DENVER-Multi-Link Telecommunications Inc., a provider of integrated voice messaging services, signed a letter of intent for Glenayre Technologies Inc. to invest about $1.5 million in Multi-Link's restricted common stock.In addition, Multi-Link has been advised that Glenayre is in negotiations with an existing stockholder to...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. released first-quarter earnings, elected a new chairman and completed both the acquisition of NationPage and initial construction of a nationwide Asynchronous Transfer Mode network.Metrocall's first quarter net loss was $47.7 million, compared with a net loss of $42 million last year....
Gary Hermansen, former senior vice president and general manager of Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s consumer products group, left the company to become chief executive officer of start-up firm Brightmail Inc.Hermansen served as vice president of sales and marketing for Wireless Access Inc. and played a...
Since expanding its business around a mobile application service provider model, JP Systems Inc. recently presided over the launch of a wireless Internet portal in India called Netxcell.com, the first customer to license the full range of JP Systems' technologies.In addition, the company added...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. shocked analysts and Wall Street last week with first-quarter financial results that beat everybody's expectations-even its own.The manufacturer reported first-quarter net income of $1.1 million, or 2 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $1.5 million, or 3 cents...
NEW ORLEANS-Glenayre Technologies Inc. introduced a two-way wireless communications module called @ctiveLink for the Visor handheld computer from Handspring Inc., the first ReFLEX-based two-way wireless data solution for a Palm operating system device.The module is designed to snap into the Springboard expansion slot on...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced its My2Way two-way paging service, reselling airtime from WebLink Wireless Inc.'s ReFLEX network under an existing agreement.Metrocall said it will sell Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000X and Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s AccessLink II pagers in support of the service. The company did...
Perhaps the greatest indicator of the wireless data industry's rise to popularity is the way paging carriers are positioning themselves in the space today.Pioneering wireless data carriers like American Mobile Satellite Corp. and BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. started the trend by offering paging-like services...
If recent announcements by paging vendors and carriers are any indication, two-way paging products and services are poised to make a big splash in 2000.Both Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. unveiled their long-awaited ReFLEX 25 compatible two-way paging devices last week at the...
Motorola Inc.-expected next week to introduce its ReFLEX 25 two-way pager at CES in Las Vegas-has entered into a series of agreements with Glenayre Technologies Inc. to expand ReFLEX 25-based devices.The agreements call for joint market development activities, collaborating on a common over-the-air programming...
At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 1999 in chronological order.1. Jan....
As the fourth quarter comes to a close, it seems ReFLEX 25 paging operators will not get the two-way pagers manufacturers promised would be available by now.Neither Motorola Inc. nor Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group have delivered two-way paging units for use on...
The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and technological efforts designed to increase the awareness and robustness of paging technology.The Personal Communications Industry Association's Y2K Task Force said...
LAS VEGAS-While the growing convergence between the computer and wireless industries has made headlines in wireless industry press and generated great excitement at wireless trade shows, the issue remains somewhat of a footnote within the computer industry.At last week's fall Comdex show here, some...
LHSLHS Group Inc. said its net earnings during the third quarter rose to $11.7 million, up from $7.3 million a year earlier. Earnings per share increased to 20 cents, an eight-cent rise from the third quarter of 1998. "Our move from a largely one-product...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. received two separate contracts for $16.5 million and $1 million to upgrade the nationwide paging network of the Long Distance and Mobile Business Group of ChungHwa Telecom, Taiwan's national telecommunications company.Under terms of the contract, the existing paging control terminals...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. launched Symmetry, a PC-based intelligent agent software package provided through Infowave Software Inc. that connects Glenayre pagers to information stored on Microsoft Outlook software.The two companies together began developing the wireless desktop extension software, then code-named Kodiak, in June. According to...
Two years after putting Western Multiplex on the selling block, Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed an agreement to sell its microwave radio business to Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. of New York and Leeward Technology partners of California.According to the agreement, Glenayre will keep a 5-percent ownership...
NEW ORLEANS-Loc8.net and Glenayre Technologies Inc. said they entered into an agreement under which Glenayre will develop a new two-way paging device that can alert police and other emergency officials of a pager's location in case of an emergency.The device also will help users...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. released more details of its worldwide restructuring plan last week, saying the effort will result in a 20-percent work force reduction and expected annualized operating cost savings of up to $20 million.According to Eric Doggett,Glenayre president and chief executive officer, most...
When Eric Doggett took the helm of Glenayre Technologies Inc. three months ago, he found himself captain of a ship lost at sea.A slowdown in the global paging infrastructure market took much wind out of the company's sails, while problems with paging device production...
In yet another paging industry alliance aimed at wirelessly enabling personal digital assistants, Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group said it plans to partner with JP Systems Inc. to jointly develop and market wireless communications solutions.The partnership will pair the Wireless Access Group's two-way...
Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group charged Research In Motion Ltd. with patent infringement on RIM two-way messaging devices.The Glenayre division said it filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of California last week seeking unspecified damages from RIM.Both companies make two-way messaging...
The next round in the fight to popularize voice paging has begun, this time in Latin America, as Mexican paging operator RadioFlash became the first carrier to launch a voice paging service over a FLEX network using speech compression technology from OmniVoice Technologies Inc.OmniVoice's...
