TORONTO-Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc., a worldwide licensing agent for a broadband wireless location patent, reported it completed the acquisition of PowerLOC Technologies Inc., a global positioning system company.In addition to acquiring all of the outstanding shares of PowerLOC, Paradigm acquired all of the outstanding...
WASHINGTON-With a little more than 18 months until the deadline for the implementation of enhanced 911 Phase II service, carriers are beginning to think about how they can make money from a government mandate that requires location technology.They are not alone. Vendors, too, are...
SigmaOneSigmaOne Communications Corp., a provider of location systems and services for wireless carriers and the wireless Internet, reported the development of the company's wireless location system for Global System for Mobile communications carriers in the United States and Europe. Designed to operate as either...
XYPoint made several enhancements to its wireless phone location services last week through partnerships with Vicinity Corp. and GeoVector.XYPoint partnered with Vicinity to provide wireless customers with location-based information services via a voice user interface blended with text messaging technology, the company said. The...
IBM and AT&T announced an alliance to offer wireless data services to their business customers. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. The companies said they expected significant opportunities for wireless services linking corporate information systems with a wide range of portable computer...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. reported its mobile communications business unit received a five-year extension for satellite services supporting the Federal Aviation Administration's space-based aircraft navigation system.The extension expands the previously announced $57 million contract between Comsat and the FAA and has an estimated additional value...
WASHINGTON-Prospects for the widespread development of ultra-wideband technologies were dealt a blow last week when the aviation community-associations representing both airlines and air travelers-expressed concern that UWB technologies will interfere with the global positioning system."We are extremely concerned about ultra-wideband as a potential safety...
I came to the wireless communications industry several years ago from the world of geographic information systems-an industry I thoroughly enjoyed because of its vast applications but which I always had to explain."A GIS is a spatial database and analysis system.""A what?""It's computerized maps.""What...
Qualcomm Inc. took a major step last week to expand its patent and technology portfolio to include mobile location-based services and wireless Internet systems, announcing it acquired San Jose, Calif.-based SnapTrack Inc. for $1 billion in stock.SnapTrack will become a wholly owned subsidiary, operating...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo unveiled its DokoNavi Global Positioning System-based mobile personal location service. Using a cellular phone linked to a personal digital assistant from Denso, called Naviewn, and GPS technology from SnapTrack Inc., the service can locate users in a wide range of environments.According to...
Alain Rossmann, founder of Phone.com, told the opening session audience at CTIA's Wireless I.T. conference last week in Santa Clara, Calif., that the wireless data industry has moved beyond the technology issues and now must address the business model.While Rossmann may be a bit...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Following up its widely acclaimed NeoPoint 1000 smart phone, NeoPoint Inc. last week at Wireless I.T. introduced a location-based wireless portal called myAladdin.com.The portal is positioned as a smart-information service, with features including driving directions and route guides, ATM Locator, traffic information,...
WASHINGTON-Lost in the hoopla over the enactment of wireless 911 legislation last week is the growing prospect that the rollout of position location for the nation's 80 million mobile-phone users will be seriously delayed in the same way that caller identification is far behind...
AgilentAgilent Technologies debuted the SQL server 7.0 database scanner and HP SFCommand. HP SFCommand will help network operators integrate all security applications, such as monitoring and the implementation of security policies, across every server in their networks. The SQL Server 7.0 database scanner enables...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should begin to have rules in place for using ultra-wideband wireless technologies before the end of 2000, said FCC Commissioner Susan Ness.Ultra-wideband radio frequency technologies long have been recognized as the technology of choice for ground-penetrating radars, but it is...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles began technical testing of SnapTrack Inc.'s enhanced global positioning system location technology.The goal of the trial is to consider future applications and services that GPS and Global System for Mobile communications networks are able to provide together, said the carrier.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-NovAtel Inc. launched its latest global positioning system receiver-OEM4-specifically targeted to systems integrators in markets including machine control, mining, agriculture, marine navigation and surveying.NovAtel's proprietary chip, the MINOS4, is the core technology of OEM4. Curtis Anderson, NovAtel's OEM4 project manager, said the receiver...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they successfully demonstrated the ability to synchronize and maintain time and frequency between Code Division Multiple Access base stations using handset message traffic and span line inputs independent of global positioning system inputs.Using software specifically developed...
SnapTrack Inc., a wireless location solution provider, was awarded a key patent that is part of the foundation of its Wireless Assisted GPS system.SnapTrack's system uses information from both the wireless network and the global positioning system of satellites to determine a wireless caller's...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-SiRF Technology Inc. announced an alliance with location technology product and services provider Integrated Data Communications. The two companies plan to develop complementary product offerings that will enable easy integration of GPS-based location technology in a variety of wireless infrastructure environments.Specifically, SiRF's...
TOKYO-Since last year, Japan's three Personal Handyphone System carriers have provided location services. This year, such services are expected to gain more accuracy because some carriers and venders are launching location services and systems using global positioning system satellites.Under the leadership of NTT DoCoMo,...
By almost all accounts, the market for in-vehicle wireless communications and information services-called telematics-is going to explode in the next few years.Studies by consulting firms Strategis Group and Allied Business Intelligence predict more than 1.2 million automobiles will be equipped with telematics devices by...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. said it licensed its Spyglass Prism product to Seiko Epson for use with a new wireless device specifically designed to target the Japanese market.Spyglass Prism is an Internet content delivery platform that acts as a proxy server, which identifies the device...
