Hoping to speed the adoption of wireless location-based technologies by operators nationwide, Phone.com Inc. introduced several new products at its Unwired Universe conference held last week aimed at tying location services to its wireless Internet platform.Most significantly, the company introduced a mobile location addition...
NEW YORK-AirLink PCS, the E-block fledgling of a century-old local exchange carrier, has found a niche providing its prepaid "Super Cordless" service for calling from and within a six-county area of Michigan."We've had visits by dozens of people from the E- and F-block licensees,...
Adding to the list of carriers deploying its BrandFinder and MapBlast! location-based marketing information, Vicinity Corp. said Verizon Wireless will offer the services to its subscribers nationwide with Internet-enabled phones.Vicinity formerly had a similar relationship with GTE Wireless, which Verizon now owns. AT&T Wireless...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has spent the past five years refining lessons learned from its attempts to jump-start digital cellular in the United States, said Matt Wisk, vice president of national marketing-USA."In 1995, we tried to make the first generation of digital happen in the...
Palm Inc. introduced a wireless solution for its full line of personal digital assistants at PC Expo last week called the Mobile Internet Kit.The kit consists of a software upgrade that adds Palm's Web Clipping technology to the devices, allowing them to interact with...
ATLANTA-SED International Inc. and AT&T Wireless Group signed an agreement expanding the retail distribution channel for AT&T Wireless prepaid services to 20,000 resellers in the United States.The agreement calls for SED to provide online fulfillment services including product warehousing, secure order processing, packing and...
Comverse Technology Inc. made an undisclosed investment in Speedwise Technologies Ltd., a privately held firm specializing in software designed to accelerate the time required to browse and download Web content over cellular connections. Comverse said the investment is part of the company's ongoing program...
NEW YORK-Despite the well-deserved drubbing of many dot-coms, communications companies, particularly equipment and component suppliers, are well worth investing in, securities analysts said June 14 at The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. Technology Conference.The year 2000 has the look and feel of 1994, when the...
NEW YORK-After a year-long collaborative trial with a cellular carrier in its hometown of Mankato, Minn., PrePaid Systems Inc. has begun marketing its handset-based prepaid system, which affords services and prices equivalent to those postpaid customers receive.Hickory Tech, formerly Cellular One of Minnesota, began...
Formus Communications Inc. filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of its class A common stock. Formus, a wireless broadband carrier, expects to complete the offering by the middle of the year.Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. successfully bid $77 million to acquire several...
NEW YORK-As it formally announced last week its intention to bid in Germany's next-generation wireless auctions, Deutsche Telekom AG also began taking orders for a planned secondary stock offering it hopes will raise about $5.22 billion.This public sale, the carrier's third including its 1996...
NEW YORK-WebLink Wireless Inc., Dallas, will target teen-agers and twenty-somethings with a two-way messaging and e-mail service it plans to debut this summer.Subscribers who sign a year-long service contract for $15 monthly will receive an $80 rebate on the $179 retail price of the...
Columbus, Ohio-based Divine Tower International Corp. bills itself the one-stop shop for small wireless carriers looking to build out their networks, providing everything from the initial financing to equipment procurement."Towers are only a component of our infrastructure. The only thing we don't have is...
Seagull Inc., a provider of e-business solutions for Windows and Web-based systems, extended its reach into the wireless realm last week with the introduction of its server-based Wireless-to-Host Solution.For 10 years, Seagull has offered Web-to-Host and Windows-to-Host solutions, basically providing software that allows enterprises...
IPmobileWireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will spearhead the company's initiative to secure and capitalize on the growing wireless data market opportunity...
Whatever you do, don't tell John Beletic he's running a paging network."We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and people are still calling us a paging carrier," said the chairman and chief executive officer...
Two-way messaging took a leap forward last week as Motorola Inc. introduced a new two-way pager and JP Systems Inc. implemented a mobile Internet portal service.Motorola unveiled its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, which features a full Qwerty keyboard, a flip-top screen and a...
LOS ANGELES-Cybiko Inc. introduced a digital, wireless, portable entertainment and communication system combining interactive gaming, instant messaging e-mail and personal information manager capabilities in one device."We are thrilled to be the first to introduce a new high-tech, wireless Internet appliance platform for the youth...
Web sites that offer comparison shopping for wireless phones and services appear to be a dime a dozen these days. Consumers go to these sites because they promise to be objective. But what happens when wireless companies invest in the e-tailers promising that objectivity?Recently,...
Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit.And they are, with help from Neomar Inc., a start-up firm in San Francisco that has created a WAP...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. reported it will invest $15 million in Point.com Inc., an online retailer of wireless phones, accessories and service plans."Point.com's private-labeled business-to-business strategy will further grow retail opportunities for Motorola products and services by reducing the cost-of-entry barriers into e-commerce for retailers,"...
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...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Independent Wireless One Corp., a Sprint PCS Northeast Network Partner, has contracted Lightbridge Inc.'s Retail Management System on an outsourced basis through an application service provider model.According to Lightbridge, the ASP delivery mode will provide IWO with a way to acquire new customers...
ATISThe members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its full committee and six technical subcommittees at the group's national meeting. E. Raymond Hapeman, of Telcordia Technologies Inc., and Wayne...
