PARIS-Lloyd Carney knows U.S. carriers hate him for saying it, but the facts speak for themselves."Europe is the dominant player in the wireless data space," he said last week in Paris. "The U.S. lags behind."As Nortel Networks' president, wireless Internet, Carney used his company's...
Comverse Technology Inc. made an undisclosed investment in Speedwise Technologies Ltd., a privately held firm specializing in software designed to accelerate the time required to browse and download Web content over cellular connections. Comverse said the investment is part of the company's ongoing program...
NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were "a one-night stand as an investment opportunity," has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan Passoni, vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Excluding electronic commerce, DLJ projects...
Nearly 41 million people worldwide subscribed to Time Division Multiple Access-Enhanced Data for Global Evolution technology by the end of the first quarter, an increase of 87 percent from the previous year, according to the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium. UWCC said North American TDMA-EDGE...
OracleMobile added support for two-way wireless messaging devices to its OracleMobile.com wireless Internet portal service, which Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. both agreed to make available to their messaging customers.The two-way pager service, called Ask@OracleMobile, allows users to access information based on...
Red-M, a wireless Internet server developer, and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to cooperate on enabling Wireless Application Protocol applications over Bluetooth technology.The idea is to allow mobile access to Internet and intranet information written in WAP via a Bluetooth connection between devices, the companies...
DENVER-Business traveler content provider Trip.com Inc. launched a wireless extension to its Internet site last week, featuring a first-of-its-kind ability to rebook flights from AT&T Wireless PocketNet phones.The service allows users to modify existing flight reservations, but not initiate new ones. Users also may...
BOSTON-Media conglomerates will likely control the content available to wireless devices, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, and wireless carriers' only hope of competing with them is to leverage location-based services, existing transaction and customer profile databases, and the national reaches of...
NEW YORK-Although presumably the driver was not watching PacketVideo's streaming media on a mobile phone as he drove at 80 mph, the technology passed this test, which an undisclosed Las Vegas wireless carrier conducted."We are in testing with carriers around the world. In Las...
MobilePosition.com is a Swedish company looking to combine lifestyle-focused vertical Internet content with location position technology and mapping functions.Calling itself a microportal, the company is marketing its platform to specialized Internet portals looking to add location-based mobile relevance to their sites. MobilePosition is targeting...
AUSTIN, Texas-When MarketScape Inc. changed its name to Mobilize Inc. in April, it involved more than ordering new business cards for the company. It was a chance for the company to reaffirm itself as a different kind of mobile business solution provider."Right now, the...
LONDON-Within three years, mobile telecommunication operators will be sending 100 billion short messages per month, a 170-percent per year increase over current levels, according to computer consultancy firm Logica plc.At the predicted growth rate, short messages will surpass Internet usage over the same period...
Hong KongTranscrypt International Inc. signed an agreement with Union Communications of Hong Kong for the exclusive distribution of all of Transcrypt's voice security and signaling products in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Macau and China. Union will also have a warranty repair capability that will...
HERNDON, Va.-LifeMinders.com, a direct marketing infrastructure company, named Air2Web as a distributor of its personalization technology and content to wireless users under an application service provider model.
Pine Belt Wireless, based in Arlington, Ala., said it will introduce prepaid wireless services to its cellular and personal communications services markets using National Telemanagement Corp.'s SmartPay Wireless real-time billing system. SmartPay Wireless is an account-based system that eliminates the added expense and limitations...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AlterEgo Networks Inc., a provider of adaptive network services for the wireless Internet, and Inktomi Corp., a developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, will deliver a service-based network infrastructure designed specifically for adapting and delivering Web content to wireless devices.Under the agreement,...
ATLANTA-Wireless infrastructure vendors made their wireless Internet plans a major priority at SuperComm here last week, introducing network solutions portfolios that, while different in makeup, have the same goal-to help wireless carriers avoid commoditization when converging with the Internet.Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-M2card Inc., a payment solution provider, and Inciscent, a wired-to-wireless application service provider, announced they have formed a strategic alliance to develop wireless transaction services designed to complement M2card's online and offline payment solutions for teen-agers.The collaboration will allow customers to check...
SAN FRANCISCO-Motorola Inc. said it intends to use PacketVideo Corp.'s MPEG-4 wireless multimedia solution on a future generation of multiple communication phones for integrated Digital Enhanced Network wireless networks.PacketVideo's MPEG-4 compliant software-based encoding and decoding products will allow the delivery of a variety of...
ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward.The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet another indication the wireless Internet...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Wireless Internet application service provider GiantBear.com Inc. signed an agreement with Hollywood.com Inc. to serve as the centralized Web-to-wireless application provider for Hollywood.com's wireless expansion.GiantBear.com said it will create applications and functionality for wireless users accessing Hollywood.com content via current and pending...
As the wireless Internet evolution develops, government should resist the temptation to bury the industry in regulations and instead, let competition for customers shape the market.In France, customer ownership issues are under scrutiny. A Paris trade court recently ruled that France Telecom must stop...
NEW YORK-Mobilocity Inc. will develop and deliver wireless business offerings to its Global 1000 clients using AvantGo Inc.'s Enterprise solutions.AvantGo's infrastructure software and services are designed to mobilize intranet content and business applications, allowing corporations to transfer information from the corporate intranet or extranet...
TORONTO-Zacks Investment Research Inc. announced plans to make content from its personal investing Web site, Zacks.com, available on wireless devices using technology provided by Wysdom Inc.
