ARMONK, N.Y.-IBM Corp. said it has built Wi-Fi environments for more than 600 boys and girls clubs in New York, Chicago, Oakland and other major cities, targeting more than 200, 000 children."The children can learn to build their own Web sites, communicate with friends...
The 2003 JavaOne Developer Conference witnessed a collision of giants as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. pushed their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid segmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
The 2003 JavaOne Conference is witnessing a collision of giants, as Sun Microsystems and IBM Corp. are pushing their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid fragmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
The fate of wireless enterprise company GoAmerica Inc. is unclear, and industry watchers have little faith that the company's destiny is a bright one."I don't really know what they bring to the table," said Michael King, senior analyst with Gartner Inc. "I do wonder...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced a mobile Virtual Private Network solution that uses IBM Corp. software to provide mobile workers a higher level of security, faster response times and more efficient access than currently available to enterprise data anywhere on Nextel's all-digital packet data...
In an interesting turnaround, Motorola Inc. said it will use synchronization technology from Extended Systems in one of its new mobile phones instead of technology from its former subsidiary Starfish Software Inc.Motorola announced just last month it sold its Starfish subsidiary to Pumatech Inc....
NEW YORK-IBM Corp. said it has released a new version of WebSphere Everyplace Access software that enables a wide range of wireless devices to access such applications as personal information management and e-mail on open standards.The company said it supports Palm, Linux, Symbian and...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a new bundled package of connection products for wireless users in China, a package that includes access to wide area networks and Wi-Fi networks and an IBM Corp. laptop computer.Sierra said the new IBM-Sierra Wireless bundle...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has declared IBM Corp. supplier of the year as a key contributor in making the CDMA proprietor exceed its business objectives for the calendar year."This award acknowledges IBM's high levels of achievement across all key performance areas, which supported the explosive...
SAN FRANCISCO-Gary Weis, formerly senior vice president of global services at AT&T Corp., has become president, chief executive officer and a director of Cometa Networks Inc.Larry Brilliant, co-founder and interim CEO of Cometa, will remain as vice chairman of the board and chairman of...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced Koichi Nishimura will join its board of directors, effective April 1. Nishimura was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Solectron Corp. until his retirement in January. He also has 23 years of experience with IBM Corp. Nishimura,...
HANNOVER, Germany-IBM Corp. demonstrated a new Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor capable of sensing distress and making an emergency cell-phone call at this week's CeBIT show in Germany.The device is similar to popular heart rate monitors worn by joggers to measure heart rates during exercise...
OSLO, Norway-IBM Corp. said it will use software from Trolltech to offer a reference design for building Linux-based mobile devices."With an increasingly mobile work force, corporations are looking into deploying enterprise applications on devices across multiple platforms-including Java/Linux," said Michael Karasick, director of embedded...
TOKYO-KDDI Corp. and Okinawa Cellular said they will introduce BREW application download services using the carrier's CDMA 1xRTT network.KDDI also said it will partner with IBM Japan, Ltd. to develop the BREW Business Profile, a set of corporate solutions using the BREW platform.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-IBM Corp. released its new ThinkPad R40 laptop computer, which features support for both 802.11a and 802.11b high-speed wireless Internet standards.
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has launched an investigation into mounting evidence of widespread fraud in the $2.25 billion government program to link schools and libraries to the Internet with wireless and wireline technologies.Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Tauzin, said efforts are...
BOSTON-SiGe Semiconductor said it has entered an agreement with IBM under which it will be granted assignments and licenses to intellectual property associated with IBM power amplifier products. Separately, SiGe will also acquire certain design and test equipment from IBM and will house it...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. scored a massive deal with technology services giant EDS, under which EDS will manage and resell Aether's wireless technologies and services. EDS will also manage Aether's internal information technology operations and customer care services."The endorsement of a global leader...
As one of the most challenging years in telecom history winds down, the wireless sector faces a variety of threats from within and outside the industry.Which threats will prove to be mere specters and which ones turn out to be true wolves remains to...
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2002 in...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Reflecting the prevailing mood in the wireless industry, Probe Research has demonstrated that marquee telecom as well as information/Internet Protocol vendors will groan from pain in the near future.But the research firm singles out Sun Microsystems Inc. as a company with little...
NEW YORK-Leading industry players have teamed together to form a new company called Cometa Networks to provide wireless Internet access nationwide to telecom companies, Internet service providers, cable operators and wireless carriers using Wi-Fi technology, or 802.11.Floated earlier this year as Project Rainbow, the...
SEOUL, South Korea-Hyundai Motor Co. will begin selling vehicles with a wide range of advanced telematics features next year in South Korea, and plans to expand into other areas of the world in the future.Technology giant IBM Corp. developed the telematics offerings, which the...
Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many in the industry as being behind the times. The buzz surrounding WLAN technology based...
