So you can check your e-mail wirelessly. Talaris Corp. says "so what?"How about reserving a table at a nearby restaurant for that important work lunch? How about scheduling a conference room during a busy business convention? Or how about getting a late-night call to...
TOKYO-ActiveSky, a company focused on wireless interactive rich media, has signed microbrowser developer Access, consumer electronics producer Casio, advertiser Dentsu, and several content providers to test consumer and business applications of interactive streaming video and rich media on wireless devices.With the ActiveSky platform, trial...
NEW YORK-Sony Electronics and GoAmerica Inc. introduced a new MYLO wireless service at the PC Expo here June 25 that will provide Internet access for users of CLIE monochrome handheld and VAIO notebook computers."MYLO stands for `My Life Online'. Sony ... will offer mobile...
TOKYO- NTT DoCoMo, in cooperation with KPN Mobile and E-Plus, is scheduled to launch i-mode-like services in the Netherlands and Germany in the fourth quarter. Access, a Japanese provider of microbrowsers for non-PC devices including NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service, is also exploring the European...
Handsets/ devicesMitsubishiMitsubishi released three new handsets. The Eclipse is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with a color display. The dual-band phone offers 256 colors and up to 86 kilobits-per-second data speeds. It has several features for business users. The phone allows users...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-The discussion surrounding m-commerce includes questions such as whether m-commerce will be a success and what kind of services will be purchased via a mobile phone. Research shows that the "m" not only stands for mobile but also for micro-commerce.Believing customers will order...
TOKYO-Amid harsh competition among mobile carriers, Japanese cellular handsets have been evolving rapidly. Most handsets currently used are light, tiny, fashionable and smart. Internet-ready capabilities and color screens are almost standard functions.NTT DoCoMo is selling only i-mode-enabled handsets, all J-Phone's handsets have color screens...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Opinion is divided on the identity of the "killer applications" that will allow operators to make a return on their significant investments in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and third-generation (3G) technology. But while operators develop prototype services and grapple with technical difficulties...
NEW DELHI, India-Wireless network operators the world over are preparing to move from offering voice-only services to data and content-based services. The transition means they will have to install real-time, flexible, scalable billing systems capable of handling complex third-party environments. A bigger challenge is...
NEW YORK-Imagine a delivery person placing a lengthy order for a customer over a wireless device and unknowingly reaching an area that does not offer wireless coverage, suddenly disconnecting from the server, forcing him to enter the order again from scratch. A situation that...
Clickmarks has agreed to provide its mobile access and critical alert capabilities to Again Technologies Inc.'s customers.Clickmarks, which is a software infrastructure company for enterprise and wireless carriers, will provide its Enterprise Habitat platform for Again Technologies' CompEnterprise 7.0 Enterprise Performance Optimization software."CompEnterprise allows...
NEW YORK-A group of seven network infrastructure and software systems developers have joined forces in what they are calling an "initiative" to explain and promote multimedia messaging service in advance of commercial product availability starting late this year.Participating in the alliance are CMG Wireless...
Motient adds IBM customersRESTON, Va.-Motient Corp. said it added 1,400 new customers through its lucrative deal with IBM Corp.IBM will deploy Research In Motion Ltd.'s 857s to its customer service engineers, which marks an extension of the eight-year relationship between Motient and IBM."During the...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Gravitate Inc. has signed an agreement with Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. of Cambridge, England, marking its entry into the European market. CPS plans to connect the Gravitate Platform, a software solution for location-based wireless Internet services, to its Cursor System. Once...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said it will increase its stake in Taiwan's KG Telecommunications by purchasing a maximum of more than 62.36 million new shares from existing shareholders and employees at the end of June. KG Telecom will issue a total of 187.3 million new shares...
Timing is everything. As European wireless markets face saturation, the rollout of next-generation services becomes even more essential to the continued growth of the industry. "Ultimately, the potential is there, the question is, can the handset manufacturers come out with the handsets and can...
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...
PacketVideo Corp. scored a major deal today with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile, which will resell the streaming media company's MPEG-4 technology platform to mobile operators. The deal is another in a long string of significant sales for PacketVideo."It's a further endorsement of our...
Companies looking to improve their wireless Internet offerings are missing out on some valuable information-information that's right under their noses, said Nick Besbeas, executive vice president of sales and marketing for DigiMine Inc.That information involves what mobile Internet users are actually doing-where they're going,...
MONTREAL-Canadian mobile operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc. launched Project Rainbow, an initiative to bring together companies to develop and market commercial mobile data services. The group will include systems integrators, network access device and content suppliers, application and toolkit developers, and multimedia technology providers."We believe...
Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services.Involved in marriages and talks of marriages are Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks, Mitsubishi Electric...
Smart-phone company NeoPoint Inc. quietly closed its doors late last month, apparently exiting the industry it lit up only a few short years ago with its advanced phone/personal digital assistant offering.While the company hadn't yet filed as of Friday in the bankruptcy court that...
SINGAPORESingapore Airlines has deployed Unimobile Inc.'s wireless messaging platform to provide its customers mobile flight alert services. The services, which run on Unimobile's Mobile Messaging Platform and the Unimobile Intelligent Network, will be available to Singapore Airlines customers in more than 30 countries, including...
NEW YORK-To help wireless carriers assess the quality of service as it is delivered to their customers via the Internet, Agilent Technologies Inc., Fort Collins, Colo., introduced at Supercomm its Firehunter/mobile Web monitoring product.It is available now to monitor Wireless Application Protocol, short message...
