NEW YORK-At the suggestion of a franchise owner-operator, McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook, Ill., has decided to add wireless electronic payment to its menu at several restaurant drive-up windows in Southern California.The trial should be encouraging to wireless industry observers and participants who believe mobile...
LONDON-Yahoo! Europe announced two new wireless partnerships this week, including one with a handset manufacturer and one with a mobile operator.Yahoo! Europe and Trium, a Mitsubishi subsidiary, said Yahoo! will provide a range of content and services to Trium's WAP-enabled mobile phones. The handsets...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Prepaid wireless services provider Pre-Cell Solutions Inc. said it will provide Web-enabled CDMA digital handsets for the U.S. prepaid market by the end of October.The handsets will incorporate technology developed by USIntellicom providing over-the-air profiling, allowing data to be stored in the handset...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both the network and in new WAP-compliant phones.The result is a greater array of handsets...
Handset subsidies are falling as digital mobile phones gain huge volumes, but as carriers begin targeting new segments and a new cycle of data-enabled handsets come to market, analysts wonder how low carriers can keep subsidies.The days of 1-cent handsets tied in with contracts...
The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...
ATLANTA-Synchronization between wireless handsets and personal computers remains a priority in data management circles, as both Synchrologic Inc. and FusionOne Inc. introduced separate synchronization products last week.Synchrologic made available its iMobile Data Synchronization 3.0 for enterprise data synchronization with personal digital assistants from Palm...
SYDNEY, Australia-Cable & Wireless Optus, which operates a mobile-phone network in Australia, said it is in discussions with other telecom companies about forming a partnership in mobile telephony outside Australia. In addition, the company announced alliances for offering mobile data services to businesses.The alliances,...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-CDMA-based wireless services will enable hundreds of millions of people to access multimedia content wirelessly, according to a study by Datacomm Research Co."The wireless Internet market will explode once operators begin delivering streaming media at reasonable prices. Our research shows that CDMA-based air...
Audible clarity is not a strong suit for most cellular phones. Whether caused by poor reception, inadequate volume levels on a handset or noisy natural surroundings, cell-phone conversations can turn into yelling matches worthy of daytime talk shows.Israeli-based Waves Ltd. thinks its recently introduced...
LOS ANGELES-As the official communications and wireless company of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, SBC Communications Inc. provided voice, data, video and wireless services for the four-day convention, and the more than 15,000 journalists and 5,000 participating delegates.SBC noted that more than 450 digital...
Astata Corp. is a new wireless application service provider with a focus on the enterprise application market. As a means of promoting its wireless gateway platform, the company recently introduced several applications geared toward the mobile business professional-E-Attach, EZ Print and PocketLedger.E-Attach is an...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-As carriers continue to roll out wireless Internet services worldwide, subscribers are expected to migrate to these new data services at a high rate, according to Allied Business Intelligence.Shipments of WAP-enabled handsets will grow from 33 percent of all handsets this year...
The speculation started in late June. Analysts began questioning whether the mobile-handset market was going soft.Their suspicions appeared justified when the world's largest handset vendor, Nokia Corp., said third-quarter results would be lower because of the Finnish company's timing of new product introductions. Investors...
NEW YORK-AirLink PCS, the E-block fledgling of a century-old local exchange carrier, has found a niche providing its prepaid "Super Cordless" service for calling from and within a six-county area of Michigan."We've had visits by dozens of people from the E- and F-block licensees,...
The mainstream media's honeymoon with WAP technology ended long ago, but the relationship has deteriorated so much lately that the entire affair seems ready for marriage counseling. One reason for the discord is media has a new mistress-iMode.While the press and analysts have largely...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates.AT&T Wireless offers SMS service today and relaunched its PocketNet service, based on Cellular Digital Packet Data service, earlier...
NEW YORK-Any wireless carrier that frets about competition on its turf should consider SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., the fourth licensee in Hong Kong.The city-state has a population of 6.9 million, of whom 4 million already are mobile customers. Serving this market are six mobile...
FranceBrightpoint Inc. subsidiary Brightpoint France SARL, entered an agreement with Motorola S.A. France, a subsidiary of Motorola Inc., to distribute Motorola wireless communications handsets in France. Financial terms of the agreement were not released.ItalyNokia announced it will provide Wireless Application Protocol and General Packet...
Qualcomm Inc.'s financial results came in line with consensus estimates last week, but the company expects falling chip sales because of slower handset sales anticipated in South Korea.Marc Cabi, managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston, downgraded Qualcomm to a "hold" rating, and reduced...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless introduced a wireless Internet service called Mobile Web, featuring the ability for users to create custom home pages.Subscribers can configure a personal home page by dictating which text message alerts they wish to have sent to their phone, as well as...
Component shortages and a widespread shift to entry-level phones impacted second-quarter earnings from L.M. Ericsson. The company's stock fell 11 percent on the news and was trading around $20.13 at RCR press time.Ericsson reported net income of $1.13 billion, a dramatic rise from the...
The Third Generation Partnership Project, a standards body initially established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to work on W-CDMA technology, last week agreed to include standards work on GSM technology as well.The organizational partners, which consist of standards-development bodies from the United States,...
