DENVER-Daniels & Associates, a global provider of financial services to media, Internet and telecommunications companies, named Kevin Brynestad and David Tolliver senior vice presidents.Brynestad will provide corporate finance services to clients in the telecommunications industry, concentrating on personal communications services, towers, paging and specialized...
Solectron Corp. completed its acquisition of Americom Wireless Services, a privately held company specializing in wireless handset repair and refurbishment and outsourced technical customer-support services. Solectron, a supply-chain facilitator of customized electronics technology, manufacturing and service solutions, received specialized repair and testing equipment and...
NEW YORK-MobileSys Inc. commercially debuted today a new global data roaming product that allows encrypted information to be exchanged between corporate enterprises and wireless devices that use different networks."Now, companies must make deals with each carrier, one at a time. But (they) will no...
They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors.All three associations will convene this week in Las Vegas at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. properties and its plans for wireless data service to analysts during its quarterly conference...
Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, the exclusive provider of online ticketing for Ticketmaster Corp., will begin providing its services wirelessly this week with help from NeoPoint Inc. and what it calls "local intelligence."The new service will offer mobile customers access to Ticketmaster.com via their Wireless Application Protocol-enabled...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced a nationwide advertising program that allows e-marketing service provider CoolSavings to extend its content to Metrocall's messaging devices using the company's Preview Channel information service.Metrocall's information service uses Motorola Inc.'s i Kno! architecture.
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. launched its Mobile Site service as a complement to its existing Mobile ASP solution. Mobile Site pulls data from a Web site and reformats it for wireless device languages and technologies, the company said.Mobile ASP is a more robust and customized...
NEW YORK-Portable Life, Cupertino, Calif., launched a Web site May 3 intended to provide a portal to a variety of information sources related to portable and mobile electronic devices.The initial focus of the new site, www.portablelife.com, will be on laptop computing, said Mike Elgan,...
While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the wireless Internet experience, and not all are convinced WAP will remain the popular standard it is today. Pixo Inc. is...
OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet solution for the Palm V handheld computer.It's time to see how wide the door...
Reuters Group plc and Aether Systems Inc. launched their Sila Communications European wireless data joint venture, created to host, design and manage content and services for wireless customers. Headquartered in London, Sila will initially focus on financial services, providing Reuters content, Internet-based information and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The commercialization of mobile data services continues its headlong rush as cellular operators look to differentiate themselves in the market. The heavy promotion of an ever-increasing portfolio of data services by many of Europe's leading operators is setting the trend for others...
LONDON-The wireless sector in the Middle East is still widely accepted as a vibrant and growing market, with the wireless Internet and several wireless trade shows coming on the scene.Nearly everyone who attended the GSM Gulf and Middle East Conference, a two-day event held...
IsraelRiots and injuries occurred during protests against the installation of cellular masts in a Druze Arab village in March, according to international press reports. Reports said seven police officers and members of the public were injured in the riots, which are thought to be...
The U.K. auction brought in a resounding 22.5 billion (US$35.45 billion), far exceeding predictions prior to the auction's start. The question now is whether these prices are based on a sound business case or the most optimistic scenarios for the development of the 3G...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems Inc., a developer of network applications enabling the delivery of Internet content to wireless devices, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its class A common stock.The company reported the offering is...
As the thought of delivering multimedia services on wireless devices gains more attention, the Wireless Multimedia Forum aims to ensure interoperability among wireless multimedia protocols.PacketVideo Inc. last month established the new group with about 20 founding members, including representatives from vendors, carriers, content providers...
Verizon Wireless, now the country's largest operator, said it will begin field trials of cdma2000 1XRTT technology with Lucent Technologies Inc. in June, and follow with a rollout of the technology next year.Verizon is the second U.S. Code Division Multiple Access operator to announce...
Personal communications services operator Powertel Inc. reached positive operating cash flow in the first quarter and added a company-record 110,000 subscribers.The Southeast PCS company, which analysts suspect soon may be gobbled up by VoiceStream Wireless Corp., said its growth in prepaid customers helped propel...
Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit.And they are, with help from Neomar Inc., a start-up firm in San Francisco that has created a WAP...
InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company's biggest opportunity and fastest-growing area.Within that space, InfoSpace is betting mobile commerce services will play an important role in providing value to its...
Content is king. That's the mantra repeated by many looking to make it big in the wireless Internet space these days. But for content to be valuable, it must be personal, and that is the driving force behind the growing interest in synchronization technologies...
STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc., a personalized wireless Internet content and commerce services provider, said TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, will offer i3 Mobile services to its SunCom digital wireless customers."This is our first step in offering wireless data, and i3...
