VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Infowave Software said Swiss operator Sunrise/TDC selected Infowave's Mobile Application Gateway to offer wireless e-mail services to its subscribers. The services, which provide corporate users with real-time, secure wireless access to corporate e-mail, calendar and contacts, will be available in November.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Infowave Software has launched its Mobile Application Gateway, a platform that lets wireless carriers offer their enterprise customers secure access to corporate information, including e-mail and calendar items."The Mobile Application Gateway suite gives network operators the opportunity to offer their corporate customers...
LAS VEGAS-Personal technology retail giant Gateway Inc. launched its Mobile Wireless Solution that uses Verizon Wireless' Express Network this week at CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet 2002.The service will be available this week in Las Vegas, Dallas and Houston, in additional markets later this...
NEW YORK-Toronto-based 724 Solutions has made generally available its new X-treme Mobility Suite, whose technologies work individually and together to permit wireless operators to generate new revenues from the convergence of mobile and Internet services.The Suite comprises the Pull Gateway to deliver session-based data...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-If you believe the latest predictions from the handset manufacturers and market research firms, then mobile gaming is set to become a major business for mobile operators.Nokia is actively attempting to pull together the various technologies, content providers and operators to make...
BOSTON, United States-A new report from the Yankee Group reveals 50 percent of large U.S. enterprises have plans to implement a wireless solution by next year and offers guidance to companies on doing so.The Yankee Group suggests companies planning to go wireless should start...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Technology giant IBM Corp. released an important new product the company said allows wireless device users to seamlessly roam across a variety of disparate wireless networks-including wireless local area network, cellular, private mobile radio and satellite networks-all without ever turning off the device.IBM...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile network operator MTN announced that it has begun charging subscribers for its wireless Internet gateway (WIG) services. The service has been offered free since its inception in August 2000.An MTN spokesman said customers would now be charged the standard short message...
MANILA, The Philippines-Philippine telecom watchdog National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has granted Globe Telecom and Smart Communications permanent licenses to operate their respective businesses for the next 25 years. NTC stated that the certificates of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) were given for Globe's cellular...
Ever heard of EMS, or Enhanced Messaging Service?If not, don't worry-few people have.It was created as an extension to the short message service messaging technology that has taken the worldwide wireless industry by storm. The idea was to "enhance" SMS messages with more space...
SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) said it established a new task force to develop mobile signature standards. Mobile signatures are used to authenticate the identity of a person using a mobile phone for purchases.The aim of the new task force is to...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesSony EricssonSony Ericsson Mobile Communications introduced several new handsets, including the T61d, T600, ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Microsoft Corp. closed its Mobile Internet Business Unit in Stockholm, Sweden, cutting about 80 jobs. The affected employees will be offered jobs in the company's U.S.-based headquarters.The Microsoft Mobile Internet business unit was initially established to develop bridging technologies to integrate proprietary systems...
LONDON—M-Wise said it closed a $1 million license of its MOMA Gateway to Comtrend, a telecom manufacturer in Taiwan. Comtrend's system integrator original equipment manufacturer business, which sells value-added mobile software to operators in Taiwan, Asia and Europe, is using the MOMA Gateway to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Rogers AT&T Wireless customers will now be able to access any Internet content using the carrier's GSM/GPRS network through a new deal between Rogers AT&T and software provider OceanLake Inc.Under the deal, Rogers AT&T will use OceanLake's Mobile Gateway to allow subscribers...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—NowSpeed Inc. released Mobile Office 2.5, which enhanced the Exchange gateway by allowing it to be a gateway for other intranet and IT applications."Customers want to use NowSpeed Mobile Office not only as their gateway to e-mail, calendar, contacts and documents, but also...
NEW DELHI, India—Shin Satellite Public Company Limited said it signed a procurement contract with Bagan Cybertech IDC and Teleport for the provision of rural telephony services throughout Myanmar by the fourth quarter.Bagan is a semi-government-owned telecommunications company in Myanmar offering VSAT services, high-speed Internet...
LONDON—Logica announced a major deal with wireless giant Telefonica Moviles to provide the carrier this virtually all its messaging products, as well as plans to jointly develop new messaging infrastructure products and solutions.Logica will offer Telefonica and its operators worldwide its short message service...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwean-based telecommunications company Econet Wireless announced it has secured contracts valued at an estimated US$50 million to deliver international carrier and satellite services to customers during the next five years.The contracts will fall under the London-based subsidiary Econet Satellite Services.Jose Gaie, senior...
CHICAGO—Cambia Networks, which provided high-end data networking infrastructure products for wireless carriers, shut down late last month.Cambia officials could not immediately be reached for comment.The company launched in August 2000 with $11 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital, Skymoon Ventures and Eagle Technology...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless said it will install a new short message service gateway from Motorola Inc. to power its Mobile Messenger service."As the nation's largest wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless will provide new interactive messaging services to its customers, and the SMS Gateway will serve...
LONDON—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed a three-year contract worth over $35 million to supply Orange SA with its MiLife VoiceXML Gateway solution."This project is at the heart of the OrangeWorld vision to develop a powerful Internet-based platform to provide the basis for...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. said it plans to perform a testing program to confirm if its MMS Client, MMS server and its WAP Gateway interoperates with Nokia's MMS-enabled handsets such as 7650 and the Nokia MMS server solution."The testing resulting in interoperability between...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. announced it sold its Mobile Access Gateway version 5.1 to new Brazilian wireless carrier Telemar.Telemar will license Openwave's technology for its new Oi wireless Internet service, which it expects to offer by the first quarter of this year.
