Extending its strategic partnership into new areas, Everypath Inc. made a concerted push deeper into the wireless enterprise enablement space last week through alliances with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Network Appliance Inc. and Net Perceptions."Beyond opening doors, these companies add tremendous value to...
HONG KONG-AU-System, a mobile Internet consultant firm, has entered a strategic relationship with Baltimore Technologies Inc. to develop secure m-commerce solutions.The agreement has AU-System licensing and integrating Baltimore's Telepathy wireless e-security products for its AUS WAP browser. The two also will work together on...
HELSINKI, Finland-MobileChannel.Network plans to deliver a commercial mobile Internet content service during the Summer Olympics through its Mobile Sports Channel joint venture with Trans World International, the programming division of Mark McCormack's International Management Group.The service, based in SMS and WAP, was designed to...
Voice portal company iNetNow Inc. reported a co-branding agreement with Arelco Inc., an independent licensee of National Car Rental, allowing customers at select Arelco-owned National Car Rental stores to receive a complimentary iNetNow Platinum Card entitling them to 30 free days of iNetNow service....
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-In the wireless data weltanschauung of Lucent Technologies Inc., operators will remain the linchpin for an increasingly complex assembly of players. Lucent's role, from its world view, is to anticipate and facilitate solutions for each part, large and small, of this expanding...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Interwoven Inc. and AlterEgo Networks Inc. formed a strategic alliance to deliver an integrated solution allowing their customers to create, adapt and publish Web content to wireless devices such as Web-enabled phones, personal digital assistants or pagers.The alliance calls for elements of AlterEgo's...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless gaming and entertainment content firm Indiqu Inc. has partnered with L.M. Ericsson for a joint research and product development project designed to further the use of entertainment and information services on wireless phones.The two will work together on handset product development, WAP...
SAN FRANCISCO-GeoTouch Inc., a location-based technology provider, said it has partnered with wireless application service provider Everypath Inc. to makes its geographic and search information available to Palm VII users.The service automatically recognizes the user's location and provides appropriate local content based on that...
Just because the majority of the world's wireless Internet users live in Japan doesn't mean a U.S. company can't join in on the fun.Which is exactly what FunMail Inc. hopes to do. This week, the company launched its Animated Instant Message service on NTT...
As the calendar turned over from the '90s to the '00s, the wireless industry has seen a surge in companies targeting the wireless enterprise enablement space.While outsourced solution providers such as wireless application service providers have made a name for themselves earlier in the...
Until you have actually bought a good or service using a mobile device, it is difficult to comprehend the sheer power of the phone as an electronic wallet. In Europe, recent initiatives by innovative carriers such as Sonera allow users to buy candy, to...
NEW YORK-The best is yet to be in the conjunction of wireless and the Internet, and that means plenty of opportunity, said Lior E. Yahalomi, managing partner of CMGI @Ventures.The Menlo Park, Calif., venture fund, established in 1995 to invest solely in Internet-related companies,...
Looking to make a play in the wireless e-business enablement space, Brience Inc. was formed six months ago by former executives of KPMG Consulting who found existing wireless enablement solutions lacking."We saw a trend about 18 months ago back when we were building for...
There are 27 miles separating Silicon Alley from the sprawling corporate campus of Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J.But the distance between the region's Internet hotbed and the heart of telecommunications research is shrinking. Small wireless start-ups in Silicon Alley, hungry for talent,...
EndwareBroadband wireless product supplier Endware Corp. appointed Mike Roush vice president of manufacturing and operations, Nick Ingrao director of wireless programs and Chris Brown system engineering manager. Roush will oversee the expansion of the company's Diamond Springs, Calif., manufacturing plant in his new position....
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-OracleMobile Inc. said Arch Communications Group Inc. and Motient Corp. have adopted its two-way wireless messaging solution, joining Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.Middleware provider Paradigm4 also adopted the solution for its platform. Using Paradigm4's devices, subscribers will be able to...
Neomar Inc. introduced its Enterprise Content Server at the DEMOmobile show. The server is a wireless application server enabling enterprise customers to customize and control applications and business content viewed by employees over wireless devices. The server is a component of Neomar's end-to-end WAP...
STAMFORD, Conn.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. has chosen i3 Mobile Inc. as the exclusive provider of wireless Internet services for the paging firm.TSR said it will market the services under the brand InfoBlast, beginning in the fourth quarter. News, business content and sports scores will be...
NEW YORK-Israeli-based wireless streaming solutions provider GEO Interactive Media Group Ltd. launched U.S. operations with the opening of its New York headquarters.GEO's proprietary technology, Emblaze, delivers MPEG-4 compliant video technology solutions for embedded devices enabling playback of live and on-demand video and audio content...
PASADENA, Calif.-Livemind, a wireless commerce transaction infrastructure and software developer, unveiled its Contextual Commerce Engine, which matches products to personalized content.RestaurantRow is the first m-commerce retailer to use the engine, which allows users to choose personalized content tied with m-commerce options. This allows retailers...
TORONTO, Ontario-Schlumberger Test & Transactions has adopted PCS Innovations' mobileMAGIC software platform to create a high-speed content distribution platform Schlumberger said it will offer called OASYS.The solution will incorporate the mobileMAGIC platform with the features and security systems of Schlumberger's Simera subscriber identity module...
In an effort to reinvent itself, KachinaGuide.com, which develops intelligent search and navigation technology, has changed its name to Mvion and is shifting its focus to the mobile enterprise market.The company emerged at the beginning of this year with a database navigation system designed...
NEW YORK-Centerseat Inc., a content and commerce application service provider, said it has launched wireless extensions to its service to become a wireless ASP.Centerseat Wireless content includes entertainment programming like movie trailers and celebrity updates."We plan to expand out wireless content offering in the...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. has agreed to provide its wireless Internet service and content to the Metricom Inc. Ricochet network.The agreement calls for GoAmerica to integrate its Go.Web encryption and compression technology with Ricochet. The combined solution will be marketed specifically to enterprise customers.
