CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it ended negotiations to sell its Quincy, Ill., manufacturing plant to Solectron.The two signed a letter of intent earlier this year calling for Solectron to buy the radio-frequency design and manufacturing assets of the facility and assume all manufacturing...
Originally expected in May, two-way paging devices based on ReFLEX 25 technology will not be available for commercial deployment until the fourth quarter, at the earliest, according to pager manufacturers.Motorola Inc. said its ReFLEX 25-based PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will be available mid-October, while...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation announced the winners of its 1999 Leadership Awards, to be held at a reception at PCS '99 in New Orleans in September.The awards recognize individuals and companies that have shown outstanding leadership in helping to improve their...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed a multimillion dollar contract to upgrade Metrocall's nationwide paging network to support new Internet applications, two-way messaging and enhanced services.The upgrade of Metrocall's 150 GL3000 switches to V6.1 software will allow it to offer enhanced voice...
Nine global wireless companies formed a focus group, called 3G.IP, to promote an Internet Protocol-based wireless system for third-generation technology. The group comprises AT&T, British Telecom, Rogers Cantel, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Telenor and Telecom Italia Mobile.Motorola signed a 10-year, US$1 billion strategic...
Geoworks Corp. said it provided the engineering expertise behind a new handset from Seiko Epson Corp. of Japan, called the Locatio. The multi-purpose phone combines Personal Handyphone System technology with global position system and digital camera functions and runs on Seiko Epson's i-Point network,...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Microsoft Exchange users soon will have wireless access to their desktop data via paging devices, according to a strategic agreement Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed with Infowave Software Inc.According to the agreement, Infowave is developing desktop software, code named Kodiak, designed to give people...
The paging industry last week experienced a flurry of major resale deals involving several large carriers.BellSouth Corp. followed paging carriers Metrocall Inc., AirTouch Paging and Arch Communications Group Inc. in reselling airtime on PageMart Wireless Inc.'s ReFLEX 25 advanced messaging network.BellSouth announced it is...
In recent months, several alliances and partnerships have been formed among paging carriers that traditionally have been fierce competitors. But both analysts and carriers say this new teamwork in no way diminishes the competitive spirit among the industry players, but rather is a unified...
Confirming rumors that started when the company announced layoffs in March, voice paging provider Conxus Communications Inc. filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.The privately held company said it will continue its...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter that included a net loss of $9.9 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with a loss of $100,000, or break-even per share, the previous year.Glenayre attributed the decline to a 26-percent drop...
DENVER, United States-Motorola and Glenayre Technologies signed a memorandum of understanding that, if fulfilled, will license Glenayre to manufacture all Motorola's paging infrastructure-and could effectively herald Motorola's exit from the paging infrastructure manufacturing business."We need to focus on the things we do best," said...
Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding that, if fulfilled, will license Glenayre to manufacture all Motorola's paging infrastructure-effectively heralding Motorola's exit from the paging infrastructure manufacturing business."We need to focus on the things we do best," said Amanda Dahlke,...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced an agreement with JP Systems Inc. that will allow users of Palm III and Windows CE personal digital assistants to transmit and receive e-mail and text messages over PageNet's network.The deal involves JP's BeamLink software, which allows PDAs to use...
AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom's wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom's WLL products and services under its brand name of MAARS 100 and MAARS 200, and they...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-The Integrated Network Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks announced plans to deliver enhanced voice messaging and call management services by combining Nortel's DMS-10, DMS-100 and DMS-500 switching products with Glenayre's MVP modular voice processing system.The MVP system includes Constant Touch-an...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it has eliminated another 100 staff positions, equal to about 5 percent of its employee base. Previous job cuts in October trimmed its work force by 10 percent.These new cuts occurred in the company's Vancouver, B.C., Canada, facilities, as...
Just as paging carriers look to two-way paging as a means of differentiation into the next millennium, so do paging manufacturers.In the past, a one-way pager was pretty much the same all over. Even the new lines of 1.5-way, or guaranteed messaging, pagers based...
Following an unannounced soft launch in November, Conxus Communications Inc. announced its long-awaited Pocketext text-messaging service is being rolled out market-by-market nationwide.The company began the service late last year in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D.C./Baltimore. In the coming months, Conxus said it...
After disclosing fourth-quarter earnings would be below analysts' projections and problems in its two-way pager production, Glenayre Technologies Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Smith resigned last week, replaced temporarily by Chairman Ramon Ardizzone.Smith first joined Glenayre in 1996 as president and chief...
New Enterprise AssociatesNew Enterprise Associates, a Palo Alto, Calif. venture capital firm, appointed Nobel Laureate Arno A. Penzias as a partner. Penzias is the senior technology adviser for Lucent Technologies Inc. He has written two books, Ideas and Information and Digital Harmony. Penzias won...
The introduction of digital phone technology has changed dramatically the landscape of wireless communications across the globe and put the heat on the global paging industry.Paging's old advantages of small size and cheaper service are being whittled away, as digital phones shrink in size...
After months of aggressive buildout-beginning in late June with the Texas launch-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its two-way, ReFLEX 25-based narrowband personal communications services network is available nationwide.The $310 million, Internet Protocol network upgrade adds two-way messaging capabilities to its existing FLEX network and, with...
DALLAS-JP Systems Inc. introduced a software package called InfoBeam that allows users of 3Com Corp.'s Palm III organizers to access Web-based information via an infrared link to an AccessLink II pager.Users enter information requests on the personal digital assistant and "beam" the request to...
