NEW YORK-In order to handle the converged communications revolution, the vision of L.M. Ericsson is the evolution of network reliability to a degree that today is only a dream on a drawing board.The so-called 10 nines, or 99.99999999 percent reliability, is a Holy Grail...
Price Communications Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Price Communications Corp., signed its 500,000th subscriber and reported it added 42,162 net new cellular subscriber during the first six months of this year. Price also reported its average penetration rate is 15 percent, with a...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and MasterCard International said they will commit resources in a joint effort to speed mobile commerce deployments.The companies will collaborate on research and development projects to assure interoperability between MasterCard's electronic payment system and Motorola's Internet-enabled wireless devices.Motorola and MasterCard also...
LONDON-Sonera Zed Ltd. has agreed with Unilever and Hewlett-Packard Co. to test new mobile marketing solutions beginning in Finland this summer."Mobile marketing is one of the areas in which Zed wants to be a forerunner and develop new, advanced solutions," explained Juha Varelius, president...
GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology services firm with more than 9,000 corporate clients, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Inc."The consumer...
NEW YORK-A new report from Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown says the wireless Web opportunity will extend the e-services market at least another 25 percent and possibly more than 50 percent during the next two to three years."Reminiscent of the development of the Internet computing buildout...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plan to develop and market the delivery of promotions and discounts to AT&T Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service customers.InfoSpace said it will provide its mobile commerce technology allowing subscribers to choose the promotions and discounts they...
OpenGridWireless Internet solutions provider OpenGrid Inc. appointed Gary Rhea to the position of chief financial officer. Rhea will oversee the company's financial activities, including treasury, accounting, business planning and investor relations. Rhea was CFO for Versant Corp., a provider of enterprise-level database management systems...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-M2card Inc., a payment solution provider, and Inciscent, a wired-to-wireless application service provider, announced they have formed a strategic alliance to develop wireless transaction services designed to complement M2card's online and offline payment solutions for teen-agers.The collaboration will allow customers to check...
Formus Communications Inc. filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of its class A common stock. Formus, a wireless broadband carrier, expects to complete the offering by the middle of the year.Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. successfully bid $77 million to acquire several...
OmniSkyOmniSky Corp., a provider of wireless Internet services for handheld computing devices, named five new people to its executive management team. Lawrence Winkler is the company's new senior vice president and chief financial officer and will oversee accounting and finance operations. Prior to joining...
BERLIN-Siemens AG's new Information and Communication Mobile group announced it will cooperate in a global strategic alliance with SAP AG to provide a range of mySAP.com Mobile Workplace solutions with Siemens' mobile networks, devices and Internet solutions.The cooperation aims to integrate mySAP.com mobile commerce...
ATLANTA-First Data Corp. announced a partnership with Aether Systems Inc. under which the two will develop and market wireless payment products and services for mobile phones, personal digital assistants and paging devices.The agreement is the first step in developing a more comprehensive suite of...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Wireless media solutions provider i3 Mobile reported an agreement to incorporate directory information from InfoUSA.com into its wireless content and mobile commerce services.According to i3 Mobile, the service will allow phone numbers and addresses for businesses to be accessed by leveraging its location-based...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Gemplus, a provider of smart card-based solutions, launched GemXplore Trust, an enhanced subscriber identity module card platform for mobile commerce security.GemXplore Trust has an on-board cryptographic engine that provides a library of functions that can be accessed by a standard SIM toolkit...
LOS ANGELES-Oberthur Card Systems developed a betting application for Cable & Wireless HKT Mobile Services enabling mobile subscribers to place bets using their mobile phones.The application allows customers to place bets on horses or races, purchase lottery tickets with the choice of manual or...
InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company's biggest opportunity and fastest-growing area.Within that space, InfoSpace is betting mobile commerce services will play an important role in providing value to its...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Pixo Inc. a developer of mobile commerce solutions, announced it has appointed Dave Rothschild its new president and chief executive officer.Rothschild most recently served as vice president of client products for America Online Inc., having been brought along as part of AOL's merger...
With concerns rising over the need for enhanced security in future wireless e-commerce, several firms in both the wireless and security industries launched efforts last week aimed at designing secure wireless networks.The largest initiative was that between leading phone manufacturers L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc....
NEW YORK-To simulate third-generation wireless before its deployment, Finland's Sonera has just embarked on a new program, Sonera Mspace, said Kaj-Erik Relander, the company's executive vice president.In partnership with content, service and technology providers, Mspace will conduct in Finland "real life trials with consumers...
Corsair Communications Inc. introduced this week its PrePay Open billing system, as well as its PhoneFuel mobile commerce application, both of which allow carriers to add Internet access to their prepaid wireless offerings.PrePay Open is capable of supporting the functionality of the Wireless Intelligent...
Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice new "virtual" operators that will help redefine both the nature of wireless competition and the business and operational models required...
Nokia reported it is developing a solution enabling immediate access to mobile commerce sites via Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones. Partnered with Hewlett Packard, IBM and Nocom, the collaboration hopes to bring the new over-the-air WAP solution to market during the first half of this...
LONDON-The mobile commerce market could reach $200 billion by 2004, according to a study released by Strategy Analytics.The report predicts an explosion in demand for mobile commerce services during the next five years with technology enabling high-speed wireless networks to provide applications for electronic...
