DALLAS-Esoftsolutions Inc., an e-business integrator and solutions provider, adapted the Docent Enterprise Learning Management System platform to support a wireless capability for Gradepoint Inc., a provider of computer training and eLearning.With this wireless capability, Gradepoint hopes to improve communication between the home office and...
WASHINGTON-Whether the nation is plagued with daunting deficits or buoyed by gushing surpluses, spectrum auctions remain a lightning rod for controversy as the revenue-generating wireless licensing tool becomes inextricably intertwined in national budget policy.This was inevitable.Spectrum auctions grew out of a 1993 budget bill...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out programs designed to bridge the Digital Divide, components of the president's $1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end...
Controversy is brewing in the Texas state House of Representatives over a far-reaching bill that could give individual counties the authority to regulate tower siting, even requiring those with whip antennas on their cars or a home satellite dish to obtain a permit from...
WASHINGTON-TV broadcasters said they plan to fight any proposal that would force them to pay fees for 700 MHz spectrum they have not vacated by 2007. Further, during a Senate panel hearing on the transition to high-definition television, bickering between cable operators and TV...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. "is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company's Internet Software and Content Group, said in a keynote address at the recent Internet World Wireless 2001...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out past Internet programs, as components of the president's US$1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end corporate telecom subsidies.Bush's spectrum...
The fact that the telecom sector, including the mobile industry, is shivering in the cold right now after months of basking in the sun of favor from the financial community is certainly not breaking news. It seems no category-broadband wireless, mobile Internet, manufacturers, carriers,...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. reported revenues for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31 of $202 million and $649.2 million, respectively, compared with $114.2 million and $345.8 million for fourth-quarter and year-end 1999.The company recorded a net loss of $59 million, or 40...
WASHINGTON-USAToday.com news and information are new featured within the News & Weather, Business Tools and What's New categories on Sprint PCS' Wireless Web.USAToday.com said its agreement with Sprint PCS was part of a larger strategy focused on expanding delivery of USA Today news and...
NEW YORK-Although some satellite companies, like Globalstar L.P. and Iridium, have stumbled badly while chasing mobile telephony, provision of broadband communications remains a meaningful business opportunity for these extraterrestrial carriers, even in the United States.The inability of land-based wireline and wireless connectivity alternatives to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission took several actions to try to clarify the transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting and when the wireless industry will have access to those channels.The commission declined to set out a mandatory band-clearing plan for the 700 MHz band...
WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush has designated FCC Commissioner Michael K. Powell, 37, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission."I am deeply honored and privileged to have received President Bush's designation to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. I look forward to working with...
NEW YORK-Cue Corp. announced it entered an agreement with Ten Square, an interactive point-of-sale broadcasting and publishing company, to enable Ten Square to broadcast near real-time news/sports, weather and traffic alerts to drivers based on their location over Cue's FM subcarrier network.Ten Square has...
It has been less than 20 years since the first commercial cellular phone call was completed in the United States.The date was Oct. 13, 1983. Bob Barnett, then president of Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc., placed a call from a Chrysler convertible at Soldier Field...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless, which has spent almost $9 billion for personal communications services licenses, asked the Federal Communications Commission last week to delay the March 6 auction of 700 MHz licenses until September."The 700 MHz auction should be postponed. There remains considerable uncertainty about the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.- Motorola Inc. is ditching its troublesome Communications Enterprise unit and streamlining its operations, creating three new units and promoting executives to head each unit in the company.Under the new structure, the Communications Enterprise unit, which formerly included the Personal Communications sector, is...
NEW YORK-Paratek Microwave Inc., a Columbia, Md., company established by a former U.S. Army researcher, plans to accelerate the evolution of communications capacity with DRWiN, short for Dynamically Reconfigurable Wireless Networks.In field trials since in October, the debut product line of electronically scanning DRWiN...
Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services.PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video and audio solutions-last week introduced a showcase of streaming video media applications available on today's...
WASHINGTON-Can the news media disseminate information of public significance even if that information is stolen?That is the question before the U.S. Supreme Court which last week heard oral argument in a case that could also impact a nationally significant case involving former House Speaker...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a case that could go a long way to determining how much privacy mobile-phone subscribers will have in the future.The case, set for oral argument on Tuesday, pits wireless privacy against free speech. For the...
"Since issues were first raised about the safety of cellular telephones when held to the ear, we have been examining the available scientific research and literature and are mindful of the Food and Drug Administration statements that there is no conclusive evidence that they...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week cast doubt on large-scale sharing of spectrum designated for third-generation mobile systems, a development likely to shift the government's focus to broadcast spectrum and to clearing military, educational, religious and broadband Internet licensees off the 1700 MHz and 2500...
Dear Chairman Kennard: I want to commend your recent statement urging that Congress provide incentives for broadcasters to meet the 2006 "deadline" for conversion to Digital Television (DTV). Any delay in that conversion will prevent police, fire, emergency medical, and other public-safety agencies from implementing...
