WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission appears to be preparing to take back 63 personal communications service licenses held by NextWave Telecom Inc.Action could come as early as this week as NextWave is set to go to court for its final reorganization hearing. Objections to NextWave's...
Research In Motion Ltd. ended the year with several potentially significant announcements, including a long-awaited reorder contract with BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and the opening of a new research and development facility.BSWD was the first and historically largest buyer of RIM's Interactive Pager 950...
Research In Motion Ltd. announced Dell Computer Corp. will begin reselling its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution at the end of the month. BlackBerry allows users to remotely send and receive e-mail from the Inter@ctive Pager wireless device.Dell integrates and sells customized computing system solutions....
As wireless access to the Internet becomes an increasingly popular selling point for wireless carriers, a new concern arises over how carriers can offer valuable Internet-based content without becoming marginalized as a pipe.With 1 billion wireless customers expected by 2003, it is no surprise...
Lucent Technologies Inc. charged ahead during the first half of the year, recording a substantial jump in profit growth and edging ahead of Nokia Corp. as the major players' leader in net income for the first half of the year.Profit leadersLucent displaced Alcatel as...
LAS VEGAS-While the growing convergence between the computer and wireless industries has made headlines in wireless industry press and generated great excitement at wireless trade shows, the issue remains somewhat of a footnote within the computer industry.At last week's fall Comdex show here, some...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-ThinAirApps.com introduced its ThinAir Secure Server application that, when installed inside a private corporate network, allows employees to access corporate database information and services from wirelessly enabled devices.Devices supported include the Palm VII, III and V connected organizers, Research In Motion Ltd....
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. commenced with its public offering of 5 million common shares last Thursday in both Canada and the United States.The shares will be sold in the United States at $30.75 per share and in Canada at CDN$45.55 per share. The...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. began offering its eLink wireless e-mail service commercially last week, featuring two-way wireless extension of desktop Internet e-mail to handheld devices and personal information management functions. The solution uses AMSC's Ardis packet data network and Research In Motion Ltd.'s 850...
Speculation that BellSouth Wireless Data Ltd. would not immediately renew its supply contract with Research In Motion Ltd. has proven accurate, expected to result in lower third-quarter earnings for RIM. But the drop is expected to be short-term as more customers sign on to...
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short time, RIM has transformed itself into a market leader in technically advanced interactive pagers...
SANDTON, South Africa-A wave of liberalization and privatization is transforming the cellular market in Africa. Countries riding high on this tide include South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Mauritius, C"te d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.Pyramid Research predicts that only Angola, Burundi, Libya and Gambia will have...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said it formed a strategic alliance with Descartes Systems Group Inc. to provide wireless mobile communications solutions for delivery and field support workers.Under the agreement, Descartes will use RIM's Inter@ctive pager and BlackBerry products with its DeliveryNet solution.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.-Wynd Communications Inc. announced it has completed the beta testing of its AAA Emergency Roadside Service for deaf and hard of hearing users, and said the service is now available to all WyndTell users.The solution allows AAA members who are also...
Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group charged Research In Motion Ltd. with patent infringement on RIM two-way messaging devices.The Glenayre division said it filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of California last week seeking unspecified damages from RIM.Both companies make two-way messaging...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said it will supply Venezuela-based carrier Telcel Cellular with its Inter@ctive 950e pager, the Spanish language version of the Inter@ctive 950.The deal will allow Telcel to become the first Mobitex operator in Latin America to offer the RIM messaging...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced Internet service provider RCN Corp. has become the first ISP to offer its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to subscribers.RCN said it plans to make the BlackBerry service available to all 500,000 of its customers in a deal RIM...
SkyTel Communications Inc. introduced two new pagers branded by strategic partner eBay, an online trading and auction service firm, as part of a new paging service called "eBay a-go-go." The new service allows eBay members to receive auction information on any SkyTel pager. One...
A Baltimore-based company called reachNET introduced a wireless messaging solution that provides a direct connection between a wireless device and the telephone teletype machines commonly used by the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.Called Wireless TTY, the service uses the Inter@ctive Pager 950 from Research In...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life up to 30 percent. The discontinuous transmission feature will be generally available for network operators...
NEW YORK-w-Trade Technologies Inc., which developed the w-Trade wireless trading system, introduced a new product called w-Bank.Much like the way w-Trade allows brokerages to offer wireless access to their online trading systems, w-Bank allows financial institutions to offer wireless access to their online banking...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it raised $125 million through a public offering of 7 million shares of common stock.Half the proceeds will be used to pay down debt, while the other half will be used for general business purposes, the company said.The successful...
LOS ANGELES-Wynd Communications Inc. revealed plans to develop a service enhancement of its two-way paging service for the deaf so customers may receive movie listings for open captioned films, usually difficult to find under normal circumstances.The service is being developed in conjunction with Tripod...
The supply contract between Research In Motion Ltd. and BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. ends next month and the two companies are already in negotiations to renew the deal.The outcome of these talks is something anxiously awaited by wireless data industry watchers, who see it...
