HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will deliver its GPRS core network and mobile Internet Platform in Latin America to Nuevatel in Bolivia. The deal also includes Nokia's Professional Services, which covers project management and implementation.
SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. gave new hope to mobile Internet entrepreneurs with its latest study, finding almost one-quarter of wireless Internet users purchased some type of product with their wireless device.The study also found 75 percent of respondents either use or are considering using their...
While cellular and personal communications services carriers have a long way to go to woo business travelers to their mobile Internet offerings, companies building WAN- and LAN-based networks are poised to take over the wireless Internet market, according to research firm eTinium's new report.Companies...
AT&T Wireless wasted little time in exploiting its relationship with Japan's NTT DoCoMo in an attempt to jump start its wireless Internet offerings. AT&T, which received nearly $10 billion from the Japanese telecom giant, signed an agreement with DoCoMo and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc....
Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com's recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS and third-generation wireless networks, and it already has a customer in KDDI of Japan.The...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. demonstrated a multimedia-capable Mobile Internet Protocol version 6, which the company said allows continuous and smooth connectivity while moving between wireless access points. The company said the new system improves the quality of real-time audio traffic and is able to assign...
MONTREAL-Under a new alliance, Lucent Technologies Inc. will link its wireless network infrastructure and mobile Internet platform with Profilium Inc.'s network-based applications and services.The companies said they will test whether the interoperability will create a new advertising medium."The agreement between Lucent and Profilium is...
NTT DoCoMo became the largest investor in AT&T Wireless Group last week when the previously announced strategic alliance between the two wireless giants officially commenced.For its $9.8 billion investment, DoCoMo gained an approximate 16-percent interest in the country's third-largest wireless operator. The deal is...
MMTAAnne-Rivers Forcke was appointed chairman of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association's Media Relations Committee. Forcke is a relationship marketing strategist for the Global Small Business group at IBM Corp., where she is responsible for managing the marketing program worldwide. Forcke has more than 15 years...
AetherAether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of encryption security, enabling users to access Web content and applications via standard SSL connections that...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-In a move that could further i-mode's push into Europe, Telecom Italia Mobile said it will jointly develop and introduce a new mobile Internet concept for the pan-European market with KPN Mobile and its Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo.TIM said the joint venture...
Microsoft and Ericsson announced a joint venture to develop and market mobile Internet products. In addition, Microsoft introduced its dual-mode microbrowser, called Mobile Internet Explorer, which Ericsson will adopt into with WAP stack on certain phones. Ericsson will hold the majority stake in the...
Ericsson has signed Ukraine's first GPRS contract with Kyivstar for advanced mobile Internet services.The $100 million contract, which includes GSM dual-band enhanced capacity, allows Ericsson to provide GPRS/GSM core and radio access infrastructure equipment in Ukraine's main cities.Commercial operation is scheduled for the second...
LONDON-British Airways and IBM Corp. showed the fruits of their two-year, $17.5 million co-development contract with the launch of a variety of IBM Corp.-developed mobile Internet services, including a graphical seat-selection WAP application.The seat-selection service allows users to choose their seat from a graphical...
The news of WAP's demise has been greatly exaggerated, according to the Wireless Application Protocol Forum.The WAP Forum last week struck back against a report released by the Nielsen Norman Consulting Group downplaying the advantages of the wireless Internet technology. The report stated WAP...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-RealName Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. plan to bring wireless keyboard navigation for the wireless Web to VoiceStream's mobile Internet service, WebStream.The intuitive navigation system will allow subscribers to use company, brand and product names instead of URLs to access content on...
BelgiumKPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgian operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for US$443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership. France Telecom had to divest its KPN Orange ownership, which it acquired through its acquisition of Orange plc earlier this year, to...
NEW DELHI, India-Several leading GSM operators in the Asian region have announced plans for migration to 2.5-generation (2.5G) services during 2001. Many of them hope to roll out commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services during the year, but mass expansion of the new...
PDA technologyBlue ImpactBlue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint's location platform and services, allowing the Visor to access all CellPoint location services offered by...
The millennium is off to a good start for Vodafone Group.The U.K.-based carrier began 2000 with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann, parent of its rival Orange, and continued with a spending spree for third-generation (3G) licenses across Europe. The year also marked the finalization...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo has been gearing up its global strategy, concluding one investment agreement after another. Since December 1999, it has invested in carriers in Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Britain.At the end of November 2000, DoCoMo announced another big deal with a U.S. carrier,...
WASHINGTON-As President-elect Bush crafts a diverse team of Republicans with Pentagon, state government and Old Economy business experience and confronts a slumping stock market increasingly subject to the vagaries of high-tech shares, it remains to be seen whether the next administration can achieve the...
While content may remain king, many feel content is only as good as the user interface to it.One company hoping to ease the user interface frustration for both wireline and wireless Internet users is Yodlee Inc., an account aggregation service provider that allows users...
