REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Communication Intelligence Corp. announced it completed a licensing agreement with Ericsson Mobile Communications AB to bundle CIC's Jot handwriting recognition system and QuickNotes electronic note taking solutions with Ericsson new EPOC-based smart phone, the R380.
In the first major initiative since the group formed in December, the WirelessReady Alliance held its first member meeting last week in Vancouver, where members discussed the state of the wireless data industry and plotted future strategy.Sierra Wireless Inc.-which formed the group-brought together 23...
"To see what competitive telecommunications will look like tomorrow, look at wireless today," read a banner at CTIA's Wireless '99. That's not the way Ernest Kelly, president of the Telecommunications Resellers Association, sees it."I wish I had more encouraging things to say, but I...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. introduced the Nettech Developer Suite, a bundle of all its Software Development Kits to give software developers one complete solution to wirelessly enable their applications.The company also announced expanded channel incentives to companies packaging or reselling its software, and new...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. submitted an application on behalf of the selling stockholders to the Securities Exchange Commission to withdraw the selling stockholders' secondary stock offering of 3.35 million shares.The offering is being withdrawn because LHS, the selling stockholders and the placement agents determined current...
Roaming charges and long-distance fees increasingly are becoming a thing of the past as one-rate plans like the one AT&T Wireless Services Inc. offers take over the domestic wireless market.Several carriers last week announced new pricing plans that nix roaming and long-distance fees or...
NORCROSS, Ga.-Atomic Software Inc. announced it entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement with GTE Wireless to provide a GTE-branded version of its Authorizer for Windows 95/98/NT electronic payment software.Named PC-Retailer, the software will use GTE's Cellular Digital Packet Data technology for fast credit-card...
Bundling continues to push forward, albeit at a slow pace.A recent Arthur Andersen survey of telecommunications companies found 66 percent of respondents offer bundled services to business customers, and 61 percent are offering these services to residential customers. About 71 percent of long-distance carriers...
Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. is offering high-speed Internet services to businesses in the Phoenix metropolitan area. More than 25 companies in the Phoenix area have signed contracts with ART. The offering combines a high-speed connection to the Internet or company intranet with enhanced services...
NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis for 1999 and beyond.When the full-year count is completed, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Corp....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. announced it entered into an agreement to acquire all the assets of BellSouth Mobility's cellular operations in the Dothan, Ala., area."The purchase will allow us to bring the Alltel bundle of services, which may include paging, Internet access, long distance...
SEATTLE-Go to any trade show where mobile phone operators congregate, and you will hear grumbling about how AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate pricing plan has wreaked havoc on business plans. The play for the high-end business user seems to be falling in...
BOSTON-Wireless Internet service provider GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will provide an end-to-end sales force automation outsource solution that bundles hardware and software products from several companies.It includes Practical Sales Tools' UnwiredContact Web-based customer management and tracking system, Sharp Electronics' Mobilon Pro PV-5000 Handheld...
PARIS-Cap Gemini Group, a systems integrator and business consultancy, formed a partnership with SLP InfoWare,Alexandre Haeffner, group vice president of Cap Gemini Telecom & Media, a division of Cap Gemini Group, said his company decided to team with SLP to launch a new bundle...
LAS VEGAS-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will offer J.P. Systems Inc.'s NetCradle in its Web@Hand product portfolio, extending Internet access to personal digital assistants made by 3Com Corp.The GoAmerica bundle will include the NetCradle, with a wireless PC card from Research In Motion and...
NEW YORK-Conventional wisdom may hold that scale is superior when it comes to carriers and miniaturization is most desirable when it comes to handsets. However, neither attribute necessarily implies long-term profitability, said David A. Freedman, managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., New...
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has sold its major trading area license and operations in Hawaii to Sprint Corp.-a deal that PrimeCo says has been in the works for nearly 15 months."The Hawaii investment was a good one for us," said Lowell McAdam, president and...
AT&T Corp. plans merge AT&T Wireless Services Inc. into the corporation by 1999, and appoint Dan Hesse, current AT&T Wireless president and CEO, head of the company's customer-care units."AT&T has actually been in an evolution of bringing wireless into the total AT&T," said Eileen...
Joining General Magic Inc. and Wildfire Communications Inc. in the voice-based virtual assistant game is Webley Systems Inc. with a unified messaging service bureau managed by an electronic English butler named Webley.Webley is an application of Vail Systems' platform, based on a UNIX cluster...
Seventy years ago, the mobile radio industry was born when the Detroit Police Department installed the first one-way radios in their squad cars. Today there are approximately 19 million two-way radios in use in the United States, including 3.1 million specialized mobile radio units.Cellular...
Succumbing to marketplace pricing pressures, Omnipoint Communications Inc. began offering bundled-minute pricing plans and new prepaid packages last week."This is the first major pricing change we've made since starting business in New York," said Omnipoint President George Schmitt in a press conference. "We need...
If the promise of enhanced wireless services was a hot-fudge sundae with lots of toppings, about the only thing wireless customers have been served so far is vanilla ice cream sprinkled with nuts.That according to Larry Swasey, senior wireless analyst at Allied Business Intelligence,...
The vast number of players coupled with loads of savvy Wall Street money has set the stage for mass consolidation within the tower industry.The rate of acquisitions has moved quickly within the last year, and industry executives and analysts say only a handful will...
While many of its second-tier cellular counterparts have been acquired during the last year in an increasingly consolidated industry, Greensboro, N.C.-based Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. may continue to go it alone.Speculation about potential financial and strategic buyers for Vanguard has abounded during the last...
