LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and Microsoft Corp. announced a wireless Internet trial with about 1,000 mobile phone users in the United Kingdom and Norway. Users will be able to access Microsoft Exchange-based calendaring, address lists, Web content and online information services from their wireless phones.The...
PARIS-Groupe Sagem, a French mobile phone manufacturer, introduced a dual-band Global System for Mobile communications handset using Unwired Planet Inc.'s UP.Browser.The company demonstrated the phone at CeBIT in Germany. With the microbrowser, Sagem said the phone can access e-mail, personal organizers and certain Web-based...
Tegic Communications Inc. said Groupe Sagem will incorporate Tegic's European and Chinese character-based versions of its T9 Text Input software into Sagem mobile phones."The demand for new advanced communications services, such as short messaging services, has been overwhelming. This is one of the most...
HANNOVER, Germany-Groupe Sagem licensed Unwired Planet Inc.'s UP.Browser to provide Internet access for its wireless handsets.Sagem is a French group of high-technology companies employing about 14,000 people. Sagem's Mobile Communication business manufactured 1 million units in 1997 and expects to triple that number this...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Inc. opened for business Nov. 14, but a full-scale promotional campaign for its first personal communications services network-in the New York City metropolitan area-won't start for another week or so.By then, roaming will be possible in portions of Southern California, the...
Sagem SA, a French manufacturer, plans to supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator. According to the contract, valued at $10 million, Omnipoint will offer two models of Sagem SA's GSM phone: the CS610 and the...
