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Name game continues with consolidation

Bell Atlantic Mobile, Vodafone AirTouch plc and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. had a problem when they were going to merge their U.S. wireless assets into a single company. How do you combine three company names, each with strong regional appeal, into a single entity...

Neomar extends WAP to PDAs, pagers

Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit.And they are, with help from Neomar Inc., a start-up firm in San Francisco that has created a WAP...

AMSC changes name to Motient

RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has changed its name to Motient Corp., with the new Nasdaq symbol MTNT."Motient is information in motion, solutions in motion and instant messaging for business-to-business and business-to-consumers," said Walt Purnell Jr., president and chief executive officer of...