Everyone in Hollywood has one. Writers have one. Even some pets have one. So isn't it about time your pager gets one, too?An agent, someone-or something-acts on your behalf, freeing you for other activities. That concept has been brought to the distributed computing world...
NEW YORK-Field-programmable gate arrays are poised to become the next key driver in the trend toward smaller, less expensive, more powerful and more quickly deployable cell sites, according to a new report by Allied Business Intelligence, Oyster Bay, N.Y.Unlike the Application Specific Integrated Circuits...
NEW YORK-The United States Global Positioning System Industry Council, Washington, is opposing a plan, scheduled for a vote this week, that would permit mobile satellite systems to have some of the spectrum now allocated for GPS and the planned Global Navigation Satellite Service.To be...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. will begin providing travel information to its customers, according to a contract with Official Airline Guide, a division of Reed Travel Group.Users that subscribe to the FlightCall service dial *OAG to access information about flights at 18 of the...
FORT WORTH, Texas-The Sabre Group is offering a flight paging service, which alerts business and leisure travelers of departure and arrival times, gate changes and delays. Alphanumeric paging subscribers can register for the service at Sabre's Web site.The paging service is part of Sabre's...
Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.'s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and one-touch VCR recording device all in one.VideoGuide's Bedford, Mass., computer facility receives news, weather and sports information, compresses it and...
Socket Communications Inc. has introduced PageSoft for ACT!, an add-on software package that employs existing wireless paging networks to deliver time-critical text and data to ACT! mobile users. ACT! is a contact management software package developed by Symantec Corp. PageSoft for ACT! allows users...
WASHINGTON-According to a public service announcement aired nationwide in conjunction with National Wireless Safety Week, "Rescue 911" host William Shatner pointed out that more than 50,000 emergency calls are made from wireless devices every day. Some of those callers were singled out as "Wireless...
Despite strong initial efforts on the part of Chilean, Argentine and Mexican regulators, implementing personal communications services in Latin America will fall a little short of earlier bullish expectations. At the same time, PCS already has taken off in a sense, with cellular increasingly...
