The fate of wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. is unclear, and industry watchers have little faith that the company's destiny is a bright one."I don't really know what they bring to the table," said Michael King, senior analyst with Gartner Inc. "I do wonder...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Retrieval Dynamics Corp. and EarthLink Inc. announced a teaming to create a wireless data package for real estate executives. The program combines a BlackBerry wireless e-mail device from Research In Motion Ltd. with EarthLink's wireless service and real estate applications from RDC."By teaming...
HACKENSACK, New Jersey, United States-Wireless enterprise company GoAmerica announced it will further reduce its work force, news that comes as the company reported shrinking revenues due to its recent deal with EarthLink."In light of the continued weakness in enterprise technology spending, we have implemented...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-Wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. announced it will further reduce its work force, news that comes as the company reported shrinking revenues due to its recent deal with EarthLink."In light of the continued weakness in enterprise technology spending, we have implemented additional cost...
ATLANTA-Internet service provider EarthLink said it will sell wireless laptop modems running over a national CDMA 1xRTT network, a move that further expands the ISP's wireless strategy.EarthLink wouldn't say what network it is reselling-either that of Sprint PCS or Verizon Wireless.EarthLink's new EarthLink Wireless...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced EarthLink Inc. will take over its billing, customer care and network services operations under a major new partnership between the two companies, a move that also involves GoAmerica cutting its work force in half as part of a significant cost-savings...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—A subsidiary of wireless enterprise company Semotus Solutions filed a $20 million lawsuit against Internet service provider EarthLink Networks Inc., alleging EarthLink failed to pay for a Web site it designed, built and operated.Semotus subsidiary WizShop.com said it built EarthLink's shopping mall...
NEW YORK—EarthLink, the Atlanta-based Internet service provider, will expand the usability of its EarthLink Everywhere wireless access by making it available to Pocket PC 2002 handheld computers by May, said Jeffrey Hendricks, director of product management for devices and appliances.In late February, the company...
ATLANTA—Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. announced it is now offering Internet service to wireless handheld device users as well. According to the company's Web site, EarthLink-powered wireless e-mail and Internet service is available over several devices from Palm, Handspring, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and Research...
SAN FRANCISCO—Internet service provider giant EarthLink licensed wireless enterprise software developer Neomar's Carrier Class Gateway, which the ISP plans to use in its forthcoming "EarthLink Everywhere" wireless Internet service.EarthLink will use Neomar's infrastructure to offer Internet-based content over wireless devices.
WASHINGTON—Cingular Wireless said has donated 1,500 mobile phones and dispatched portable base stations to aid search and rescue operations in connection with terrorist attacks in New York and the nation's capital on Tuesday.Clay Owen, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Cingular, said the firm's Washington, D.C.,...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint Corp. said underwriters of its recent offering of 70 million shares of series 1 Sprint PCS common stock and 60 million equity units exercised their 15 percent overallotment options in full, bringing the total raised through the offering to $2.3 billion.Sprint...
The misfortunes of many in the wired broadband industry are turning into golden opportunities for some in the wireless industry, as customers who have been dumped by their bankrupt cable and digital subscriber line service providers scramble to find other means of getting high-speed...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-WebLink Wireless Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. both announced improvements to their e-mail offerings, adding e-mail heavyweights America Online Inc. and GroupServe.WebLink added AOL's e-mail program to the growing number of programs the company's Remote Email Manager can support.WebLink's customers will now be...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. scored a significant customer last week as EarthLink, the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, agreed to provide the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service to its customers nationwide.The BlackBerry launch coincided with the company's EarthLink Everywhere initiative, mirroring similar efforts by...
DENVER-Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Direct fixed-wireless service is available in the Denver metro and Boulder areas, the company announced.A pizza box-sized antenna is professionally installed on a user's roof in the line of sight of the transceiver, which can be up to 32 miles away....
DENVER, United States-Instant messaging is considered a key element to what the wireless industry calls pervasive messaging, meaning the ability to send a text message from any device-a computer, pager or wireless phone-to any other text-enabled device regardless of network connection.As the wireless industry...
The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry.Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks.Today, the story is much different. Wireless has caught the attention of many powerful and nontraditional...
Instant messaging is considered a key element to what the wireless industry calls pervasive messaging, meaning the ability to send a text message from any device-such as a computer, pager or wireless phone-to any other text-enabled device regardless of network connection.As the wireless industry...
ATLANTA-EarthLink Inc. has begun a market test of its Airmanager, a wireless service featuring BlackBerry Internet Edition from Research In Motion Ltd.The new service allows EarthLink members to send and receive e-mail messages using the BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution, and it is the first...
WASHINGTON-When wireless customers begin to really use their wireless phones to access the Internet, who will they use? An Internet service provider of their choice or will they be forced to use the mobile-phone company's ISP?The answer Chris Gent, chief executive officer of Vodafone...
