AgilentAgilent Technologies debuted the SQL server 7.0 database scanner and HP SFCommand. HP SFCommand will help network operators integrate all security applications, such as monitoring and the implementation of security policies, across every server in their networks. The SQL Server 7.0 database scanner enables...
WASHINGTON-A top wireless safety expert has taken umbrage at Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler's call for speedier work on the development of a standard to measure mobile-phone radiation absorbed by the head."We know that the committee has already completed a great deal...
NEW YORK-Wireless devices and the services they deliver in the Internet age represent an opportunity so large it is nearly unfathomable and dwarfs any second-place possibilities, according to Bill Joy, chief scientist of Sun Microsystems Inc.Nevertheless, the United States, which pioneered the Internet, enters...
SHENZHEN, China-Konka Group Co. Ltd. of China and Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced a five-year agreement under which Konka will use Lucent's Global System for Mobile communications technology platform in its cellular phones.The platform is based on Lucent's Sceptre GSM chipset, which includes...
United KingdomBulletIN.net Ltd., a TWS Inc. subsidiary, formed a strategic partnership with Project Telecom, a U.K. wireless service provider, that will allow users to transform their phones into handheld mobile offices, according to BulletIN.net. Project Telecom will market the service to its high-end corporate...
PETALUMA, Calif.-Tegal Corp. said RF Micro Devices Inc. placed a follow-on order for Tegal's 901G diode plasma etcher.The tool will be used for etching devices on gallium arsenide substrates-widely used in cellular phones and other wireless communications products-at RF Micro Devices' North Carolina manufacturing...
NEW YORK-StarMedia Network Inc. announced plans to expand its Spanish- and Portuguese-language Internet media business to wireless devices, including cellular phones and personal digital assistants. The company acquired PageCell International Holdings as part of the initiative.The new StarMedia Mobile division plans to partner with...
In 1989, I started my career in wireless as an outside sales rep for Metro Mobile (which would later become part of Bell Atlantic Corp.) in my hometown of Columbia, S.C. Those were the heady days of thousand-dollar telephones, $3 per-day roaming fees, 3-watt...
SEATTLE-Point.com, an online retailer of wireless phones, service plans and accessories, announced two separate agreements allowing users of ZDNet, The New York Times on the Web and New York Today to compare and buy wireless products and services over the Internet.Through its agreement with...
WASHINGTON-Millions of cellular telephones may be getting safety approvals by the Federal Communications Commission despite possibly exceeding the agency's radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines.Professor Om P. Gandhi, a prominent RF scientist at the University of Utah, contends some testing of mobile phones for radio-frequency radiation...
NEW YORK-Even amid the rapidly expanding parade of venture capital investments, the telecommunications/wireless sector of American industry stands head and shoulders above the crowd.Venture capital investments in this sector totaled $1.59 billion during the second quarter of the year, more than triple the amount...
DENVER-An Aspen, Colo., city council member said he is reviewing a new ordinance passed earlier this year in a Cleveland, Ohio, suburb that regulates cellular phone use while driving.Councilman Terry Paulson thinks such an ordinance would prevent traffic accidents. The Brooklyn, Ohio, ordinance makes...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced new pricing plans last week that could build on the success of the carrier's Digital One Rate plan by adding more phones into the home. Bell Atlantic Mobile also introduced a group calling plan for the Southeast.AT&T Wireless unveiled...
DDI Corp., the largest new common carrier (NCC) in Japan, plans to merge its nine PHS companies 1 January 2000, as part of an effort to revitalize its ailing PHS business.The name of the new company will be DDI Pocket, and Takeshi Okada, president...
AustraliaLeap Wireless International announced that it is selling its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, OzPhone Pty. Ltd., to an affiliate of AAPT Ltd., Australia's third-largest telecommunications company, for Australian $25 million (US$16.3 million). OzPhone holds licenses covering 6 million potential customers in numerous regions. The...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc announced it is considering selling some of its interests in cellular phone companies, particularly in Japan.The company said it will focus on providing data services to business customers, and will dispose of shares in companies not central to that focus,...
German telecom operator Mannesmann AG said it executed its option rights on shares of Italian mobile operator Omnitel, raising its stake in the company by 1.5 percent to 55 percent.TSR Wireless L.L.C. signed a two-year connectivity agreement with Internet provider ZipLink Inc., under which...
CAMBRIDGE, England-Element 14, a U.K. developer of digital signal processor chips, said it has raised $13 million in first-round financing led by Atlas Venture."Element 14's management has brought together a unique technical team to develop products that will have to compete in the global...
Mobile phones offer freedom, convenience and portability-as long as the battery works. In Cupertino, Calif., Tropian Inc. is developing technologies it hopes will breath new life into the problem of the dying cellular phone."Tropian has fundamentally redesigned key radio-frequency circuits of cell phones to...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Corsair a patent for technology relating to PhonePrint, the company's cellular fraud prevention product.PhonePrint uses a system of hardware and software to identify, validate and disconnect cloned cellular phones before charges...
Lucent Technologies Inc. last week launched a new venture to deliver operations support system products designed to help carriers better manage their networks and to reduce operating costs and end-users costs for cellular phone calls.The new venture, called WatchMark Corp., is a combination of...
TOKYO-Sony Corp. reported its net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 1999, ended June 30, dropped sharply to $152 million, a 55-percent decrease from the same quarter a year ago. Sony attributed the decrease primarily to the strong yen.By industry segment, sales...
Much to the delight of India's private telecommunications providers, the Indian government is offering private telecommunications companies some relief from high licensing fees in the form of a revenue-sharing regime.The Union Cabinet said providers of basic, cellular, paging and other value-added services also will...
Leap gains FCC OK on license transfersSAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced the Federal Communications Commission issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order, which conditionally grants Leap's applications to transfer four F-block personal communications services licenses from AirGate Wireless L.L.C. to Cricket Holdings.The order also...
