Can a 30-year-old Harvard Business School graduate rebuild Cabletron Systems Inc. as a snazzy player in the enterprise network switching industry?Garry K. McGuire Jr., executive vice president-worldwide marketing and chief marketing officer at Cabletron, is going to try. He wants to outflank big-name competitors...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Interoperability, difficult text entry and market awareness are today's barriers inhibiting growth in the wireless instant messaging market, according to a report from industry analyst firm IDC."Carriers still have a fair amount of work ahead of them if they want to expand the...
As the wireless industry is ramping up efforts to convince customers to use their mobile phones for Internet access via Wireless Application Protocol technology, some are taking the concurrent step of preparing for voice access to the Net as well.The issue was the subject...
ATISThe members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its full committee and six technical subcommittees at the group's national meeting. E. Raymond Hapeman, of Telcordia Technologies Inc., and Wayne...
The hype surrounding the possibilities of wireless Internet services has reached an all-time high following Wireless 2000 in New Orleans last month.But in the wake of this fevered pitch has come a backlash from analysts determined to draw a firm distinction between hype and...
AUSTRALIATelstra will extend its CDMA network in Australia to include country locations currently covered by its GSM network but lacking in analog coverage, said the company.Hutchison Telecoms in Australia announced it will adopt the brand name Orange, the global communications brand of the Hutchison...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc announced its tender offer for Japanese telecommunications carrier International Digital Communications was successfully concluded, with sufficient shares having been tendered to take Cable & Wireless' holding in IDC to 97.69 percent.Of IDC's 141 stockholders, 134 have tendered their shares. Prior...
LONDON-Following an offer made by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone for Japanese carrier International Digital Communications, Cable & Wireless plc announced it is raising its previous offer for IDC and extending the term of the offer to June 15 from June 5, to comply with...
BOULDER,Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. said it plans to offer its InfoConnect suite of location-based services to wireless carriers.Applications of InfoConnect include localized traffic and weather updates and emergency roadside services.The InfoConnect product combines SignalSoft Corp.'s local.info software product with SCC's National Data Service Center, which...
Power ProductsPower Products Unlimited Inc. selected Ken Donofrio as its new marketing director. He will orchestrate all aspects of the company's marketing and carrier services program. Donofrio previously was director of marketing and carrier support for Cliffco Wireless.WirelessNorthWirelessNorth promoted its market development coordinator, Heidi...
The Western European cellular service market will grow from $31 billion in 1997 at an annual growth rate of 7.6 percent to become a $52 billion industry by 2002, according to a new forecast from International Data Corp."The cellular market in Europe is maturing...
DALLAS-Half of all pagers in North America today are used by people under 30 years of age, according to a recent survey conducted by IDC/Link Resources."We found that paging is alive and well and has excellent growth potential," said Iain Gillott, IDC vice president...
