REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. announced 3Com Corp. has licensed its UP.Browser microbrowser technology to incorporate with its Palm operating system platform.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Internet portal company Yahoo! Inc. added to its Yahoo! Everywhere strategy with the introduction of Yahoo! Mobile, which allows users to personalize the Yahoo!-based content and services they want delivered to their wireless devices.The first stage of the Yahoo! Mobile deployment allows...
SAN FRANCISCO-Discover Brokerage introduced a wireless investing service called TradeRunner, which uses 3Com Corp.'s Palm III and Palm IIIx personal digital assistants.The service allows customers to control their investment portfolio from the devices, including the purchases and sales of equities, mutual funds and options;...
NEW YORK-w-Trade Technologies Inc., which developed the w-Trade wireless trading system, introduced a new product called w-Bank.Much like the way w-Trade allows brokerages to offer wireless access to their online trading systems, w-Bank allows financial institutions to offer wireless access to their online banking...
CoherentThe Coherent original equipment manufacturer division of Tellabs launched a complete design verification kit for its CEC-128 Integrated Echo Canceller multichip module. The kit consists of a CEC-128 plug-in module and a CD with full operating software, application notes and data book. The module...
Computer Associates International Inc. introduced a new wireless application infrastructure designed to give companies the ability to introduce corporate applications to mobile workers.The system is called The Wireless Intelligent Infrastructure Support Technology, or Twist. Firms incorporating the system will be able to implement mobile...
Primal Systems Inc., a provider of customer management products, introduced a new product to its suite of e-business solutions, called WebCare, last week at Billing '99 in Dallas.Designed to help carriers maximize the use of the Internet for customer-care functions, WebCare allows customers and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the drive to implement Internet e-commerce is being hyped almost on a daily basis, with some justification, as the way forward for almost all future business transactions, the possible success of this application within the mobile world remains less than clear.Many...
DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. announced a strategic relationship with 3Com Corp., designed to extend AOL e-mail to Palm Computing handheld devices.3Com said it will bundle AOL's new software in retail packages of certain Palm organizers and PalmModem accessories. As part of a market test,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access digital pdQ smart phone can offer the Palm Computing platform and support full-time access to the Internet, said the company.724 Solutions Inc. chose the pdQ smart phone as one of the key platforms for its new wireless...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. and Aether Technologies Inc. have formed a new company called OpenSky, created to extend corporate intranet and Internet-based information to wireless devices using the Palm Computing platform, Windows CE or the Wireless Application Protocol, as well as pagers.The new company...
SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun's Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com's Palm operating system software later this year.The companies also agreed to make Sun's K Virtual...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and U S West Communications Inc. announced a 12-month, $120 million agreement for U S West to purchase Qualcomm Code Division Multiple Access digital personal communications services phones.US West will purchase and distribute a variety of Qualcomm handsets, including the new...
The buzz phrase of the wireless data industry this year is Internet portal, and AvantGo Inc. hopes to capitalize on this attention by introducing a free interactive Internet service called AvantGo.com.The service compiles a set of popular Internet sites where users may go for...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has developed a new version of the Synapse Pager Card that is adapted for the Palm III connected organizer from 3Com Corp.PageMart's original Synapse card, developed in conjunction with Motorola Inc. and Palm Computing Inc., was created for the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-OmniBrowse Inc. announced its information services software has been added to the Palm Computing Platform, which powers various personal organizers, such as the PalmPilot and the Palm III.The program allows Palm users who have wirelessly enabled their devices with the Synapse Pager Card...
BALTIMORE-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced a program it said will allow wireline Internet service providers to offer their customers wireless data access.The company said the ISP2000 program will allow users to access their wireline ISP's home page and e-mail from devices such as the Inter@ctive...
Nortele-mobility servicesNortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol environment. The services include Wireless Prepaid, Group Conferencing, Smart Mobile Access, Wireless Voice-Activated Dialing, Mobile Messaging...
CORONADO, Calif.-At the Demo Mobile show last week, Aether Technologies Inc. announced the formal opening of its Enterprise Data Wireless Center in Maryland, designed to extend wireless access capabilities to enterprise information management systems.Initial customers include AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Bear Stearns & Co.,...
Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and full Internet access for $40 a month. Novatel Wireless Inc. announced a new smaller,...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced an agreement with JP Systems Inc. that will allow users of Palm III and Windows CE personal digital assistants to transmit and receive e-mail and text messages over PageNet's network.The deal involves JP's BeamLink software, which allows PDAs to use...
AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom's wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom's WLL products and services under its brand name of MAARS 100 and MAARS 200, and they...
As the wireless data industry finds more room to grow in the mobile enterprise market, more application developers are searching for ways to meet this new space.In the last week, several companies announced mobile data solutions and products designed for the horizontal and enterprise...
While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 "the year of wireless data," few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year.In 1998, several new devices were introduced that met the form factor and price requirements needed for...
