The focus on the mobile industry has been enormous during the last year. Device vendors, service providers, application developers, infrastructure vendors and content providers have all been jostling to position themselves in the new value chain. Like the PC industry, control over the technology...
Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian announced a wireless computing platform for handsets and other devices. Quartz is a reference design for pen-based wireless devices. It...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile telecom carriers are looking to stake out the biggest share in the fast-growing wireless Internet and data market, shifting from a voice-oriented strategy.The explosion of the Internet and mobile-phone use is driving the convergence of the two high-tech media, offering...
TOKYO-Three Japanese carrier groups are gearing up their efforts to launch IMT-2000 services-earlier than any other wireless carriers in the world. The three players are NTT DoCoMo Group, Japan Telecom (JT) Group and DDI Group.NTT DoCoMo plans to be the first carrier in the...
HONG KONG-In January, the Hong Kong government awarded five licenses for wireless fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), signaling a major advance in Internet access.The licensees will use base stations to transmit voice, data and video signals via microwave links to rooftop antenna dishes on...
At some point in the not-too-distant future, a "crossover" will occur with respect to how the public gains access to the Internet: More people will reach the Net through wireless devices than through wired means. Net prognosticators may disagree on exactly when that will occur,...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-BrainDock.com, an e-commerce service provider for mobile technology, unveiled a new service designed to deliver content and applications to Wireless Application Protocol phones and other wireless devices.Content channels will include news, weather, sports scores, flight information, Yellow and white pages, restaurant menus,...
AmikaNow!, an artificial intelligence solutions provider for wireless Internet services, unveiled a line of plug-in products for Microsoft Outlook 2000, as well as an online service called AmikaFreedom.com.AmikaFreedom and AmikaWisdom are e-mail management and wireless messaging solutions that use artificial intelligence to recognize keywords...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo's iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet.Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
Agilent TechnologiesAgilent Technologies Inc. introduced a number of new test-solution products and made improvements to others. The Agilent 84000 RFIC series model A20E is a low-cost test solution developed specifically for high-volume semiconductor manufacturers that make radio-frequency power-amplifier integrated circuits used in cell phones...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-As President Clinton stated in his Economic Forum speech, "The United States is unambiguously committed to open markets and trade as the best engine we know of to lift living standards, reduce environmental destruction and build shared prosperity."Space station technology was spawned...
Crown Castle InternationalCrown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...
While most conversations about the wireless Internet have focused on transmitting data, a few companies are looking at creating a voice-based Internet-browsing model aimed specifically at mobile phone users.Nuance Telecommunications Inc., a company based in Menlo Park, Calif., took the latest step in this...
TORONTO-Bell Mobility Inc.'s new Mobile Browser is providing plenty of new options to customers who want access to online services from their digital personal communications services phones.GetThere.com Inc., a provider of Internet-based business-to-business travel booking systems, will team up with Bell Mobility, a wireless...
Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice new "virtual" operators that will help redefine both the nature of wireless competition and the business and operational models required...
SAN FRANCISCO-Two companies turned to Wireless Application Protocol technology to wirelessly extend their e-business applications to a mobile work force.SAP AG released version 2.0 of its Business Information Warehouse technology, featuring support for mobile Internet devices via WAP technology, called mySAP.com.In addition, Open Market...
Most conversations regarding the wireless Internet in the industry today revolve around Wireless Application Protocol technology, but several companies are bucking this trend-aiming to extend Internet content to wireless phones using alternative means to WAP.Providing them the opportunity to do so is WAP itself....
WASHINGTON-As wireless e-commerce struggles to establish itself as an industry mainstay, it faces major legal, technical and security challenges like the cyber attacks of last week that temporarily shut down several popular Web sites and triggered a Justice Department probe of such activities.With forecasts...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile is now offering the Motorola StarTac 7860W as the third digital wireless phone available for use with its Web Access service.Bell Atlantic's Web Access allows customers to access 20 content providers for online travel information and reservations, real-time airline flight...
Aether Systems Inc., that wireless data wonder out of Owings Mills, Md., is on a roll. Baby, they're hot! The rage of Wall Street. Aether stock, offered at $16 last October, continued its meteoric rise last week into the $180s. They're cutting deals left...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. launched a new program and Web site-developer. sprintpcs.com-designed to help Web developers create their own Sprint PCS Wireless Web applications or simply make their own Web site accessible to the service."Sprint developed this Web site to harness the power of...
HONG KONG-An Asian Internet company is looking to block the proposed merger between Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Reuters reported. Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. hinted that it could launch a competing bid for Cable & Wireless HKT, one of six...
ScandinaviaMillicom International Cellular S.A., a worldwide cellular telephone and telecommunications company, said it sold 900,000 class B shares from a total of almost 6 million class A and class B shares held in NetCom AB, a provider of telecommunication services in Scandinavia, the Baltics...
Aether Systems Inc. rose to the top of the news last week after it was identified as Metrocall Inc.'s mysterious third investor and joint venture partner-joining PSINet Inc. and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst-as well as for announcing a plan to acquire Riverbed Technologies...
