Devices

WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission moves closer to setting guidelines to make telecom equipment and services accessible to disabled individuals, the wireless industry is pressing regulators to back off proposed …

The Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Brooklyn, believed to be the first city in the nation to pass a mandatory seat belt law back in 1966, is making fresh legal tracks …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology said it teamed with DoCoMo/NTT Mobile Communications Network to provide cellular phone users in Japan wireless Internet access to corporate groupware application information through Puma’s Intellisync …

Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT …

As the wireless data industry finds more room to grow in the mobile enterprise market, more application developers are searching for ways to meet this new space. In the last …

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.-International Wireless Technologies L.L.C. has developed a single-chip solution that permits wireless device manufacturers to use one platform for multiple mobile and fixed voice and data standards. By …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced the HP TS-5530 mobile phone test platform, a tester that meets the demands of Code Division Multiple Access and Global System for Mobile communications cellular …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. signed an $85 million contract to supply Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone equipment to Baja Celular Mexicana S.A. de C.V., Movitel del Noroeste S.A. …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry scored big legal victories on the health front last week as the Supreme Court put strict limits on the admissibility of expert testimony in product liability cases …

To create some excitement before his swing through New Hampshire last week, Al Gore declared he invented the Internet. It worked. A dumbfounded James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), chairman of the House …

NORTHBROOK, Ill.-Motorola Inc. introduced a new global positioning system technology designed to enhance traditional GPS for telematics systems. Called Wireless-Assisted GPS, the system includes a GPS mobile receiver and server, …

Cellular towers ruining America To the Editor: I have two comments regarding your antenna-siting article. (Antenna siting is hot topic for NACo Crowd, March 8.) First, it is my understanding …

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week signed two separate memorandums of understanding designed to further its presence in the wireless industry. The first MoU calls for Japan’s NTT DoCoMo to deploy …

As Telecom Italia Spa shareholders prepare to vote April 16 on the company’s proposed new corporate plan, Olivetti Spa outlined its own plans for the company should its hostile takeover …

HANNOVER, Germany-Motorola Inc. introduced a portfolio of digital wireless devices at the CeBIT exhibition and promised to offer Internet-browsing capability on its entire line of digital mobile phones by 2000. …

Sometimes you just have to laugh … “When parents are on the car phone talking to their kids explaining why they can’t get home for dinner or can’t do bedtime …

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. has signed a supply agreement with KG Telecommunication Co. Ltd., a cellular phone carrier in Taiwan. CellStar said it will serve as a major supplier of cellular …

Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, …

The wireless industry’s toughest challenge may not be choosing 3G standards, or whether the handset or the network should transmit E911 information. Rather, the industry’s greatest stumbling block may be …

EAGAN, Minn. (AP)-Northwest Airlines has loosened its rules on the use of cellular phones aboard aircraft and in jetways. Effective immediately, Northwest passengers may use their portable cell phones aboard …

The evolution of the wireless handset has gone from the mobile in the car, to the transportable in the car, to the portable in the purse or suit jacket and …

Utah state representative Ralph Becker said he has withdrawn his bid to ban drivers from using wireless phones. “After careful consideration, I have decided not to introduce legislation limiting the …

Canadian controversy, eh While the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and its patrons were whooping it up last week in New Orleans, Canada was working itself into a frenzy over an …

NEW ORLEANS-Following a trend of convergence between the wireless and Internet industries, Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced the first phase of a strategic alliance to develop …

NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access chip that uses technology with origins in the airline industry to make it easier to understand cellular phone …