GSM, GPRS and W-CDMA. The UWCC was...
BEIJING—Motorola's V60 and V66 type handsets went back on sale in Yinchuan, the capital city of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in Western China. Sales were suspended on 5 December by the local Bureau for Industry and Commerce after receiving complaints from consumers that...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association announced it has made its Global M-User Market Research, released earlier this fall, available for use.The market research data provides companies with data on the habits, attitudes and behaviors of mobile consumers in six different countries, including Japan,...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association announced Miguel (Mike) Pellon has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of the PCIA Foundation.Pellon, vice president and general manager of wireless messaging for Motorola Inc.'s personal communications sector and a current member of the...
SAN FRANCISCO—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group's Human Input Devices Working Group released a definition for how input devices such as keyboards will use Bluetooth technology for communicating with other wireless capable products.Prototypes using this specification are expected by the middle of next year.
WASHINGTON—The ComCare Alliance ACN Data Set Working Group announced it published a draft automatic crash test notification data standard in XML.The standard will facilitate the electronic transmission of automatic crash notification information among telematics service providers and emergency responders.
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America announced it will sponsor the Gadget Bar at "Fashion For Freedom," a fashion show scheduled for December 6, 2001, in Hollywood, Calif., to benefit the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the World Trade Center Relief Fund.The Gadget Bar will offer various...
WASHINGTON—Cibernet, a subsidiary of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, released its new Mobile Xchange Protocol, which the company said is designed to allow customers to bill for non-voice services.Cibernet said its MXP was developed to meet the needs of mobile application developers, wireless...
MERCER ISLAND, Wash.—Twenty telecom companies have joined to form the Service Availability Forum, a new coalition to fortify services and applications running on the currently existing global communications network.The forum's goal is to create and promote open standards that will allow for on-demand, uninterrupted...
WLIA adopts privacy policyWASHINGTON, D.C.—The Wireless Location Industry Association (WLIA) has adopted a new privacy policy based on the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Information Practices policy."No public policy issue has been more prominent than the potential infringement of individual privacy when applications of location...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association's (PCIA) Site Owners and Managers Alliance (SOMA) announced it has formed the SOMA Technology Committee, which will promote effective communications and an understanding of technologies and service-related issues concerning the future of the tower industry."The technology behind the...
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Tower Erectors and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have signed a partnership agreement to reduce injuries and deaths that are on the rise as wireless carriers compete to build out national networks. NATE and OSHA, which wanted a pact...
HALLETTSVILLE, Texas—The Texas Association of Paging Services (TAPS) announced it has upgraded its network by installing backup Internet computers on one of its satellite channels and completing negotiations for another back-up satellite channel.TAPS now has coverage in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Cellular Technology & Internet Association (CTIA) announced the launch of its new WOW-COM Market Research Center, which will provide reports, studies, white papers and articles from research and consulting firms within the wireless industry.The center is part of CTIA's www.wow-com.com Web site,...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Telecommunications and Information administration (NTIA) is asking for comments on several broadband deployment issues including supply and demand for services and the technical, economic, or regulatory barriers to broadband deployment, which NTIA said will help it to finalize its broadband policy....
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Bar Association will hold its 12th annual charity auction this week to benefit inner city schools here. Auction proceeds will go to the STEP/I Have a Dream program, a 16-year-long commitment to 73 students that has provided educational enrichment and mentoring...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) announced six annual awards given to individuals and companies for outstanding contributions to their communities through the use of mobile technology. The Albert Gore Jr. LifePage Award, which was established to recognize individuals and LifePage teams exemplifying...
