WASHINGTON—ADT Security Services Inc. is urging the Federal Communications Commission to force wireless carriers to keep offering analog service until 2010, noting it cannot meet the Feb. 18, 2008, sunset date because the industry lacks enough digital equipment and technicians needed to install that...
WASHINGTON—ADT Security Services Inc. is expected to ask the Federal Communications Commission later today to extend the end of cellular analog service requirements until 2010. The company said that equipment and security technicians are not available to make the current Feb. 18, 2008, deadline....
ATLANTA—Numerex Corp. said it won a contract to supply regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular Corp. with fixed and mobile wireless machine-to-machine gear designed to help the carrier transition legacy analog customers to its digital network. Numerex Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stratton Nicolaides stated...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc., a wireless chip designer, for $56 million in cash. Silicon Valley-based Berkana provides metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits, or RF CMOS chips, to the wireless industry, and Qualcomm said it expects Berkana's technology...
ATLANTA-Wireless machine-to-machine vendor Numerex Corp. announced it acquired Airdesk Inc., which produces digital M2M products including radio modules. The companies said the deal is worth around $4 million, with an additional $1.5 million in the form of an earn-out. Numerex said it plans to...
Investors continued to show their faith in wireless this week as three mobile technology companies announced successful funding rounds. Over-the-air (OTA) firmware developer Red Bend Software secured $10 million in Series D financing led by Greylock Partners, which joined seed investor Carmel Ventures in...
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America's board of directors adopted a proposal to restructure the company's board, committees and councils. The restructure calls for a two-year transition from a board of 42 voting members to a board of 18 voting members; the creation of...
ATLANTA-Numerex Corp. has closed a private placement of a $4.5 million term note with Laurus Master Funds Ltd. and issued warrants to Laurus Funds to purchase 300,000 Numerex common shares.The term note is convertible into shares of Numerex common stock at a conversion price...
ATLANTA-Telemetry company Numerex Corp. sold its Data1Source messaging service to messaging company Wireless Services Corp., a move Numerex said would help it focus on its growing wireless telemetry business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are confident that this transaction makes good sense...
ATLANTA-Telemetry company Numerex Corp. sold its Data1Source messaging service to messaging company Wireless Services Corp., a move Numerex said would help it focus on its growing wireless telemetry business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are confident that this transaction makes good sense...
ATLANTA-Telemetry company Numerex Corp.'s stock dove 30 percent after the company said its losses for its fourth quarter will be more than the previous quarter and that its full-year growth will be lower than expected.Numerex said its wireless data revenues for the full year...
ATLANTA, United States-Numerex is working with Vehicle Security Resources de Colombia, the LoJack licensee for Colombia, to equip commercial and personal vehicles in Colombia with vehicle location and tracking services, including its Cellemetry Data Service for monitoring and reporting."Many auto insurance companies in Colombia...
ATLANTA-Numerex Corp. is working with Vehicle Security Resources de Colombia S.A., the LoJack licensee for Colombia, to equip commercial and personal vehicles in the Republic of Colombia with vehicle location and tracking services, including its Cellemetry Data Service for monitoring and reporting."Many auto insurance...
ATLANTA-Wireless telemetry player Numerex Corp. reported revenues of $12,000 for its second quarter, along with a net loss of $889,000.The company's stock was down 8 percent after the news to about $5.75 per share.Company officials also said plans to acquire BT Group plc's RedCare...
ATLANTA—Wireless data company Numerex announced it will create a cross-carrier messaging system through a new deal with MobileSpring Inc. and VeriSign Inc.Numerex will use MobileSpring's Metcalf Global Messaging product to ensure its text messages can be sent over networks operated by other carriers. Several...
ATLANTA—Numerex Corp. said its negotiations with BT Group plc to acquire the company's RedCARE business have reached an impasse because of commercial and regulatory issues. Numerex said it is still interested in the deal if the issues can be resolved, and in the meantime...
ATLANTA—Amid continuing bad news and profit losses, wireless telemetry company Numerex Corp. offered a ray of sunshine with its net earnings of 2 cents per share and positive earnings before interest, depreciation, taxes and amortization."Wireless telemetry revenue growth outpaced our stated 2002 guidelines of...
ATLANTA—Telemetry provider Numerex Corp. announced it is in negotiations with BT Group plc to purchase the company's RedCare telemetry network, a move that could expand Numerex's reach into the U.K. marketplace.Numerex said it made its announcement before a final deal had been reached "so...
ATLANTA—Numerex Corp. announced it will provide United Telecommunication Services (UTS), official telecommunications company of the Netherlands Antilles, with its patent-pending wireless short message service throughout its coverage areas in Curacao, St. Marten, Bonaire, Saba and Statia.Numerex will use its Data1Source centralized service bureau to...
ATLANTA—Numerex Corp. announced its new expanded long-term wireless strategy, which involves introducing products for machine-to-machine communications working over a variety of technologies.Numerex said its customers will soon be able to send machine-to-machine communications using the company's Cellemetry analog technology, SMS telemetry or—for large data...
DETROIT—AVL Information Systems signed an agreement with Sistemas Informacion Satelital for distribution of AVL's Chaperone personal tracking unit, which can be used on the Numerex Cellemetry wireless data network to track and locate stolen vehicles."SIS is very optimistic that Chaperone and the expanding coverage...
Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
ATLANTA-Numerex Corp. introduced a centralized short message service bureau called Data1Source, offering cellular operators two-way SMS text messaging from cellular phones.Compatible phones can send messages of up to 150 characters between each other, as well as to various Internet e-mail accounts, the company said....
After years of slowly gathering the needed partnerships with cellular operators across the country, Cellemetry L.L.C. today can offer its cellular control channel transmission technology across more than 90 percent of the country.In mid-December, the company signed with Houston Cellular, adding much of Texas...
