AgilentAgilent Technologies debuted the SQL server 7.0 database scanner and HP SFCommand. HP SFCommand will help network operators integrate all security applications, such as monitoring and the implementation of security policies, across every server in their networks. The SQL Server 7.0 database scanner enables...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. began offering its eLink wireless e-mail service commercially last week, featuring two-way wireless extension of desktop Internet e-mail to handheld devices and personal information management functions. The solution uses AMSC's Ardis packet data network and Research In Motion Ltd.'s 850...
The Edge Consultants, an affiliate of agency.com, released a Wireless Application Protocol browser for handheld computers running either Palm Computing or Windows CE operating systems, called WAPman.Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed the first call on a prototype wideband radio platform designed to help...
The convergence of the Internet and wireless networks was punctuated last week as Internet heavy hitters Amazon.com Inc., America Online Inc. and Oracle Corp. made announcements extending their services further into the wireless realm.Perhaps the strongest statement made was Amazon.com's aggressive entry to the...
TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing up to develop equipment for wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA).NTT DoCoMo in April selected a total of 11 3G vendors, including three foreign...
NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld DynaTAC mobile phone, a clunky device that weighed nearly 0.9 kilograms and measured 0.09 cubic meters (35 cubic inches). To be sure, the days of weighty loads...
DUBLIN, Ireland-There has been much debate over the future of satellite-based communications. Indeed, regular readers of the financial press might wonder if it has any future in the new millennium as they follow stories of operational difficulties, disappointing subscriber figures and financial restructuring and...
While Motorola's Woody Ritchey admitted that, at the time of Telecom '95, the company did have cellular infrastructure architecture that included Internet Protocol (IP), it was only at the drawing board stage. "We were not talking publicly about IP at the exhibition, and neither...
United KingdomBulletIN.net Ltd., a TWS Inc. subsidiary, formed a strategic partnership with Project Telecom, a U.K. wireless service provider, that will allow users to transform their phones into handheld mobile offices, according to BulletIN.net. Project Telecom will market the service to its high-end corporate...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS introduced the Samsung SCH-3500 dual-band Code Division Multiple Access phone and announced an agreement, valued at up to $500 million, in which Samsung will deliver SCH-dual-band/dual-mode series phones to Sprint PCS during the next year.The SCH-3500...
Anritsu Co. introduced the S251B SiteMaster handheld test and measurement device, which performs antenna-to-antenna isolation, low-noise amplifier/tower-mounted amplifier testing and accurately solves transmission, cable and antenna problems, said the company.Operating in the 625 MHz to 2.5 GHz frequency, the two-port, broadband S251B SiteMaster performs...
Confirming weeks of speculation, 3Com Corp. announced it plans to spin off its Palm Computing subsidiary into an independent public company by next year.The restructuring will allow 3Com to focus more on its networking connectivity and infrastructure interests, the company said. It expects to...
This analysis explains why initial terminal forecasts for 1999 averaged 55 million units below what will likely be 260 million terminals shipped. It reveals that between 1996 and 1998 the world terminal replacement rate increased from 19.7 percent to 32 percent and explains why...
NEW YORK-Those who think Internet-based services provision will reduce overhead should remember the conventional wisdom once was that computers were heralds of a paperless society.Nevertheless, Web-based customer care promises its own rewards over the longer term for companies that meet its unique challenges, said...
Analog Devices Inc. plans to introduce today a radio chipset that it calls the Holy Grail of radio receiver architectures.Called Othello, the chipset features an open market Global System for Mobile communications direct-conversion receiver, which ADI said is a breakthrough in RF technology. The...
That personal digital assistants have attracted the attention of the wireless industry is evident in the many announcements made last week targeting the popular devices.AvantGo Inc. announced it has begun shipping its Enterprise 3 software solution, designed to extend Web-based and client/server applications to...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc. announced it has begun shipping its Enterprise 3 software solution, designed to extend Web-based and client/server applications to handheld devices.In that effort, the company also announced it signed a strategic alliance with Attachmate Corp., which will offer its host access...
HandsetsNokiaNokia announced a new NMT 450 analog handset, to be available in the third quarter, that features true 3-volt technology and the Nokia NaviKey concept. The Nokia 640 weighs 195 grams and has a standby time of up to 80 hours and talk time...
The mobile satellite industry is now under extreme pressure to justify itself. With Iridium's and ICO's bankruptcy filings last month, Globalstar is suddenly on the hot seat as industry defender-whether it wants to be or not.Will Globalstar launch initial service on schedule in September...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. said it licensed its Spyglass Prism product to Seiko Epson for use with a new wireless device specifically designed to target the Japanese market.Spyglass Prism is an Internet content delivery platform that acts as a proxy server, which identifies the device...
Wireless industry members agree smart phones will become a critical differentiating factor for handset vendors and mobile-phone operators within the next two years, but the proliferation of these devices remains relatively unknown.For handset providers, smart phones represent an opportunity to extend their products, boost...
SAN FRANCISCO-Charles Schwab Corp., San Francisco, plans to offer customers who trade securities more than 48 times each year access to this service over their pagers, mobile phones or handheld computers by Dec. 31.Schwab has 2.8 million active online accounts with $251 billion in...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life up to 30 percent. The discontinuous transmission feature will be generally available for network operators...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Frontier Communications, a unit of Frontier Corp., announced they have joined forces to provide "sophisticated, outsourced messaging software for carrier class, hosted e-mail products," Rolla Huff said during a teleconference Aug. 9. Huff is president and chief operations...
