NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers."It's all about making the Internet easier to use. The customers coming on line today are not information...
NEW YORK-Envision this scenario-for the price of a local phone call, mobile workers use personal digital assistants run by off-the-shelf software to routinely access their own computers wirelessly via the Internet, turning their PDAs into virtual offices.The potential domestic market for such services is...
SkyTel Corp. introduced the SkyTel Messenger for Windows CE, a software messaging system developed by SkyTel in conjunction with Microsoft Corp.Jackson, Miss.-based SkyTel said the software messaging application, which is scheduled to be available late this year, will be marketed with handheld personal computers...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry is leery of a new budget-driven, flexible-use auction proposal that could create more competition for carriers on Main Street and Wall Street.The auction of the 2305-2320 MHz and 2345-2360 MHz bands has to begin by April 15 and must be...
Using the existing Ardis two-way data network, ConectUS Wireless Communications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., plans to launch two-way nationwide messaging services next month, initially targeting business users.ConectUS is a subsidiary of Executive Page, which is an Ardis master reseller and distributor of products for...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to unveil a new plan to auction $3 billion of spectrum for wireless Internet access and other applications, according to officials.Bidding is set to begin next spring.MCI Communications Corp. and Microsoft Corp., according to a published...
Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing its 5ESS-2000 switch-based mobile...
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses wireless data exchange software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer and coordinate information with Windows-based personal computers,...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Alcatel Telecom and Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase each other's wireless equipment according to a memorandum of understanding announced Thursday.According to the agreement, Alcatel will be allowed to purchase and distribute Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access radio systems, while it...
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses wireless data exchange software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer and coordinate information with Windows-based personal computers,...
Northern Telecom entered the wireless handset market in North America for the first time by introducing PCS 1911, a personal telephone that supports voice mail and messaging services, the company said. Nortel was awarded a contract by BellSouth Mobility DCS to deploy the handsets...
Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers that have banded together to make sure that happens."Standards will drive the development of the smart card market," said Jacques...
In three years, SilverLake Communications Inc. has pushed itself into the forefront of the paging software market.Last year, the privately held Calabasas, Calif., company won a contract to provide its software to Paging Network Inc., defeating 25 other companies, that bid on the project,...
FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems, a business and information technology consulting firm, announced an $8.5 million agreement to develop a comprehensive customer care and billing platform to support Canadian-based Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s new personal communications services offering.Under the terms of the agreement, AMS will provide...
Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year."The time seems right for me to tell you and the president that I have decided,...
DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data services from AT&T's Wireless Data Division.Under the agreement, MobileWare and AT&T Wireless will train sales and technical field support, as...
Airlink Software Corp. wants to wirelessly extend what it calls "this century's hottest marketing media-the Internet."The North York, Ontario-based software integrator is marketing its Priority Page software application to Internet Service Providers and paging carriers who want to offer a value-added, wireless-enabled service to...
MONTREAL-Transys Networks Inc. said it has developed a fax solution that lets mobile and remote workers send faxes through satellite networks. The product, Mobilis, consists of a store-and-forward fax switch and mobile fax interface units that work with most standard G3 fax machines or...
Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has sold $22.5 million of its cumulative convertible accruing pay in kind preferred stock to a group of investors. The buyers include Chase Securities Inc., a subsidiary of Chase Manhattan Corp., which acquired $17 million of the PIK...
The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition.According to the most recent "Report Card" issued by the CDPD Forum, carriers are deploying Cellular Digital Packet...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group announced that PacLink has become the first to launch Motorola's FLEX paging protocol and distribute FLEX protocol-based pagers in Thailand. PacLink is investing more than $1 million in the FLEX protocol-capable infrastructure system and plans to launch the latest...
