Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal provides an entry point to Phone.com for selling its WAP products to...
Finland. Sonera began offering High Speed Circuit Switched Data services to its data customers 6 September, but without available handsets. Sonera said it wanted to be ready when handsets are available later this year.France. At Telecom '99 in Geneva, Alcatel, French carrier SFR/Cegetel, Phone.com...
Authentix Inc. will begin final carrier testing on SimplySay 1.0, its voice-activated e-mail and wireless portal system, the company said. The system allows users to access their e-mail via any telephone and hear text-to-speech translations of their e-mail messages.The Telecommunications Industry Association adopted a...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said capacity problems and handset shortages constrained the company's ability to add subscribers in the third quarter.The nation's largest wireless operator added 269,000 subscribers in the third quarter, down 17.4 percent from the previous year and down significantly from 473,000...
HungaryMotorola Inc. said it is providing Hungarian mobile operator Westel 900 its Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform. The trial is Hungary's first deployment of the Wireless Application Protocol. It will allow mobile users to access Internet content via Internet portals such as Yahoo! and...
The Lexicus Division of Motorola Inc. introduced its iTAP keypad text entry system, which requires one key press to select a letter instead of several, based on a dictionary of more than 40,000 words.The initial iTAP version supports English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and...
While Ericsson AB's third-quarter net income fell, rival Nokia posted a 38-percent jump in third-quarter net profit to $687 million and expects full sales growth of 40 percent.Ericsson's net income in the third quarter was less than expected, however, slipping to $319 million from...
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc announced it licensed PocketScience Inc.'s PocketMail mobile e-mail service via a revenue sharing agreement that allows BT's Internet and Multimedia Services Division to exclusively license and market PocketMail in the United Kingdom. PocketMail is a service that allows users to...
The Wireless Application Protocol had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month life span during Telecom '99 in Geneva, with more than 100 carriers, vendors and content providers displaying WAP and WAP-related products, warts and all.While WAP's momentum has grown all year, many consider...
HarrisHarris Corp. previewed its ClearBurst 2.5/3.4/10.5 GHz point-to-multipoint system, the newest addition to the Harris broadband wireless access product line, which is intended for deployment by public service providers as well as private network operators. The ClearBurst product offers a solution for delivering Time...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week urged the European Union to permit licensing of all third-generation mobile phone standards approved by the International Telecommunication Union.In addition, according to a source familiar with the contents of the U.S.-EU letter, the administration identified problems with licensing policies...
Nokia Corp. and Palm Computing Inc. have entered into a joint development agreement under which the two will cross-license their respective technologies to create a new category of wireless phones featuring Palm's pen-based user input method and personal information management functions."It's an expansion of...
GENEVA-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced at Telecom '99 a new company initiative focused on the mobile electronic services industry that combines products, a subscription- and transaction-based payment model, and centers for product development and testing. The company is targeting wireless carriers with the initiative.HP said its...
The Big Three handset manufacturers-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc.-continue their reign over the global wireless handset arena, together controlling more than two-thirds of the market.Nokia has emerged as the clear leader of the three. Analyst firm Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. estimates Nokia...
WASHINGTON-With only eight months before the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, U.S. spectrum policy for third-generation wireless systems is on the verge of meltdown as the Clinton administration and industry continue to clash without a resolution in sight."The interests of the U.S government and...
The popularity of wireless may be contributing to an industrywide shortage of some components used in mobile devices, although device manufacturers may not be feeling the effects just yet.After suffering through a slump during the last several years that was characterized by an oversupply...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-The first official mobile call on the Global System for Mobile communications 400 frequency band was made during a GSM 400 conference in Budapest, Hungary, according to L.M. Ericsson.The equipment used to perform the call was Ericsson prototype infrastructure and Nokia dual-band GSM...
Lucent Technologies Inc. will be noticeably absent when the Personal Communications Industry Association kicks off its 2000 showcase next September in Chicago.The infrastructure vendor has told PCIA it plans to stop exhibiting at its future shows in North America, opting instead to invest its...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it began its first shipments of the 7110 Wireless Application Protocol handsets. The GSM 900 and 1800 handsets are WAP version 1.1 compliant, according to a Nokia spokesperson. The first deliveries will be to Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Swedish sub-system and component supplier Arkivator agreed to acquire 64 percent of the shares of LGP Telecom Inc., a subsidiary of Stockholm-based LGP Telecom AB, and offered to acquire the remaining shares."Arkivator has been a supplier of aluminum components to us for some time,"...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia and the Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission signed a cooperation agreement to further the development of third-generation mobile communications in China.Under terms of the agreement, RITT and Nokia will set up and operate in Beijing an experimental field trial based on Nokia's...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Most cellular operators now recognize that to ensure their businesses continue to experience breakneck growth, they must compete more directly with fixed operators. According to industry analysts, this battle for the telephone user will take place over the provision of voice and...
After months of denying any plans to sell its wireless handset division, Qualcomm is publicly relenting to the pressures of severe competition from Asia and the likes of Nokia and Motorola."With increased competition, parts shortages and industry consolidation reducing margins in consumer products, Qualcomm...
NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld DynaTAC mobile phone, a clunky device that weighed nearly 0.9 kilograms and measured 0.09 cubic meters (35 cubic inches). To be sure, the days of weighty loads...
