LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced it entered into a technology license agreement with Novatel Wireless under which Novatel will sell wireless modems based on Metricom's Ricochet technology to portable computer users.Novatel is the first to license the Ricochet technology for direct retail products. The...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. said it signed contracts with three construction companies for the physical deployment of its Ricochet 128 kilobit-per-second mobile data network.Wireless Facilities Inc., General Dynamics Worldwide Telecommunications Systems and Whalen & Co. will work simultaneously in various markets to complete the...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has allied with Sanmina Corp. to build network equipment supporting the ongoing national rollout of Metricom's 128 kilobits-per-+second Ricochet wireless data service.Sanmina will make MicroCell radios-which hang from light poles-and radio components for Metricom's Wired Access Points. Shipping is set...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced that GTSI, a government reseller in the United States, will resell the Ricochet wireless line of products and services.The Ricochet wireless modem and Internet service is available to all government agencies in Ricochet coverage areas on GTSI's General Services...
AirTouch Communications Inc. signed a contract with Ultimate Electronics stores nationwide to make AirTouch the exclusive wireless provider in all Audio King, SoundTrack and Ultimate Electronics stores in AirTouch markets, announced the company. Ultimate Electronics operates 31 stores in nine states nationwide under the...
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....
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...
NEW YORK-Vulcan Ventures Inc., the investment organization chaired by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen, announced Oct. 14 it would increase its stake in Metricom Inc., a wireless data and Internet access company, to 49 percent.Vulcan, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., has had a minority...
Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally polarized signals in the 2400-2500 MHz frequency band. The antenna consists of a single broadband microstrip patch, which provides a...
The Federal Communications Commission announced three appointments in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. David Horowitz was named chief of the Private Wireless Division of the Bureau, which he joined in 1995 as deputy chief. He joined the commission in 1998 as a staff attorney with...
NEW YORK-Depending on who wins the battle of wills at the May 1 annual shareholders meeting of Metricom Inc., the public company might be sold.Metricom, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has provided wireless data applications to utilities for more than a decade. Last year,...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has launched its Ricochet wireless communications network and will offer its Ricochet Wireless Modem and Internet service in Seattle, the Sea Tac airport and several surrounding communities.Metricom said the network uses spread-spectrum, packet radio technology and Metricom's frequency-hopping mesh architecture...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. selected Koll Telecommunication Services to aid Metricom in receiving the governmental approvals it needs to install the Ricochet data communications network in communities throughout the United States.Ricochet currently serves the San Francisco Bay area by allowing computer users to wirelessly...
BellSouth Cellular Corp. is marketing cellular phones in Kroger supermarkets. Once purchased, the phnoes can be activated within 10 to 20 minutes in the store. Kiosks and cellular salespeople already are stationed in stores throughout BellSouth's Indianapolis, Nashville, Huntsville, Ala., and Clarksville, Tenn., markets....
As cellular carriers attempt to roll out nationwide coverage with new mobile data services, Los Gatos, Calif.-based Metricom Inc. is focused on establishing its Ricochet data network in two major computer industry centers-Silicon Valley and Seattle.The company just completed an agreement with the city...
As cellular carriers attempt to roll out nationwide coverage with new mobile data services, Los Gatos, Calif.-based Metricom Inc. is focused on establishing its Ricochet data network in two major computer industry centers-Silicon Valley and Seattle.The company just completed an agreement with the city...
