SAN FRANCISCO-Discover Brokerage introduced a wireless investing service called TradeRunner, which uses 3Com Corp.'s Palm III and Palm IIIx personal digital assistants.The service allows customers to control their investment portfolio from the devices, including the purchases and sales of equities, mutual funds and options;...
NEW YORK-w-Trade Technologies Inc., which developed the w-Trade wireless trading system, introduced a new product called w-Bank.Much like the way w-Trade allows brokerages to offer wireless access to their online trading systems, w-Bank allows financial institutions to offer wireless access to their online banking...
Having made partners of most wireless handset OEMs with its T9 Text Input technology, Tegic Communications Inc. said it plans to make customers of wireless carriers with a new instant messaging application, as yet unnamed.The current desktop version of Tegic's instant messaging notifies Internet...
Riverbed Technologies Inc. and Spyglass Inc. said they have entered a worldwide licensing agreement under which Riverbed will incorporate Spyglass' Prism technology with its ScoutWare mobile enterprise software.The agreement provides a much-needed entrance into the growing mobile enterprise market for Spyglass."The most significant aspect...
TOKYO-Japan's smart handheld device market finished 1998 with 1.42 million shipments, an annual increase of 24.3 percent, and the market is expected to reach just under 10 million units in 2003, according to International Data Corp.While handheld companions receive the most media attention, smart...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-A new study compiled by research and consulting firm Ovum reports that although voice traffic will continue to dominate the communications market, the growing demand for information services and Internet content is forcing vendors and operators to rethink their mobile strategies.The report, "Wireless...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sharp Corp. agreed to standardize specifications for stacked chip scale packages, a multiple memory module for mobile communications and handheld computing applications.Specifications of S-CSP with flash memory and SRAM chips include compatibility of pin assign, unification...
When it became the first satellite-based global voice operator to launch commercial service last year, Iridium L.L.C. predicted its success would serve as the example other such carriers would need to follow.Not yet a year later, the company's dangerously low subscriber additions have resulted...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The technology standard TETRA has come up trumps in a feasibility study conducted by Finnish company Omnitele.The consultancy had been appointed by the South African Regulatory Authority (SATRA) in February to explore the feasibility of licensing one or more third-party operators to...
HandsetsKyoceraKyocera plans to begin marketing at the end of July in Japan its VP-210 VisualPhone, a PHS phone with a built-in camera that can transmit and receive images in real time at a rate of two frames per second. The handset incorporates a CMOS...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the drive to implement Internet e-commerce is being hyped almost on a daily basis, with some justification, as the way forward for almost all future business transactions, the possible success of this application within the mobile world remains less than clear.Many...
ElectofuelElectrofuel Inc. announced the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery, which has an energy density of 470 Wh/liter and 183 Wh/kilogram, almost doubling the previous endurance records of rechargeable batteries. With the SuperPolymer battery, laptop computers will run 15 or more hours on a fully charged...
NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus '99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year and early next year.For those who want a wireless communications device rugged enough for...
DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. announced a strategic relationship with 3Com Corp., designed to extend AOL e-mail to Palm Computing handheld devices.3Com said it will bundle AOL's new software in retail packages of certain Palm organizers and PalmModem accessories. As part of a market test,...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it is beta testing a service that will allow mobile users to comparison-shop wirelessly, by scanning product barcodes and checking competing vendor prices on wireless handheld devices over the Internet.The solution uses a patent-pending search engine developed by BarPoint.com...
Microsoft Corp. launched its MSN Mobile service, a wireless extension of its MSN.com Internet portal that allows customers to receive their information services on pagers, cell phones and other wireless devices.To make this possible, Microsoft May 20 acquired OmniBrowse Inc., a wireless data company...
NCRNCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer's readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called MarketingAgent, the software is part of NCR's Customer Relationship Management Solutions 4.0 portfolio. "Businesses that...
SANTIAGO, Chile-CTC Startel announced it has introduced the Responder Plus voice paging service, developed by ReadyCom Inc., branded as MoviVox.The two-way voice messaging service uses cellular networks for transmission with small, pager-like handheld devices.
NEW YORK-Venture-capital investments in the telecom/wireless sector during the first quarter of this year reached $734 million, more than double the total during the same period a year ago, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Money Tree Survey.This growth rate far outpaced that of the overall communications...
XircomXircom Inc. announced a new product line called CompactCard, which it said extends wireless connectivity for Windows CE handheld computers. CompactCard is a series of Type II CompactFlash cards that give Windows CE devices access to Ethernet, modem and Global System for Mobile communications...
WASHINGTON-A new report by Canada's most prestigious scientific body concludes that country's radio-frequency exposure guidelines provide adequate protection for workers and the general public, but it recommended further research to assess potential health risks in the future to both groups.The report, conducted by the...
In recent months, several alliances and partnerships have been formed among paging carriers that traditionally have been fierce competitors. But both analysts and carriers say this new teamwork in no way diminishes the competitive spirit among the industry players, but rather is a unified...
Microsoft Corp. gave some legitimacy to the wireless Internet access arena last week with its $600 million investment in Nextel Communications Inc. and an agreement that gives Nextel customers access to customized Internet-based services via the Microsoft Network portal.Analysts predict a number of wireless...
The New York State Assembly is considering a bill that would amend county laws and state finance laws that relate to the state's cellular telephone surcharge.New York's 70-cents per month surcharge on wireless subscribers was established in 1991 to compensate the Division of State...
