MONTEREY, Calif.-Ending months of speculation and veiled tension, Microsoft Corp. last week officially announced it joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, a move many see as effectively ending a microbrowser war in the making.The announcement spurred a collective sigh of relief among industry players...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a service called eLink, a two-way wireless messaging application with integrated personal information manager functions.Using a modified version of the RIM 950 pager from Research In Motion Ltd., the eLink service will use AMSC's Ardis wireless packet data network.Other...
Sirius CommunicationsSirius Communications NV introduced the DataSat Code Division Multiple Access development system. It offers an alternative to today's very small aperture terminal systems. It works with all existing satellite bands, and TV satellite receiver antennas may be used to receive the signals. The...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Multimedia Corp. began shipping for commercial and retail sale a new portable wireless communications Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, the Uniden Data 2000.The Data 2000 is a battery-powered Type II Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PC card that works with...
TOKYO-As part of its effort to become a comprehensive multimedia service provider rather than just a cellular telephone operator, NTT Mobile Communications Network (NTT DoCoMo) has joined up with the world's leading software companies to use their leading-edge enabling technologies.Japan's cellular telephone market, which...
Nortele-mobility servicesNortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol environment. The services include Wireless Prepaid, Group Conferencing, Smart Mobile Access, Wireless Voice-Activated Dialing, Mobile Messaging...
IntellicellIntellicell Corp. announced Mike Hedge and Michael King, both previously with CellStar Corp., are heading up Intellicell's sales and marketing group. Hedge will be responsible for the implementation of an overall strategic growth plan to increase revenues and King will focus on developing a...
Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and full Internet access for $40 a month. Novatel Wireless Inc. announced a new smaller,...
NEW YORK-Despite the current slowdown in Asian, Latin American and Russian markets, the United States has taken a commanding lead in industries most important to the global economy during the next several decades: communications equipment, computer hardware and software, biotechnology and health care, retailing and...
Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in June, and also announced the first commercial launch of its technology by a Global System for Mobile communications operator.Although it...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology said it teamed with DoCoMo/NTT Mobile Communications Network to provide cellular phone users in Japan wireless Internet access to corporate groupware application information through Puma's Intellisync Anywhere software and DoCoMo's i-mode cellular phone service.The i-mode service provides users a mobile...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 "the year of wireless data," few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year.In 1998, several new devices were introduced that met the form factor and price requirements needed for...
3Com Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to develop co-branded home networking products that initially will include traditional ethernet and home-phone-line networking kits, with radio-frequency and power-line kits to follow. Using a single Internet connection, two or more family members can simultaneously surf...
NEW YORK-RadiSys closed March 1 on a $28 million purchase of IBM Corp.'s Arctic business, the first of up to 10 acquisitions the Hillsboro, Ore., company plans during the next three years, primarily to bolster its presence in telecommunications."Our first interest is telecommunications-base stations,...
Are today's high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable?Top antitrust minds, like Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky, are wrestling with this very question as government trustbusters take on Microsoft,...
SONY ELECTRONICSSony Electronics introduced a new alphanumeric pager with a synthesized tuner, generic-over-the-air programming capabilities and the company's Jog Dial operation, called the MP-7001. The generic-over-the-air programming technology, or GOTAP, is an advanced feature of the Motorola Inc. FLEXsuite protocol. Sony also released the...
NEW YORK-Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, announced a new services initiative designed to help large enterprises "rapidly transform their existing networks into adaptive, next-generation networks necessary for ... a global, Internet-driven business world."The first phase of the initiative encompasses next-generation network infrastructure at the enterprise...
While wireless data applications made a big splash at Wireless '99 last week in New Orleans, a new company quietly slipped into the pool with the introduction of a new end-to-end mobile data service solution called Saraide.com.Saraide.com is a joint venture among Microcell Telecommunications...
In a move designed to further its interests in the wireless environment, Microsoft Corp. announced it has formed an agreement with British Telecommunications plc to develop a set of services to make various types of Internet-and intranet-based applications and information available to mobile device...
I guess there is no use longing for yesterdays when wireless trade shows were somewhat sane.Today's conventions are full of new twists as last-minute press conferences are called to announce deals signed at 3 a.m. the previous day, and phones that were supposed to...
In the first product announcement resulting from its acquisition of Starfish Software Inc., Motorola Inc. introduced a personal organizer accessory designed to clip on to the back of other StarTAC phones at Wireless '99 this week called the StarTAC Mobile Organizer.The 2.3 ounce device...
The domestic telecom market is abuzz with mergers, acquisitions and mega-deals. The industry is consolidating again, not so long after AT&T Corp. was broken up into Baby Bells; cellular and then personal communications services licenses were awarded, and carriers of all stripes began competing...
DENVER-WirelessKnowledge L.L.C., the joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., said it will announce at Wireless '99 this week significant additions to its recently introduced Revolv service."The main highlight is that WirelessKnowledge is starting to work with MSNBC," said Tom Clarkson, III, vice...
