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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-IBM Corp. announced it has formed an independent business unit, IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems, to provide a complete line of mobile and wireless products for industry …

There is enough room in today’s marketplace of specialized products for both traditional paging and the handset messaging offered by new 1800 MHz wireless operators and digital cellular operators, analysts …

WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy …

Comsat International Communications is creating a business unit to focus solely on mobile satellite communications. Comsat Personal Communications initially will concentrate on Comsat’s Planet 1 global phone service scheduled to …

A Korean company has allied with an Indian manufacturer to build pagers and paging systems in India, and directly compete with U.S. manufacturers that claim strong inroads into that nation. …

Nextel Communications Inc. said the 177 licenses it won at auction are a “relatively small thing” considering the enormous holdings it has already. Nextel has been quiet for the last …

WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to seize Great Britain, following publication in …

WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run, but leaves open the question of …

PARK RIDGE, N.J.-The Hertz Corp. car rental company announced the rollout of a system that uses wireless technology to improve the speed and accuracy of communications between Hertz shuttle bus …

Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging …

The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, …

PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights ’96 conference. The PAL telephone can make calls over …

WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced its ultra-miniature amplifiers and mixers, high-integration chipsets and a small 3-volt modulator/mixer that all are designed to benefit end users. The company has introduced three …

A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world. Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to …

WASHINGTON-After five years of research and development, and three tries on the keypad, the inaugural call on American Mobile Satellite Corp.’s SkyCell satellite telephone service was made Jan. 24 between …

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has purchased infrastructure equipment from Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to construct a prototype advanced messaging system in Atlanta and Boston. “The purchase …

Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is being used to support the design, …

AT&T Network Systems unveiled a new wireless business telephone system to help keep workers in voice contact as they roam about their building, office complex or campus. AT&T said its …

Wynd Communications Corp. is pursuing the wireless data market with an integrated messaging and information service for the mobile professional called WyndMail. San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Wynd is a subsidiary …

Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp. Data-Through-Paging technology, or DTP, is a …

The market for personal digital assistants, personal communicators and mobile companions will more than quadruple to one million units by 1997 and then double to more than two million units …

Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new …

ATLANTA-Pepsi-Cola Allied Bottlers Inc. has selected Norand Corp., Racotek Inc. and RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. to establish a wireless data communications solution for its sales people in Connecticut, Massachusetts …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments has introduced a new digital signal processing solution designed to give cellular telephone users the safety of hands-free operation in the car along with the audio quality associated …