WASHINGTON-The recent dress rehearsal for the millennium bug-the rollover of the global positioning system-was successful, said the Air Force."As expected, the satellite and associated ground facilities have successfully gone through the end-of-week rollover, and military and civilian GPS users worldwide can continue to depend...
WASHINGTON-Qualcomm Inc. and Richard Bliss, a former employee temporarily imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges in 1997, have reached an out-of-court settlement to end a lawsuit that accused the San Diego firm of negligence by failing to supply Bliss with proper permits to build...
WASHINGTON-Whether the spectrum cap should stay or go-one issue that distinguishes incumbent cellular operators and upstart personal communications services operators-"will hopefully" be decided by the Federal Communications Commission at its September meeting, said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.The Cellular Telecommunications...
DENVER-The global positioning system this Saturday evening will experience its first end-of-week rollover, a phenomenon that will occur once every 20 years.When the GPS system was launched, the system's designers limited the week counter to 1,023, and Saturday, the system will roll over to...
Computer Associates International Inc. introduced a new wireless application infrastructure designed to give companies the ability to introduce corporate applications to mobile workers.The system is called The Wireless Intelligent Infrastructure Support Technology, or Twist. Firms incorporating the system will be able to implement mobile...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration stepped up its campaign to kill provisions in defense bills giving the Pentagon priority access to shared spectrum and to the satellite-based global positioning system, flooding key lawmakers with letters from a wide range of federal agencies.At the same time, the...
In just more than a month, users of global positioning system applications will face a challenge in many ways similar to the highly publicized millennium bug."It's serious enough to be called a `dress rehearsal' for the Y2K bug-yet few people know about it," said...
Every year about this time, I long to live in Europe, where holiday lasts for a month. I'm on the beach on the Riviera (because in fantasies, one can always afford the best), soaking up the rays. I'm also skinny, tan (yet cancer-free) and...
WHIPPANY, N.J.-Bell Labs researchers say they have developed a wireless location system that is accurate to within 15 feet when users are outdoors, and to 100 feet when they are indoors.Using the Bell Labs technology, wireless networks would be equipped with global positioning system...
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. 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,...
WASHINGTON-As industry opposition to Pentagon spectrum bills mounts, the Federal Communications Commission confirmed last week it is prepared to suspend the normal regulatory process for deciding how to auction 36 megahertz from TV channels 60-69 if Congress votes to hold the wireless license sale...
WASHINGTON-A technical committee for Code Division Multiple Access technology development is working on an adjunct standard of the technology that could be used for Phase II enhanced 911.The specification would "put part of the global positioning system receiver in the phone and part on...
WASHINGTON-The GOP-led Congress, squeezed by tight spending limits and determined not to lose another embarrassing budget battle to Democrats, is once again banking on spectrum to bail it out. And in doing so, lawmakers are headed down two divergent paths on U.S. spectrum policy...
WASHINGTON-The Pentagon, already at war in the Middle East and the Balkans, now faces a major confrontation at home over several bills that would benefit the Department of Defense at the expense of the wireless industry.DOD is the common denominator in all the legislation...
SnapTrack Inc. last week announced a strategic partnership with Motorola Inc. under which it will license its personal location system to Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector.Motorola will use SnapTrack's technology through a royalty-bearing license agreement to offer personal location services as a part of its...
CHICAGO, Ill.-Telcordia Technologies Inc. said its AirBoss middleware server will be deployed as part of an integrated hardware, software and services solution developed by Symbol Technologies for Giant Food Inc.The solution integrates global positioning system technology, Cellular Digital Packet Data public networks and Giant...
NORTHBROOK, Ill.-Motorola Inc. introduced a new global positioning system technology designed to enhance traditional GPS for telematics systems.Called Wireless-Assisted GPS, the system includes a GPS mobile receiver and server, which can exchange data with a telematics unit. Motorola said the system also can support...
WASHINGTON-A seemingly well-scripted House hearing to launch a watered-down E911 bill and a beefed-up privacy bill disintegrated into a fracas last week over the National Park Service's handling of antenna-siting applications and the prospect of extending the October 2001 requirement for carriers to provide...
A recent Federal Communications Commission notice may give some momentum to vendors offering handset-based solutions for wireless enhanced 911 compliance.The FCC has mandated that wireless carriers by Oct. 1, 2001, be able to locate wireless 911 callers to within 125 meters 67 percent of...
Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with Mercedes-Benz to incorporate a telematics system called TeleAid into all 2000 model Mercedes-Benz S-class sedans in North America.The new system will be based on Motorola's Telematics Communication Unit, which consists of global positioning system, cellular voice and data...
United KingdomCellPoint Systems AB and its partner Wasp International of South Africa demonstrated a Global System for Mobile communications phone positioning system at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile, Location & Transport Telematics in London. AU System-which is owned by L.M. Ericsson, Telia AB,...
Motorola Inc. announced a partnership with BMW North America Inc. to create a new telematics cellular phone system expected to be available on all BMW models by late this year.The BMW Mayday Cellular Phone combines cellular telephony with global positioning system satellite location technology...
NEW YORK-Frequency Electronics Inc., Mitchell Field, N.Y., hopes to lead the way in mass production of competitively priced wireless signal synchronization components using rubidium as a substitute for quartz."We are looking to reduce the price of rubidium to make it more competitive with quartz...
