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...
Wireless middleware and software provider Aether Systems Inc. filed an initial public offering prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week with the intention of selling 6.9 million shares at $15 a share by next year.The offering will consist of 6 million...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life up to 30 percent. The discontinuous transmission feature will be generally available for network operators...
Omnipoint Communications Corp., Message Center Management and Motiva Enterprises L.L.C. signed an agreement for Omnipoint to install wireless infrastructure equipment in 500 Shell and Texaco retail sites in the New England and Westchester county, N.Y., markets. "Message Center Management and Motiva offer us a...
SONY ELECTRONICSSony Electronics introduced a new alphanumeric pager with a synthesized tuner, generic-over-the-air programming capabilities and the company's Jog Dial operation, called the MP-7001. The generic-over-the-air programming technology, or GOTAP, is an advanced feature of the Motorola Inc. FLEXsuite protocol. Sony also released the...
BOSTON-Iridium L.L.C. selected Paragren Technologies' One-By-One Campaign Manager as a strategic customer marketing tool for the Iridium service, said Paragren.The campaign management tool, along with the One-By-One Application Server, will be used to support Iridium's global marketing campaigns in conjunction with its Oracle Express...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the formation of the PCIA Mobile Computing Advisory Group with Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle and Philips Consumer Communications.The PCIA MCAG's main goal will be to promote wireless mobile computing.The advisory board said its first task...
MONTREAL-Telet S.A., the B-band affiliate of Telesystem International Wireless Inc., said it awarded L.M. Ericsson a three-year contract to supply its cellular network in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which initially will support 500,000 subscribers, said TIW. The contract is valued at $142.93 million.TIW...
AvantGo Inc. released a new solution designed to extend enterprise and Web-based applications to handheld computers, allowing companies to deploy corporate applications to mobile devices that are compatible with their existing network and technology infrastructures.The solution, called AvantGo 2.0, consists of the AvantGo Server,...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. announced it acquired Adaptive Broadband Ltd., gaining Time Division Multiple Access and asynchronous transfer mode technology to improve the data rates of its narrowband radio products and to allow point-to-multipoint applications.California Microwave bought United Kingdom-based Adaptive from the Olivetti and...
CITELCitel Inc. unveiled a new line of coaxial surge protectors that provide protection against lightning surges and electrical transients. They use gas tube technology, making them suitable for broadband applications. The new line includes: N, BNC, TNC, SMA and 7/16. P8AX coaxial protectors are available...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Metasys Inc. announced it was awarded a contract from Motorola Inc.'s Paging Systems Group to incorporate its software and services in PSG's paging infrastructure products.Metasys' software includes Oracle Corp.'s ERP application and Syntra's import/export management software. Motorola will use Metasys to automate its...
NEW YORK-After receiving "Big Daddy" T-shirts from BT Alex. Brown Inc. telecommunications analyst Jeffrey L. Hines June 10, top executives of four of the world's largest wireless carriers offered an expansive vision of their companies and their industry."There are accelerating growth rates in all...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. introduced a wireless intelligent network-based prepaid billing solution, which uses Oracle Corp.'s scalable RDBMS technology on a Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun Solaris platform.SCI's first installation of the PrePay Metered Billing solution, for "one of the largest wireless prepaid carriers in...
NEW YORK-Several billing and customer-care providers have announced new products in recent weeks, among them, American Management Systems Inc., International Telecommunications Data Systems Inc., Kenan Systems Corp. and Subscriber Computing Inc.AMSTapestry from AMS, Fairfax, Va., is the company's next-generation platform, which uses object-oriented, client/server...
BearCom Inc. acquired Fidelcomm Service Co., a two-way radio equipment dealer serving the greater Los Angeles area, said BearCom. The dealership, which has been in business since 1988, will assume the BearCom name.Brightpoint Inc. agreed to sell Merrill Lynch & Co. $335 million aggregate...
