802.11b, otherwise known as WiFi, is growing into one of the most buoyant fountains of money in the wireless industry, challenging big and small vendors to seek differentiating models in a tightening economic landscape.According to industry sources, the technology, which is thriving on the...
Their words were cautious yet wise, and at times peppered with remorse, but as Cingular Wireless Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carter and Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dennis Strigl addressed attendees at the wireless keynote session at SuperComm last week in Atlanta, it became...
Citing pride and financial stress for the collapse of the Lucent-Alcatel merger talks last week, analysts do not expect any suitors to walk up the aisle with the Murray Hill, N.J.-based manufacturer any time soon.Lucent Technologies Inc. and Alcatel SA had revved up a...
Wireless networking recently received a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which said it was proposing new rules regarding frequency hopping spread spectrum systems operating in the 2.4 GHz band that would allow faster data rates than currently available. The move is expected to...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a set number of wirelessly enabled Web sites. Some wireless operators have heeded said advice...
As the news swirls around Wall Street, analysts think a possible merger between Alcatel Alsthom of France and Lucent Technologies Inc. may not only be the biggest acquisition of a U.S. telecom company, it could also generate an investigation as to whether such an...
In the RCR Wireless News story titled, "Enum standard could simplify calling" that ran on May 7, Patrik Faltstrom, a consulting engineer with Cisco Systems Inc., had his name misspelled.
There are a lot of ways to get in touch with Patrik Falstrom.He's got telephone, mobile phone, fax machine, e-mail and snail mail addresses. It's quite a lot of numbers, and it can take quite a while to hit the right one. Right now...
The weak economy has turned profit into loss, changed workers into job applicants and dropped high stocks into the tank.Now, it seems to have transformed love into poison between some vendors and some of their shareholders as demonstrated by a series of class-action lawsuits...
It used to be that the obstacles that prevented a fixed-wireless signal from reaching its destination were ultimately the obstacles that kept the industry's service providers from reaching all their potential customers.The creation and maturation of non-line-of-sight technology however, is changing the face of...
I've noticed a curious pattern emerging. At agency after agency with telecom and high-tech oversight, key positions have yet to be filled. Some are not even close to being filled.To be fair, President Bush-owing to Recount 2000 delays-got a late start. Here's progress to...
The big names walked into the building just as Elvis decided to leave.In spite of recent gloomy economic signals, Sony Electronics Inc., Panasonic Telecommunications Systems Co., Cisco Systems Inc. and Siemens AG believe they can leverage their resources and successful histories in other areas...
Amid the frenzy over a flagging economy and road bumps to the next generation of technologies, Nokia Corp. won a series of third-generation infrastructure contracts that gives the handset vendor coveted status as a network provider.The deals, including a $1.3 billion deal to supply...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Certicom, a provider of e-business security, announced support for Cisco's unified VPN client strategy and framework to enable virtual private networks to extend to handheld computing platforms.Certicom will provide its Elliptic Curve Cryptography (EEC) as part of Cisco's VPN Client 3.0 software, which...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless has selected Cisco Systems to develop and implement a new ATM Core that it said will provide extended bandwidth, quality of service and more reliability for its wireless network.Verizon will be one of the first wireless network providers to deploy the...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Nuance, which provides voice Web software, has signed an agreement with Cisco Systems to incorporate its speech recognition and voice authentication software into Cisco's Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data products.According to the agreement, Cisco will integrate Nuance's speech software into...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
Following news of huge job cuts at Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., the Nasdaq tumbled 115.95 points Friday to land at 2,052.78, its lowest close since December 1998.A strong employment report, which could cause the Fed to lighten up on interest-rate cuts, also...
FAIRFAX, Va.-One must first define the world before predictions can be made about how soon the world will be connected to the Internet, said an expert at last week's 2001 Global Internet Summit."It depends on what you mean by the world. ... We have...
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
If professionals need to be productive on the go, vVault thinks it has a platform on which they can walk.A mobile productivity applications provider, the company sets out to provide a technology platform to power network operators, ISPs, telecom carriers and device manufacturers."By coupling...
PHOENIX-Fixed-wireless service provider Kite Networks officially launched its broadband services in Phoenix last week following a four-month beta trial with businesses in Tempe and Phoenix."We are confident we can meet the needs of our customers for fast and reliable high-speed Internet access," said Jerry...
