SEATTLE-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it signed a licensing agreement with Unwired Planet Inc. at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless APPS '97 conference last week.The agreement will add the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company's UP.Link Server Suite for wireless handheld devices to Hackensack, N.J.-based GoAmerica's...
NEW YORK-In what its chief executive, Gordon Kaiser, is calling a first, Cue Network Corp., Irvine, Calif., announced it will offer voice paging over FM subcarrier channels by mid-1998.Another first, according to Kaiser, is that the voice paging services will use Data Radio Channel,...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications.The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing the Web, said Spyglass. It is a server-based solution that reduces the time required to access Web sites by converting...
Could this be "the" year?The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold's Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS '97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this week in the technological mecca of Seattle. The show is in its third year focusing...
NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications and computer information systems are fast bringing agriculture to the brink of the next green revolution, known as precision farming."Farming has been in the dark ages technologically. Precision farming today is as significant as was the tractor replacing the plow," said...
Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The initial proposal to consolidate the technologies was presented at the Mobile Data Initiative earlier this year in Munich.The purpose of...
BOSTON-People are still slow to adopt wireless mobile data services, the Yankee Group reported. In fact, there has been no significant increase in the number of people who use wireless data services since last year, according to the company's 1997 Mobile User survey.Only 4...
NEW YORK-Following a six-month jail sentence imposed May 23 on a cellular phone caller who killed another motorist, the British government said it will consider whether to outlaw outright mobile phone use by drivers while their vehicles are in motion.Baroness Hayman, Roads Minister, said...
CLARKSBURG, Md.-Ericsson Ltd. awarded a contract to Comsat Laboratories to develop a high penetration notification subsystem for ICO Global Communications Ltd., which is developing a handheld satellite phone service. Comsat values the contract at $14.4 million.The subsystems will be located at each of ICO's...
Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products division released its Air Apparent software for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT version 1.1. The product is a general purpose, enterprise-wide wireless messaging software application that integrates paging technology with Windows NT. This allows Windows NT users to send wireless...
C.J. Silas resigned as a member of Comsat Corp.'s board of directors for health reasons. He recently had open-heart surgery. Edwin Colodny was appointed to serve as chairman. Colodny has been a director of Comsat since 1992. He has served as both chairman and...
Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally polarized signals in the 2400-2500 MHz frequency band. The antenna consists of a single broadband microstrip patch, which provides a...
NEW YORK-Bills that would have required hands-free cellular telephone use by drivers were postponed indefinitely last month in the California and Illinois legislatures.The California Senate Transportation Committee shelved, with a two-year extension for consideration, a bill introduced by Sen. John Burton of San Francisco....
A specialized mobile radio operator is making plans to offer a pager that operates at 220 MHz.Angell Communications Inc. announced Wings 220, a single line numeric pager that has the ability to operate within the limitations of 5 kilohertz channel spacing. A Hong Kong-based...
DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s digital cellular rates.The company said it's Global System for Mobile communications network, supplied by Northern Telecom Inc.,...
BROOKDALE, Calif.-Wireless technology analysts Andrew Seybold and Alan Reiter announced they will host a conference devoted exclusively to wireless computing device operating systems June 24 in Santa Clara, Calif.The one-day conference, Outlook on Wireless OS, will focus on software platforms that are competing to...
NEW YORK-The State of New Jersey awarded a contract to Paradigm4 Inc. to develop a Parking Authority Ticketing System for parking enforcement officers to access on-line warrant information via wireless handheld computers. The system uses RAM USA Mobile Data L.P.'s packet radio network.Paradigm4 said...
When confronted with the question of why there is no radio frequency radiation bioeffects research after four years and $15 million, embattled Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George Carlo passionately replies that his critics-those in the wireless industry and in the scientific community-just...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced a pricing structure for its new Cellscape service, which is designed to provide mobile business customers with quick access to a variety of information and communications services.The basic Cellscape package, which costs $21 per month, provides the customer...
ACT Communications Inc. developed two personal communications services and cellular protection products. The ACT 452-120-400L is a two-line, single phase surge arrestor that provides all-mode protection. The company said it is ideal for cabinet and PCS applications. It is rated to withstand up to...
The clear leader in innovation as honored at the third annual Mobile Insights Mobility Awards dinner was Palm Computing Inc.'s Pilot organizer, a diminutive device that currently has no wireless access.Jeff Hawkins, Palm's chief technical officer, was named industry Person of the Year for...
SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron, a provider of automatic meter reading (AMR) equipment and services to the utility industry, announced the sale of 50,000 Genesis Meter Modules to Sontex S.A., a Swiss distributor of thermal energy meters and heat cost allocators.Sontex will integrate Itron's modules into its...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Motorola Inc. will use Microtec's VRTX real-time operating system, optimizing C and C++ compilers and XRAY debugger to speed development of the application software in Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access telephone, model SC-720."The VRTXmc kernel significantly reduces RAM requirements resulting in lower...
Geoworks' operating system is the foundation for Toshiba Corp.'s Genio PCV100 Pocket Communicator. The companies said it is the first product to have wireless Web browsing capability.Initially targeted for the Japanese Personal Handyphone System market, the Genio PCV100 integrates voice capability with data communications...
