Allgon MobileStockholm, Sweden-based Allgon Mobile Communications AB introduced a dual-band antenna called "Twin," which can be mounted on a car window. The antenna can receive and transmit Global System for Mobile communications-based digital signals at 1800 MHz and 900 MHz frequencies. Holes don't have...
MANCHESTER, N.H.-Summa Four Inc. announced it will demonstrate Project Sigma this week at the Supercomm show in Atlanta.This new addition to Summa Four's product family is a telco-capable, standards-based programmable switching platform, and is the result of co-development partnership with Dialogic Corp. announced last...
Several leading telecommunications and computer industry companies last week announced a technology platform that would allow all types of mobile devices to communicate with each other without cable connections.Companies including Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Toshiba Corp., Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson are participating in...
Teledesic L.L.C. and Motorola Inc. last week announced they will become partners in the development and deployment of Teledesic's global broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications system.The Boeing Co., a leading aerospace company, and satellite manufacturer Matra Marconi Space, will round out the team of founding...
Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market.But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data USA L.P.-believe two-way interactive text...
The Inmarsat Council reached an agreement to privatize Inmarsat with a target date of 1 January 1999. According to Inmarsat, its signatories, parties and management have worked together for three years to design and develop the framework for a new Inmarsat comprising a public...
NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for large corporations.Companies like AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., GTE Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. deploy its staff of veteran sales people...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-Evolving Systems Inc. released version 1.2 of its NumberManager and OrderPath applications for local number portability.Enhancements include increased performance in telephone number applications and an advanced graphical user interface that incorporates Microsoft style guide recommendations, said the company.The new release has completed testing...
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has introduced three second-generation decoder chips and related software drivers to support the recently announced FLEX G1.9 high-speed, one-way paging protocol upgrade.The new one-chip solution integrates digital FM demodulation functionality that previously was available only through off-chip, multiple...
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.The Ericsson announcement comes less than two months after Motorola Inc. announced it...
Socket Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced an agreement to develop and support software that will allow FLEX-enabled palmtop computers powered by the Windows CE operating system to receive personal, group and broadcast wireless messages. The agreement combines Socket's data...
A new group consisting of personal computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies is developing a protocol for wirelessly connecting home appliances to PCs.The Home Radio Frequency Working Group's mission is "to enable the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices by establishing...
Since announcing its new vision last fall, the Wireless Data Forum has taken several significant steps in the last weeks to move toward its goal of transforming into an industry-wide organizationMost recently, the organization hired Mark Desautels as the WDF's new managing director. Desautels...
Most analysts and industry insiders agree the future of the paging industry lies in providing value-added services to the current paging subscriber base.For some that means upgrading from numeric to alphanumeric. For others, that means adding information services to alphanumeric. For San Diego, Calif.-based...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Microsoft Corp. made a minority equity investment in General Magic Inc. and licensed some of its technology, making a payment of $6 million to General Magic, the companies announced.General Magic is developing integrated voice and data applications, and has and upcoming network service...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
Latest statistics put the national capital area as the second worst gridlocked place in the country, second presumably to Los Angeles.As a native Washingtonian, I've sensed for some years that congestion was getting worse.Now I know why: the lawyers, the scandals, the lawsuits, the subpoenas...
Possio InternationalWireless fax machinePossio International, based in Sweden, introduced the PM80, a wireless, briefcase-portable terminal for transmitting and receiving fax messages. The device connects to a mobile phone with either infrared light or a PC card. The portable fax machine will be upgradable to...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
With technology advancing at lightning speed and telecommunications becoming a powerful engine of the global economy, the International Telecommunication Union has found itself learning to cope in a brave new world where private-sector politics are replacing nation-state diplomacy as the driving force in worldwide...
WASHINGTON-With technologies converging, telecom giants merging and entrenched networks discouraging new competition, there is growing debate over the role of antitrust law in the Digital Age.In one camp are the Clintonites, lawyers and economists who emphasize the inherent power of embedded networks to keep...
NHancement Technologies Inc. announced that its Voice Plus subsidiary installed and launched a voice processing system in Wichita, Kan., for VoiceStream Wireless, the personal communications services division of Western Wireless Corp.Corsair Communications Inc. announced it completed an agreement with Telesis Sistemas em Telecomunicacoes Ltda....
With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with the software giant.Motorola Inc....
The effects of Bell Nino, which jumped on the radar screen in Wichita Falls, Texas, New Year's Eve, are being felt in the nation's capital.The Bells and U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall prove venue shopping has its rewards. Thanks to Good Ol' Joe, the...
