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 recurring billing solution allows service providers to automatically receive payments from a customer's credit...
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 agreement will allow certain wireless phones and handheld computers equipped with BAM's Cellscape technology to...
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 developed for Intek Global's narrowband handheld portable radios."With linear-modulation architecture now in the forefront...
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 as the PalmPilot and the Palm III from 3Com Corp.w-Trade's solution can be used...
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 LEOlink product this summer.Quake got into the subscriber communicator business through acquisition. It purchased...
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 allegedly engaging in unfair business practices.Symbol, based in Holtsville, N.Y., develops and manufactures bar...
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 to the marketing agreement with Puma, Symbol will resell and original equipment manufacture Puma's Satellite...
DinetDinet 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 radio-frequency shielding. Testing of the new keypad showed no failures occurring in 16 million pushes....
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, warehouse distribution and health-care markets.The platform will combine Sybase's SQL Anywhere Studio and UltraLite...
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 content under its Channels brand to AvantGo's mobile information management and synchronization system. Users can...
ZetronZetron 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 forward radio-frequency power and antenna return loss in the 1.8 GHz to 2.0 GHz frequency...
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 American markets by year's end.The "CUEVoice" messaging service also will include text paging and...
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 in the Americas for the SC3160 is slated for the first quarter, said Motorola.Pagers...
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 will open many new horizons to functions the inventors couldn't have possibly dreamed when...
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 be in consumers' hands until late next year.Convergys Corp. told RCR it has been...
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 devices more quickly.The WirelessReady Alliance is an invitation-only collaborative venture of hardware vendors, software...
BOSTON-Wireless Internet service provider GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will provide an end-to-end sales force automation outsource solution that bundles hardware and software products from several companies.It includes Practical Sales Tools' UnwiredContact Web-based customer management and tracking system, Sharp Electronics' Mobilon Pro PV-5000 Handheld...
Brightpoint Inc. announced it entered into an agreement to provide integrated logistics services for Nextel Communications. Under the agreement, Brightpoint's wholly owned subsidiary, Wireless Stockroom, will provide a variety of services for Nextel's retail and direct-to-end-user channels. Brightpoint's services will include call center management...
Palm Computing Inc., an affiliate of 3Com Corp., introduced the Palm VII personal digital assistant at the Palm Computing Platform Worldwide Developer Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., featuring out-of-the-box wireless connectivity to the Internet, World Wide Web and instant two-way personal communications.Through various partnerships...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-AvantGo Inc. and Puma Technology Inc. announced plans to jointly deliver a wireless data initiative they hope will result in open and uniform connection from enterprise information and applications to Palm Computing, Windows CE and other mobile computer and communications devices.The Mobile...
The wireless implications of America Online Inc.'s acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp. and its related strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Inc. continue to reverberate as more attention has been given to the possible role paging carrier Metrocall Inc. may play in AOL's long-term strategy.On...
SAN FRANCISCO-Bellcore announced its AirBoss microbrowser will feature Information Mechanics' WebTek wireless data application as its first commercial application.The AirBoss microbrowser, which supports Handheld Device Markup Language, allows dispatchers and field employees to exchange information via two-way pagers, cellular phones and other mobile devices,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has implemented Sun Microsystems Inc.'s EmbeddedJava technology in its M.Core microprocessors, in what is described as the first step toward bringing Java technology to handheld and portable devices. This is the first product resulting from the licensing agreement Motorola...
LONDON-Alcatel, Gemplus SCA and Mondex International said they will cooperate to develop a Global System for Mobile communications phone that can be used as a Mondex electronic cash loading device.The technology will allow customers to withdraw funds from their bank accounts onto their Mondex...
