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 whether the PDA market isn't quite the gold mine many had hoped.Others, however, see...
NEW YORK-GoAmerica Inc.'s new Mobile Office, touted as a single solution for the growing wireless enterprise marketplace, is attracting attention from various players in the industry.Mobile Office provides mobile professionals with desktop replication capabilities. In includes access to e-mail, intranets and the Internet as...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
Wireless companies in the United States are holding their breath, waiting for the widespread use of wireless data products and services, and-according to a variety of recently released reports-those companies will have to continue to wait while carriers, network designers, application and service providers...
Citing the slowdown in the U.S. economy and market conditions, personal digital assistant stalwart Palm Inc. and Extended Systems Inc., which provides mobile information management solutions, ended their proposed merger agreement."While this turn of events is disappointing, Palm and Extended Systems agree that this...
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last week was a welcome wake-up call.More than 900 attendees gathered to exchange ideas and...
Suddenly, the balance of power in official Washington has swung to The Outlyer.Who could've predicted Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) would become such an unabashed Bush cheerleader or that Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would ally himself with Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) on a...
NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into increasing amounts of usage.Where there is a business problem, so too exists a business...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
SEOUL, South Korea-Nortel Networks and Game Park Inc. signed a co-marketing agreement to deliver dedicated wireless handheld gaming solutions designed to create profitability for wireless operators.The alliance will focus on supporting real time, interactive, multi-player gaming over a wireless device comparable to desktops and...
SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp.'s wireless service is commercially available for the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC via the Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 wireless modem.OmniSky's solution includes features like the Pocket Internet Explorer browser, the Os OneTap feature, which allows users to save Web information into the...
NEW YORK-The Legislature of Nassau County, N.Y., which borders New York City to the east, gave unanimous approval to a bill prohibiting handheld wireless phone use for outgoing and incoming calls by drivers while their vehicles are moving.Pending his review of the measure, County...
Editor's Note: As part of its celebration of 20 years covering the wireless communications industry, RCR Wireless News each month will take a look back at crucial points in the history of mobile telecommunications. This month, RCR Wireless News revisits the evolution of the phone...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
Mobile devicesAlcatelAlcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are small, Alcatel said. The phone also...
A number of players must work together to deploy a nationwide wireless network, including carriers, tower companies and equipment manufacturers, but there is a new kind of company on the rise that looks after that network and keeps it running efficiently after the main...
NEW YORK-Investors looking for successful Bluetooth market plays will have to wait till late this year, but the outlook for the technology will grow brighter during the next several years, said Johan Strandberg, senior wireless equipment analyst for Stockholm-based Deutsche Bank-Scandinavia."There are significant Bluetooth...
WASHINGTON-RCR Wireless News has learned that a General Accounting Office report scheduled for release next month will sharply criticize the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration for not educating consumers sufficiently on mobile-phone health issues, but the government study will stop...
WASHINGTON-The nation's growing driver-distraction problem has taken on new urgency as a result of a deadly traffic accident in Las Vegas allegedly caused by woman speeding and talking on her mobile phone when her Toyota Landcruiser plowed into another car, killing two women and...
Going mobile isn't easy. If it were, there would probably be a lot more companies doing it. And differing standards, multitudinous offerings and the simple cost of wireless applications and services are real hindrances many businesses face.Aether Systems Inc., which has been a leader...
Intel Corp. embedded itself further into the wireless space last week as it demonstrated its Micro Signal Architecture, a fast digital signal processor for wireless handheld devices the company developed with Analog Devices Inc.The product, which is capable of operating at speeds of up...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Melard Technologies Inc., which provides business-to-business mobile and wireless data systems and services, announced its partnership with Monitoring Automation Systems (MAS), which develops security monitoring and business software.Under the agreement, MAS will integrate its MobileMind technology, which will automate operational tasks performed by...
China undecided on technology selectionOnly months after the Chinese Ministry of Information signed a memorandum of understanding to allow the country's second-largest company, China Unicom, to deploy CDMA service, a Chinese newspaper reported last week the government is still deciding which third-generation technology to...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Personal digital assistant maker Handspring Inc. released its third quarter earnings report, meeting analysts' expectations and drawing $123.8 million.The company's earnings for the quarter, ended March 31, were a 261-percent increase from the same period last year, and 7 percent better than...
