WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will implement a one-for-three reverse stock split of both common shares and Class B common shares at the opening of trading Monday, June 28.The split comes in conjunction with the company's acquisition of MobileMedia Corp. to stay...
NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus '99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year and early next year.For those who want a wireless communications device rugged enough for...
WASHINGTON-While 911, encryption and commercial space launch bills advanced in Congress last week, other wireless-related bills remain steeped in controversy and uncertainty.As important as 911, encryption, commercial space launch, privacy, private wireless, rural cellular and other initiatives are, the issues pale in comparison to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will acquire Nexabit Networks for about 14 million shares of Lucent common stock, or approximately $900 million.Nexabit is a privately held start-up developer of Internet protocol wide area network switching/ routing equipment, said Lucent. The Marlborough, Mass.-based...
WASHINGTON-David Aaron, undersecretary of Commerce for international trade, told wireless executives last week the Clinton administration intends to press the European Union to affirm a carrier compromise on harmonizing competing Code Division Multiple Access standards for third-generation mobile phones.Aaron, according to a participant at...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Telecommunications industry wholesale revenues will more than double during the next five years, according to a preliminary survey of the industry conducted by Phillips Group InfoTech of Parsippany, N.J.The survey showed the U.S. regional Bell operating companies leading in wholesale telecommunications revenue, with...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access digital pdQ smart phone can offer the Palm Computing platform and support full-time access to the Internet, said the company.724 Solutions Inc. chose the pdQ smart phone as one of the key platforms for its new wireless...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-ShopKo Stores Inc. plan to sell MobileComm branded paging products in its 158 stores beginning in September, under an agreement with Arch Communications Group Inc.ShopKo stores are located in 19 states, mostly in the Midwest, Western Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions.
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to hold field hearings in rural America on the best ways to connect those areas of the country to the Information Superhighway.For one thing, local communities will not be able to dictate what kind of content should be offered...
Scandinavian Softline to license WAPHELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavian Softline Technology has agreed to license Nokia Corp.'s Wireless Application Protocol technology to deliver value-added data solutions for wireless carriers.SST has developed several products for the short messaging service and smart messaging markets, and said it intends to...
NEW YORK-Mitsubishi Materials Corp. recently completed field trials of a new system designed to provide Internet access to vehicular and other mobile terminals.Mitsubishi said the system, called SWIFTcomm, will allow users to establish seamless connectivity to the Internet and intranets without data reception errors...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks' President Dave House plans to leave the company by the end of August.House joined Nortel as part of the company's acquisition of Bay Networks, where he served as chairman, chief executive officer and president. The announcement that he will leave Nortel comes...
WASHINGTON-Vice President Gore last week promised high-tech tax cuts and increased information technology research funding as part of his official announced candidacy for president."I will craft these tax cuts specifically to help the small businesses and startups that are crucial to our high-tech future,"...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it is beta testing a service that will allow mobile users to comparison-shop wirelessly, by scanning product barcodes and checking competing vendor prices on wireless handheld devices over the Internet.The solution uses a patent-pending search engine developed by BarPoint.com...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. introduced myTalk, a free ad-supported Internet service allowing users to manage their e-mail using the phone and spoken word commands.The company said it intends to upgrade myTalk later this month so users with e-mail pagers may receive an alert when...
Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, entered the public realm with a bang last Friday with an initial public offering that proved exceptionally successful in a market where technology stocks don't always fare so well.The company commenced its IPO at $16 a share, the high...
PLANO, Texas-EDS introduced a service offering that will enable Internet service providers, phone companies and others to brand, sell and bill for the latest e-business applications such as enterprise resource planning, enterprise e-mail, collaborative groupware and electronic commerce offerings, including electronic trading and Web...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week unveiled a new tax certificate program to attract more women, minorities and small businesses into wireless and other sectors of the telecommunications industry.Kennard outlined the plan at a luncheon in New York hosted by the Citizenship...
WASHINGTON-Despite threats that legislation to relax export controls on encryption technology will hand over that technology to terrorists and weaken American national security, encryption legislation continued plugging along on Capitol Hill last week.The House telecom subcommittee passed a new version of the Security and...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. will deploy its PhonePrint fraud-prevention system for MobileTel Inc., a B-band cellular operator in southern Louisiana, announced Corsair.Corsair will use its RF fingerprinting system to provide fraud protection for the carrier beginning this month."As our neighboring markets implement fraud-containment...
Fresh from his turnaround performance leading MobileMedia Communications Inc. out of bankruptcy, former president and chief executive officer Ron Grawert has been named CEO of Clariti Telecommunications International. The company said its Wireless Messaging division is developing a voice-mail system called ClariCAST Digital Wireless...
NEW YORK-Sierra Wireless Inc. announced its AirCard 300 wireless Cellular Digital Packet Data is compatible with computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95/98 or NT operating systems.The Type-II PC card originally was designed only for devices using Windows CE by Microsoft, the company said.
WASHINGTON-The Senate last week, after an arduous process, passed a bill to limit lawsuits resulting from the millennium bug. The action sets up what promises to be difficult negotiations with the House and the Clinton administration.The goal of both the House and Senate bills...
United Parcel Service introduced a new wireless package tracking system, created in conjunction with Motorola Inc., that uses American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s Ardis packet data network.The system is the third generation of UPS' Delivery Information Acquisition Device, called DIAD III. The new device features...
