WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada—The adage, "keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer," seems to fit the new business relationship Research In Motion (RIM) and Glenayre Electronics announced this week.The two companies said they are dropping their patent lawsuits against each other and will...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. announced Canadian carrier Rogers AT&T Wireless will sell voice and data-integrated BlackBerry wireless devices for its GPRS network.The carrier deal is the latest in a long list for RIM, which has agreements with AT&T Wireless, VoiceStream Wireless, MmO2, Nextel...
TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the popular BlackBerry pager, announced a major alliance with Motorola and Nextel Communications to develop a combined e-mail, pager and telephone device for the U.S. market later this year. The Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based RIM did not disclose...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Palm Inc.'s new wireless integrated device, the i705, seems to have hit the shelves in consumer electronic retail stores Friday, but the company isn't commenting one way or the other.Several Office Depots in the Denver area confirmed that they started selling the...
HAYWARD, Calif.—AvantGo Inc. announced it won its first patent, which covers technology for synchronizing content between a device and a server over a wireless network. AvantGo said the technology is a core part of its synchronization offering, which supports Pocket PC, Palm Inc. and...
RESTON, Va.—In a move to combine almost all of their popular business services and applications into one offering, Research In Motion Ltd., Nextel Communications and Motorola Inc. announced they will team to create a new Personal Data Assistant, one that the companies hope will...
RESTON, Va.—Wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced plans to restructure its debt under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan the company filed with the Eastern District of Virginia Bankruptcy Court, a move Motient said will eliminate more than $40 million in annual interest payments.Motient said...
The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the wireless industry.The handheld computing industry has suffered through the past year along with the...
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...
TORONTO—Research In Motion (RIM) announced another major European move, this time with Telecom Italia Group in Italy to introduce RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail device to the Italian corporate market.During the past several months, RIM has announced a series of deals to introduce BlackBerrys running...
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.—Rovenet Inc. has released the latest version of its P-Fax software, which permits users of handheld computers to send, receive and, for the first time, view faxes on these wireless devices.The latest release includes the P-Forms Mobile Document Management System, which permits end...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—In a move to redirect Motorola Inc.'s two-way pager devices toward the business market and against Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry device, Notify Technology Corp. said it will offer its NotifyLink Enterprise Exchange Edition through Motorola's Talkabout T900 and Timeport P935.Motorola's two-way...
TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has acquired Plazmic, a closely held Toronto company that makes software for wireless devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.Founded in 1996, Plazmic develops graphic programs for handhelds using the Java programming language, which has been adopted...
WATERLOO, Canada—A curious patent infringement suit has been filed against Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device.RIM said it learned of the complaint filed by NTP Inc., a Virginia-based holding company. RIM said it initially became aware of NTP...
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,...
HOBOKEN, N.J.—Advanced Systems Concepts released its ActiveBatch Wireless Client interface, which the company said improves remote server and application management support using Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry wireless device."With ActiveBatch Wireless Client, remote management is simplified and responsibility for direct action is placed in...
WATERLOO, Canada—Research In Motion Ltd. announced earnings in line with many analyst expectations, but lowered its forecasts for the future due to a troubled economy, slow rollouts of GPRS networks and the "weakened financial condition of Motient Corp."RIM reported revenue for the second quarter...
HACKENSACK, N.J.—GoAmerica Inc. will provide wireless Internet service to all of Canadian wireless carrier Rogers AT&T Wireless's GSM/GPRS subscribers, a move that greatly expands the relationship between the two companies and marks GoAmerica's first move into 2.5-generation network technology.Rogers AT&T, which this summer completed...
TORONTO—RFID developer SAMSys Technologies Inc. has joined the Research In Motion BlackBerry Independent Software Vendors Alliance Program in hopes of integrating RIM's BlackBerry solution with SAMSys' multiprotocol, multi-frequency reader architecture."In keeping with our forward-looking and innovative approach to RFID system functionality, we believe that...
WCitiesLocation-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users' cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the company's chief executive officer, with the service, cell-phone and PDA users can find whatever they're looking for anywhere in the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—BitFlash extended its screen-scraping technology to include Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry device, a move the company said gives BlackBerry users the ability to view visually rich e-mail attachments."Our advanced e-mail attachment capability gives enterprises a competitive edge," said Antoine Paquin, BitFlash's...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—BT Cellnet signed a licensing deal with Research In Motion (RIM) that enables it to launch a wireless e-mail service in Europe. The company said it plans to introduce RIM Blackberry products next month in the United Kingdom, followed by the Netherlands...
WATERLOO, Canada—Research In Motion (RIM) continued its European expansion, announcing the addition of Italian Internet company Dada to its growing list of partners.Dada will work to introduce RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Edition early next year through General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks.BT Cellnet is perhaps...
Motient Corp. posted another slow quarter last week, showing total revenue of $23.7 million on a net loss of $65.5 million, and warned that the current economic slowdown has begun to affect the company's subscriber totals and could continue to do so."Current IT (information...
