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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
