Motorola Inc. unveiled a new open messaging software platform called Memos that is adaptable to all networks but optimized for the unique environment of wireless."Motorola believes the establishment of standard software platforms will further expand the market," said Doug Kraul, vice president and general...
GTE Mobilnet Inc. is signing up customers in a new way, by mail order. Hello Direct Inc., which produces a catalog full of a various telecommunications and business products, will begin featuring GTE's cellular service in its Fall '96 catalog, along with several cellular...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Primark Corp. has acquired Yankee Group Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm in the communications and computing field.The transaction includes cash payments of $34 million and contingent payments during three years, which could reach a maximum of $31 million if revenues...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-The regulation of content could become a major issue for the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years as carriers in an increasingly competitive market seek to supplement voice traffic with information services on high-capacity digital networks.Already there is evidence of the new trend as...
Everybody's reacting to high-tech.Take Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, who in a recent speech hit on something profound yet obvious yet little understood (understandably so) in an America where jobs in high-tech firms are being cut by the thousands. It's a hot button issue this...
To the Editor: I am appalled by the unprincipled attack on the WTR carried in last Monday's issue of RCR. The unverified story was replete with untruths, half-truths, misinformation, innuendo and unattributed statements. I am compelled to clarify for your readership at least some of...
WASHINGTON-Differences over liability continue to slow digital copyright legislation in Congress, keeping wireless and wireline carriers in limbo about whether they will be held accountable for unintentionally transmitting unauthorized copyrighted material.The bill is not a high priority for the wireless telecommunications industry, despite the...
WASHINGTON-"Let's not fool ourselves-the number one issue is money," said Carl Thompson, the new president and chief operating officer of Vienna, Va.-based North American Wireless Inc., who pulled no punches as to what it will take for the small business or entrepreneur to participate...
Is the C-block PCS auction successful? Is it unsuccessful? Or, as Thomas Gutierrez and David LaFluria ask in an RCR guest article this issue, is it too successful?The answer to these questions depends on your point of view. Yes, in terms of raising money...
NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in the U.S. marketplace."It's going to be a brutal year," said Francis McInerney, a principal of North River Ventures, New York....
New York City-based software developer Ex Machina Inc. wants to expand the utility of paging networks by using paging carriers' system capacity to broadcast critical corporate information-especially during off-peak hours.Founded in 1988 to develop and market products merging mobile computing with wireless technologies, Ex...
WASHINGTON-Every time a paging or cellular phone signal is sent over the airwaves what happens with the transactional information-the subscriber's name, address, billing information and eventual usage patterns-collected by the carrier?Truth is, the customer typically doesn't know. One thing is for sure, companies are...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Embarc Communication Services division and CNBC have formed a 10-year, multimillion dollar alliance in which the companies will develop and market wireless financial news and information services via CNBC's 24-hour cable TV network.The news services will be transmitted over Motorola...
WASHINGTON-A campaign that officially kicks off this week to fight the planned giveaway of digital TV channels to broadcasters is partially funded by the cellular telephone industry, which fears any such giveaway will mean increased fees for cellular operators.Specifically, the cellular industry is worried...
Texas Instruments Inc. and AT&T Microelectronics have launched a semiconductor marketing race, each introducing single-chip digital signal processors they say complete more instructions per second using less power.Texas InstrumentsDallas-based TI offers two DSP solutions; the 541 DSP for digital cellular telephones and personal digital...
Oct. 8, 2022. Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian exhibit on the Age of Multimedia: 1994-2008 opened for public viewing in the Gore Digital Museum complex located in the old Department of Agriculture Building. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor, a...
