Opinion

It’s more than a rhetorical question. The future of the wireless industry arguably rests on the answer. Unless a workable and effective advertising model for m-commerce is developed, billions of …

Not one operator around the world has rolled out third-generation services yet, but discussion of fourth-generation technology is already under way. An industry that began offering a basic communications tool …

Democracy is so refreshing when it defies precision political choreography. So it was last Tuesday when the 2000 presidential election turned into Twin Peaks, Duck Soup, Seinfeld, HeeHaw and Dallas …

Tri-County Communications Systems sold an unspecified number of its telecommunications towers in northern New York state to Pinnacle Holdings Inc., said David Abraham & Co., which represented the seller. Details …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has created a new default home page for PocketNet wireless Internet subscribers geared for teen users, with some 60 content sites of interest …

Oh thank heaven for Eleven-7. Election Day 2000 is here, mercifully. This presidential marathon, which has become totally corrupted by big money, cynicism and apathy, has become a caricature of …

NEW YORK-MCI WorldCom Inc. sees an opportunity to transform its wireless resale business into one of full-fledged virtual network operation, said Bernard J. Ebbers, president and chief executive officer. Resale …

Sprint PCS expanded its all-digital network into Huntsville, Ala., and opened two new Sprint PCS Centers for consumers and businesses in the city. The new centers are at 700 Airport …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Having spent vast sums on third-generation (3G) mobile licenses, operators are hoping terminals will live up to expectations. Unlike GSM, where handsets are broadly similar in appearance, it seems …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for …

After pioneering efforts to bring Bluetooth technology to market, Ericsson dropped plans to launch the T36 cell phone, its first Bluetooth-enabled handset, in an attempt to pull its handset division …

WASHINGTON-A British consumer group in November said new tests reaffirm earlier findings that hands-free devices can increase RF radiation emitted by mobile phones, but the organization stopped short of claiming …

TOKYO-Japanese vendors are in the final stages of developing third-generation (3G) terminals. Japanese 3G services are scheduled to be launched earlier than any other country in May 2001 by NTT …

Two disparate, but parallel tracks are emerging in the wireless Internet world: the business track and the consumer track. The business track is developing along the lines one would expect …

In recent weeks, we’ve seen Wall Street unmercifully punish wireless and blue-chip high-tech firms because of lower-than-expected quarterly earnings. Maybe punish is the wrong word. How about mutilate. In one …

So much for legacies, those wonderful collections of accomplishments leaders hope will be packaged, embellished and calcified in history books for all eternity. Poof, into the thin air. Gone. President …

In my first journalism class, the instructor gave us an acronym to remember-KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. Little did I know I would some day work in acronym central, otherwise …

A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first debate between GOP and Democratic presidential …

We are a fickle people. What is in vogue one week can be quickly out of fashion the next. So it seems with government comments about the prices paid by …

The outgoing (and next) Congress and administration should be worried about losing the third-generation mobile phone market to Europe and Asia. Why? Because, in a very real sense, losing 3G …

MT. PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. said Spanish wireless operator Telefonica Moviles will deploy the company’s HTS filter system. Telefonica made the decision after conducting field trials of ISC’s SuperRx tower-mounted …

While the convergence of computing and communications may be the future, and the future may be now, the convergence of ideas to actual product line takes longer to reach fruition. …

On any given day, you can pick up a newspaper and read about killings and suffering abroad due to political unrest; ethnic, religious and racial rivalries; border and territorial disputes; …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. opened an interactive retail Internet portal to sell its My2Way products and services from its Web site. Customers can buy the new Motorola Inc. T-900 pager or …

Location is the buzz. You walk out of your office and messages sent to your desktop are automatically forwarded to your phone because it knows you are away. You are …