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Handsets Philips Philips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon …

The focus on the mobile industry has been enormous during the last year. Device vendors, service providers, application developers, infrastructure vendors and content providers have all been jostling to position …

Much has been made of the battle for supremacy of the operating system for the wireless data terminal market. With the number of Internet-enabled wireless devices expected to outnumber PC …

Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian announced a wireless computing platform for …

Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice new “virtual” operators that will help …

Online retailer Reason Wireless Ware in Denver is hoping to appeal to consumers’ logical instincts when it comes to shopping for wireless products and services. At Reasonware.com, consumers use what …

Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a number of new test-solution products and made improvements to others. The Agilent 84000 RFIC series model A20E is a low-cost test solution developed …

NEW YORK-Publicly held long-term debt set an unwelcome record in 1999 as 147 corporate and sovereign issuers defaulted on $44.6 billion in bonds, more than double the $21.2 billion of …

CANNES, France-Intel Corp. announced it will provide Ericsson with next-generation, high-performance flash memory for cellular phones. The two companies also will work together on flash product definition for future wireless …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless announced it signed a multi-year, $24 million contract with Sprint PCS to supply Code Division Multiple Access data products to the operator. The deal calls for …

NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile …

Research In Motion Ltd. last week received a $25 million investment from Nortel Networks and an order for more than 2,000 BlackBerry handheld devices in the next three months from …

Two-way operators hope new technology aids capacity constraints. Traditional small two-way radio operators are hoping new technology can ease their capacity problems and offer more integrated services to their customers. …

In what has been called primarily a preening gesture for Mannesmann AG shareholders, Vodafone AirTouch plc announced plans last week to launch an Internet portal designed for wireless Internet and …

SAN FRANCISCO-Extended Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. said they have joined forces to add infrared messaging capabilities to the Timeport P935 two-way pager. The IrDA function allows the pager to …

This holiday season heralded the beginning of the e-commerce revolution, and wireless operators have the opportunity to cash in on it with the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless phones and …

DENVER-Reason Wireless Ware Inc. hopes consumers find its “Voice of Reason” makes wireless communications purchases over the Internet easier. Reason’s new online retail store for wireless communications products sells cell …

Clearly, marketing and selling wireless data will be one of the largest hurdles the wireless industry will face as it begins to heavily roll out the service. Wireless operators need …

BALTIMORE-In what he hopes will be the first of many such appearances, Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week told 800 civic leaders here that the …

WebLink Wireless Inc., formerly PageMart Wireless, announced several companies have joined its Enterprise Solutions Provider Program in the last week. The most recent addition is JP Systems Inc., which said …

NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communications Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a collaborative effort to support Bluetooth technology for Windows CE solutions. The partnership was created to ensure Socket’s upcoming line of Bluetooth-enabled …

SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc. unveiled the AvantGo Enterprise Publisher, a service designed to extend Web-based corporate intranet and Internet content to handheld devices. The solution consists of an AvantGo Server …

The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and technological efforts designed to increase the …

GREENSBORO, N.C.-The inspections division of the Greensboro Engineering & Inspections Department and BellSouth Mobility DCS have teamed to develop Mobile Inspector, a technology that allows inspectors to work entirely in …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc., which will be known as WebLink Wireless beginning Dec. 1, said Vitria Technology Inc., developer of the BusinessWare eBusiness automation platform, and DMR Consulting Group have joined …