In Motion

Just two months ago, Castle Harlan Inc. stepped in and granted Iridium L.L.C. a stay of execution, offering to purchase the fledgling company for $50 million. Iridium’s bubble burst, however, …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net said it has exchanged common stock warrants to buy 800,000 Datalink shares at $30 a share to Chase Manhattan Bank in exchange for the royalty and intellectual …

OWNINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. invested $20 million in wireless Internet solutions designer Novatel Wireless Inc., which is widely known for its Minstrel modem product line. In separate news, Aether …

NEW YORK-Developers of devices and applications for wireless communications strutted their stuff, offering new, nearly new and soon-to-debut products and services at this year’s MobileFocus. Giving more gumption to handheld …

Qualcomm Inc. introduced its Eudora Internet Suite version 1.1 for the Palm operating system, allowing any Palm-based device with a wireless or wired Internet connection to browse the Internet without …

TORONTO-The major Canadian carriers are cautiously laying the groundwork for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. But true, full-blown 3G in Canada is at least three to four years away. “Canadian mobile …

OracleMobile added support for two-way wireless messaging devices to its OracleMobile.com wireless Internet portal service, which Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. both agreed to make available to their …

Aether Systems Inc. added yet another tier to its ever-expanding services platform last week by partnering with Critical Path Inc., one of the largest messaging solutions providers in the industry. …

TORONTO-724 Solutions Inc., an Internet infrastructure software developer for financial services providers, has licensed a Wireless Application Protocol gateway designed by Neomar Inc. and integrated it into its Financial Services …

SOMERSET, N.J.-Scantron Services Group said it will use Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc.’s MobileDispatch and wireless technology to help it reduce the response time of technicians by as much as …

NEW YORK-Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., San Francisco, launched its PocketBroker wireless service in the United States, developed in an alliance with Aether Systems Inc. The service includes access to …

NEW YORK-ThinAirApps L.L.C. released its ThinAirServer 1.1, which permits two-way, real-time information access to a range of out-of-the-box applications from a variety of wireless devices. The new platform is compatible …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc., a WorldCom Inc. company, has begun offering the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion Ltd., branded BlackBerry by SkyTel, to customers nationwide. The service …

ATLANTA-XcelleNet Inc., a mobile enterprise management solutions firm, announced strategic technology alliances and partnerships with Microsoft Corp., Research In Motion Ltd., the Symbian initiative and Symbol Technologies Inc. in an …

ORLANDO, Fla.-United Messaging Inc. announced it has integrated Motient Corp.’s eLink wireless e-mail service into its hosted mailbox services, using devices from Research In Motion Ltd.

A running joke dogging the Wireless Application Protocol industry is that its initials, WAP, stand for “Where are the phones?” Applying that to the messaging industry, desperate to be included …

AUSTIN, Texas-Neomar Inc. said it will use Wireless Transport Layer Security Protocol technology from Certicom to protect transmissions using its WAP browser technology designed for Research In Motion Ltd. devices …

Whatever you do, don’t tell John Beletic he’s running a paging network. “We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and …

WASHINGTON-After a shaky start, Clinton administration officials last week said progress is being made at the World Radiocommunication Conference on a global multiband spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems. …

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support. Sybase created iAnywhere Solutions Inc. to …

ATLANTA-EarthLink Inc. has begun a market test of its Airmanager, a wireless service featuring BlackBerry Internet Edition from Research In Motion Ltd. The new service allows EarthLink members to send …

TORONTO-Microcell Connexions Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. announced their intent to proceed with trials to jointly test mobile data services based on General Packet Radio Services wireless technology and …

As last week’s Love Bug virus painfully illustrated, more computer viruses are being spread via e-mail, and they are growing increasingly destructive. But despite the growing popularity of wireless e-mail …

Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit. And they are, with …

RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has changed its name to Motient Corp., with the new Nasdaq symbol MTNT. “Motient is information in motion, solutions in motion and instant …