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NEW YORK-Volantis Systems Ltd., Guildford, England, has crossed the pond and established U.S. offices on both coasts to market its new Mariner software, which is designed to improve the speed, …

NEW YORK-Even without next-generation wireless networks, Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley are at work on myriad ways to improve delivery and presentation of Internet content to end users, as demonstrated …

NEW YORK-Although it recently affirmed its ratings on Semtech Corp., a wireless device semiconductor maker, Standard & Poor’s Corp. revised downward its ratings outlook for the company to reflect “stresses” …

FAIRFAX, Va.-The City of Fairfax, Virginia went wireless last week with NextBus Information Systems Inc., a company that prides itself on delivering accurate, real time travel information to public transit …

NEW YORK-Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Xircom Inc., Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., will begin selling in August two new wireless local area network products, a base station for home …

NEW YORK-OmniSky Corp., a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider, has taken a series of steps recently to expand the number and kinds of devices with which it can communicate. …

NEW YORK-Voice Signal Technologies Inc. will begin commercial sale later this summer of its VoiceTag wireless communications speech- recognition solution, designed to be embedded in the device instead of relying …

WASHINGTON-As the potential ramifications of the passage of New York’s mobile-phone law reverberated through the wireless industry last week, a representative of the Personal Communications Industry Association met with a …

NEW YORK-With a stroke of Republican Gov. George Pataki’s pen June 28, New York became the first state in the country to impose a statewide ban on the handheld use …

NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces. PC-EPhone In …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. today announced two distribution deals, one with a major personal digital assistant company and another with a wireless data carrier. Brightpoint’s agreement with Palm Inc. involves distributing Palm’s …

NEW YORK-Sony Electronics and GoAmerica Inc. introduced a new MYLO wireless service at the PC Expo here June 25 that will provide Internet access for users of CLIE monochrome handheld …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Battling reaction to the profit warning it issued late last week, Sierra Wireless stood out with several announcements at this week’s PC Expo. Sierra Wireless released its AirPath …

Handsets/ devices Mitsubishi Mitsubishi released three new handsets. The Eclipse is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with a color display. The dual-band phone offers 256 colors and up …

RIM confident about future despite declining revenues Research In Motion Ltd. released a solid first-quarter earnings report, showing declining revenues following a slowing economy but expressing confidence in its business …

NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communication Inc. said its Bluetooth CompactFlash Cards have been successfully used in a Bluetooth wireless technology trial by Japan’s NTT and Sumitomo Corp. In the trial, the cards …

COLLEGE STATION, Texas-NetNearU, a company that provides management and reporting software for wired and wireless Internet-based systems, announced its plans to introduce its new wireless public Internet access point product …

Police officers bicycling through Lake County, Fla., used to pester dispatch in order to run a suspicious license plate. And-even worse-everyone within earshot of the officers could listen in to …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Columbitech said it demonstrated secure network roaming between a public GSM wireless network and a Bluetooth local wireless hotspot with a handheld device. The demonstration, held at the Bluetooth …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Palm Inc. has made further headway in the Asia-Pacific region through an announcement with Acer Inc., under which Acer licensed the Palm Operating System through 2005. Under the agreement, …

“Come on in, there’s room for everybody!” That’s apparently the call a variety of companies hear when it comes to the personal digital assistant market. And even though PDA giants …

WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association is urging that business communications that use two-way handheld radios be exempted from legislation meant to curb distracted driving. “We do not believe the intent of …

Under an agreement announced last week between messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. and entertainment company Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc., TV sets sold next year will be-in essence-really big pagers. The …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it has agreed to conduct an eight-week trial of Emblaze Systems’ technology using a scaled-down version of a cdma2000 1xRTT network. It is designed to test …

As the nation’s two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war blazing, some in the industry wonder …