NEW YORK-Cue Corp. entered into a strategic alliance to provide its regional and nationwide FM subcarrier messaging service to the new Clarion Corp. of America AutoPC, a platform using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE software.The new wireless service uses Cue's AutoFM control module, a low-cost...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif., developer of the Java software programming language, has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $1 billion in senior unsecured debt.A shelf registration allows companies up to two years from the filing...
GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network partnerships with Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division Multiple Access carriers.For now,...
WASHINGTON-As key House and Senate GOP lawmakers probe whether licenses valued at more than $1 billion were given away to Teledesic Corp. and Teligent Corp. as part of a back-room deal that policy makers justified on national security grounds, questions just as serious have...
While it may feel cathartic at times, screaming at your computer monitor in blind rage rarely does much in terms of actual productivity. The problem is the silly thing simply can't hear you.Intent on creating a more effective means of verbal communication between the...
WOOD BRIDGE, N.J.-Ram Mobile Data USA L.P. announced it will join with Microsoft Corp. to familiarize programmers with applications development for the Windows CE platform by distributing some 25,000 compact discs at COMDEX '97, with Microsoft's Windows CE Toolkit.The CD contains programming and other...
CellPort Labs Inc. introduced its second-generation communications server platform for wireless data applications in intelligent vehicle communications.Formerly called Mobile Web, the renamed C/P Connect server platform is "an embedded, programmable gateway between two fragmented environments: the wireless airlinks and the vehicle's own electronics," said Tom...
NEW YORK-In what its chief executive, Gordon Kaiser, is calling a first, Cue Network Corp., Irvine, Calif., announced it will offer voice paging over FM subcarrier channels by mid-1998.Another first, according to Kaiser, is that the voice paging services will use Data Radio Channel,...
Could this be "the" year?The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold's Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS '97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this week in the technological mecca of Seattle. The show is in its third year focusing...
NEW YORK-Vulcan Ventures Inc., the investment organization chaired by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen, announced Oct. 14 it would increase its stake in Metricom Inc., a wireless data and Internet access company, to 49 percent.Vulcan, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., has had a minority...
WASHINGTON-Following the House's lead, three Senate lawmakers have introduced legislation to curb frivolous class-action securities lawsuits against high-tech firms. Such cases have migrated to state courts since a 1995 law made it more difficult to bring such litigation to federal court.The Securities Litigation Reform...
A $1 billion capital infusion from Bill Gates' Microsoft Corp. will help cable giant Comcast Corp. accelerate construction of a fiber-optic cable network to expand Internet access to millions of Americans.In purchasing an 11.5 percent stake in Comcast, the nation's fourth-largest cable company and...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced two new ways to send messages to AT&T Digital PCS, AT&T PocketNet and AT&T Paging customers.The new services, which include Internet e-mail messaging and the use of AT&T's Web Message Center, make it possible to use the Internet...
WASHINGTON-Amid swirling rumors about a possible general counsel's seat at Microsoft Corp. or something similar at Intel Corp., Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt announced May 27 that he will be leaving his position as soon as President Clinton names-and the Senate confirms-his successor.Hundt...
You know, the one thing I always liked about the men and women who pioneered the wireless industry is they were plain, ordinary folk, a mostly straight-talking, blue-collar-leaning breed that rolled up their sleeves and built paging, dispatch and public-safety radio systems.The kind of...
WASHINGTON-Two House lawmakers introduced legislation last week to stem the tide of high-tech class action securities lawsuits that have migrated from federal courts to state courts in the aftermath of congressional efforts two years ago to curb such litigation at the federal level.The Private...
Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products division released its Air Apparent software for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT version 1.1. The product is a general purpose, enterprise-wide wireless messaging software application that integrates paging technology with Windows NT. This allows Windows NT users to send wireless...
Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally polarized signals in the 2400-2500 MHz frequency band. The antenna consists of a single broadband microstrip patch, which provides a...
E.F. Johnson Co. introduced its 9840 model UHF multimode mobile radio. Part of the company's 9800 Series radio platform, the 9840 operates in conventional, LTR trunking or talkaround modes. The UHF multimode mobile radio delivers up to 40 watts of RF power and includes...
WASHINGTON-Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's choice for Justice Department antitrust czar, appears headed for Senate confirmation despite mild grilling at last week's hearing for approving the Bell Atlantic Corp.-Nynex Corp. merger without the kinds of conditions imposed by some New England states on the...
The technology wars aren't over until the new universal, third generation worldwide standard is developed.Two prominent institutions are pushing the development of such a standard-the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva and the European Union in Brussels.The ITU first proposed the idea. A committee called...
Smith Micro Software Inc. introduced HotPage 2.0, a wireless messaging software that provides message management and transmission to alphanumeric and numeric pagers. The new version supports Windows 95 and Windows NT personal computers that run Exchange, Windows Messaging or Microsoft Outlook platforms.When subscribers to...
The clear leader in innovation as honored at the third annual Mobile Insights Mobility Awards dinner was Palm Computing Inc.'s Pilot organizer, a diminutive device that currently has no wireless access.Jeff Hawkins, Palm's chief technical officer, was named industry Person of the Year for...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-American Phoenix Group Inc. announced the creation of Tetherless Access New Zealand Ltd. to supply data communications services to New Zealand companies.The company will be headed by Greg Cross, former managing director of Microsoft New Zealand and general manager of sales and marketing...
