FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging devices, announced Motorola's Messaging Systems Products Group."It's our belief that voice capability will bring messaging into the business and personal...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has been assisting the RITT Research Institute of Telecommunications, within China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, to establish an internetwork communications protocol as China's national standard. The Inter Paging Networks Protocol, IPNP, will allow paging terminals to communicate...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. has entered into a three-year agreement to resell Motorola Inc.'s line of data frame relay access devices, or FRADS, which convert local area network and other data protocols to frame relay.Nortel also said its new data and multimedia access strategy will...
I wonder if Judge Loretta Preska has ever been to a professional basketball game.Preska ruled in favor of the NBA in its lawsuit against Motorola Inc., ordering Motorola and information providers STATS Inc. to stop sending accounts of NBA basketball games over its pager...
It probably wouldn't be a bad idea if all political news from here on in were tagged `Campaign '96.'Take the July 22 front-page piece by Washington Times reporter Frank J. Murray that brought late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown back to life to criticize the...
American Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the MicroTracker remote tracking module, a vehicle location system that combines a global positioning system receiver, radio transceiver and radio frequency modem in one unit. ATI said the module can be easily installed in trailers, cars, boats,...
NEW YORK-The NBA won its lawsuit against Motorola Inc. last week, with a judge ruling the electronics company "engaged in unlawful conduct" with its pager-like device that provides accounts of games.Judge Loretta Preska, in her decision in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said Motorola...
CINCINNATI, Ohio-Cincinnati Bell Information Systems has signed a three-year contract renewal with Motorola Cellular Service Inc. for cellular customer care and billing.The contract includes the continued use of CBIS' advanced customer care and billing solutions in a service bureau environment. CBIS said it provides...
A joint venture that Geotek Communications Inc. was trying to put together in Canada fell apart last week after the companies involved failed to reach a final agreement.Canadian cable TV operator Cogeco Cable Inc. said it withdrew from negotiations to create GeoNet Canada Inc....
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet, formerly Independent Telecommunications Network and US Intelco Networks, announced it has integrated all aspects of US Intelco Wireless Communications Inc. into its operations.US Intelco Wireless had operated as a separate subsidiary since 1993, providing business planning, financial, marketing and equipment procurement services...
WASHINGTON-At night, when most people are asleep, Dan Akerson thinks about Rubik's Cubes. Relating the colors and squares on the device to possible marketing strategies, he toys with going beyond the colored surfaces and into the deeper relationships that connect the pieces.The new chairman...
Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless communications project in Indonesia. Photocomm said its solar systems will provide power to an extensive communications network linking remote sites...
Cellular One of Washington, D.C./Baltimore is introducing an off-the-shelf, no-contract cellular service package called Speak Easy.The package costs about $200, includes Motorola Inc.'s TeleTac phone and a free one-year subscription for analog cellular service. The monthly access charge is about $15 thereafter.Calls made within...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. said it will spend a total of $125 million in separate contracts with Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to purchase infrastructure equipment and subscriber units for its nationwide narrowband personal communications services network that is expected to become operational...
Micronetics Wireless Inc. is close to receiving patents for its MicroCal Module, a recently developed integrated circuit that facilitates self-monitoring in wireless equipment, reported the company.MicroCal's alarm circuitry monitors the health or integrity of radio frequency, detecting minor performance degradations in the wireless portion...
SEATTLE-McCaw International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., announced it has purchased a 30 percent interest in Infocom Communications Network Inc., a wireless company in the Philippines.McCaw International said it will invest about $16 million in cash in Infocom, which was...
L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson said it will supply and install complete GSM systems for JT Mobiles' cellular operations in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Three...
Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned when it comes to providing wireless services to the estimated 35,000 participants of the 1996 Republican National Convention in San...
ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc system equipment, announced the companies."This nationwide license provides us a great deal of flexibility for expansion purposes as well as...
NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin July 19 in Atlanta. But amid the titans, Centennial Communications Inc., a small virtual company with access to coveted virgin...
Equipment manufacturers with contracts to build personal communications services networks are more than rushed to get those systems up-they're in an all-out run, said a business leader with a company interested in joining the race.Artecon builds rackmounts and creates integrated workstations, in most cases...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. reported disappointing second-quarter earnings July 9. The industry giant cited competition's effect on cellular handset and semiconductor prices, which offset increases in cellular infrastructure and paging revenues.Second quarter sales totaled $6.83 billion, compared with $6.88 billion during the second quarter of...
NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated and competitive business environment.A variety of wireless opportunities and applications are under review or newly in use among electric power...
Poka Lambro PCS Inc. has contracted with Motorola Inc. to supply digital equipment valued at $40 million for Poka's personal communications services networks.Poka Lambro won licenses to offer PCS service in eight markets through west Texas and eastern New Mexico, covering a population of...
