In an effort to encourage businesses to use palmtop personal computers as mobile access tools to enterprise systems, Palm Inc. released its HotSync Server and Microsoft Exchange Conduit solution.The company said the products will allow large businesses to incorporate handheld computers into their mainstream...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean operator SK Telecom said it will launch commercial cdma2000 1X service in the fourth-quarter, using equipment from Samsung Electronics.Samsung and SK Telecom said the 1X system can be linked with a video-on-demand server to provide movies, music videos and Internet services...
When most people in the United States hear the name "Hyundai," they think of a car. But the reach of the Hyundai organization is extensive, and for the past six months, its electronics subsidiary has been readying itself to become an influential-and recognized-player in...
Just as a zoo is a place where different species from around the world can peacefully co-mingle, telezoo.com said it is a place where telecommunication buyers and sellers can easily interact.The Web site is home to telezoo.com's ZooCommerce platform, which includes a large database...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported that 15 handset manufacturers from around the world have shown support for the company's third-generation Code Division Multiple Access 1x Multi-Carrier MSM5000 Mobile Station Modem chipset and system software solution.The chipset and software are designed to allow manufacturers to roll...
NokiaNokia Corp. unveiled its new 8260 wireless phone that the company says blends colorful and stylish options into a small digital handset. The 8260 is Time Division Multiple Access 800 compatible, weighs 3.4 ounces, is approximately four inches tall and will include mobile originated...
BUDAPEST, Hungary-Hungary's Pannon GSM said it began a data service that allows users to download data at 43.2 kilobits per second free using High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology. The PannonSztrada service is dependent, however, on no or low traffic on the network.The service...
Nortel Networks increased its presence in the European mobile-phone market last week, garnering a $700 million third-generation equipment contract with BT Cellnet in the United Kingdom and displacing several of the carrier's traditional European manufacturers.Nortel will provide an end-to-end Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network,...
Article intended to highlight many contributionsTo the editor: I am concerned that there may be a misperception resulting from my article published by RCR on March 27, 2000, that the U.S. government in some way "favors" CDMA over other wireless technologies. This has been inferred...
The world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., said it plans to invest billions to help ease a global shortage of flash memory chips used in mobile phones.Intel said about 45 percent of its first billion flash memory chips were sold to cellular-device makers and...
MexicoMexican wireless carrier Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. said it does not have any current intentions of filing for an equity offering in Mexico. The company has long been interested in enhancing its liquidity in the Mexican market and noted that in the future,...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a personal communications services provider serving the southeastern United States, introduced its PowerChat text message service designed to deliver messages between Powertel and other Global System for Mobile communications digital handsets worldwide."PowerChat is Powertel's customized version of short text messaging...
Wireless high-speed solutions didn't garner much thought just a year ago. Qualcomm Inc. seemed to be the only company in the industry touting a high-speed megabit solution for the cdmaOne operator community called High Data Rate. But today, the high-speed market is becoming crowded...
While the big names in the wireless industry usually get most of the credit for providing wireless coverage across the country, it is the smaller players who often make up the backbone of the much larger beast.Affiliations between large, national carriers and small, local...
VIENNA, Austria-Motorola Inc. and Mobilkom Austria, a Global System for Mobile communications operator in Austria, signed a contract to implement a mobile data General Packet Radio Service network.According to the contract, Motorola will install the Network Solutions Sector's GPRS core network solution, including Service...
Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said its money will run out in five months unless it gets help. In the meantime, ongoing efforts to establish a worldwide network and begin widespread commercial service contributed to the mobile satellite service operator's increased first-quarter losses.United Kingdom-based Inmarsat added...
FREMONT, Calif.-Consumers are accustomed to the sleek and small handsets available in the market today. But as the data revolution unfolds, the components needed to facilitate new functions threaten to increase the size of handsets.Intarsia Corp., a radio-frequency technology integrator, believes it has come...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Average household mobile phone use increased to 247 minutes per month, compared with 155 minutes per month in 1999 and 89 in 1998, according to IDC's annual Personal Wireless Communications User Survey."We are seeing this dramatic growth for a variety of reasons," said...
ASCOT, United Kingdom-Lucent Technologies Inc. unveiled a reference design platform for manufacturers of General Packet Radio Service handsets that it claims will shave the time-to-market interval for Internet-equipped handsets from as much as 15 months, to as little as four months.Lucent reported that the...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. properties and its plans for wireless data service to analysts during its quarterly conference...
Web sites that offer comparison shopping for wireless phones and services appear to be a dime a dozen these days. Consumers go to these sites because they promise to be objective. But what happens when wireless companies invest in the e-tailers promising that objectivity?Recently,...
CANCUN, Mexico-The big push to interoperate GSM and TDMA standards is well under way, allowing customers using either standard to roam around the world and giving U.S. TDMA operators a breath of life in their ongoing struggle with CDMA carriers for domestic market share.The...
As last week's Love Bug virus painfully illustrated, more computer viruses are being spread via e-mail, and they are growing increasingly destructive.But despite the growing popularity of wireless e-mail services, the Love Bug fiasco remained largely a non-event in the wireless world. While some...
WASHINGTON-Worldwide cellular and personal communications services handset sales reached 96 million in the fourth quarter of 1999, led by Nokia Corp. with 27 percent of the global market share, according to analysis done by The Strategis Group.For the year, cellular/PCS handset sales rocketed to...
