SAN JOSE, Calif.-Research In Motion Ltd. has licensed Diversinet Corp.'s security technology for the RIM Inter@ctive Pager, Diversinet announced.Under terms of the agreement, Diversinet will supply digital certificate authentication technology, combined with data security technology from Certicom Corp.
Just as paging carriers look to two-way paging as a means of differentiation into the next millennium, so do paging manufacturers.In the past, a one-way pager was pretty much the same all over. Even the new lines of 1.5-way, or guaranteed messaging, pagers based...
Research In Motion Ltd. introduced a wireless e-mail solution, called BlackBerry, designed to allow Microsoft Exchange users mobile access to their desktop e-mail.BlackBerry is an end-to-end solution that combines the Inter@ctive 950 pager from RIM with e-mail/organizer software, a PC docking cradle, desktop software,...
BOSTON-Fidelity Investments announced its InstantBroker wireless stock alert and e-trading service will use BellSouth Wireless Data L.P.'s network for data transmission.As part of the agreement, Fidelity has exclusive use of BellSouth's RAMpowertool, which features encryption technology from Certicom Corp. for secure trading using the...
CanadaResearch in Motion Ltd. announced it received a $1.3 million contract to supply its original equipment manufactured wireless modems to GMSI Inc.'s fleet management and communications systems. GMSI's systems are sold to taxi, trucking and transit companies and are used to transmit data between...
LAS VEGAS-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will offer J.P. Systems Inc.'s NetCradle in its Web@Hand product portfolio, extending Internet access to personal digital assistants made by 3Com Corp.The GoAmerica bundle will include the NetCradle, with a wireless PC card from Research In Motion and...
Officials at MobileMedia Corp. said they will not postpone the Oct. 14 bankruptcy court hearing to review its disclosure statement, setting in motion the legal process necessary to complete its acquisition by Arch Communications Group Inc. and putting to rest rumors of another company...
Research In Motion is expected to introduce a next-generation version of its Inter@ctive two-way messaging device, code-named Leapfrog, sometime this month.The new model is closer to the size of a traditional two-way pager than the original model and retains the full Qwerty keyboard style....
Total paging subscribers will reach 68.9 million by year-end 2002, according to The Strategis Group report, "The State of the U.S. Paging Industry: 1998."Of that number, 60.5 million are expected to be one-way subscribers and 8.4 million advanced messaging and narrowband personal communications services customers....
WATERLOO, Ont.-Research In Motion announced it signed a $1 million agreement to supply its radio modems and wireless PC cards to Lipman USA Inc.Lipman provides integrated portable wireless electronic funds transfer and point-of-sale terminals. RIM's radio modems are expected to be an integral component...
IsraelGilat Satellite Networks Ltd. said Paging Network Inc. has chosen the enhanced version of its Skystar Advantage very small aperture terminal satellite earth station, called NPCSkystar, for its narrowband personal communications services. NPCSkystar was developed to serve as a satellite-based infrastructure link between base...
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations last week found developer Franklin Haney in contempt of Congress for rebuffing subpoenas in the Portals influence peddling probe, setting in motion a process that could end up landing Vice President Gore's Tennessee friend in jail.Peter...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has signed a three-year contract extension with IBM Corp. to provide the computer company with wireless data network services over its Ardis network through 2001. IBM uses the Ardis network for its field-service support personnel using a national...
DALLAS-"It's an exciting time in the industry. It's a time of growth and rebirth."So said Konstantin Zsigo, president of Zsigo Wireless Data Inc., at the opening session of Wireless Developer '98, formerly known as CelluComm Expo, last week in Dallas.This evangelism is nothing new...
BALTIMORE, United States-Millions of hearing-aid wearers in Europe and throughout the world could benefit from work underway in the United States on a national standard intended to eliminate interference from signals emitted by digital wireless phones.Unlike analog phones, which cause little or no interference,...
NEW YORK-With too much capital chasing too few deals, privately placed debt financing has become a borrower's market in recent years, leading to a sharp rise in leverage and risk."The types of deals we're talking about are high-end junk deals for high-tech, early stage,...
CLAREMONT, Calif.-WolfeTech Corp. and MovieLink announced a strategic alliance to bring nationwide movie listings to two-way paging subscribers.Under the agreement, users of the Research in Motion Inter@ctive pager and Motorola Inc.'s PagerWriter 2000 will have access to MovieLink's nationally updated movie show times and...
Italy's award of a third mobile phone tender has hit another snag. The country's Post and Telecommunications Ministry delayed once again the long-awaited process until February due to an October dispute in the government over budget issues.Italy's telecom ministry plans to tender an 1800...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-RAM Mobile Data L.P. announced its RAMfirst Interactive Paging Service, which uses the Research In Motion Inter@ctive Pager, now is available to Connecticut Telephone customers.Connecticut Telephone boasts 65,000 subscribers. RAMfirst enables Internet e-mail and two-way paging, fax and text to voice service.By the...
WASHINGTON-Rather than voting publicly on the pending public-safety allocation item announced on the sunshine agenda, Federal Communications Commissioners last Thursday chose to spend their last open meeting together patting each other on the back, burying the hatchet and putting aside any rumors that contention...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's adoption of long-awaited rules for digital television service also buoyed up hope that additional spectrum for public safety and other wireless services via reallocation of channels 60-69 may become a reality sooner rather than later.According to a new table of...
NEW YORK-RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. is gearing up for a national rollout, starting in the New York City metropolitan area, of an interactive, two-way messaging service designed to compete head-on with SkyTel Corp.-brand paging.At a news conference March 11, RAM Mobile Data officials...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-ConectUS Wireless Communications filed a trademark infringement suit Thursday against Greenville, S.C.-based Conxus Communications Inc., which changed its name from PCS Development Corp. in October."Their new name is confusingly similar to ours," said ConectUS President Dennis Scully. "We have been using the...
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
