HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced it will combine its Go.Web technology with Centrinity's Unified Communications software solution, marking the company's expansion into unified communications services.The Go.Web service currently offers a variety channels of Internet-based content as well as access to corporate data."Go.Web is more that...
The prospect of playing video games on wireless devices is becoming a factor in the entertainment content being developed for the wireless Internet movement.Ignition Corp., founded by several former McCaw Cellular and Microsoft Corp. executives, has backed the idea through its involvement in UIEvolution,...
After months of relative silence, Ignition Corp. has begun making noise again, providing its mentoring and funding proficiencies to two more companies.The most recent is Avogadro, launched this week with the vision of combining business-to-business, mobility and Internet technologies into a new communications service....
As it initiates a beta launch of its wireless Internet solution and wireless portal this week, YadaYada Inc. is preparing to go head to head with competitors OmniSky Corp. and GoAmerica Inc.Calling itself a wireless version of America Online, YadaYada uses the same equipment...
NEW YORK-A 6-percent average summer dip in the price of shares in American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International, Pinnacle Towers Inc., SBA Communications and SpectraSite Communications also reflected "a shift of investors out of telecom into what are perceived to be faster growth areas,"...
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gravitate Inc., a new mobile location services software provider, launched its Gravitate Platform and closed a $3.7 million round of funding, the company announced."The Gravitate Platform ... enables network operators, original equipment manufacturers, infrastructure providers and application service providers to develop...
LONDON-Informix Software Inc., an independent operating business of Informix Corp., is joining the Symbian Technology Partner program, allowing Informix to develop enabling technologies and engage in co-marketing activities promoting Symbian's software platform.Symbian said it will assist its technology partners in engaging directly with Symbian's...
MEXICO CITY-Diveo Broadband Networks, which offers wireless broadband services in Latin America, said it launched Diveo Hosting Paq for large and medium-sized businesses, Internet content providers, e-commerce providers and systems integrators through the region in conjunction with Compaq Latin America. The Web hosting package...
EndwaveEndwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands. The antennas include flat horizontal radiation pattern, rapid azimuth pattern...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Everypath Inc., a wireless application service provider and technology enabler, introduced its Mobile Application Server, designed to give enterprise customers the ability to convert content into mobile applications accessible from wireless devices.Everypath originally launched purely as a wireless ASP. The Mobile Application...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.-David Bell has quite a resume.He founded his own company in 1997 in his basement. He helped evolve the company from a mostly hardware-focused business into a software and content developer focusing on a niche market. Three months ago, Bell secured...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. hopes to leverage the growing interest in wireless Internet service for the company to remain viable and turn around its troubled past.It is doing so by supporting the growing interest in wirelessly enabling personal digital assistants. Glenayre is taking the lead...
Just less than a year after bursting onto the wireless Internet scene with a wireless solution for the Palm V, OmniSky Corp. this week is introducing a similar solution for the Handspring VisorPhone.The company also is unveiling version 2.0 of its service, which is...
Lutris Technologies Inc. released Lutris Enhydra Wireless, the certified and supported version of its Open Source wireless software platform that provides developers and systems integrators the source code, support and services to deliver Java and Extensible Markup Language applications to wireless devices.Enhydra Wireless includes...
BARCELONA, Spain-Net2wireless Corp. joined Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Mobile Internet affiliates program under which Net2Wireless' 3Gate Platform, a solution designed to enhance the performance of multimedia content on mobile devices, will be offered to global mobile service providers."The 3Gate Platform and Net2Wireless' advanced compression techniques...
Aether Systems Inc. announced USAToday.com as the first customer for the recently introduced AirLoom service, which adapts Web content for wireless distribution.In addition, Aether said it will help USAToday.com develop and deliver customized wireless services in the future, possibly including personalized alerts, enhanced search...
MEXICO CITY-Telcel, Mexico's largest wireless operator, launched commercial wireless Internet services using Phone.com's Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) platform. The commercial service launch marks the mobile carrier's spinoff from parent company Telmex. Telcel will be part of America M
TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like green tea, Panasonic's wireless phones have not achieved the same level of success in the...
NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on new importance.Presence is shorthand for knowledge about subscribers, including their locations and the kind of communications devices they are using...
SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle's portal-to-go technology and is targeted at carriers, consumer portals, application service providers and corporations, said Oracle.The new...
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Wireless service provider Centennial Communications Corp. will begin offering Indicast Inc.'s personalized audio Internet content to its wireless subscribers starting in November.Indicast's audio content allows users to pre-select topics of interest on the Internet using their personalized start page, and create a broadcast...
For the mobile commerce market to succeed in winning over consumers from the wired Internet and bricks-and-mortar space, it will have to be flexible in meeting consumer expectations, according to a recent report by the Aberdeen Group.The report, "Mobile Electronic Commerce: The New Economy on...
WASHINGTON-At RCR Wireless News press time, the Federal Communications Commission was preparing to release a public notice asking for industry comment on the August federal appeals court decision that threw out key items of the FBI's punch list to implement the digital wiretap act.At...
