Geoworks Corp., adding yet another new business focus, has embarked on a crusade to elevate the wireless environment to the broadcast advertising status of television and radio.The company revealed plans to launch a series of wireless information services, sponsored by advertising, which customers can...
Fresh from his turnaround performance leading MobileMedia Communications Inc. out of bankruptcy, former president and chief executive officer Ron Grawert has been named CEO of Clariti Telecommunications International. The company said its Wireless Messaging division is developing a voice-mail system called ClariCAST Digital Wireless...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has agreed to license its Spyglass Prism Internet technologies to Telenor Mobil of Norway.The technology will allow customers using cellular phones and other mobile devices to access the Internet in formats best suited to each device, Spyglass said, allowing...
Microsoft Corp. launched its MSN Mobile service, a wireless extension of its MSN.com Internet portal that allows customers to receive their information services on pagers, cell phones and other wireless devices.To make this possible, Microsoft May 20 acquired OmniBrowse Inc., a wireless data company...
The future is convergence.The future is data.The future is 3G.Now that the Operators Harmonization Group has approved a plan to harmonize wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology with the cdma2000 version, all should be fine in the new frontier, right?Of course, anyone in this...
Aquis Communications Group Inc. signed a definitive agreement to buy the paging assets of Francis Communications Ltd. of El Paso, Texas. This is the company's third acquisition since buying the paging assets of Bell Atlantic Paging and Paging Partners Corp. The purchase will add...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. and Aether Technologies Inc. have formed a new company called OpenSky, created to extend corporate intranet and Internet-based information to wireless devices using the Palm Computing platform, Windows CE or the Wireless Application Protocol, as well as pagers.The new company...
NCRNCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer's readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called MarketingAgent, the software is part of NCR's Customer Relationship Management Solutions 4.0 portfolio. "Businesses that...
The subject of organ donation is rarely a casual conversation. It's a frightening subject because it forces you not only to confront your own mortality, but the mortality of your loved ones.And yet, educating the public about organ transplants is a challenge Arlene Harris...
NEW YORK-By July, Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. plans to launch service under the Cellular One brand in Bermuda, a tax-haven country with the third-highest per-capita income in the world and average monthly cellular phone bills of $89.The holding company, based in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin...
WASHINGTON-The Pentagon, already at war in the Middle East and the Balkans, now faces a major confrontation at home over several bills that would benefit the Department of Defense at the expense of the wireless industry.DOD is the common denominator in all the legislation...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Microsoft Exchange users soon will have wireless access to their desktop data via paging devices, according to a strategic agreement Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed with Infowave Software Inc.According to the agreement, Infowave is developing desktop software, code named Kodiak, designed to give people...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-To move device interconnectivity from enticing theory to practical reality, the new Wireless Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley has formed a bi-coastal collaboration with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University in New Jersey."We started the Wireless...
XircomXircom Inc. announced a new product line called CompactCard, which it said extends wireless connectivity for Windows CE handheld computers. CompactCard is a series of Type II CompactFlash cards that give Windows CE devices access to Ethernet, modem and Global System for Mobile communications...
NEW YORK-With support of the industry it oversees, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission unanimously approved May 20 a regulation to restrict the use of cellular phones by cab drivers while their vehicles are in motion.The commission drafted the regulation earlier this...
LUTON, United Kingdom-A new report compiled by Strategy Analytics shows low-spending customers and the introduction of prepaid services in Europe are causing average revenue per user rates to progressively decline for many cellular providers."While cellular ARPU levels are now showing signs of bottoming out...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it signed a one-year agreement to distribute prepaid cellular phone kits for CTI Compania de Telefonos del Interior S.A., the second-largest wireless carrier in Argentina.The agreement covers the distribution and fulfillment of prepaid cellular phone kits for CTI's direct and...
FRANKLIN, Tenn.-Having survived a March 6 car crash that nearly killed him, country singer George Jones pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and having an open container in his vehicle.The guilty plea emerged amid speculation and accusations that Jones crashed his Lexus sport utility...
HELSINKI-Nokia Inc. bought the research and development units of the TeamWare Group in Tampere, Finland, as well as a small team in Helsinki, said the company.According to the agreement, approximately 70 people will join Nokia. The deal also includes certain TeamWare wireless information management...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. and the Home Shopping Network announced the intent to offer HSN members a branded prepaid cellular phone program, set to launch on or about May 21.HSN members will be able to purchase Philips' Isis handsets and initial and ongoing...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc., despite winning a California appeals court ruling last summer that capped liability at $5,000 for failing to connect a 911 cell phone call from carjack victim Marcia Spielholz, has decided to quietly settle the personal injury lawsuit with the California...
WASHINGTON-The consumer group fighting for specific E911 call-completion regulations vowed to take its case to court if the Federal Communications Commission adopts a technology-neutral rule this week.When it became apparent last week that the Wireless Consumers Alliance had lost its battle with the cellular...
GENEVA-As any one of the tens of thousands of visitors who thronged the halls of February's GSM World Congress knows, the latest word in GSM services is Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). If the sheer quantity of recent WAP-related announcements is anything to go by,...
As you may recall, Vice President Gore's name was floated here recently for wireless industry poster child in recognition of his staff's cache of mobile phones. Remember, Al, fund raising is your first call.Well, Gore has competition. And not from Bill Bradley. Try the...
