A new group consisting of personal computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies is developing a protocol for wirelessly connecting home appliances to PCs.The Home Radio Frequency Working Group's mission is "to enable the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices by establishing...
NEW YORK-Philips Consumer Communications L.L.P., has embarked on plans at home and abroad to market aggressively its new ISIS Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Narrowband Analog Mobile Phone Service handsets.The Dallas-based joint venture between Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics North America Corp. began selling ISIS...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
The Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association's 1998 convention has come and gone. This gives PCS '98 convention planners six months to try to one-up this show. It gives P.R. flacks five months to take a break before again hounding reporters to schedule "interviews" with "top...
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group is struggling to keep PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. from giving future contracts to another vendor for more personal communications services equipment.PrimeCo reportedly is dissatisfied with the performance of Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access equipment currently installed, but contrary to...
DENVER, United States-Competition in the world's cdmaOne handset markets is expected to heat up this year as more countries deploy commercial systems and manufacturers battle it out for market share.Ray Jodoin, senior analyst with InStat in Scottsdale, Arizona, expects some 8.9 million cdmaOne cellular...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. and its retail partner Direct To Retail Associates L.P. announced the launch of a program to provide prepaid cellular phones through major retailers.DTR is working with major retailers to secure floor space and national ads for the prepaid program,...
NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores.Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it's only half the story.Telecommunications equipment...
Two developers of handset-based prepaid technology are headed to court over alleged patent and trademark infringement.Telemac Corp. has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., against Topp Telecom Inc. of Miami, charging the company with patent and trademark infringement and unfair...
United States Cellular Corp. appointed Paul Henri Denuit to a special committee of the board of directors that will consider how the company should respond to a proposal from its parent organization, Telephone and Data Systems Inc. He has been on the board of...
NEW YORK-It was a glowing quarter for Brightpoint Inc., Indianapolis, which reported significant increases in net sales, income and income per share.The company, a worldwide distributor of wireless handsets and accessories, closed the fourth quarter of its fiscal year Dec. 31 with $373.2 million...
Philips Consumer Communications announced Osmo Hautanen, president of the Americas region, will leave the company March 15.Michael Lang, vice president of marketing for the Americas, immediately will assume operational responsibilities for the North American organization on an interim basis. Lang, who has been with...
LCC International Inc. last week made two moves that appear to be pointing toward an increasing importance of international markets to its radio frequency engineering and network implementation services and products business.The company appointed Geoffrey Carroll president and chief executive officer of the company...
With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with the software giant.Motorola Inc....
Paging Network Inc. will be the primary network provider for a remote automotive vehicle security system developed by Adaptive Vehicle Systems, according to an agreement signed between the two companies. Using PageNet's network, motorists can "page" their automobiles with messages to lock and unlock...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it promoted Dr. Mark Epstein to senior vice president of development. Epstein will lead Qualcomm's international standards activities and develop corporate relationships to support the company's next-generation wireless products. With more than 30 years in the communications industry, Epstein joined Qualcomm...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced it expanded its Ricochet line of products, which provide unlimited wireless access to the Internet, intranets, e-mail and other online services.The Ricochet SX modem provides fast, affordable wireless connectivity to all portable and fixed location computers and optimizes the...
WOOD BRIDGE, N.J.-Ram Mobile Data USA L.P. announced it will join with Microsoft Corp. to familiarize programmers with applications development for the Windows CE platform by distributing some 25,000 compact discs at COMDEX '97, with Microsoft's Windows CE Toolkit.The CD contains programming and other...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc.Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent and Philips Electronics N.V. that...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc.Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent and Philips Electronics N.V. that...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed an agreement appointing Worldwide Direct Inc. an exclusive authorized distributor of STC's prepaid service, called CellEase.Under the agreement, Worldwide Direct will develop, produce and maintain a national television marketing campaign for CellEase using the "short-form" direct...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced Philips Consumer Communications' Trapeze Global System for Mobile communications 1900 MHz wireless mobile phone has been certified by the association.Philips' Trapeze, model TCD-718, was granted CTIA certification based on its successful compliance with stringent criteria, said CTIA. According...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution arrangement with Eckerd Drug Stores Inc. for its paging products and services to be offered in an additional 1,126 locations-up from 613-to a total 1,739 in all.The expansion comes as an attempt to increase PageMart's...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. reached an agreement to carry Philips Consumer Communications' Cobalt numeric pagers.The Cobalt pager has a three-button interface, large backlit display screen with 20-digit message, 12-digit display and 32-message memory. It also features nine silent vibration options, nine user selectable audible alerts,...
