With its feet in the New York Stock Exchange and an eye toward the future, Siemens AG has advanced a package of products and strategies to make it a major …
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Sadly lost in the debate over wireless E911 is life itself. The mobile-phone industry and we in the press are engrossed in an E911 debate focussed on deadlines, waivers, costs …
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Nokia Networks will partner with IBM’s Lotus Development Corp. to deliver business-critical Lotus messaging and collaboration solution to users of the Nokia 9210 Communicator. With Lotus Mobile Notes, Nokia 9210 …
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WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office this week is expected to send drafts of a mobile-phone health report to key government agencies, suggesting congressional investigators are on track to complete by early …
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LAS VEGAS-GiantBear, a provider of wireless technology and services, will acquire Savos, a global wireless company that delivers streaming audio to the mobile public. GiantBear’s proprietary technology, AudioCub, enables wireless …
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NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems made an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to license the Windows Media Audio and Video Format using the Emblaze-based solution for video over wireless 2.5-generation and third-generation networks, …
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Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to …
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BUCHAREST, Romania-Greek GSM operator Panafon announced three new services for its customers. The services can link customers to the Internet through their mobile GSM phones. The Panafon NetOffice package of …
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NEW YORK-With the March 12 commercial debut of NetProfile Wireless Edition, Bridgewater Systems, Kanata, Ontario, is offering a chance and a challenge to mobile operators seeking a profitable way out …
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NEW YORK-The Multi-Service Networks Division of Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, is poised to deliver on the promise of convergence by enabling Internet service providers, cable TV operators and local exchange …
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The New Jersey state government is considering a bill that would prohibit the erection of, enhancement or addition of equipment to a tower within 1,000 feet of a public or …
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The idea sounds compelling. With Web-enabled cellular telephones, users can dial up their favorite merchants to make automated purchases. It’s called mobile commerce, but for skeptics like Lawrence Steinert, it’s …
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden-FortuneCity’s WapDrive portal integrated mobilePosition’s friendPosition service, a mobile location technology. The technology enables users to locate friends via their mobile phones. People voluntarily sign up for the service …
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NEW YORK-The Wireless Multimedia Forum, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is on schedule in building a framework for content that must be written just once for delivery to any …
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Now that the United States appears to be entering a recession, the economics behind deployments of third-generation wireless systems are even trickier than new math. Carriers and vendors are walking …
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LOS ANGELES-Telemac Corp., a provider of network-independent billing and accounting technologies for the wireless industry, announced it has been granted broader U.S. and European patents covering a network-independent, handset-based prepaid …
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LONDON-Vodafone Group plc customers on seven of the company’s networks in Europe now can use their normal “short code” dialing numbers to access services such as voicemail, directory assistance and …
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WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone …
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BUCHAREST, Romania-At the end of February, ONE began offering GPRS service throughout Austria. Billing is based on the data volume transferred. The handsets for the network are the GPRS-enabled Motorola …
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MINNEAPOLIS-ADC, a fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services supplier for broadband, multiservice networks, announced Singl.eView Web, a new application for its Singl.eView platform. Singl.eView Web is an Internet-based …
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Audiovox Audiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the …
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Infowave Thomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.’s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft’s Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company’s worldwide …
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As the wireless industry in the United States moves ahead at a staggering and frantic pace-with new technology introduced practically every day-some Americans can’t image surviving without their mobile phones, …
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In a marriage of convenience, carriers are signing temporary dotted lines to outsource their network management to vendors as they migrate to the next generation of wireless technology. The trend, …
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NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step …
