ERICSSONEricsson Inc. introduced a snap-on wireless modem that allows users to browse the Internet and send or receive faxes and e-mail without cable hookups or a phone line. The DI 27 eliminates the need to connect a personal computer modem card and telephone line...
WASHINGTON-This year's midterm election has monumental implications for the political landscape in terms of telecom policy and the balance of power in America-however, not in the conventional sense.The Republicans, whose revolution took back the House and Senate from Democrats in the 1994 midterm election,...
NEW YORK-Earlier this month, Charles E. Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Rogers Cantel Inc., temporarily assumed a new identity as a retail sales clerk to gain first-hand understanding of his wireless customers.After four hours on the job, the CEO concluded, "It's obvious...
LAS VEGAS-Microsoft Corp. announced last week at Wireless I.T. in Las Vegas plans to create a microbrowser designed specifically for handheld wireless devices to access Web content.According to Cameron Myhrvold, vice president of the company's Internet consumer unit, this microbrowser will support such Internet...
Microsoft Corp. introduced its third-generation software platform for handheld personal computer products, called the Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition, or H/PC Pro.The platform, based on Windows CE 2.11, improves remote access and connectivity to corporate data while retaining the familiar user interface of...
HEWLETT PACKARDA complete test solution for installing and maintaining radio-frequency infrastructure systems for Cellular Digital Packet Data and mobile data base station equipment was introduced by Hewlett-Packard Co. at the Personal Communications Showcase '98 trade show last week in Orlando, Fla. The solution is...
AvantGo Inc. released a new solution designed to extend enterprise and Web-based applications to handheld computers, allowing companies to deploy corporate applications to mobile devices that are compatible with their existing network and technology infrastructures.The solution, called AvantGo 2.0, consists of the AvantGo Server,...
Extending desktop personal computer information to mobile phones has become a point of differentiation for several wireless companies of late, and Paragon Software plans to introduce a new application to do just that this week at PCS '98 in Orlando, Fla.In conjunction with Nokia...
Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard."Microsoft will not dominate this category as it has with PCs," Matthew Checkley, associate consultant with the firm, said in a...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced a snap-on wireless modem that allows users to browse the Internet and send or receive faxes and e-mail without cable hookups or a phone line.The DI 27 eliminates the need to connect a personal computer modem...
NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming language.Spelled J-i-n-i, and pronounced "genie," the new software allows Java to enable devices like...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Commerce is expected to ask other federal agencies for advice on applications filed last week by leading computer firms to export a new form of strong encryption.Encryption products are computer codes that scramble data so it can only be read by...
CITELCitel Inc. unveiled a new line of coaxial surge protectors that provide protection against lightning surges and electrical transients. They use gas tube technology, making them suitable for broadband applications. The new line includes: N, BNC, TNC, SMA and 7/16. P8AX coaxial protectors are available...
A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves apart."Paging is a commodity," said Tim Kataras, president of Global Access Inc., a smaller...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.- Evolving Systems Inc., a software product development and systems integration firm, last week debuted its MetOSS-GEM software platform that automates and streamlines information to be shared by service providers.Jeffrey Finn, senior vice president and general manager of product development and distribution at...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it will deliver news from MSNBC to its subscribers at no additional cost.Subscribers will receive MSNBC headlines twice a day at 11: 30 a.m. and 4: 30 p.m. SkyTel and MSNBC will cross link their Web sites as well so subscribers...
DALLAS-NEC America Inc. announced it selected Preferred Paging and Wireless as a mail-order supplier for the Beacon Data Pager, a wireless personal digital assistant with full alphanumeric messaging capabilities.The FLEX-based PDA uses infrared technology and software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer data from desktop...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have changed over time, but the predicted boom has always been present, always just about...
DENVER, United States-L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and United Kingdom-based Psion Computers plc conditionally have agreed to form a joint venture called Symbian, and Motorola Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding to join, said Ericsson.Symbian aims to drive the convergence of mobile computing and...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Armed with nearly 300 attendees at its show, a new way to count the number of wireless data subscribers and strong evidence that Internet Protocol will be the backbone network for wireless data solutions, Wireless Data Forum board members said the...
VANCOUVER-Nettech Systems introduced a communications solution called Smart IP that enables Internet and intranet applications to run over wireless networks without the challenges associated with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol connections.Many Internet applications use TCP/IP as the communication protocol to access the Internet and corporate...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. said it released its version 3.0 HotPage software, which provides message management and transmission to alphanumeric and numeric pagers from computer systems using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 3x, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT.HotPage allows users to compose...
NEW YORK-InfoTelecom of Cedex, France, recently began a pilot project in Irvine, Calif., home base for Cue Network Corp., to test what company executives say will be the first one-way digital voice paging available anywhere over FM subcarrier channels.A second field test for the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology Inc. announced it has begun shipping its new IntelliLink software solution for NEC America Inc.'s Beacon Data Pager.IntelliLink provides one of the key components that allow the pager to import information from personal computer-based applications. With it, users can download...
