SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Good Technology Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Research In Motion Ltd., alleging RIM's single mailbox patent infringes on its newly released wireless e-mail product.The suit, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is seen as a pre-emptive strike against RIM, which...
ATLANTA—U.S. Cellular Corp. deployed Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s IP-based Versera Large Solution platform in Milwaukee. Under the agreement, Glenayre's platform will help U.S. Cellular customers manage their voice, fax and e-mail messages from a single, centralized mailbox. In addition, Glenayre said the platform will enable...
ATLANTA—Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will integrate Philips Speech Processing's SpeechPearl speech recognition engine into its Versera Voice Services suite.Glenayre's Versera suite offers users voice-driven navigation of voice mail, e-mail and fax messages, dial by voice, and a voice controlled address book. "SpeechPearl supports...
WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada—The adage, "keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer," seems to fit the new business relationship Research In Motion (RIM) and Glenayre Electronics announced this week.The two companies said they are dropping their patent lawsuits against each other and will...
DENVER, United States—WebLink Wireless found its white knight.The paging and messaging carrier said last week it scored a deal with Sun Capital Acquisition, which buys cash-strapped companies and then funds them back to health. WebLink said the move will help it emerge from bankruptcy...
WebLink Wireless Inc. found its white knight.The paging and messaging carrier said late Thursday it scored a deal with Sun Capital Acquisition Corp., which buys out cash-strapped companies and then funds them back to health. WebLink said the move will help it emerge from...
BOSTON—The Salt Forum, a group of companies working to create an independent markup language for speech-enabling applications, announced 18 additional contributors have joined to further the group's goal.Compaq, Glenayre Electronics, InterVoice-Brite, NMS Communications and VoiceGenie are among the new contributors.
1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...
BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, United States—Ending months of speculation, Motorola announced it is exiting the ReFLEX paging business by the middle of next year, an industry the company played a major role in developing.Motorola said its Wireless Messaging Division, which is part of its Personal...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—Arch Wireless Inc. said it will file for file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Jan. 15 in order to restructure its long-term debt. The company owes about $2 billion.The move comes as little surprise as Arch has made numerous hints at bankruptcy in...
ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it sold its unified communications solution to StarHub PTE Ltd, an integrated fixed and mobile telecommunications provider in Singapore.StarHub will use the technology to offer its new Power Mail, which the company said simplifies subscriber communications by providing a single...
ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will not implement the reverse stock split it previously announced on Sept. 17.The company said it made its decision following Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.'s announcement that it suspended the $1 minimum bid price requirement for continued trading on the...
ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it joined the Unified Communications Consortium. The group's goal is to further the growth of the global unified communications market for public services and enterprise systems through sponsoring market research and education.Earlier this year Glenayre announced it was quitting the...
DULUTH, Ga.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. released its second-quarter earnings, showing the drastic results and continued restructuring moves associated with the company's escape from the flailing paging industry.Glenayre posted revenues from its continuing unified messaging operations of $26.5 million for the second quarter, ended June 30,...
It's quiet out there in the paging and messaging industry.Perhaps too quiet.WebLink Wireless Inc., Arch Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. are the three largest independent paging and messaging companies in the country, and it seems their fates are intricately entwined. They are all facing...
Following a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California's summary judgement that Research In Motion Ltd.'s products do not infringe on a Glenayre's Technologies Inc.'s patent, Glenayre said it will request the court grant permission for the company to file a motion...
It's been almost two months since Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it would discontinue its paging infrastructure operations-a business Glenayre has been an integral part of for nearly 40 years, a business it helped create. It is a move company executives said was inevitable and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. scored a major, $750,000 sale for its @ctiveMessaging unified messaging platform to Edge Wireless Inc., an AT&T Wireless Communications Inc. affiliate.The deal comes shortly after Glenayre announced it would exit the paging infrastructure business and focus solely on its unified...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-Executives of Motorola Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association sparred over the future of paging and device-makers' support for it at last week's Southeastern Communications Association "Wireless Messaging 2001" conference held here."Although we have seen some decline this year, early on...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Just a week after paging infrastructure provider Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its plans to drop out of the business, two more companies licensed Motorola Inc.'s two-way paging protocol, ReFLEX.Standard Telecom, which manufactures Nixxo products and pagers, and Advantra, which designs and manufactures...
Paging lit up the wireless industry like a white-hot star.It showed that fistfuls of money could be made using wireless technology. It showed that wireless companies could grow by leaps and bounds virtually overnight. Paging showed the industry that millions and millions of people...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced a massive restructuring plan last week that includes cutting 55 percent of its work force-a full 700 positions-and completely dismantling its wireless messaging infrastructure division. Glenayre officials said the company would refocus its energies on its unified messaging products and...
The ability to access anything, any time, any place seems to be every enthusiastic wireless user's ultimate dream. But many seem unaware that the technology that might make that goal a reality is not just around the corner, it's already here.Several factors have kept...
"Advanced messaging services."It's the catch phrase for the wireless messaging industry today, with most major companies betting everything that services like wireless e-mail access, Internet information and two-way paging will catch on with both consumers and businesses-and will compensate for the radical decrease in...
