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TOKYO—Japanese mobile carriers are emphasizing location services to combat increasing competition within the market. The mobile-phone market in Japan has been expanding rapidly during the past several years. However, the …

Mobile satellite service is an idea and a technology that today lies buried under the apprehension and disappointment of a number of major business deals gone bad. But about 10 …

They go by all sorts of names-clearinghouses, hubs and gateways-and they represent companies’ attempts at nailing down the precise formula for a business model aimed at nurturing the wireless Internet …

BOULDER, Colo.-Mobile restaurant directory and reservation provider GlobalDining announced it joined Pinpoint Networks Inc.’s Fuel developer program. “By providing a fast, simple and trusted wireless reservation network, we are able …

DURHAM, North Carolina, United States—Pinpoint Networks released the newest version of its mobile applications platform, Fuel, which the company said will allow carriers to bill for content on a per-use …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Opinion is divided on the identity of the “killer applications” that will allow operators to make a return on their significant investments in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and …

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 …

As technologies continue to advance and third-generation becomes more imminent, the mobile phone may be moving back into the place it began-the car. An increasingly mobile work force has led …

LAS VEGAS-Perhaps the most eagerly awaited applications in the wireless industry are mobile-location services, which promise to be a mobile-phone user’s guide and information guru, even in the most unfamiliar …

Audiovox Audiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the …

While the wireless community continues to search for the killer application that will make wireless Internet access mandatory, the mysterious application may be as simple as following the model set …

DURHAM, N.C.-Instead of making plans for what they wanted to do once they graduated from high school, Jud Bowman and Taylor Brockman were making plans on how to raise money …

The House Judiciary Committee passed legislation to strengthen the legal standard law enforcement must meet before obtaining mobile-phone tracking information. The bill also places certain restrictions on law enforcement access …

Location is the buzz. You walk out of your office and messages sent to your desktop are automatically forwarded to your phone because it knows you are away. You are …

It’s the content stupid! With WAP backlash increasing worldwide, those in the know have pointed to what they call the poor implementation of WAP technology as the major culprit behind …

WASHINGTON-Even with President Clinton’s decision last week to dramatically improve global positioning system accuracy for civilians, vendors that offer a network-based E911 solution say their products are still valid. Meanwhile, …

If someone wants to kill you, chances are they will be able to, given enough time and venom. It is naive to think that any tool, least of all, a …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to announce as early as next month a dramatic improvement to global positioning system accuracy, a move with enormous public safety and commercial implications for …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Bell Atlantic Mobile and TruePosition Inc. said they have completed field trials of Code Division Multiple Access location technology. The field trial was conducted over series 2 …

While Steve Case, Gerald Levin and Ted Turner were cartwheeling last week over AOL’s planned purchase of Time Warner, others were not jumping for joy over this or anything else …

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it signed an agreement with GE Harris Railway Electronics L.L.C. to add satellite-based data transmission capabilities to its Pinpoint Locomotive Tracking System.

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an agreement to jointly develop and promote standardization of a technology for locating the point of origin of an emergency wireless phone …

DUBLIN, Ireland-The phenomenal growth of cellular services around the world has created problems for operators as their networks become increasingly congested, encouraging companies to develop technologies and systems to increase …

WASHINGTON-Perhaps denoting that local multipoint distribution service and the tremendous data possibilities it affords may be the wave of the future, the LMDS re-auction already seems more successful than the …

This week marks the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission’s Phase I enhanced 911 deadline, and by most accounts, not much progress has been made. SCC Communications Corp., which …