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Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT …

As the wireless data industry finds more room to grow in the mobile enterprise market, more application developers are searching for ways to meet this new space. In the last …

Omnipoint Corp. said last week it has received proposals from potential strategic equity investors and will be evaluating them shortly. The company in January began a second round of serious …

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson is testing a wireless financial information and transaction service with Dagens Industri AB, a leading business daily publication in Sweden. The test involves about 40 selected Internet brokerage …

Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, …

TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system with the Telephone Organization of Thailand. …

Despite increasing competition expected from wireless phone services, the Chinese paging market will continue to grow at a rate of 17.7 percent during the next five years, according to a …

NEW YORK-Aether Technologies International L.L.C. announced it will provide wireless trading capabilities to Discover Brokerage, allowing users to manage stock portfolios from wireless handheld computers. Using Aether’s trading application, customers …

NEW ORLEANS-Novatel Wireless Inc. and Casio Inc. announced they have formed a technology alliance to develop wireless solutions for Casio’s Windows CE-based handheld computing products. The two companies have not …

Credit-card processing firm Paymentech Inc. announced it has been chosen to process the automatic payment programs for recurring billing by Paging Network Inc., Western Wireless Corp. and AccessLine Inc. The …

STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. signed a joint marketing agreement with Bell Atlantic Mobile to extend wireless access to its financial and information applications via BAM’s AirBridge wireless data network. The …

PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. announced its Intek Global Technologies Ltd. unit signed an agreement with Semelab plc of Britain to manufacture and distribute linear modulation-based radio-frequency power amplifier modules originally …

NEW YORK-w-Trade announced its Wireless Internet Trading System now supports both the Research In Motion Inter@ctive 950 handheld wireless device, as well as those on Palm Computing Inc.’s platform, such …

A new San Diego-based company has begun developing subscriber communicators for low-speed, two-way global data communications over Orbcomm’s low-earth-orbit satellite network. Quake Wireless Inc. expects to have its first commercial …

NEW YORK-Telxon Corp., an Akron, Ohio, designer and manufacturer of wireless mobile information systems for vertical markets, announced Feb. 1 it has sued its primary competitor, Symbol Technologies Inc., for …

NEW ORLEANS-At the Symbol Worldwide Sales and Partner Conference held here last week, Symbol Technologies Inc. announced mobile computing alliances with both Puma Technology Inc. and Riverbed Technologies Inc. According …

Dinet Dinet Inc. announced an advanced keypad will be installed in all of its models of mobile data terminals. The keypad provides a more tactile feel as well as improved …

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Sybase Inc. and Symbol Technologies announced they jointly plan to develop a mobile enterprise platform, intended to create a new class of mobile business applications for the retail, manufacturing, …

SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc. announced it has formed an agreement with InfoSpace.com to optimize Web-based news content on business, entertainment, finance and sports for handheld computers. InfoSpace provides the Internet …

Zetron Zetron Inc. launched the Model Z907 PCS Fault Finder, which provides fast notification of power amplifier and antenna problems at personal communications services sites. The PCS Fault Finder monitors …

NEW YORK-Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., said it began earlier this month in Las Vegas the commercial rollout of a new voice paging service it plans to offer in 100 North …

LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced plans to commercially introduce the SC3160 phone, a new entry-level Code Division Multiple Access wireless phone at the Consumer Electronics Show here last week. Commercial availability …

Inventors often have said people will find new uses for wireless products, whether they are data or voice, once they have a chance to play with them. The human factor …

The Palm VII personal digital assistant, announced this month by 3Com Corp. and Palm Computing Inc., continues to generate news and speculation, even though the product is not expected to …

Sierra Wireless said it has brought together 17 other companies in an alliance formed to work together to offer more complete solutions so the general public will adopt wireless data …