NEW YORK-New York City's Silicon Alley has spawned MobileSpring Inc., an incubator for developing companies that deploy Web-based services to mobile communications devices.Mark Caron, president and chief executive officer of MobileSpring, was a co-founder of Omnipoint Communications.i-Hatch Ventures, a New York City venture-capital firm...
CELJE, Slovenia-Inetis Ltd., a mobile Internet and e-commerce solution developer, unveiled a new Web-based service for Wireless Application Protocol site construction called TagTag.The service allows anyone with Internet access to create a WAP site online without knowledge of WAP or Wireless Markup Language technologies....
Leveraging its dominance in the enterprise computing market, IBM Corp. formed a string of partnerships with leading wireless industry players designed to speed the growth of wireless Internet and e-business solutions for enterprise customers.The core of the computing giant's strategy is to give its...
British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones.BT said it will invest $250 million in WAP technology and form...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson unveiled its first Code Division Multiple Access phone, the A1228c, delivering access to the Internet, e-mail and other information and communications services.According to the company, the new phone features a Wireless Application Protocol microbrowser, enabling users to access the latest mobile...
NEW ORLEANS-Compaq Computer Corp. added to its wireless interests this week, unveiling its Mobile Internet Platform for e-commerce solutions, as well as a long term partnership with Research In Motion Inc.The Mobile Internet Platform is an extension of Compaq's NonStop eBusiness solutions program. The...
MONTREAL-PCS Innovations Inc. reported it has obtained investments of $2 million from Innovatech du Grand Montreal and $200,000 from Le Fonds Regional de Solidarite-Ile de Montreal.PCS said the investments will provide funds for the marketing and continued development of the company's mobile Internet platform,...
There's an ancient Japanese custom in which a man wooing a woman leaves romantic haiku poems tied to flowers or branches on her front lawn every day for as long as it takes until the woman agrees to accept his advances. According to one...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile telecom carriers are looking to stake out the biggest share in the fast-growing wireless Internet and data market, shifting from a voice-oriented strategy.The explosion of the Internet and mobile-phone use is driving the convergence of the two high-tech media, offering...
British Telecom and AT&T said they are beginning trials to test roaming services for high-speed Internet phones. The tests will involve General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology and partnerships with wireless operators SmarTone of Hong Kong and Taiwan's FarEasTone. The trials will begin in...
IBM and AT&T announced an alliance to offer wireless data services to their business customers. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. The companies said they expected significant opportunities for wireless services linking corporate information systems with a wide range of portable computer...
L.M. Ericsson introduced a mobile Internet portal solution developed for wireless networks called the Ericsson WISE Portal. WISE was designed as a single point of access for various Internet-enabled devices, including personal computers, browser-enabled mobile phones and connected personal digital assistants. It supports both...
CHELMSFORD, Mass.-Axis Communications announced a new direction in its corporate strategy, forming a mobile Internet business segment dedicated to developing proximity-based wireless technologies and services.In support of the move, the company named Magnus Karsund its chief executive officer and Mikael Nilsson vice president of...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo's iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet.Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
MexicoMexican wireless company Unefon launched initial service Feb. 10 in Toluca, a city outside Mexico City. The company plans to begin services in 20 cities during the next year and plans to go public by mid-2001. The company expects to have 1.5 million users...
ESPOO, Finland-Vodafone New Zealand agreed to trial Nokia's General Packet Radio Service core network solution and Wireless Application Protocol platform.Nokia said it will deliver its Internet Protocol core network infrastructure, including the company's Serving GPRS Support Node, Gateway GPRS Support Node, Charging Gateway, and...
ATLANTA-GTE Wireless introduced new mobile Internet services it believes solve the difficulty of weeding through the vast amount of information on the Internet."We saw that the existing wireless Internet services were not meeting the needs of customers," said Marc Lefar, vice president of marketing...
SAN FRANCISCO-Two companies turned to Wireless Application Protocol technology to wirelessly extend their e-business applications to a mobile work force.SAP AG released version 2.0 of its Business Information Warehouse technology, featuring support for mobile Internet devices via WAP technology, called mySAP.com.In addition, Open Market...
Most conversations regarding the wireless Internet in the industry today revolve around Wireless Application Protocol technology, but several companies are bucking this trend-aiming to extend Internet content to wireless phones using alternative means to WAP.Providing them the opportunity to do so is WAP itself....
France Telecom announced a partnership with IBM Corp. and Palm Computing Inc. for a trial service extending intranet and desktop-environment data to personal digital assistants. The solution integrates France Telecom's Itineris Global System for Mobile communications network with hardware and software infrastructure from IBM...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia is taking the Chinese market seriously, announcing an agreement with SOHU.com and Beijing Mobile Communications Corp. to offer end users services covering sporting events, entertainment, news, stock quotes and shopping guides.The three companies will jointly develop mobile Internet services and applications for...
SINGAPORE-Residents of Singapore can now surf the Internet without getting caught in those annoying wires.Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with SingTel Mobile to provide Motorola's first Global System for Mobile communications tri-band Internet-access-enabled telephone-the L-series-for traditional voice calls as well as Internet connectivity utilizing...
ESPOO, Finland-In Nokia's continued push to focus on new product development, the company has sold its monitor manufacturing unit in Pecs, Hungary, to Elcoteq Network Corp.The deal, announced by Nokia, follows the company's earlier disclosure that its display manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland, will...
