PRINCETON, N.J.—Broadbeam Corp. announced Janet L. Boudris has been named the company's chief executive officer and made a member of the board of directors.Boudris most recently served as vice president of Cingular Wireless and has also held executive positions with Page America Inc., EDS...
LOS GATOS, Calif.—Software solution provider Streaming21 Inc. and global services company EDS are partnering to offer next-generation streaming technology solutions for transmitting and playing digital video and audio over the Internet and broadband networks.Users will be able to customize and interact with content and...
GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology services firm with more than 9,000 corporate clients, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Inc."The consumer...
NEW YORK-To simulate third-generation wireless before its deployment, Finland's Sonera has just embarked on a new program, Sonera Mspace, said Kaj-Erik Relander, the company's executive vice president.In partnership with content, service and technology providers, Mspace will conduct in Finland "real life trials with consumers...
PLANO, Texas-EDS announced it is helping GTE Wireless bring the convenience of online bill payments to its more than 7 million customers by providing interactive online billing as part of the GTE's corporatewide e-commerce strategy.Interactive Billing Services, based on EDS' electronic billing offering, allows...
PLANO, Texas-EDS said it is adding knowledge management and professional training software from Synergistics to its Web-based wholesale applications rental service.The company initially will incorporate Synergistics' Prevail Knowledge Center and new Web State University products into a suite of applications EDS offers on a...
PLANO, Texas-EDS introduced a service offering that will enable Internet service providers, phone companies and others to brand, sell and bill for the latest e-business applications such as enterprise resource planning, enterprise e-mail, collaborative groupware and electronic commerce offerings, including electronic trading and Web...
Electronic Data Systems said it signed a five-year systems management agreement with Motorola Inc., under which EDS will manage the technology infrastructure for Motorola's Systems Solutions Group and Satellite Communications Group. EDS said it will provide Motorola a full spectrum of Information Technology customer...
PLANO, Texas-Paging Network Inc. announced it will outsource its product inventory management and logistics management, including warehousing and customer fulfillment processing, to enterprise customer management solution provider Centrobe, an EDS company.By placing inventory and product delivery responsibilities with another company, PageNet will be free...
HONG KONG-Lucent Technologies Inc. appointed Scott K. Erickson vice president of its Wireless Networks Group for the Asia-Pacific region, effective immediately. Erickson's responsibilities in his new position include developing market opportunities, business development and sales strategy for wireless systems and wireless access across the...
NEW YORK-Look no further than North American borders for the biggest near-term opportunities to provide billing and customer care systems.In recent years, the focus of procurement contract competition has been on supplying operations support systems, which include billing and customer care, to the green...
LCC International Inc. last week made two moves that appear to be pointing toward an increasing importance of international markets to its radio frequency engineering and network implementation services and products business.The company appointed Geoffrey Carroll president and chief executive officer of the company...
NEW YORK-As unlikely as it may seem at first glance today, an affinity marketing company and an airline reservation system offer a glimpse into the future landscape of the wireless telecommunications industry.Working Assets, a cause-related marketer, is a successful example and role model for...
OCTOBER7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Bally's, Las Vegas. (301) 694-5243.7-9 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Renaissance...
NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere.Already the company is in various stages of a rollout of its C2C wireless prepaid roaming network for four cellular carriers: Southwestern Bell...
SEPTEMBER16-17 CDMA System Design, Engineering & Optimizations, by the Wireless Institute of Technology. Holiday Inn, San Francisco, Calif. (510) 490-6459.16-17 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Embassy Suites Hotel, Dallas. (800) 327-8412.17-18 Broadband for Residential...
SEPTEMBER9-10 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Wyndham Bristol Hotel, Washington, D.C. (800) 327-8412.9-10 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. Back Bay Hilton, Boston. (800) 771-2012.10 Paging Infomania 1996, by Motorola Inc....
PLANO, Texas-EDS Personal Communications business unit announced an agreement to provide its Intercarrier Settlement Services to Hong Kong-based cellular carrier Pacific Link Communications Ltd.Under the agreement, EDS will automate the financial funds exchange between Pacific Link and North American carriers, and will provide daily...
Securicor Wireless Networks has named Greg Kleven vice president of worldwide sales. Kleven will plan, implement and head all global sales programs for the company. Previously, Kleven worked for Sequent Computer Systems where he created its Telecommunications American Operation, which consists of major account...
