NEW YORK-The New York City Investment Fund and Ericsson Inc. announced plans to establish CyberLab East, the first collaborative laboratory for testing the commercial potential of ideas conceived by the city's "Silicon Alley" Internet content creator companies.CyberLab East is scheduled to open early next...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications.The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing the Web, said Spyglass. It is a server-based solution that reduces the time required to access Web sites by converting...
Roberto Catalan, president of Argentina's communications commission, known as CNC (Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones), recently completed a United States road show designed to attract investor interest for a personal communications services tender.The CNC is looking for foreign companies to operate two 50-megahertz bands in...
Bad hair week for the Baby Bells and smut police. A near miss for wireless.The Justice Department last Wednesday recommended against Ameritech's foray into the Michigan long-distance market. So Joel Klein really does want Sen. Hollings' blessing after all.The next day, the FCC blocked...
NEW YORK-Notable by its absence amid the current merger mania in telecommunications is convergence across industry lines between transmission and content providers, according to a new study by Price Waterhouse L.L.P."Competition didn't happen in the way people expected after the , and expectations may...
New lawsuit filed on Motorola patentsMotorola Inc. last week filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego federal court, claiming all of Qualcomm's wireless phones violate Motorola patents.The infringement claims are against Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access Q phone, five...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Bell Atlantic Network Services Inc. selected DSC Communications Corp. to supply equipment and software for the company's 1998 launch of a high-speed data communications service for consumers using Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology.Bell Atlantic already has deployed DSC's Litespan-2000 digital loop carrier system...
Union Electric Co., Honeywell Inc. and CellNet Data Systems teamed up to develop a wireless interactive home management system, which will begin a pilot program in more than 100 St. Louis homes this summer. CellNet's network provides a link between the home system and...
More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon.While circuit-switched cellular still is the standard for wireless data connectivity-offering near-universal access for dial-up...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. said it will use Marimba Inc.'s Castanet technology to deliver and manage software and content on its Internet and intranet-related products. The Castanet system allows end users to subscribe to applications, including internal IS applications, interactive games and productivity applications.
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks will expand its cooperation with Nokia to provide packaged content and services for Smart Messaging, the Nokia-developed Global System for Mobile communications wireless service architecture announced last month at the CeBIT '97 technology fair.Geoworks will provide wireless services using Nokia's newly proposed...
NEW YORK-Provision of flat rate, local call access to a plethora of wireless and wireline services is the driving force behind the acquisition of Voice-Tel Enterprises Inc., which Premiere Technologies Inc. announced April 2.Premiere, headquartered in Atlanta, is a telecommunications systems integrator whose primary...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. became a licensee of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. March 13, joining 200 other companies that pay the nonprofit organization to recycle nickel cadmium batteries, a mainstay of wireless communications devices. Products sold by participating electronics manufacturers carry the RBRC "Charge...
Since unveiling its MobileWeb Internet Web server/controller technology one year ago, CellPort Labs Inc. reports a diverse group of innovators are using the platform to develop wireless data applications.The Boulder, Colo.-based company developed MobileWeb from its patented wireless phone interface technology designed for hands-free...
WASHINGTON-The Environmental Protection Agency is expected shortly to issue a policy statement supporting a new hybrid radio frequency radiation standard, but sources say the EPA is unlikely to retreat from its previously stated position that the safety guideline fails to address potential health risks...
NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers."It's all about making the Internet easier to use. The customers coming on line today are not information...
WASHINGTON-If the wireless telecom industry has learned one thing in recent years, it is that rules for paging, cellular, specialized mobile radio, personal communications services, mobile satellite, microwave, wireless local loop and private wireless services are not made in a vacuum.Wireless regulations and legislation-even...
NEW YORK-NetSource Communications Inc. was expected to go public late last week with a 3.5 million share offering of common stock priced between $13 and $15 each. Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, New York, is lead underwriter.NetSource, headquartered in San Francisco, plans to expand its telecommunications...
ATLANTA-Motorola Inc.'s Platform Software Division and Unwired Planet Inc. signed an agreement to provide an optimized solution for delivering Internet-based content to wireless communications devices such as cellular smart phones and alphanumeric pagers.The agreement calls for Unwired Planet's UP.Link server and UP.Browser client applications...
NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel Nov. 20 on wireless technology."No intelligent network platform is as reliable as a switch....
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled Gwinnett County, Ga., violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by denying BellSouth Mobility Inc. a permit to construct a monopole cellular tower.In a 17-page opinion, Judge G. Ernest Tidwell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern...
LAS VEGAS-After making a splash last July in the wireless Internet/intranet-access market with a micro-browser software solution optimized for so-called "thin-client" wireless devices, Unwired Planet Inc. is moving on up to "fatter" devices that contain more memory and processing power.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company...
Corsair Communications Inc. appointed Dr. Donald R. Oestreicher vice president of engineering. Oestreicher will direct Corsair's efforts in product engineering, research and development. Oestreicher's background includes engineering management with Dow Jones & Co., Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Valid Logic Systems and Xerox Corp....
More than a half million Paging Network Inc. customers started receiving news briefs from CNN Interactive for free last week.Subscribers to PageNet's alphanumeric service, via Motorola Inc.'s Advisor and Advisor Gold pagers, receive news updates every half hour.CNN broadcasts between six and eight entries...
