BOULDER, Colo.-Telematics company Cellport Systems said it is suing Porsche North America Inc. for patent infringement. Cellport also has filed similar lawsuits against Bury GmbH & Co., THB USA Inc. and Henry Bury Mielec Sp.The lawsuit, filed in Maryland Federal District Court, seeks damages...
BOULDER, Colo.-Telematics company Cellport Systems said it is suing Porsche North America Inc. for patent infringement.Cellport also has filed similar lawsuits against Bury GmbH & Co., THB USA Inc. and Henry Bury Mielec Sp.The lawsuit, filed in Maryland Federal District Court, seeks damages and...
BOULDER, Colo.-Cellport Systems announced a settlement with Peiker acustic GmbH & Co. KG that authorizes the company to use Cellport's patented two-part Plug & Play architecture for wireless hands-free systems."We are delighted to have reached a settlement with Peiker and to grant them worldwide...
BOULDER, Colo.-Cellport Systems Inc. said Harman Becker Automotive Systems, a division of Harman International, has signed a worldwide license to use Cellport's patented Plug & Play Telematics architecture in any vehicle.The system includes interchangeable phone adapters that also charge the phone while not in...
Chet Huber is selling safety, security and peace of mind. And, he says, people are buying.Huber, president of General Motors' telematics company OnStar Corp., offers up plenty of evidence for his claim: a total of 2.5 million paying customers, renewal rates above 50 percent...
BOULDER, Colo.-Cellport Systems Inc. laid off about 80 employees and plans to exit the hands-free car kit manufacturing business.Company spokeswoman Lori Pidick told The Denver Post that all the demand and interest in Cellport's product drained the company's capital resources.Cellport wants to find another...
Cellport Systems and Ford Motor Co. have teamed to offer the Cellport 3000 with Voice Command hands-free docking station and adapter in select 2002-model Ford vehicles late this summer, Cellport said.The Cellport 3000 with Voice Command was created to allow mobile-phone users to use...
As technologies continue to advance and third-generation becomes more imminent, the mobile phone may be moving back into the place it began-the car.An increasingly mobile work force has led many to believe wireless location-commerce and telematics may be the next best thing for the...
In the RCR Wireless News article, "Cellport finds positive landscape for its product in negative problem," (Feb. 12, page 33) the founder and chief executive officer of Cellport should have been identified as Pat Kennedy.
Boulder, Colo.-based Cellport Systems is taking its universal hands-free system and joining an equally universal movement to get mobile phone users to keep both hands on the wheel when driving and talking.Cellport recently announced the general availability of its Cellport 3000 Universal Hands-Free System,...
BOULDER, Colo.-Cellport Systems introduced its Cellport 3000 Universal Hands-Free System for mobile phones in vehicles, which the company said will accommodate different manufacturers and different models of phones.The new system also features an intelligent battery charging feature and an external antenna connection.The company made...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Five Motorola Inc. employees and one executive from Cellport Systems Inc. in Boulder, Colo., were killed in the crash of Singapore Airlines' flight SQ006 in Taipei, Taiwan, last week.Neo Lee Keow, Jasmine Lim Lay Har and Tan Yip Thong, designers with Motorola's Singapore...
NEW ORLEANS-Cellport Systems announced it will begin shipping in March its Cellport 3000 universal hands-free system, capable of supporting a variety of phones through the use of changeable pocket adapters. The company also said the Cellport 3000 will be available with Motorola Inc.'s Telematics...
BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. changed its name to Cellport Systems Inc. to reflect what the company says is the evolution from a research and development firm to a customer-driven wireless connectivity and Internet plumbing systems provider.The privately held company develops and markets in-vehicle wireless...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group plans to introduce a digital signal processor-based chipset optimized for the hands-free cellular environment in automobiles this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The chipset allows hands-free cellular users to be heard more clearly without the need...
TranscryptTranscrypt International Inc. said its EFJohnson subsidiary launched a new line of mobile and portable radios designed to operate on Motorola Inc.'s Smartnet and SmartZone systems in the 800 MHz frequency band. The portable radio comes with three keys or a dual-tone multifrequency keypad....
DALLAS-"It's an exciting time in the industry. It's a time of growth and rebirth."So said Konstantin Zsigo, president of Zsigo Wireless Data Inc., at the opening session of Wireless Developer '98, formerly known as CelluComm Expo, last week in Dallas.This evangelism is nothing new...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. announced Everything Wireless, a Cellular Works company, will distribute the CellPort universal, hands-free car kit, according to an agreement signed by the two.Everything Wireless sells wireless phones and accessories through its customer catalog, World Wide Web site and in the...
CTIA clarifies role in standardizationDear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept. 22 edition that CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) was presenting a specific commercial implementation to TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) for...
RCR Publications Inc. recently hired two new reporters.George Lurie has been hired as a reporter, covering the cellular beat, and Antony Bruno has been chosen to cover the paging industry beat. The company also named Kelly Pate copy editor.Lurie, a graduate of the University...
More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon.While circuit-switched cellular still is the standard for wireless data connectivity-offering near-universal access for dial-up...
Since unveiling its MobileWeb Internet Web server/controller technology one year ago, CellPort Labs Inc. reports a diverse group of innovators are using the platform to develop wireless data applications.The Boulder, Colo.-based company developed MobileWeb from its patented wireless phone interface technology designed for hands-free...
"Why does Detroit not design these cars with phone holders, just like cup holders?" asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt when he called National Public Radio's popular Car Talk program a few weeks ago."People bring all kinds of things into cars, but they...
