Kada Systems Inc. announced the availability of version 1.5 of the Kada Mobile Platform, which will support the Pocket PC operating system in addition to Palm OS 3.5.Kada Mobile 1.5 also will provide increased portability across other database platforms including the Oracle, PointBase and...
Nextel Communications Inc. privately sold $1 billion of 10-year convertible senior notes in a "drive-by" sale to capitalize on favorable market conditions. The carrier plans to use the proceeds for network expansion, additional spectrum, strategic investments, working capital, debt service and other corporate purposes....
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a set number of wirelessly enabled Web sites. Some wireless operators have heeded said advice...
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...
While seven-digit numbers are usually reserved for a company's bottom line or telephone number, the seven digits in 6,219,694are of extra importance to Canadian-based wireless messaging company Research In Motion Ltd. Those seven numbers represents the patent issued to the company last week from...
Citing the slowdown in the U.S. economy and market conditions, personal digital assistant stalwart Palm Inc. and Extended Systems Inc., which provides mobile information management solutions, ended their proposed merger agreement."While this turn of events is disappointing, Palm and Extended Systems agree that this...
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last week was a welcome wake-up call.More than 900 attendees gathered to exchange ideas and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The battle between Handspring Inc. and Palm Inc. rose to a new fevered pitch this week as Handspring announced a spate of new services and applications for its personal digital assistants, a move that comes just one week after both companies announced...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
Iridium Satellite L.L.C. appointed Gino Picasso president and chief executive officer. Picasso previously was president and chief operating officer of Ace*Comm Corp., a provider of operations support systems software. Dan Colussy, who headed up the team of investors that purchased and reorganized Iridium, will...
NEW YORK -Ten Square, San Jose, Calif., plans to expand its provision of wireless e-commerce services to 2,800 service stations and convenience stores in various cities by year-end.The privately held company, whose lead investor is Marconi Ventures, delivers interactive content to consumers during the...
WASHINGTON-Personal digital assistants and two-way pagers can be security hazards since they lack necessary protections or are built in with risky, albeit convenient, default software, said a leading researcher at a wireless security conference last week."You can't think of these devices as toys or...
Going mobile isn't easy. If it were, there would probably be a lot more companies doing it. And differing standards, multitudinous offerings and the simple cost of wireless applications and services are real hindrances many businesses face.Aether Systems Inc., which has been a leader...
SAN FRANCISCO-Neomar, an enterprise software company devoted to enabling Fortune 1000 companies to securely deliver applications to mobile professionals, received $15 million in second-round financing from Clearstone Venture Partners.The latest investment supports the development of Neomar's second generation of products, including the Neomar Enterprise...
SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp. announced it is the first to license Handspring Inc.'s Blazer browser and proxy server, which the companies said speeds up Web browsing on devices using Palm Inc.'s operating system.According to the companies, Blazer technology allows Palm OS users to see the...
The once questionable smart-phone market received additional validation last week as Sprint PCS announced it would market Kyocera Corp.'s QCP-6035 handset beginning later this month. The news follows the carrier's plan to introduce Samsung's SPH-I300 smart phone later this summer, and the lead of...
NEW YORK -Simon Hayward, vice president and research director of The Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn., is waiting for the real "WAGs" to come to the fore and realize the unfulfilled vision of a "Supranet" of anytime, anywhere data communications.These wireless application gateways of the...
China undecided on technology selectionOnly months after the Chinese Ministry of Information signed a memorandum of understanding to allow the country's second-largest company, China Unicom, to deploy CDMA service, a Chinese newspaper reported last week the government is still deciding which third-generation technology to...
While most wireless companies are targeting either the consumer or the business market with their technology, a select few are targeting a new and rather unlikely area for wireless services and devices-the classroom.The vision these companies have consists of students keeping up with new...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Personal digital assistant maker Handspring Inc. released its third quarter earnings report, meeting analysts' expectations and drawing $123.8 million.The company's earnings for the quarter, ended March 31, were a 261-percent increase from the same period last year, and 7 percent better than...
Wireless Knowledge Inc. has developed Echo, software that simplifies the process of creating and mobilizing wireless Internet applications that can be accessed on phones, personal digital assistants and laptops.The product, which joins the company's other solutions, like Workstyle and Anystyle, targets large enterprises, system...
Leap Wireless International Inc. completed its acquisition of personal communications services operating licenses covering 2.8 million pops from CIVS IV License Sub I L.L.C., a joint venture between Cook Inlet Region Inc. and Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. Leap also completed its previously announced acquisition of...
