Novatel Wireless Inc. introduced the Merlin Type II Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, a wireless modem that enables data and e-mail transmission, Internet connection and corporate database access to mobile users."It's just like plugging in a regular modem. You use the same drivers as...
The buzz phrase of the wireless data industry this year is Internet portal, and AvantGo Inc. hopes to capitalize on this attention by introducing a free interactive Internet service called AvantGo.com.The service compiles a set of popular Internet sites where users may go for...
Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and full Internet access for $40 a month. Novatel Wireless Inc. announced a new smaller,...
PCIAThe Personal Communications Industry Association appointed Brent Weingardt vice president of government relations. Weingardt previously was regulatory counsel for Iridium LLC where he gave legal advice on regulatory matters and provided guidance regarding compliance with U.S. wireless and common carrier requirements. Prior to his...
NORCROSS, Ga.-Atomic Software Inc. announced it selected and certified the Sage Wireless IP (Internet Protocol) Modem from Novatel Wireless Inc. for its Authorizer for Windows 95/98 NT electronic payment software.Sage is an external, self-powered wireless modem transmitting on Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, the...
Northeast Communications of Wisconsin Inc. announced it acquired U.S. Cellular's Marathon County operations. Cellcom, the company's wireless subsidiary, will provide cellular and paging services. Marathon County will be the fifth Wisconsin county served by Cellcom and the second metropolitan service area for the company....
EAST LANSING, Mich.-Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants Inc. said it is launching a new workshop aimed at bringing software developers into the wireless industry in the form of "feeder" events, designed to flow into the larger Wireless Developer conference, to be held in Silicon Valley...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Novatel Wireless Inc. said it started shipping its Sage Wireless IP (Internet Protocol) modem, a self-powered, external wireless modem that provides users a communications device that works with multiple platforms-including desktop, laptop and handheld computers.Sage is compatible with major operating systems, including...
NEW YORK-"One of the humbling things about this business is that, for three out of four years, we are unapproachable and obnoxious, but in the fourth year we have to raise money so we grovel."That is how Ronald White, a partner in Argo Global...
NEW YORK-Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fla., announced July 20 a work force reduction of 2,300, or 8 percent, due primarily to weakness in the semiconductor market, said the company. The company also said it planned to exit the analog base station business.About 1,900 of the...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. introduced a new pricing plan that offers unlimited wireless data access for PalmPilot users with Novatel Wireless Inc.'s new Minstrel wireless IP (Internet Protocol) modem and GoAmerica's Go.Mail and Go.Web service features.The plan is priced at $50 per month to...
NEW YORK-Wireless online financial information services are a hot item, judging from the flurry of recent announcements about new offerings in this category.w-Trade Technologies, New York, said AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s PocketNet Service will offer its new w-Trade Internet securities trading platform.In its announcement,...
PHOENIX-Novatel Wireless Inc. plans to exhibit at the Wireless '98 show in Atlanta a handheld personal computer with a built-in Cellular Digital Packet Data wireless and landline modem. This is the first such product on the market, according to Novatel.The Contact computer provides mobile...
GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network partnerships with Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division Multiple Access carriers.For now,...
The clear leader in innovation as honored at the third annual Mobile Insights Mobility Awards dinner was Palm Computing Inc.'s Pilot organizer, a diminutive device that currently has no wireless access.Jeff Hawkins, Palm's chief technical officer, was named industry Person of the Year for...
The latest radio acquisition by Harris Corp. puts the company in the position to compete for a multimillion dollar government contract upgrading airport radio systems.Harris is buying the Digital Radio Technology Inc. unit of California Microwave Inc. The Digital Radio unit was created in...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
WASHINGTON-The number of bidders participating in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction who are flying by the seats of their pants is staggering. The thought of committing millions of dollars to build a network that is expected to directly compete with numerous established...
The Harris NovAtel Division of Harris Canada Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. have signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement that will enable Harris NovAtel to incorporate Glenayre's Modular Voice Processing System platform in its cellular equipment networks worldwide, Glenayre announced. The platform will provide...
A number of small U.S. cellular companies have been hit with lawsuits from the government of Alberta, Canada, which is charging the companies breached contracts by not purchasing cellular equipment from NovAtel.One of the companies, Dial Two Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif., is fighting...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-As part of the company's strategy to address the worldwide remote and rural telecommunications market, Harris Corp. said it has acquired NovAtel Communications Ltd.'s wireless products division, research and development capability and a manufacturing plant.Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based NovAtel develops and manufactures wireless products...
In a move to further its presence in the 220 MHz industry as well as expand into other burgeoning wireless markets, Intek Diversified Corp. plans to acquire NovAtel Communications Ltd.'s wireless products division, research and development capability and a manufacturing plant for about $30...
