Motorola Inc. and Oracle Corp. teamed last week to create a UNIX-based e-business platform designed for carriers, Internet service providers, enterprise customers and application vendors.The deal is the second phase of their partnership, following Motorola's adoption of Oracle's OracleMobile.com server technology into the Aspira...
NEW YORK-Despite the hope and hype around consumer and corporate use, vertical applications remain today's stronghold for wireless data, said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg.Recognizing this fact, many large and small companies have made a foray into the field-force automation arena,...
NEW YORK-As viewed through rose-colored glasses, selling over cellular phones presents an enticing opportunity for advertisers and carriers to extend their reach and revenues.Clearly however, there are many potential interceptions in the way of the play for good consumer reception, said panelists participating in...
SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle's portal-to-go technology and is targeted at carriers, consumer portals, application service providers and corporations, said Oracle.The new...
NEW YORK-Solid Information Technology, known for network synchronization software, has received $50 million in second-round private equity investment.Robertson Stephens Inc. served as placement agent for the transaction, which is a precursor to taking the company public, said Pekka Roine, Solid's chairman and chief executive...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
NEW YORK-The best is yet to be in the conjunction of wireless and the Internet, and that means plenty of opportunity, said Lior E. Yahalomi, managing partner of CMGI @Ventures.The Menlo Park, Calif., venture fund, established in 1995 to invest solely in Internet-related companies,...
EndwareBroadband wireless product supplier Endware Corp. appointed Mike Roush vice president of manufacturing and operations, Nick Ingrao director of wireless programs and Chris Brown system engineering manager. Roush will oversee the expansion of the company's Diamond Springs, Calif., manufacturing plant in his new position....
Easy Access Inc. has selected SeaGull Inc.'s Wireless-to-Host solution to wirelessly enable its EZ-Vote mobile voter registration management system.MG Financial Group has introduced wireless access to Forex market trading information.Geoworks Corp. announced its Mobile ASP solution will power a mobile information service for Abbey...
NEW YORK-Dream House Software Inc., Orinda, Calif., expects to begin beta testing in August of its new AnyWhereMobile Internet Service, designed to give subscribers remote access to their personal computer files.This represents the next phase of evolution from the company's earlier product, Retriever, which...
While still slow to be adopted by wireless operators, wireless location service providers have accelerated their efforts to deliver effective technologies that can determine a wireless user's position within the network.SignalSoft Corp., a platform and applications developer, formed an agreement with Telcordia Technologies Inc....
GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology services firm with more than 9,000 corporate clients, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Inc."The consumer...
ATLANTA-LHS Inc. will integrate its customer acquisition product ConVerge with Oracle Purchasing under Oracle's Cooperative Applications Initiative, accelerating customer acquisition and managing the operations of the retail, direct and indirect sales channels of the wireless industry." users at the point-of-sale need access to only...
NEW YORK-Compaq Computer Corp. received 237 orders for its new AlphaServer GS Series by mid morning the first day the company began selling the servers, said Michael Capellas, president and chief executive officer.Of these sales, "40 percent were from telecommunications carriers because of the...
WASHINGTON-With the House up for grabs this fall and a slew of high-tech bills pending before Congress, the high-tech lobby is flexing its muscle on Capitol Hill and shaping the debate on key issues important to the wireless industry such as China trade, high-tech...
NEW YORK-Mobilestop.com, the newborn Internet offspring of Strax Inc., a Miami-based wireless phone and accessory distributor, launched its Web site this month and plans operations on four continents within a year. The company intends to be a one-stop shopping and information site for all...
Metrocall Inc. formed a strategic partnering agreement with WirelessMD Inc. to target the medical community. Specifically, the two hope to upgrade existing one-way paging accounts to two-way interactive paging services and products. Metrocall said it will use Wireless MD's proprietary interactive medical data retrieval...
ATLANTA-The Weather Channel said its weather.com Web site will provide content and services to the oramobile.com wireless portal from OracleMobile.com, a subsidiary of Oracle Corp.
Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian announced a wireless computing platform for handsets and other devices. Quartz is a reference design for pen-based wireless devices. It...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Symbian initiative unveiled several new product enhancements through deals announced at the Symbian Developers Conference.An agreement with Communication Intelligence Corp. added the company's Jot handwriting recognition system, QuickNotes electronic note-taking application, WordComplete predictive text-entry utility and Sign-On biometric security application to...
Aether Systems Inc. rose to the top of the news last week after it was identified as Metrocall Inc.'s mysterious third investor and joint venture partner-joining PSINet Inc. and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst-as well as for announcing a plan to acquire Riverbed Technologies...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Oracle Corp. chose Qualcomm's pdQ smart phone as one of the key platforms for its Oracle CRM 3i customer relationship management mobile sales and service application.Oracle CRM 3i is a suite of 35 integrated modules that provide marketing, sales, service,...
Oracle Corp. introduced wireless Internet software called Portal-to-Go, a universal translator of sorts designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with any Internet site, intranet database or network-aware appliance.Based on Oracle's Internet database software, Portal-to-Go is available to carriers, Internet content providers or enterprise...
The convergence of the Internet and wireless networks was punctuated last week as Internet heavy hitters Amazon.com Inc., America Online Inc. and Oracle Corp. made announcements extending their services further into the wireless realm.Perhaps the strongest statement made was Amazon.com's aggressive entry to the...
