GoBeam Inc.GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible through the GoBeam Web site and requires no software to run. The GoBeam Dashboard includes...
NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into increasing amounts of usage.Where there is a business problem, so too exists a business...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Tality Corp., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc., has developed a GSM/GPRS handset design solution, a platform that Tality said will accelerate the way to GSM/GPRS handsets.The platform uses Conexant Systems Inc.'s new GSM/GPRS chipset and Conexant's GPRS protocol stack. It...
Japan's premier operator NTT DoCoMo has suspended sales of its i-mode-enabled Sony phones because of glitches that will make it possible for third-party providers to view some data stored in the handset.The company did not disclose when the sales of the "DoCoMo by Sony...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Thursday denied a request from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to keep confidential test results showing some enhanced 911 Phase II technologies won't work for the carrier."We find that the public interest requires that these materials be made available...
WHEATON, Md.-Not even the faster speeds and packet-based design of GPRS networks can save the WAP standard, which is of such poor quality that operators will continue to be forced to improve it with proprietary WAP extensions, The Shosteck Group said in a recent...
NEW YORK-The promise of intelligent networks will be realized in their convergence with the world of the Internet, said Paul G. Florack, co-author of a recently published book, Wireless Intelligent Networking.WIN has not succeeded in its ultimate goal of "freeing carriers from the grasp...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. will provide Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd. with its Openwave Download Fun WAP platform, a service that allows mobile users to download and personalize handsets with various ringing tones and characters. "In partnering with Openwave, Orange becomes the world's first mobile...
Nextel Communications Inc. posted stronger-than-expected subscriber numbers for the first quarter, along with financial results in line with most analysts' lowered expectations. The carrier also reported its customer acquisition and handset upgrade costs inched up along with its usually low churn rate, and it...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
BEIJING-Once again there seems to be a significant delay in China Unicom's rollout of its CDMA network. The much-plagued endeavor was on track just a couple of weeks ago, when Unicom invited tenders for the first phase of the project to the tune of...
DENVER, United States-Cooperation and services are two focus areas for the GSM Association during the upcoming year, according to Scott Fox, who assumed the association's chairmanship 1 May. Cooperation will extend from the group's GSM Global Roaming Forum, which also includes rival TDMA and...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, plans to launch only experimental third-generation (3G) services on 30 May, rather than full commercial services as originally planned. NTT DoCoMo had repeatedly said it would launch commercial 3G services in May, but in late April,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Uncertainty related to the future of Scandinavian mobile prepaid calling plans, less preferred here than in Western Europe generally, is largely due to the struggle to migrate customers to more expensive products and emerging technologies that could fundamentally change the relationship between vendor...
HONG KONG-Trunked radio has been the Cinderella of Hong Kong's wireless communications in recent years, compared with the fast-growing mobile-phone technologies, but things may soon change. China's industrialization is opening the door to a potentially large market for transport and industrial communications, and digitalization...
Mobile devicesAlcatelAlcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are small, Alcatel said. The phone also...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Vesper, Brazil's largest wireless local loop (WLL) operator, has changed its business strategy with an objective to reduce costs and to win profitability.Vesper is a "mirror" fixed wireless operator in Sao Paulo state, region three, and the 16 states of Brazil's region...
Alcatel has signed a memorandum of understanding to outsource the European manufacturing of its GSM handsets to Flextronics amid rumors the French equipment vendor was holding talks with Lucent Technologies Inc.over a possible merger.Under the MOU, Alcatel will transfer its Laval GSM manufacturing facility...
MobileSys Inc., a wireless infrastructure provider, acquired wireless application software company BITMO, a move MobileSys said will allow it to add voice browsing, speech-recognition and device- independent browsing to its customers.LightSurf Technologies Inc. will join the growing list of companies developing software to support...
The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player in the mobile- phone market. But similar alliances in the past have been failures.After...
The future of third-generation networks took a hit last week following NTT DoCoMo's announcement that it was suspending the introduction of its highly touted 3G network in Japan from May until October. Japan's largest wireless operator, which many in the industry look to as...
Three major wireless vendors gave mixed signals last week as Nokia Corp. posted a profit, while Nortel Networks Inc. and L.M. Ericsson reported losses in tune with market consensus.Both Nortel and Ericsson deepened the bleak news with new rounds of layoffs; Nortel firing 5,000...
Brandishing Korea as a model, the CDMA Development Group looks at the future of its technology through rose-tinted lenses.With the battle for market share boiling up over the next generation of technologies and the wideband CDMA protocol gearing up for dominance, last week the...
CANADACell-Loc Inc. completed and made available its Cellocate Beacon I, a wireless device that enables several location services via the company's existing networks in Calgary, Alberta and Austin, Texas. According to test data, the new device is consistent with enhanced 911 Phase II guidelines...
