Rumors of a merger between Telecom Italia Mobile and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobil wireless network emerged again last week, with the Italian press reporting such a move is being considered by Telecom Italia's chief executive officer.Ever since Deutsche Telekom lost its takeover bid for Telecom...
ScandinaviaMillicom International Cellular S.A., a worldwide cellular telephone and telecommunications company, said it sold 900,000 class B shares from a total of almost 6 million class A and class B shares held in NetCom AB, a provider of telecommunication services in Scandinavia, the Baltics...
CANNES, France-Several well-known firms in the Internet and wireless industries have come together to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum with the intent to accelerate the deployment of open, Internet-based standards for mobile wireless devices.The group said it hopes to provide a venue for...
Geoworks Corp. last week unveiled a licensing program to collect royalties on a user-interface method employed by the Wireless Application Protocol and Wireless Markup Language for which it says it holds essential intellectual property rights.While others have made essential IPR claims on WAP technology,...
Siemens and NEC announced a joint venture to develop infrastructure equipment for third-generation systems. The joint venture, in which Siemens will hold 51 percent and NEC will hold 49 percent, is called Mobisphere Ltd. The Reading, United Kingdom-based venture will conduct research and development...
NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip Redman, program manager, wireless/mobile communications for The Yankee Group, Boston.Moore's Law, which says the...
Lucent Technologies Inc. charged ahead during the first half of the year, recording a substantial jump in profit growth and edging ahead of Nokia Corp. as the major players' leader in net income for the first half of the year.Profit leadersLucent displaced Alcatel as...
BERLIN-Siemens AG and NEC Corp. announced a joint venture to develop infrastructure equipment for third-generation systems. The joint venture, in which Siemens will hold 51 percent and NEC will hold 49 percent, is called Mobisphere Ltd.The Reading, United Kingdom-based venture will conduct research and...
NEW YORK-The irony inherent in the proliferation of communications devices and technologies is the difficulty of getting them to interact with home base.Therein lies a business opportunity for MobileSys Inc., a Mountain View, Calif., start-up that provides middleware. Its mission is to serve as...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. recently announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and to refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This follows NEC's 19 February announcement of its intention to restructure.As part of its reorganization, NEC said it will focus on its...
BERLIN-IBM's Lotus Development Corp. launched a unified messaging initiative aimed to extend the Lotus Domino platform to wireless devices, so users may access Domino-based e-mail, voice and fax messages from a variety of devices.To achieve this goal, Lotus said it has joined with AVT...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and said it will refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This follows NEC's Feb. 19 announcement of its intention to restructure.As part of its reorganization, NEC said it will focus on...
TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing up to develop equipment for wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA).NTT DoCoMo in April selected a total of 11 3G vendors, including three foreign...
TOKYO-At the International 3G Mobile Systems Japan '99 conference in early September in Tokyo, Japanese carriers and vendors disclosed their strategies for third-generation (3G) technology.Masayoshi Wakao, managing director of the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), a standardization organization in Japan, gave a...
United KingdomBulletIN.net Ltd., a TWS Inc. subsidiary, formed a strategic partnership with Project Telecom, a U.K. wireless service provider, that will allow users to transform their phones into handheld mobile offices, according to BulletIN.net. Project Telecom will market the service to its high-end corporate...
TOKYO-Since last year, Japan's three Personal Handyphone System carriers have provided location services. This year, such services are expected to gain more accuracy because some carriers and venders are launching location services and systems using global positioning system satellites.Under the leadership of NTT DoCoMo,...
TOKYO-SnapTrack Inc. formed a Tokyo-based subsidiary called SnapTrack Japan Ltd. that will be responsible for expanding SnapTrack's presence in the Japanese telecommunications market and providing local marketing and technical support for its Japanese clients and partners.SnapTrack, a wireless location company, forged a partnership last...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and SnapTrack Inc. signed an agreement calling for NEC to use SnapTrack's wireless location technology to develop a location information system that will be marketed to wireless carriers in Japan as a platform for value-added services, said the companies.NEC plans to develop...
ElectofuelElectrofuel Inc. announced the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery, which has an energy density of 470 Wh/liter and 183 Wh/kilogram, almost doubling the previous endurance records of rechargeable batteries. With the SuperPolymer battery, laptop computers will run 15 or more hours on a fully charged...
SEATTLE- Tegic Communications, a company that specializes in text entry solutions for wireless devices, signed a licensing agreement with NEC Corp., which allows NEC to integrate the company's T9 Text Input software into its wireless phones.Tegic's T9 Text Input software allows mobile phone users...
Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, entered the public realm with a bang last Friday with an initial public offering that proved exceptionally successful in a market where technology stocks don't always fare so well.The company commenced its IPO at $16 a share, the high...
NCRNCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer's readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called MarketingAgent, the software is part of NCR's Customer Relationship Management Solutions 4.0 portfolio. "Businesses that...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments announced eight of the world's top 10 producers of third-generation wireless base stations said they plan to use TI's latest and fastest digital signal processor in their designs.Texas Instruments would not identify the eight companies, instead supplying Dataquest rankings of the...
Working in the fast-paced world of wireless telecommunications is like playing a game of musical chairs-everything moves along smoothly until the music stops. In the silence, many are making a mad dash to get their seat in the circle only to find it has...
