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, display and usability of data delivered over any wireless or wireline device on today's...
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 at last week's Flashforward2001 conference.San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc. convened the meeting here to update...
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" in its target markets.Semtech, headquartered in Newbury Park, Calif., provides power regulation chips for...
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 passengers and workers.NextBus uses GPS satellites to track buses and then transmits arrival times...
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 and small offices and a module for the Palm m500 series handheld computers.The Intel...
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.This month, the company began offering support for the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion notebook personal computer and...
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 on computer servers or distributed architecture.The privately held company, headquartered in Woburn, Mass., is...
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 state legislator from Utah and plans to meet with other state legislators to urge...
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 of wireless phones by most drivers in most instances."The misuse of cellular telephones has...
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-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
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 handheld devices, focusing on wireless carriers and related retailers. Brightpoint's second deal involves Motient Corp.,...
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 and VAIO notebook computers."MYLO stands for `My Life Online'. Sony ... will offer mobile...
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 300 wireless adapter, which enables wireless data access for the Handspring Visor handheld computer. According...
Handsets/ devicesMitsubishiMitsubishi 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 to 86 kilobits-per-second data speeds. It has several features for business users. The phone allows users...
RIM confident about future despite declining revenuesResearch In Motion Ltd. released a solid first-quarter earnings report, showing declining revenues following a slowing economy but expressing confidence in its business plan and future prospects.The company recorded revenue for the quarter of $77 million, way up...
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 were part of a location-based system that demonstrated Bluetooth connectivity between handheld devices and LAN...
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 later this month at HITEC 2001 in Orlando.The NetNearU wireless access point comes with...
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 their radio conversation and could, if needed, quietly duck out.Now, with a new wireless...
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 Congress in Monte Carlo, featured Columbitech's wireless connection based on strong encryption, client and server...
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, Acer and Palm will work together to develop traditional and simplified Chinese language versions of...
"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 Palm and Handspring have recently announced severely sluggish sales, that hasn't stopped a flood of...
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 was to restrict entities using two-way radios strictly for business purposes, but rather as...
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 deal between the two companies involves interactive television, which allows viewers to check the time...
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 the capabilities of live-on-demand video and video mail to handsets and other handheld devices.
