REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc., which sells wireless Internet and messaging software, reported new carrier sales along with third-quarter results showing declining losses and shrinking revenues. Openwave said it expects to report similar sluggish results in the coming quarter.Telecom New Zealand and Taiwan Cellular...
ORLEANS, France-The Open GIS Consortium Inc. released the proposed OpenGIS Location Services Implementation Specification for public comment.The OpenLS specification resulted from the OpenLS 1 testbed initiatives held between October 2001 and October 2002, said OGC."The initiatives are aimed to define and build the 'core'...
LYON, France-French company Swapcom said it won a deal with Telefuture for Swapcom's Multimedia Mobile Gateway to help Telefuture deploy premium and mobile personalization services in Northern Europe.Telefuture provides interactive telecommunication services, such as chat, dating, logos, polyphonic ring tones, games and voting. The...
BANGKOK, Thailand-Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia Ltd. (HCWML), a joint venture between Hutchison Wireless MultiMedia Holdings Ltd. and The Communications Authority of Thailand, has chosen Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector to implement its Network Enabling Services Platform, which will run on Kabira's OSA/Parlay Gateway solution....
NEW ORLEANS-IpUnplugged AB, which develops secure seamless roaming solutions, released the third generation of its software, which delivers communications across multiple radio, cellular and wireless local area networks.The solution comprises ipUnplugged's Roaming Client, Roaming Gateway and Roaming Server. The solution allows mobile professionals to...
NEW ORLEANS-Starent Networks Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said they have partnered to deliver next-generation infrastructure solutions for W-CDMA carriers.Terms of the agreement call for Starent to supply the Gateway GPRS Support Node for worldwide resale, and Starent and Samsung are jointly developing...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. issued separate announcements on their programs that help software developers in the wireless arena.Lucent unveiled a new software development kit to enable mobile operators and software developers enrich services for mobile-phone users. The product, known as the...
HANNOVER, Germany-The march of new, advanced devices continued in conjunction with the CeBIT trade show, with Samsung, Siemens, NEC and Symbol all making announcements.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made perhaps the most interesting announcement with plans to sell a new style of wireless devices based...
KOLN, Germany-Under a new agreement, the VoiceObjects Factory developed by VoiceObjects AG, will become available on the Comverse Media Server, a standards-based VoiceXML gateway for wireless and wireline networks.VoiceObjects develops and markets voice application server software and associated tools.
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. selected Lucent Technologies Inc.'s PacketStar Multiservice Media Gateway to move voice and data traffic on its network.Lucent said the PacketStar Gateway is being deployed at thousands of Cingular cell sites and that it will enable the carrier to increase...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens Mobile Acceleration, an early-stage wireless venture investor wholly owned by Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group, Munich, Germany, has opened an American headquarters in San Jose, Calif.Gerald Brady, formerly director of 3i, a venture-capital firm specializing in software and communications companies, will...
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-RPA Wireless Inc. said it has entered a strategic alliance to offer ClickSoftware's product known as ClickSchedule to deliver wireless messaging to its customers."The combined capabilities of ClickSchedule and the RPA's wireless gateway will allow businesses with stringent Service Level Agreements to...
CANNES, France-TSI Telecom Services Inc. said it has launched GSM network transport and conversion services known as SCCP gateway services and has signed up Japanese carrier J-Phone as its first customer.The company, which has set up a new office in Amsterdam, also launched Streamliner,...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging and data company Comverse released a new version of its wireless data gateway product, which the company said supports WAP 2.0 standards.Comverse said the Mobile Data Gateway version 4 can support new color handsets, multimedia and photo messaging, mobile e-mail and Java...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. will release its new e525 GPRS/WAP mobile handset at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, next week. The phone features a fold-form design, built-in antenna and integrated camera. It also includes two color displays, three picture formats, MMS capability, a picture...
CANNES, France-RAD Data Communications, which manufactures equipment for data communications and telecommunications applications, will exhibit its new Vmux-2100 compressed voice gateway at this year's 3GSM World Congress. "In order to ease their 3G investments, cellular operators have to reduce current expenditures on 2G networks...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Marvell Technology Group Inc. said it has introduced what it describes as the first single-chip integrated SOHO gateway router to link wide area network to local area network and allows original equipment manufacturer customers to address the home networking and residential gateway market."While...
EDISON, N.J.-LSSi Corp. announced its new Redditch gateway, which provides redundant access to LSSi's telephone listing data to European customers via the company's IDA Gateway Service, is now available in Birmingham, England.Redditch is LSSi's second European gateway-it also runs the Lamezia Terme Data Center...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. signed a global agreement for Hutchison to use Ericsson's Video Gateway System for its video offerings on its third-generation networks worldwide. The system supports video telephony between personal computers and 3G devices.The two companies are testing the...
ROCKVILLE, Md.-3e Technologies International Inc. (3eTI) released its 3e-720 Telephony Gateway WLAN solution and the 3e-521IP Industrial Wireless Gateway at this week's CES show in Las Vegas.The 3e-720 Telephony Gateway provides residential users with a VoIP solution and supports analog voice and data networking,...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Public access solutions supplier Nomadix Inc. reported wireless local area network hot spot aggregator Boingo Wireless certified its Universal Subscriber Gateway II for its Boingo Ready Program for out of the box compatibility with Boingo's systems and software.Nomadix said its has also...
By launching a service-based business group, enhanced open standards portfolio and partnerships to enhance a variety of wireless applications, Motorola Inc. has spread its dragnet to collect carrier contracts.As multimedia services continue to take center stage, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company is attacking next-generation services...
BEIJING-AudioCodes Ltd. said it has unveiled a new mid-sized wireless gateway to address the cost, feature and fault tolerance requirement of both service providers for small to medium cellular switching deployments and enterprises with large campuses."When coupled with an MSC server, MGCF or softswitch,...
TORONTO-724 Solutions Inc. reported revenue for its third quarter of $5.6 million, up from the $5 million in the company's previous quarter but down from the $10 million it scored during the same quarter last year. The company's net loss was $21.5 million."Our priority...
