Did you see Virginia Tech freshman quarterback Michael Vick play last week in the Nokia Sugar Bowl? Wow! I don't follow college ball so I had never heard of this freshman standout. One ABC announcer dubbed him the Holy Grail of new football players.He's...
There is a chink in Nokia Mobile Phones' armor, and it is the vendor's market share in the cdmaOne handset business.While Nokia sells the most popular handsets in the world, holding more than 30 percent of the total business, its share in the cdmaOne...
Brazil's spectrum choice in auctioning new personal communications services licenses could be an important decision for the GSM community as it struggles to gain inroads into Latin America.The Brazilian telecom regulatory authority, Anatel, plans to auction new PCS licenses as early as this year,...
NEW ORLEANS-While Florida State was the main story at the Nokia-sponsored Sugar Bowl, wireless communications was making its own news with the first successful completion of a two-way transmission of short messaging service using an Internet application on a Time Division Multiple Access network.The...
Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has been able to do to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor.To do that, Kyocera needs to gain a significant share of the market in North America, analysts say. Kyocera has...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. announced an agreement to acquire the security software business from TeamWare Group Inc."This acquisition will strengthen Nokia's ability to develop secure network access that will complement our wireless LAN solutions," said Markku Rauhamaa, vice president, Nokia Wireless Network Solutions.Approximately 30 security experts...
In its second major acquisition since going public last spring, Phone.com Inc. signed an agreement to acquire voice portal technology provider @Motion Inc. for $285 million.Phone.com said it hopes to integrate @Motion's Internet voice portal to add voice-recognition services to its MyPhone Wireless Application...
NEW YORK-As 1999 drew to a close, two mutual fund managers, one overseeing a diverse investment portfolio, the other specializing in telecommunications, offered contrasting views of the year-2000 stock market outlook.Peter M. Donovan, president of Wright Investors' Service Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., sees the big...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it will continue as exclusive distributor in the United States of Nokia phones through Dec. 31, 2001. The agreement with Nokia also authorizes Brightpoint, a provider of services to network operators and equipment manufacturers in the global wireless industry, to act...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it has joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum as an associate member. According to Brightpoint, the membership demonstrates the company's focus on providing contract manufacturing, fulfillment and other integrated logistics services to members of the WAP Forum.The WAP Forum is an...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Agence France-Presse have signed a global cooperation agreement to develop news services based on the Wireless Application Protocol. AFP, one of the world's three leading news and photo agencies, will use WAP-based mobile services to provide the latest general, sports...
Mergers and acquisitions are proliferating worldwide, with the strongest mark being made in Western Europe. Carriers are scrambling to maintain their footholds, while looking to the next potential market investment.Vodafone/MannesmannThe battle between Vodafone AirTouch and Mannesmann continues, as Vodafone AirTouch revealed its wireless data...
During the first half of 1999, Latin America handset sales exceeded 9.8 million, according to Dataquest, a U.S.-based market research firm. Handset sales were forecasted to reach 24.5 million units by the end of 1999. Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia accounted for 78 percent of...
The two major developers of high-speed cellular data technology, Nokia and Ericsson, have opened a public argument over which has achieved the most success in terms of contract awards. The number of cellular operators that have placed orders for high-speed data infrastructure now amounts...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The principal supporters of the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology used the U.S.-based Comdex exhibition late last year to take the message of its capabilities to a much wider and more diverse audience. But despite this first public display of the technology, many...
Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has done to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor.Kyocera needs to gain a significant share of the market in North America to accomplish this goal, analysts say. Kyocera has made some...
In a deal mirroring one recently completed by Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. announced it will license the Palm operating system from Palm Computing Inc. for use in future wireless products.In addition, Motorola and Nokia, as well as America Online, have invested a minority equity...
Omnipoint Communications began a trial of high-speed wireless data technology using L.M. Ericsson's General Packet Radio Services solution. Ericsson's GPRS equipment is installed at network facilities in Wayne, N.J., serving Omnipoint's New York metro area. Omnipoint said it plans to extend the scope of...
1994December Alain Rossman forms Libris Inc., hires two engineers to develop what eventually becomes the backbone for WAP.1995March Libris completes software prototype.1996June Libris changed to Unwired Planet. Commercial release of first generation UP.Link Server and UP.Browser software.1997June Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Unwired Planet agree...
REDWOOD|CITY-Sometimes the greatest inventions aren't inventions at all, but the successful application of an idea common in one industry to a problem faced by another.Alain Rossman did exactly this when he created an application environment enabling Internet applications to run on wireless networks using...
In a move seen as strengthening their respective weaknesses in the wireless industry, L.M. Ericsson and Microsoft Corp. said they plan to create a joint venture designed to develop and market end-to-end solutions for wireless Internet services.In addition, Microsoft introduced its long-awaited dual-mode microbrowser,...
WASHINGTON-While industry this holiday season pushes family plans and makes pocket phones attractive to the younger crowd, questions linger in the scientific community about whether children are more vulnerable to possible health risks from phones than adults."No, it (possible increased risk for children from...
NEW YORK-To further enable data communications, Sun Microsystems Inc. has updated its Java2 platform for the corporate enterprise and is at work on a Year 2000 release of a version to facilitate ease of making transactions over wireless devices.At its Java Business conference last...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc.These industry powerhouses have joined founders L.M. Ericsson, IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia and Toshiba Corp. in a new group effort called...
