JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced that in January it will begin offering nationwide the SkyTel eLink wireless e-mail product for customers who need to send and receive large amounts of wireless information.SkyTel is offering eLink through a reseller agreement with American Mobile Satellite Corp....
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Paradigm4 unveiled SmartPartner Pager, a new wireless data service that provides law enforcement officers with the ability to access critical information from local, state and federal criminal databases via the RIM Inter@ctive Pager 950.Operating in a manner similar to mobile computers found...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. began offering its eLink wireless e-mail service commercially last week, featuring two-way wireless extension of desktop Internet e-mail to handheld devices and personal information management functions. The solution uses AMSC's Ardis packet data network and Research In Motion Ltd.'s 850...
Speculation that BellSouth Wireless Data Ltd. would not immediately renew its supply contract with Research In Motion Ltd. has proven accurate, expected to result in lower third-quarter earnings for RIM. But the drop is expected to be short-term as more customers sign on to...
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short time, RIM has transformed itself into a market leader in technically advanced interactive pagers...
Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group charged Research In Motion Ltd. with patent infringement on RIM two-way messaging devices.The Glenayre division said it filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of California last week seeking unspecified damages from RIM.Both companies make two-way messaging...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said it will supply Venezuela-based carrier Telcel Cellular with its Inter@ctive 950e pager, the Spanish language version of the Inter@ctive 950.The deal will allow Telcel to become the first Mobitex operator in Latin America to offer the RIM messaging...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced Internet service provider RCN Corp. has become the first ISP to offer its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to subscribers.RCN said it plans to make the BlackBerry service available to all 500,000 of its customers in a deal RIM...
A Baltimore-based company called reachNET introduced a wireless messaging solution that provides a direct connection between a wireless device and the telephone teletype machines commonly used by the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.Called Wireless TTY, the service uses the Inter@ctive Pager 950 from Research In...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life up to 30 percent. The discontinuous transmission feature will be generally available for network operators...
The supply contract between Research In Motion Ltd. and BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. ends next month and the two companies are already in negotiations to renew the deal.The outcome of these talks is something anxiously awaited by wireless data industry watchers, who see it...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said the Federal Communications Commission approved the new RIM Inter@ctive Pager 850 for use in the United States. The device, expected to be available later this summer, is utilized by the eLink wireless e-mail service sold jointly by American...
UNITED KINGDOMICO Global Communications Ltd. said it has commenced a rights offering that will permit shareholders to purchase up to approximately 207.6 million ordinary shares of ICO at $5 per share. Shareholders of record on June 3 will be granted one nontransferable right for...
In the May 10 issue of RCR, the device used with American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s new eLink service should have been identified as the RIM 850 from Research In Motion Ltd.RIM makes both the 950 Interactive Pager and the 850, essentially the same device...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a service called eLink, a two-way wireless messaging application with integrated personal information manager functions.Using a modified version of the RIM 950 pager from Research In Motion Ltd., the eLink service will use AMSC's Ardis wireless packet data network.Other...
Sirius CommunicationsSirius Communications NV introduced the DataSat Code Division Multiple Access development system. It offers an alternative to today's very small aperture terminal systems. It works with all existing satellite bands, and TV satellite receiver antennas may be used to receive the signals. The...
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...
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...
NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: "I really want to know, who are you?"Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. is in business to provide an answer in the form...
In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week under which PageNet will resell BellSouth's Interactive Paging Service, effective in May.According to the agreement, PageNet will be the primary...
U.S. Global System for Mobile communications carriers took a financial beating in 1998, but analysts expect 1999 to look brighter for these carriers as they look to butter up their bottom lines and find strategic partners.Tight financing, high churn levels and a general under-performance...
When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS '98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be a big driver of the two-way messaging paradigm.If recent announcements are any indication, that...
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada-Rogers Cantel Inc. announced plans to introduce an all-in-one messaging service Feb. 1 in Canada, using the Inter@ctive 950 pager from Research in Motion Ltd.The Cantel AT&T Interactive Messaging service will allow users to send and respond to messages between the RIM...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Research In Motion Ltd. has licensed Diversinet Corp.'s security technology for the RIM Inter@ctive Pager, Diversinet announced.Under terms of the agreement, Diversinet will supply digital certificate authentication technology, combined with data security technology from Certicom Corp.
