RESTON, Va.-Motient Corp. announced a distribution agreement with InPhonic, which calls for the virtual private wireless network provider to use the Motient network for data services and sell Motient's eLink wireless e-mail product."Forming this relationship with InPhonic is a great way for us...
Motient Corp. posted another slow quarter last week, showing total revenue of $23.7 million on a net loss of $65.5 million, and warned that the current economic slowdown has begun to affect the company's subscriber totals and could continue to do so."Current IT (information...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. today announced two distribution deals, one with a major personal digital assistant company and another with a wireless data carrier.Brightpoint's agreement with Palm Inc. involves distributing Palm's handheld devices, focusing on wireless carriers and related retailers. Brightpoint's second deal involves Motient Corp.,...
"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...
In a complicated stock and cash transaction, Motient Corp. last week acquired Internet software company Rare Medium Group, a move that will bolster Motient's wireless application and integration offerings and provide the struggling messaging carrier with some needed funds.Investors applauded the move, sending Motient's...
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...
Aether Systems Inc. announced solid first-quarter earnings last week along with a slightly revised business plan, but the results were not enough to please investors who once cherished the company as a high-growth, high-tech gem.Aether faced a barrage of downgrades as its stock slipped...
The plan is ambitious, to say the least.Metrocall Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. announced last week a plan to merge by concurrently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a business move that apparently has never been done before. The struggling companies face a number of...
NEW YORK-Rare Medium Group Inc. said it will provide Motient Corp. with up to $50 million on a short-term basis by purchasing Motient's stock.Company officials said the move could promote a broader alliance between the two companies."We have had constructive discussions with Motient regarding...
As troubles continue to escalate for embattled paging companies, speculation on marriages between the largest companies are getting rave reviews, even if they don't pan out.Media reports surfaced last week that Metrocall Inc. was in merger talks with Motient Corp., a move that many...
CHINAChina Unicom reported it had more than 12.7 million wireless customers at the end of last year, an increase of more than 300 percent from 1999. China's second largest wireless operator also said it added more than 1 million paging subscribers in 2000, bringing...
RESTON, Va.-U.S. network operator Motient Corp. and Canadian operator Bell Mobility announced a partnership to allow wireless e-mail users to seamlessly send and receive e-mails from both countries.The service is targeted at eLink and BlackBerry users with a Research in Motion Ltd. handheld device.
TORONTO-Research In Motion Ltd. announced it will purchase airtime and services from Microcell Connexions Inc. to offer Canadian customers wireless data services based on GPRS technology over Microcell's GSM-based network."RIM is well poised to develop leading GPRS-based solutions," said Jim Balsillie, RIM's chairman and...
Aether Systems Inc. is celebrating its one-year anniversary as a public company, capping a busy year of acquisitions, investments and partnerships that have positioned the firm at the center of the wireless-Internet convergence.And after a year in the public spotlight, Aether's goals have only...
NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data Inc. has begun providing its trademarked Synapse to bridge the divide between rural farmers and their city customers.The pilot program, involving wireless point-of-sale terminals at 45 urban Green Markets in New York state, represents just one way the company "is...
CLINTON, Mass.-WorldCom expanded its messaging portfolio with the addition of eLink, a wireless e-mail service designed for high-volume users, allowing customers to create, send, receive and respond to corporate e-mail messages and text messages without a telephone or computer.The service, using a nationwide wireless...
NEW YORK-Wireless users may be free of the wire but not of the clutter. Despite the image of untethered communications, they are burdened with a bevy of devices.Only technology buffs are willing to carry around a bag full of wireless communicators that cannot interact...
Just because the majority of the world's wireless Internet users live in Japan doesn't mean a U.S. company can't join in on the fun.Which is exactly what FunMail Inc. hopes to do. This week, the company launched its Animated Instant Message service on NTT...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-OracleMobile Inc. said Arch Communications Group Inc. and Motient Corp. have adopted its two-way wireless messaging solution, joining Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.Middleware provider Paradigm4 also adopted the solution for its platform. Using Paradigm4's devices, subscribers will be able to...
RESTON, Va.-NaviPath Inc., which offers Internet access services to enterprise customers and Internet service providers, will add wireless access services to its portfolio through an agreement with Motient Corp. Corporations or ISPs using NaviPath's access services will be able to offer end users wireless...
OWNINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. invested $20 million in wireless Internet solutions designer Novatel Wireless Inc., which is widely known for its Minstrel modem product line.In separate news, Aether said it has agreed to wirelessly enable Vitria Technology Inc.'s e-business platform.Novatel's Minstrel V is...
ORLANDO, Fla.-United Messaging Inc. announced it has integrated Motient Corp.'s eLink wireless e-mail service into its hosted mailbox services, using devices from Research In Motion Ltd.
A running joke dogging the Wireless Application Protocol industry is that its initials, WAP, stand for "Where are the phones?"Applying that to the messaging industry, desperate to be included in the wireless Internet game, the question may be asked, "Where are the pagers?"All discussions...
Whatever you do, don't tell John Beletic he's running a paging network."We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and people are still calling us a paging carrier," said the chairman and chief executive officer...
