After contemplating the matter for years, Motorola Inc. has decided to jump feet first into the global smart card business.The Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer has created a new business unit to take advantage of the enormous potential it sees for plastic cards embedded with microprocessors.Technical...
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Laissez-faire capitalists repeatedly faced off with supporters of de facto or government-mandated high-technology standards during last week's Mobile Insights '97 conference on mobile computing.The three-day meeting, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here and hosted by industry consultant Gerry Purdy and his Mountain...
NEW YORK-TTI Team Telecom International Ltd., an Israeli developer of operations support and network management systems for telecommunications providers, was slated to go public Nov. 22.The initial public offering was expected to comprise 2.5 million shares of common stock priced between $7 and $9...
NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel Nov. 20 on wireless technology."No intelligent network platform is as reliable as a switch....
WASHINGTON-President Clinton has threatened to repeal a key provision of the administration's new encryption policy if it determines that legislation undercuts security safeguards, a move one prominent Republican telecom lawmaker believes is intended to derail his bill to liberalize scrambling technology exports.In a memorandum...
Using the existing Ardis two-way data network, ConectUS Wireless Communications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., plans to launch two-way nationwide messaging services next month, initially targeting business users.ConectUS is a subsidiary of Executive Page, which is an Ardis master reseller and distributor of products for...
NEW YORK-Cellnet Data Systems Inc., which provides wireless monitoring networks to utilities, was expected to go public late last week or early this week.The planned initial public offering of 5 million shares of common stock is lead managed by Morgan Stanley & Co., New...
Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers that have banded together to make sure that happens."Standards will drive the development of the smart card market," said Jacques...
NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. will mark its second commercial launch within a month when it begins offering its data-only wireless Internet access services in late September in the Washington, D.C., area.The company, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has provided wireless data applications to the utilities...
In three years, SilverLake Communications Inc. has pushed itself into the forefront of the paging software market.Last year, the privately held Calabasas, Calif., company won a contract to provide its software to Paging Network Inc., defeating 25 other companies, that bid on the project,...
Allen Telecom Group's Telecom Systems Division introduced NanoLite, a fiber optic microcell system the company said allows service providers to select locations for optimum cell site coverage while reducing site-related costs. The NanoLite remote unit can be mounted on utility poles, billboards, buildings and...
NEW YORK-Component manufacturers like Spectrian Corp. are the ones to watch for a sneak preview of developments in deployment of digital cellular and personal communications services, according to Eric C. Buck, senior telecommunications analyst for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York.A leading...
The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable."It's all ones and zeros now, so you have to be precisely tuned," said Jan Whitacre, spokeswoman for Hewlett-Packard Co.That reality lit a fire under the...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, having shuffled around key leadership in the aftermath of the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others during a Balkan trade mission, is aggressively moving ahead to reach a global telecommunications liberalization accord in Geneva this week...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is believed to be leaning toward radio frequency radiation exposure guidelines that incorporate Environmental Protection Agency recommendations, a policy shift the wireless telecommunications industry and others oppose and believe is politically driven by FCC Chairman Reed Hundt and EPA head...
ISELIN, N.J.-Dusting off patents shelved by Bell Laboratories due to commercialization prohibitions, Telecommunications Premium Services Inc. hopes to gain competitive advantage in the frontier of anywhere, anytime communications.Founded less than two years ago by David L. Turock, a Bell Labs alumnus, TPS' service offering...
Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., a cellular provider in Mexico, announced it has registered an average rate increase of 30 percent with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The price increase, which takes effect this month, is a result of rising inflation and is...
PLEASONTON, Calif.-Several carriers and manufacturers have joined forces to create application program interface standards for personal communications services networks that use Global System for Mobile communications technology.The companies are Pacific Bell Mobile Services, Ericsson Inc., Nokia Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and BellSouth Personal...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have signed an agreement to build an open software platform they will jointly market to telephone companies and cable operators.The two companies intend to cooperate in creating an intelligent network software platform, with a specific aim...
Wynd Communications Corp. is pursuing the wireless data market with an integrated messaging and information service for the mobile professional called WyndMail.San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Wynd is a subsidiary of Call America. The 13-year-old firm provides telecommunications services including paging, Integrated Services Digital Networks,...
Unitech Industries Inc. said it has agreed to manufacture private label cellular phone accessories for Caudwell Communication & Technology, a European distributor of cellular products. Unitech will manufacture batteries, power supplies, vehicle adapters, desk-top chargers and hands-free kits under the Dextra name, Caudwell's private...
Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp.Data-Through-Paging technology, or DTP, is a protocol that compresses images or text, then slices it into packets. Compressed and packetized data...
The two-way paging system recently launched by SkyTel Corp. is reasonably priced and clearly takes the paging industry across the threshold into next-century applications, say wireless analysts."The market is going to be very competitive on price," said Heidi Bomengen, associate director for the telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, responding to industry concerns about potential interference from the introduction of advanced technologies in private wireless bands below 800 MHz, has extended the freeze on filing applications to most of those bands.The massive undertaking of restructuring channelization schemes in the...
