REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. announced its full messaging suite of products, which includes its wireless e-mail and short message services, will run on IBM Corp.'s AIX operating system and p-Series eServers."By partnering with IBM we gain valuable expertise and resources in consulting and...
WASHINGTON—A new report calls on the U.S. government to make an additional 200 megahertz of spectrum available to the marketplace by 2010 to foster the development of high-speed, wireless broadband services. The report, prepared by the Computer Systems Policy Project, was released in conjunction...
LENEXA, Kan.—Under a new agreement, Innovision Corp. will provide online banking and bill payment services, as well as wireless access to those services, to IBM Mid America Employees Federal Credit Union.The credit union will use Innovision's Financial Webtop to deliver the services to popular...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. and IBM unveiled a strategic alliance covering the development, marketing and deployment of mobile e-business solutions to enterprise customers in the United States, as well as an eight-year, $1.2 billion customer relationship management outsourcing initiative to manage Nextel's customer care...
WASHINGTON—A leading public-safety organization today told the Federal Communications Commission it has serious concerns about potential interference from ultra-wideband transmissions to radio systems used by police, firefighters and emergency medical workers and to GPS-based technologies used to locate emergency callers.The Association of Public-Safety Communications...
Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...
Representatives from the wireless industry are being asked to testify against Microsoft Corp. in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the computer software giant, each with new insight into how Microsoft is allegedly muscling into new markets and resisting cooperating with competitors.A witness list released...
NEW YORK—GoAmerica Inc. made yet another major announcement, this time that it is acquiring OutBack Resource Group of San Luis Obispo in order to expand its efforts in Java technology, with an eye toward developing its Go.Web service in Java by the first quarter...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. agreed to purchase IBM Corp.'s global positioning system development operation, the company said.The acquisition provides RFMD with advanced GPS technology and access to IBM's chipscale packaging technology. As part of the transaction, IBM has agreed to transfer to RFMD...
HELSINKI, Finland-LPG Innovations announced that as a result of a recent partnership agreement with IBM, its fixed and mobile Internet service brokering platform, sBroker, will be integrated into IBM's WebSphere product family.Using sBroker, operators, service providers and corporations can manage third-party services, gather usage...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having largely ignored the cellular industry until now, IBM Europe has announced its intent to become a major player by supplying services and information technology (IT) infrastructure to the major cell-phone operators in Europe and the Middle East markets. The company claimed...
The wireless data industry started as a dream and a nationwide network almost 30 years ago.As the years slowly passed and people began to recognize the value of mobile data, more and more trucking managers jumped on board to wirelessly track their vehicles,...
ARMONK, N.Y.-International Business Machines says it has developed a low-power chip that can prolong battery life of cell phones, pocket computers and other wireless devices.The product, the PowerPC 405LP, pares down power consumption by 90 percent by shutting off areas that are not needed...
LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers (ASPs) is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan survey.Of the companies surveyed, 74 percent are accurately aware of ASPs as the entity that "manages and delivers application...
LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan survey.Of the companies surveyed, 74 percent were accurately aware of ASPs as the entity that "manages and delivers application capabilities...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and IBM Japan have jointly developed key technologies for streaming service over mobile phones, both firms announced on 18 September. According to the firms, users of the technologies will be able to see video content and...
BOSTON-International Business Machines Corp. has agreed to partner with Netonomy to offer wireless operators self-service capabilities like personalized, self-service e-care and m-commerce solution, using the MyNetonomy application."On-line self-service account management is an important next step for network operators and their subscribers," said Simon Dyson,...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. is launching its wireless notebooks Portege 4000 and Tecra 9000 models , which will offer 802.11b and Bluetooth technologies.Toshiba hopes to differentiate itself from competitors like Dell and IBM with these products.
LONDON-The viability of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is growing more questionable as its speed continues to lag behind that of wireline LANs, according to one Frost & Sullivan research analyst."The disk drive is a simple technology that does what it was designed...
EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.-International Business Machines Corp. said it has added two new chip technologies known as Radio Frequency CMOS and an enhanced silicon germanium to its pool of offerings to manufacture mixed-signal and radio-frequency devices for applications such as cell phones, wireless LANs, GPS...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. and IBM Corp. today announced they are teaming to offer wireless data solutions to GE Power Systems, which supplies power generation technology.Under the deal, IBM Global Services and GoAmerica will develop a customized wireless portal for GE employees, giving them access...
SUFFERN, N.Y.-Acticon Technologies L.C.C., Suffern, N.Y., developer of PC card modems and other PCMCIA form factor communications, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Ositech Communications Inc., a Canadian company headquartered in Guelph, Ontario.PCMIA is the acronym for the Personal Computer Memory Card International...
LONDON—Saudi Business Machines (SBM), the general marketing and services representative for IBM WTC in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced it has completed the installation of the largest-ever computer project in the Middle East.The completed project has been designed to ensure that the Kingdom's...
