Although some rumblings continue over Geoworks Corp.'s licensing program for Wireless Application Protocol technology, WAP-related announcements continued making news at last week's GSM World Congress in Cannes.Phone.com Inc. announced it formed a WAP interoperability testing lab, a software upgrade preview center and the latest...
When you're moving at Internet-speed, a lot can happen in a year.Those targeting the wireless remote access market found this out quickly. About a year ago, several companies emerged with the intent to provide solutions that would extend corporate data to wireless handsets. At...
Wireless carriers and Wall Street are excited about the huge revenue potential advertising via mobile phones could bring in the future, but just how to offer it to customers is a looming question.Regulatory requirements to allow wireless 911 location will drive the advent of...
Geoworks Corp. last week unveiled a licensing program to collect royalties on a user-interface method employed by the Wireless Application Protocol and Wireless Markup Language for which it says it holds essential intellectual property rights.While others have made essential IPR claims on WAP technology,...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. reported a net loss of $994,000, or six cents per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, compared with a loss of $4.6 million, or 29 cents per share, for the same period a year ago.Revenues were $2.9 million, up...
Geoworks Corp. last week introduced its Discopro.com free mobile information service, which delivers discount and promotional messages to subscribers' pagers or text-enabled phones.Interested users select which participating retailers they wish to receive advertising from, and then are sent electronic discount coupons and news of...
Geoworks Corp., adding yet another new business focus, has embarked on a crusade to elevate the wireless environment to the broadcast advertising status of television and radio.The company revealed plans to launch a series of wireless information services, sponsored by advertising, which customers can...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. has bought a minority interest in the company by investing some $5 million in Geoworks common stock, representing about 7 percent of the company's total.Amazon.com has assumed Geoworks' Seattle office lease and will hire other employees...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced it added Tegic Communications' text input technology to its Premion Interface+ solution. Geoworks said it included Tegic's T9 technology so users more easily can enter address and e-mail information as well as promote more data use. The T9 technology uses...
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
Geoworks Corp. announced the latest stage in its continuing transformation last week with the introduction of a consulting division called the Professional Services group.The business unit was created to provide software development, strategic consulting, project management and quality assurance consulting services to the wireless...
Nearly a year in the making, Geoworks Corp. has introduced a long-awaited software solution that allows carriers to add enhanced data services to otherwise voice-only phones.Called Premion Interface+, the application platform combines a customizable graphical user interface with both the Wireless Application Protocol and...
CommSite InternationalCommSite International Inc. announced company founder Wesley McGee has assumed the role of chairman and Timothy Haley was appointed president and chief executive officer. Haley has experience in financial performance and administration, sales and marketing, employee development, client service and technical project leadership,...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. said it signed a co-marketing agreement with Fujitsu Software Corp. to promote its new Premion Information Service through Fujitsu's ByeDesk Link server software application.Fujitsu's ByeDesk Link is a software application that is installed on a corporate intranet server or hosted by...
HANOVER, Germany-Geoworks Corp. announced its graphical, communications-centric GEOS operating system will provide the foundation for the new Nokia Corp. 9110 Communicator for Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz networks."Nokia's unveiling of the 9110 Communicator is another major milestone for Geoworks, because it reflects...
TRANSCRYPT INTERNATIONALTranscrypt International Inc. named Craig Huffaker senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Huffaker's 20 years of financial management experience include 12 years as CFO for publicly traded companies. Huffaker, a certified public accountant, most recently was CFO of TIE Communications.CellStar...
Geoworks announced a significant evolution to its GEOS operating system that will allow handset manufacturers to quickly produce a range of low-end to high-end smart phones.Consumer electronics giant Mitsubishi has licensed the upgraded system, the GEOS-SC, to manufacture and ship next year a new...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications.The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing the Web, said Spyglass. It is a server-based solution that reduces the time required to access Web sites by converting...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks will expand its cooperation with Nokia to provide packaged content and services for Smart Messaging, the Nokia-developed Global System for Mobile communications wireless service architecture announced last month at the CeBIT '97 technology fair.Geoworks will provide wireless services using Nokia's newly proposed...
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Laissez-faire capitalists repeatedly faced off with supporters of de facto or government-mandated high-technology standards during last week's Mobile Insights '97 conference on mobile computing.The three-day meeting, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here and hosted by industry consultant Gerry Purdy and his Mountain...
The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the cravings of today's business professionals.Nokia Mobile...
ALAMEDA, Calif. - Geoworks and Ericsson Inc. announced an alliance to deliver a range of afforadable "smart phone" next-generation cellular phones combining voice and data transmission capabilities.Under the terms os the agreement, Ericsson has licensed Geoworks' Geos open operating system platform.Ericsson smart phones are...
