CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies entered a strategic relationship with PhoneOnline.com, a wireless development and professional services firm, to support interoperability between PhoneOnline.com's BlueMoon mobile software technology application framework and Glenayre's @activeLink two-way wireless messaging module.The partnership will allow users of the Handspring Visor Deluxe 8MB...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-In what is perhaps the most significant step since announcing the commercial launch of its Ricochet service in limited markets earlier this summer, Metricom Inc. happily presented CTIA's Wireless I.T. attendees here with the first wireless PC card supporting its new network.The...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-JP Systems introduced a new platform at CTIA's Wireless I.T. show last week called SureWave, along with a WAP browser for Palm OS devices, supporting the Palm Query Application over multiple wireless networks.The SureWave platform replaces the firm's InfoBeam technology as its...
Intel Corp.'s stock rode a roller coaster early last week with its price falling sharply Monday on analyst concerns about depressed microprocessor prices, followed by a surge on Wednesday after the company reported third-quarter results that beat lowered expectations.Monday's slide of $3.44 per share...
SAN FRANCISCO-Globalstar USA introduced the "Time or Money" promotional pricing offer, where customers who purchase either a handheld or fixed satellite phone and sign up for Globalstar service receive a rebate coupon for either 300 minutes of satellite airtime (valued at $500) or $300...
As it initiates a beta launch of its wireless Internet solution and wireless portal this week, YadaYada Inc. is preparing to go head to head with competitors OmniSky Corp. and GoAmerica Inc.Calling itself a wireless version of America Online, YadaYada uses the same equipment...
The push to implement unified wireless messaging services into wireless providers' portfolios of services and enterprise customers is growing stronger as both messaging providers and wireless operators look to capitalize on a market ready to explode.Wireless research firm ARC Group predicts unified wireless messaging...
The life of a start-up company is as unpredictable as the weather, and sometimes the plotted course turns out to be the wrong path to success.Such was the case with Reason Inc. Just eight months ago, the company launched as Reason Wireless Ware, selling...
CHICAGO-When Bridget Glavaz touched down in Los Angeles recently, she pulled out her handheld computer, a Palm VII, and started addressing two critical issues. She needed directions to her appointment downtown, so she logged onto Mapquest.com. Equally important, she wanted a hot hazelnut mocha,...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
CLINTON, Mass.-WorldCom expanded its messaging portfolio with the addition of eLink, a wireless e-mail service designed for high-volume users, allowing customers to create, send, receive and respond to corporate e-mail messages and text messages without a telephone or computer.The service, using a nationwide wireless...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.-David Bell has quite a resume.He founded his own company in 1997 in his basement. He helped evolve the company from a mostly hardware-focused business into a software and content developer focusing on a niche market. Three months ago, Bell secured...
ATLANTA-WirelessMD and PayMD.com have teamed to deliver a solution that will allow physicians to access claims information from wireless handheld devices.PayMD provides Internet-based claims adjudication information that integrates Medicare and commercial plan coding compliance systems with price checking, eligibility confirmations, verification authorization and claims...
Just less than a year after bursting onto the wireless Internet scene with a wireless solution for the Palm V, OmniSky Corp. this week is introducing a similar solution for the Handspring VisorPhone.The company also is unveiling version 2.0 of its service, which is...
NEW YORK-Holding a cell phone while driving got the boot Oct. 3 in Suffolk County, a large and populous jurisdiction on Long Island, part of New York state.The county Legislature voted 12-6 to outlaw most handheld use of cell phones, beginning Jan. 1, by...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Home improvement retailer Lowe's will offer Arch Wireless Inc.'s Arch Webster 100 wireless interactive two-way messaging service through its nationwide chain of stores.The Arch Webster 100 service enables users to communicate wirelessly via e-mail and peer-to-peer chat, receive information services and pull targeted...
SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle's portal-to-go technology and is targeted at carriers, consumer portals, application service providers and corporations, said Oracle.The new...
BOSTON-Wireless application provider Isovia announced partnership plans with Ironside Technologies Inc. to provide private-labeled wireless applications for Ironworks, Ironside's sell-side e-commerce suite of products, and the Ironside Network independent e-business access service.Isovia said the relationship will use its wireless m-business infrastructure technology to facilitate...
NEW|YORK-Texas Instruments plans to release next year a third-generation wireless solution for independent developers of modules for the Springboard expansion slot on Handspring's Visor handheld computers."We are pleased to be working with TI to provide high-speed 3G wireless expansion capabilities to our line of...
CHICAGO-Was last week's Personal Communications Industry Association GlobalXChange show a success?It depends on who you ask. While some exhibitors complained loudly about the lack of traffic, others said they received more attention since some traditional large vendors opted out of the show.Before the event,...
Sygate TechnologiesInternet security and access management solutions provider Sygate Technologies Inc. introduced its OneNIC Internet Sharing Solution through the release of the newest version of its flagship software product, Sygate Home Network 4.0 Internet access sharing software. Sygate said the OneNIC technology is designed...
DURHAM, N.C.-Instead of making plans for what they wanted to do once they graduated from high school, Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman were making plans on how to raise money for their future while they were in high school.The two North Carolina School for...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Palm Inc. shipped 1.5 million handheld computers during its first financial quarter of 2000, ended Sept. 1, up from 600,000 units shipped during the same quarter of 1999, and helping the company post increased revenue results of $401 million, compared with $176.5...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Palm Inc. are collaborating to create a new smart phone that combines Palm handheld computer functionality with a mobile phone.The two have agreed to develop and co-brand an entire line of such smart phones, which will include the Palm OS...
