LAS VEGAS-After making a splash last July in the wireless Internet/intranet-access market with a micro-browser software solution optimized for so-called "thin-client" wireless devices, Unwired Planet Inc. is moving on up to "fatter" devices that contain more memory and processing power.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company...
WAUKESHA, Wis.-Metrix Inc., along with Itronix, Ram Mobile Data USA L.P. and Racotek Corp. have started a marketing relationship to offer a fully integrated, wireless remote service management solution.Wireless capability provides real-time communications and access to information for remote service workers, minimizing customer downtime...
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore said its board of directors has not yet approved the sale of the company, although a California defense contractor is believed to be close to making the buy.Bell Communications Research Inc. was created in 1984 by the regional Bell operating companies following...
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August.Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-"Lawrence of Arabia"-had described it as "the most inhospitable desert" in the Middle-East. The Bedouin had abandoned...
SEPTEMBER16-17 CDMA System Design, Engineering & Optimizations, by the Wireless Institute of Technology. Holiday Inn, San Francisco, Calif. (510) 490-6459.16-17 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Embassy Suites Hotel, Dallas. (800) 327-8412.17-18 Broadband for Residential...
The ability to press a button to locate your child, find your car in a crowded parking lot or retrieve your lost dog may soon be a reality, said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiRF Technology Inc.The one-year-old company has developed a Global Positioning System chipset that...
Motorola Inc. unveiled the XTS 3000, its next generation portable radio. The XTS 3000 is smaller than the Astro Saber portable and has several enhancements. The radio comes in two models: the XTS 3000 Model I, a pure talk-and-listen radio, and a similar model, the...
Pagerola Inc. is six years old, distributes products in 21 countries, employs more than 800 people and is 1 million units strong, but only this month makes its formal entrance into the United States.The company manufactures pagers and related paging devices in Taipei, Taiwan,...
SEPTEMBER9-10 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Wyndham Bristol Hotel, Washington, D.C. (800) 327-8412.9-10 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. Back Bay Hilton, Boston. (800) 771-2012.10 Paging Infomania 1996, by Motorola Inc....
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Inc. has partnered with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department to provide automated field reporting to officers.By using AT&T's packet data network, officers will be equipped with a handheld device that will enable them to access the most-used functions from command...
NEW DELHI, India-Crompton Greaves Ltd. and Pertech Computers Ltd. of India, and the Korean consortium of Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd., Dacom Corp. and Hyundai Corp., have formed a joint venture company that will provide Globalstar satellite-based telephony service in India.Crompton Greaves and PCL...
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Inc. has partnered with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department to provide automated field reporting to officers.By using AT&T's packet data network, officers will be equipped with a handheld device that will enable them to access the most-used functions from command...
WASHINGTON-Sixty-two banks participated in the syndication of a $750 million interim credit facility for Iridium L.L.C. To date, committed funds raised by Iridium total $2.65 billion, said the company.Chase Securities Inc. and the investment unit of Barclays Bank plc arranged the $750 million loan...
AUGUST19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 771-2012.19-21 Wireless Communications Conference, by The Microelectronics Society. Regal Harvest House, Boulder, Colo. (303) 497-3037.21-22 The Wireless Buildout '96, by Shorecliff Communications. Hotel Del Coronado, San...
AUGUST13-14 Wireless Interconnection '96, by Bellcore. Westin Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, Calif. Call Pam Dunn at (800) 521-CORE.13 & 20 Semiconductor Conference, by the New York Society of Security Analysts. NYSSA Headquarters, New York. (212) 912-9249.19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by...
NEW YORK-The NBA won its lawsuit against Motorola Inc. last week, with a judge ruling the electronics company "engaged in unlawful conduct" with its pager-like device that provides accounts of games.Judge Loretta Preska, in her decision in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said Motorola...
Software developer Unwired Planet Inc. introduced an Internet access solution that promises to be a "Killer App" for wireless data services, beginning with Cellular Digital Packet Data.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company said its UP.Link open software platform will enable cellular phone and two-way pager...
"Plain vanilla" value-added services won't help new wireless operators distinguish themselves from established carriers, said Sandra Goeken Martis, former chairwoman of In-Flight Phone International.Goeken Martis resigned from the air-to-ground wireless operation a year ago to create Wireless Works Inc. under the Goeken Group Corp....
IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems announced the IBM 2488 Model 800, the latest offering in its line of rugged, wireless handheld computing devices. IBM Mobile said the line is integrated with wireless modems from IBM for the Ardis, Cellular Digital Packet Data and RAM...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
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 applications, including field sales and service, health care and public safety.The new unit will...
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 say."Consider the microwave oven," said David Abraham of David Abraham & Co., Westport, Conn.,...
