The Wireless Application Forum held its latest members meeting last week in Dallas, convening this time to determine its road map for the coming year and into the next century.The meeting marked a transition from a focus on primarily technology issues to more of...
REDMOND, Wash.-Multiple Zones International Inc. and Wireless Dimension have signed an agreement that will allow the two companies to integrate their products and services into InfoSpace.com Inc.'s syndicated network.InfoSpace.com provides private-label content solutions to more than 1,500 Web sites, including America Online, Netscape's Netcenter,...
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
WirelessKnowledge L.L.C., a joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., introduced Revolv, its first service offering since forming in November.The service will allow users remote access to e-mail, calendars, contact lists and information content via the Internet, as well as access to Microsoft...
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,...
Geoworks Corp. announced the latest stage in its continuing transformation last week with the introduction of a consulting division called the Professional Services group.The business unit was created to provide software development, strategic consulting, project management and quality assurance consulting services to the wireless...
NEW YORK-Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., said it began earlier this month in Las Vegas the commercial rollout of a new voice paging service it plans to offer in 100 North American markets by year's end.The "CUEVoice" messaging service also will include text paging and...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it licensed Citrix Systems Inc.'s Independent Computing Architecture for use in Motorola digital wireless devices.The first Motorola devices to receive this technology will be its integrated Digital Enhanced Network handsets, which combine the capabilities of a digital cellular phone, two-way...
Microsoft Corp. increased its ownership stake in SkyTel Communications Inc.Papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week disclosed that software megalith Microsoft bought 1.54 million shares of SkyTel's Class A common stock last May, bringing Microsoft's total stake in the paging carrier...
DENVER-U S West Wireless said it plans to expand its personal communications services into Salt Lake City and other markets this year. The company, working with U S West !nterprise and with Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s Wireless Knowledge product, will integrate data and...
NEW YORK-"In its 93rd month of expansion, the U.S. economy may be more vulnerable going into 1999 than at any time since 1994 when the Federal Reserve (Board) last tightened significantly," Peter M. Donovan said in a recent presentation about the outlook for the...
The Palm VII personal digital assistant, announced this month by 3Com Corp. and Palm Computing Inc., continues to generate news and speculation, even though the product is not expected to be in consumers' hands until late next year.Convergys Corp. told RCR it has been...
Sierra Wireless said it has brought together 17 other companies in an alliance formed to work together to offer more complete solutions so the general public will adopt wireless data devices more quickly.The WirelessReady Alliance is an invitation-only collaborative venture of hardware vendors, software...
Brightpoint Inc. announced it entered into an agreement to provide integrated logistics services for Nextel Communications. Under the agreement, Brightpoint's wholly owned subsidiary, Wireless Stockroom, will provide a variety of services for Nextel's retail and direct-to-end-user channels. Brightpoint's services will include call center management...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the formation of the PCIA Mobile Computing Advisory Group with Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle and Philips Consumer Communications.The PCIA MCAG's main goal will be to promote wireless mobile computing.The advisory board said its first task...
WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust czar Joel Klein, sending a mixed message, predicts Baby Bells will face local competition from wireless and wireline firms over time, even if mega-mergers among dominant telecom players are approved.Pointing to forces of deregulation, technology and globalization that are driving telecom...
The Internet landscape was altered dra-matically last week when America Online Inc. announced it will acquire Netscape Communications Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $4.2 billion.At the same time, AOL also announced it entered into a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Inc. to...
LAS VEGAS-Odyssey Software and Nettech Systems Inc. announced they have created a solution that extends wireless access to enterprise applications.The system blends Nettech's Smart IPO middleware with Odyssey's CEfusion, a Microsoft Windows NT-based connectivity suite for Windows CE devices.
Dueling high-tech agendas In coming years, the debate for control of the nation's high-tech policy agenda will become as fierce, and perhaps as important, as any in official Washington. Given high-tech is the engine of the knowledge-based economy, it would be wise for the...
WASHINGTON-While this week's election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, a wholesale shakeup in GOP leadership could alter the political dynamics of that process."We...
SEATTLE-Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. made good on their promise to converge the computing and wireless industries when they announced the formation of WirelessKnowledge L.L.C. last week, a joint venture many say will revolutionize the wireless data industry.WirelessKnowledge aims to provide an airlink-independent end-to-end...
Is this it?Is the wireless data market sitting on the runway to (finally) take off, offering instant text applications anywhere on the planet?Like a child before Christmas, I anticipate the day when wireless data applications make my life easier, when I easily can use...
Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. plan to announce this week they are creating a new wireless communications company to focus on the integration of wireless data, information technology and computers.According to information leaked to the press last week, the venture aims to extend Microsoft's...
Microsoft Corp. last week announced plans to enter the smart-card market with a new standards-based operating system called Smart Cards for Windows.The system will allow smart-card developers to take advantage of a common run-time environment, a language-neutral development environment and familiar tools such as...