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DoCoMo partners with Oracle for enterprise solutions

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and marketing to promote mobile communications products and services to existing customers and explore new market opportunities worldwide.In particular, the companies...

Wireless enterprise market heats up

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—The market for wireless enterprise services continues to heat up today, with several companies positioning themselves to give mobile workers access to corporate information.The most notable announcement came from software giant Oracle Corp. and Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo. The two companies...

IBM, Microsoft, Sun form Web standards alliance

NEW YORK—International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and a few other companies are coming together to form an alliance known as the Web Services Interoperability Organizations to form standards for business transactions over the Web.Other companies expected to join the group...

Nokia pushes open standards

Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...

Wireless execs to testify against Microsoft in antitrust lawsuit

Representatives from the wireless industry are being asked to testify against Microsoft Corp. in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the computer software giant, each with new insight into how Microsoft is allegedly muscling into new markets and resisting cooperating with competitors.A witness list released...

Nokia continues open architecture push

DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world's largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems, Borland Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The move could put further...

Oracle meets lowered expectations

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. has posted lowered, albeit in-line, earnings in financial results for its fiscal second quarter. The company's net income for the quarter was $549.5 million, or 10 cents per share, down from year-ago earnings of $622.8 million, or $1.21 per share....

Oracle introduces server release 2 features

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. introduced the wireless and voice features for its Oracle application server release 2, which include enhanced support for voice access to Internet applications, wireless messaging, wireless security, mobile e-mail, location-based services and support for 2.5 G and third-generation networks."Businesses that use...

Oracle announces 9i Application Server

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. announced its Oracle 9i Application Server, along with the company's Oracle9i Lite for wireless devices, now allows users to centrally manage both online and offline mobile applications."Oracle has been helping leading companies successfully deploy and manage offline mobile applications for...

Oracle releases earnings, comments on tragedy

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. released its earnings report on schedule Thursday but without comment. The company said it is missing seven employees in the World Trade Center in New York and that one employee, sales account manager Todd Beamer, 32, was killed when hijacked...

Avesair gives carriers tools for targeted mobile marketing

Avesair Inc. may be just shy of its first birthday, but its proven technology has years behind it and its executives are industry veterans.In fact, the expertise and experience behind the company and its founders are exactly what led to $16 million in venture...

Oracle unveils e-Business Suite for PDAs

Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which will allow users of handheld devices to access a garden variety of applications and bring them closer to next-generation technologies."Our...

Acunia takes Java to telematics

Even though third-generation services are not yet available on mobile phones, one Belgium-based company is betting that 3G telematics services will be just as big, if not bigger.Acunia NV, Leuven, Belgium, crossed the Atlantic at the beginning of last year to set up a...

CTIA names keynote speakers

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association announced the keynote speakers for the opening day of its Wireless I.T. & Internet 2001 show, to take place in San Diego in September.Jacob Christfort, Oracle's chief technology officer and vice president of product development, and Al...

Oracle flies into telematics with Wingcast partnership

Oracle Corp. and Wingcast said they have formed a strategic alliance to develop new wireless telematics applications and services.As part of the alliance, Oracle and Wingcast immediately expect to begin work on a development center in San Diego to create, test and implement telematics...

Verizon picks Microsoft’s Yukon: Database management market heats up

Microsoft Corp. may have turned up the heat in the database management system battle with IBM Corp. and Oracle. But some analysts believe that the recent court decision declaring the software giant a monopoly may have put a damper on their zeal."The court decision...

Java gains juice

Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant's .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...

ISeg monitors user preferences

NEW YORK-ISeg Technologies Inc., McLean, Va., expects to release commercially by mid-June a software package that allows wireless carriers to monitor in real time customer use of different services and to respond accordingly with tailored offers.The company, which also has facilities in Germany, Israel...

.NET may dominate wired, wireless Web

Microsoft Corp.'s competitors are calling the attention of anti-trust authorities to the company's new initiative .NET as the software player's latest strategy to extend its monopoly.Analysts think that, in spite of the antitrust lawsuit still pending in the U.S. appeals court against Microsoft, the...

3G can wait, existing networks offer opportunities today

NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...

Wireless cyber products fill various niches

NEW YORK-The recent "Internet & E-Business Conference & Expo" brought together a host of players occupying various niches in cyberspace, and some may become shining stars in the wireless galaxy.Boston-based WebMap Technologies Inc. has developed a proprietary content mapping software that turns pixels into...

OracleMobile, Sonera partner for mobile transactions

PLANO, Texas-OracleMobile, the mobile products and services division of Oracle Corp., and Sonera SmartTrust Ltd. will together offer a secure solution for mobile transactions on GSM networks.The Oracle9i Application Server Wireless Edition will support SmartTrust's security solution for public key infrastructure technology for fixed...

Oracle upgrades location-based product

E-business software provider Oracle Corp. has launched the second coming of the Oracle 9I Application Server Wireless Edition to extend its grip on the location-based and personalization segments of the wireless industry."It is now more mature with standardized location-based service capability," said Jacob Christfort,...

IPO markets may not be optimal end for tech players without a niche

NEW YORK-To avoid falling into "microcap hell," companies play a "gorilla game" of amassing size, but going public may not be the best way to get there, said Eric Gebaide, a principal of Broadview, Fort Lee, N.J.Major technology market indexes are skewed because of...