Adicom WirelessAdicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
The idea sounds compelling. With Web-enabled cellular telephones, users can dial up their favorite merchants to make automated purchases. It's called mobile commerce, but for skeptics like Lawrence Steinert, it's more a promise than reality.When it comes to new technologies, Steinert is no shrinking...
SEATTLE-Alaska Airlines expanded its wireless offerings, which include mobile flight information and flight schedules, to give customers the ability to check in for flights using a Web-enabled phone or personal digital assistant.Wireless software and services provider Everypath worked with the airline to enable wireless...
More than 50 percent of the 39.8 million business travelers in 1999 brought cellular phones with them on their trips, according to the Travel Industry Association of America. Such numbers have prompted a variety of wireless companies to offer systems and services to travelers...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced a "wireless travel concierge" portfolio to its Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service via partnerships with several companies and content providers.Alaska Airlines, Biztravel.com, Delta Airline, Qsent, Trip.com and United Airlines all debuted their travel-related wireless applications on AT&T's PocketNet...
Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services.PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video and audio solutions-last week introduced a showcase of streaming video media applications available on today's...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Televigation announced its Snap-to-Map navigation system successfully completed Ericsson's GPRS Applications Performance Evaluation.The company said the results show its product is ready for deployment on GPRS networks.The application evaluation involved two sections, the Global Application Test Environment, which shows developers how applications might...
TOKYO-Japanese vendors are in the final stages of developing third-generation (3G) terminals. Japanese 3G services are scheduled to be launched earlier than any other country in May 2001 by NTT DoCoMo, followed by J-Phone, the mobile business of Japan Telecom and the newly merged...
CHICAGO-United Airlines moved to dramatically increase the accessibility and ease with which its customers will be able to use wireless devices such as personal digital assistants and wireless-enabled laptop computers, announcing an agreement with Aerzone to establish wireless broadband local area networks in airports.United's...
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
CHICAGO-United Airlines introduced enhancements to United Update, a suite of applications designed to inform travelers with WAP-enabled wireless devices of flight and travel information via United's wireless Web sites.The enhancements allow travelers to check the status of a United flight and gate information by...
TOKYO-The number of Japanese PHS subscribers expanded in the December-January time frame, demonstrating that the long-ailing PHS business is starting to revitalize.The number of PHS users in the country has decreased for the last few years since hitting a high of 7 million in...
ZURICH, Switzerland-Swissair said it became the first airline to allow customers to check in for flights using Wireless Application Protocol-based mobile phones. The service, which was developed in conjunction with IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, began Thursday.Frequent flyers can check in for flights departing from...
TEMPE, Ariz.-Motorola Labs said it has built the world's thinnest functional transistor using a class of perovskite materials that will enable future transistors to be smaller and faster while consuming less power.Perovskites are a class of crystalline oxide materials with unique material properties, Motorola...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Following up its widely acclaimed NeoPoint 1000 smart phone, NeoPoint Inc. last week at Wireless I.T. introduced a location-based wireless portal called myAladdin.com.The portal is positioned as a smart-information service, with features including driving directions and route guides, ATM Locator, traffic information,...
TranscryptTranscrypt International Inc. said its EFJohnson subsidiary launched a new line of mobile and portable radios designed to operate on Motorola Inc.'s Smartnet and SmartZone systems in the 800 MHz frequency band. The portable radio comes with three keys or a dual-tone multifrequency keypad....
Wireless carriers are about to get an education, one that San Francisco-based Telephia Inc. believes is long overdue.Founded in February 1998, by Tom Frangione and John Oyler-both with extensive backgrounds in telecommunications and start-up companies-the privately owned company plans to offer carriers the ability...
ELite Logistic ServicesElite Logistic Services Inc. introduced its PageTrack control module, a wireless automotive security, control and monitoring solution. The system uses SkyTel Communications Inc.'s two-way ReFLEX network, the ReFLEX CreataLink 2 XT two-way data transceiver from Motorola Inc. and global positioning system technology....
Supra Products rounded out its TRACcess family of electronic access devices with the introduction of its TRAC-Cabinet device.TRAC-Cabinet is a general purpose electronic cabinet lock designed to control and monitor access to cabinets, drawers and enclosures.Dan Ostlund, corporate director of marketing at Supra, said...
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...
While paging carriers work to upgrade their network technology to fit the advanced messaging paradigm, several also are working to upgrade the services available on their networks, namely content.For about a year now, information content has been available to subscribers for free. The idea...
NEW YORK-The boundaries between internal and external computer networks are disappearing due to the warp-speed incursion of the Internet, raising security concerns within enterprises that want to exploit this promising opportunity safely."Security is one of the inhibitors. It has been and always will be...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
WANDEL & GOLTERMANNRadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values established by control boards and gives an alarm if the levels are exceeded. The monitor...
