WASHINGTON-While the Pentagon last week downplayed a news report on a letter that sources said is being drafted for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that would convey to President Bush serious concerns about transferring spectrum to the mobile-phone industry, an internal memo written by the...
UXBRIDGE, U.K.-Unisys Ltd. and Airborn, a part of the M-Cell group, are joining to offer mobile Internet service to wireless users.As per the agreement, Airborn's Remote Interactive Voice Response will run on the Unisys Communication Application Platform. According to Ross Macdonald, chief executive officer...
ATLANTA-Arizan Corp., which develops wireless document technology, has partnered with Air2Web, a wireless platform provider, to integrate the Arizan Mobile Document Platform with Air2Web's Mobile Internet Platform, allowing the delivery of document content to any wireless user."Access to document information is the Achilles' heel...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
WASHINGTON-Sources say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has prepared a letter for President Bush that will stop just short of opposing the transfer of military spectrum in the 1700 MHz band to the mobile-phone industry, a major blow to efforts of carriers and manufacturers to...
It's going to be a hot summer. First off, there is "this summer's hotly anticipated film release, Tomb Raider," featuring Angelina Jolie and L.M. Ericsson. Jolie plays cyber heroine Lara Croft. "The perfect modern heroine, Lara has brains, beauty, stamina and courage. Living in...
"Advanced messaging services."It's the catch phrase for the wireless messaging industry today, with most major companies betting everything that services like wireless e-mail access, Internet information and two-way paging will catch on with both consumers and businesses-and will compensate for the radical decrease in...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will open a commercial channel called Nokia Tradepoint that will allow application and content developers to offer their solutions throughout a wide market area and directly reach their target customers."The e marketplace will be an ideal distribution channel for...
Wireless companies in the United States are holding their breath, waiting for the widespread use of wireless data products and services, and-according to a variety of recently released reports-those companies will have to continue to wait while carriers, network designers, application and service providers...
DUBLIN, Ireland-In a continuation of their business relationship, Parthus Technologies plc announced a licensing agreement with STMicroelectronics for the complete line of Parthus' mobile Internet platforms.Under the deal, STMicroelectronics and Parthus will establish a joint marketing forum and Parthus will have access to STMicroelectronics'...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Intel Corp. and British Telecommunications plc's BTexact Technologies and BT Wireless businesses said they will work together to develop applications and services for next-generation mobile Internet devices.The collaboration is expected to allow peer-to-peer wireless 802.11b connections to extend seamlessly to remote participants...
If data is the center of gravity for future networks, Tahoe Networks thinks it has found the missing link in the wireless industry that can propel it to success.Tahoe Networks, a startup with $38 million of seed money in its first round of financing,...
Verizon Wireless has signed an agreement with Triad Holdings L.L.C. to acquire Triad's PCS licenses covering the Southern Oklahoma BTA of Ardmore and Lawton-Duncan. The new area, which covers total pops of 267,000, will become part of the Verizon Wireless South area. Verizon hopes...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Parthus Technologies plc, which designs mobile platform-level technology, said it acquired Chicory Systems Inc. for $41.4 million in cash and stocks, a move which coincides with the company's release of a new platform, MachStream.Wall Street seemed to approve of the move-Parthus' stock was...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected twist pitting billionaire Craig McCaw against a mobile-phone industry he once towered over, sources say the Federal Communications Commission may propose making some mobile satellite service spectrum-including that held by McCaw's New ICO and other struggling satellite firms-available for third-generation wireless...
NEW YORK-The promise of intelligent networks will be realized in their convergence with the world of the Internet, said Paul G. Florack, co-author of a recently published book, Wireless Intelligent Networking.WIN has not succeeded in its ultimate goal of "freeing carriers from the grasp...
MUNICH-Airtel Spain has chosen Siemens AG's Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group as a main supplier for GPRS technology.Siemens IC Mobile will supply and implement all necessary components, including switching network technology and software upgrades, allowing Airtel to offer mobile Internet and intranet access...
China Mobile Communications Corp., the largest wireless operator in China, recently announced plans to create a wireless Internet setup much like NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Japan, but the company faces some significant challenges due to a cash-strapped population, cloudy government regulations and network...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Sonera Corp. said it will cut about 70 jobs from its Zed mobile Internet portal, citing slower revenues and a rough foreign expansion.The mobile Internet unit now employees about 400 people in the United States and Europe.The Zed portal launched in the United...
TOKYO-Vodafone Group, the largest mobile carrier in the world, announced in May it will acquire British Telecommunications' (BT) entire stake in Japan Telecom Group (JT) for 652.3 billion yen (US$5.4 billion). Following the deal, Vodafone Group will hold a 45-percent stake in Japan Telecom...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Uncertainty related to the future of Scandinavian mobile prepaid calling plans, less preferred here than in Western Europe generally, is largely due to the struggle to migrate customers to more expensive products and emerging technologies that could fundamentally change the relationship between vendor...
LONDON-The market for mobile services in the Middle East continues to show strong growth, with the ever-increasing number of new cellular operators barely keeping pace with growing customer numbers. An eventful first-quarter 2001 has seen new network expansion projects, a host of new value-added...
Mobile devicesAlcatelAlcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are small, Alcatel said. The phone also...
