BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Telecom Personal presented a signed agreement with Lotus to enable its cellular clients to access various mobile services based on WAP from their terminals. This will allow corporate users to have instant access to their company's intranet information and share schedules.The technology...
NEW YORK-Cotelligent Inc. has no debt, cash reserves of $22 million and a $100 million line of credit to finance its expanded focus on enterprise connectivity to mobile workers, a market Ovum Inc. projects will total $29 billion by 2006. But the San Francisco-based...
Popularity is not without problems. Approximately 3.5 million of the cellular phones manufactured every year end up in landfills across the country, according to industry estimates.The Environmental Protection Agency believes that only a federal law will stop cell-phone users and industry from dumping handsets...
As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
TOKYO-Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM company, announced it has completed initial tests of software that it claims can provide secure authentication and authorization to applications and data accessed through i-mode wireless devices.Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director software will allow customers to leverage initial i-mode support,...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced the keynote speakers for the opening day of its Wireless I.T. & Internet 2001 show, to take place in San Diego in September.Jacob Christfort, Oracle's chief technology officer and vice president of product development, and Al...
Microsoft Corp. may have turned up the heat in the database management system battle with IBM Corp. and Oracle. But some analysts believe that the recent court decision declaring the software giant a monopoly may have put a damper on their zeal."The court decision...
By outsourcing their handset and network equipment production, major vendors may be unwittingly yielding enormous influence to contract electronics manufacturers that could acquire enough expertise and experience to develop their own brands and technologies.Two reports, one by market research firm Bear Stearns and the...
802.11b, otherwise known as WiFi, is growing into one of the most buoyant fountains of money in the wireless industry, challenging big and small vendors to seek differentiating models in a tightening economic landscape.According to industry sources, the technology, which is thriving on the...
NEW YORK-The bad news, according to Jerry Newman, senior managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., "is word of a 50-to-75 percent decline in new venture capital investments" so far this year.The good news is "there probably is in the neighborhood of $100...
WASHINGTON-Diveo Broadband Networks Inc. announced it is the first dedicated hosting provider in Latin America to receive IBM hosting advantage approval.To qualify for the hosting advantage program, Diveo said it underwent an on-site audit process that included a review of the Diveo hosting environment,...
Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services.Involved in marriages and talks of marriages are Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks, Mitsubishi Electric...
Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant's .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...
ATLANTA-IBM Corp. announced it is now delivering location services over its WebSphere Everyplace Server 2.1 software.IBM has partnered with SignalSoft Corp., a provider of location management infrastructure, to get location information from carrier networks, which will be made available to application developers. To ensure...
As it stands today, developers of wireless applications have to write those applications in a unique code-whether that be cHTML, VoXML, WML or XML-to make those applications recognizable to the wireless device. But if we look into the future, some unknown years ahead, we...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...
Aether Systems Inc. announced solid first-quarter earnings last week along with a slightly revised business plan, but the results were not enough to please investors who once cherished the company as a high-growth, high-tech gem.Aether faced a barrage of downgrades as its stock slipped...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.J.-Scientists for IBM Corp. announced they have reached a scientific breakthrough that could lead to the mass production of computer chips that could be as much as 500 times smaller than today's silicon-based chips.Current wireless technology-and the rest of electronics industry-is made...
NEW YORK-Investors looking for successful Bluetooth market plays will have to wait till late this year, but the outlook for the technology will grow brighter during the next several years, said Johan Strandberg, senior wireless equipment analyst for Stockholm-based Deutsche Bank-Scandinavia."There are significant Bluetooth...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Wireless broadband Internet service provider MobileStar Network Corp. announced it will expand its wireless network to more than 2,000 additional sites by the end of this year.MobileStar selected IBM as its equipment provider. IBM will provide site surveys, equipment build and deployment, and...
NEW YORK-With NEC Corp. and Sony Corp. serving as "trend setters" among their in-country peers, Japanese electronics equipment companies are poised to follow the lead of their American and European competitors toward contract manufacturing, said Peter McGowan, managing director of the Lehman Brothers Inc....
In the drive to miniaturize, IBM Corp. is leveraging the strengths of wireless for its desktop technology.Pursuant to that, the company has introduced wireless enhancements to create a cordless, clean-desk environment for the end user.The wireless kit consists of a keyboard, mouse and receiver...
