Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian announced a wireless computing platform for handsets and other devices. Quartz is a reference design for pen-based wireless devices. It...
BOGOTA, Colombia-The Colombian telecommunications sector has experienced growth over the last year despite the 1998-1999 economic recession. Although expectations that the sector would boom in 1999 were overshadowed by economic problems, several government initiatives promise to pave the way for future growth.The Colombian government...
NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communications Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a collaborative effort to support Bluetooth technology for Windows CE solutions.The partnership was created to ensure Socket's upcoming line of Bluetooth-enabled CompactFlash CR plug-in cards are compatible with HP's Jornada family of Handheld PCs.
NEW YORK-Hewlett-Packard Co. received a nice surprise from the capital markets as it spun off its test and measurement division, Agilent Technologies Inc., in an initial public offering Nov. 17.Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, Calif., had registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in...
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc is close to a deal with Viag, the German utility, that would give it access to the Austrian telecom market and more control in Switzerland, the Financial Times reported. BT will take a 50-percent stake in a new holding company,...
Wireless was a dominant theme at Telecom '99, the ITU's massive communications exhibition held every four years in Geneva. The exhibit halls at the October event were full of the promise of 3G mobile multimedia services and broadband wireless access. Even Bill Gates played...
Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal provides an entry point to Phone.com for selling its WAP products to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. signed an agreement under which Symmetricom will acquire HP's Communications Synchronization business, said the companies.The business, part of HP's Santa Clara, Calif., division, designs and manufactures network synchronization and timing equipment for global wireline and wireless telecommunications...
NEW YORK-The Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 16 to spin off its test and measurement division by taking it public.The unit, given the name of Agilent Technologies Inc., plans to raise up to $100 million through...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nineteen network service providers and telecommunications companies, including Amdocs, Andersen Consulting, Convergys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Portal Software and Sun Microsystems Inc., have formed a working group to develop a new key Internet usage billing standard.The standard to be developed-called the Internet Protocol Detail...
NEW YORK-A corporate culture of hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil spells problems ahead, even for companies that think they have gotten the millennium bug out of their systems, Johnson M. Hart said.Since 1994, Hart, founder of JMH Associates, Weston, Mass.,...
LAS VEGAS-Tessco Technologies Inc. announced it was selected by IFR Americas Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to be an equipment supplier. In addition, Ericsson Inc. selected Tessco to provide telesales and logistics services for Ericsson in North America.Tessco said it is the exclusive supplier of...
In the first major initiative since the group formed in December, the WirelessReady Alliance held its first member meeting last week in Vancouver, where members discussed the state of the wireless data industry and plotted future strategy.Sierra Wireless Inc.-which formed the group-brought together 23...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
NEW YORK-RadiSys closed March 1 on a $28 million purchase of IBM Corp.'s Arctic business, the first of up to 10 acquisitions the Hillsboro, Ore., company plans during the next three years, primarily to bolster its presence in telecommunications."Our first interest is telecommunications-base stations,...
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with VeriFone Inc., a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., to develop wireless point-of-sale solutions.The two said they will work together to create end-to-end solutions linking wireless credit card terminals to the BellSouth...
Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace.Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies to semiconductor manufacturers. One segment that has been particularly active during the last several months...
REDMOND, Wash.-Data Critical Corp. announced it licensed a patent from Hewlett-Packard Co. for use in its MobileView System of remote access products for the health-care industry.HP's technology will be combined with Data Critical's own patented technology that allows waveform data such as ECGs to...
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
NEW YORK-Cautious optimism in the absence of completely verifiable proof is the prognosis for Year 2000 compliance by the wireless industry, according to consultants interviewed by RCR."How fraught with danger is the unknown? It is irresponsible to say 'head for the hills and take...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Gensym Corp. and Ericsson Hewlett-Packard Telecommunications announced they installed the EHPT Fault Management eXpert at Rogers Cantel, a Canadian national wireless communications service provider.The FMX network product provides solutions for the analysis of all network fault and performance data. According to Stefan Elmstedt,...
DENVER-Following its $107 million cash acquisition of Marconi Instruments Inc. in February, IFR Systems Inc. began a road tour last week-part product demonstration and part branding initiative designed to introduce the "new" IFR.What began as an avionics instrumentation company has grown to a global...
Microsoft Corp. introduced its third-generation software platform for handheld personal computer products, called the Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition, or H/PC Pro.The platform, based on Windows CE 2.11, improves remote access and connectivity to corporate data while retaining the familiar user interface of...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides up to 2.3 hours of talk time or up to 45 hours standby time in...
