NEW YORK-Extent Technologies is beta testing a new generation of software designed to help wireless carriers rate and bill multiple kinds of wireless services as customers are using them.The first generation processed bills in batches well after the fact. More recent iterations provide real-time...
Multiplier IndustriesMultiplier Industries Corp. released its new line of rechargeable replacement batteries for Motorola radios. The line, which features polycarbonate plastic material with greater impact strength, includes the 1,400 mAh capacity M9012; the 1,700 mAh capacity M9012C; the 1,600 mAh capacity M9009; the 2,100...
After months of uncertainty peppered with glimpses of hope, Iridium L.L.C. officially settled into its new home last week as a mobile satellite service provider for government and remote commercial operations.Now called Iridium Satellite L.L.C. and headquartered in Leesburg, Va., the company was purchased...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Under a new partnership, CellPoint Inc. and Swedish game developer It's Alive! plan to "bring the mobile phone to life" by creating location-based mobile games for short message service phones or WAP handsets.Tom Soderlund, It's Alive!'s chief executive officer, said the companies hope...
While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to supply those functions have been left out of the limelight. Battery manufacturers are quick to point out that without the...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa-Fundamo, a financial services initiative of Sanlam, signed an equity deal with VenFin and Archway Venture Partners to further the company's goal to establish a mobile payment platform. VenFin acquired a 35-percent equity stake in Fundamo, and Archway Venture Partners acquired...
NORWAYNorway is expecting to raise between $2 billion and $2.7 billion in the initial public offering comprising 21 percent of state-owned Telenor. Shares will begin trading on Dec. 4 on the Oslo Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq index.NETHERLANDSKPN Telecom announced its equity and bond...
ATLANTA-Numerex Corp. introduced a centralized short message service bureau called Data1Source, offering cellular operators two-way SMS text messaging from cellular phones.Compatible phones can send messages of up to 150 characters between each other, as well as to various Internet e-mail accounts, the company said....
ATLANTA-BulletIN.net, which develops and supplies two-way wireless Internet solutions, won patents in the United States and New Zealand for a single-button reply process for short message service e-mail.BulletIN.net said the patent solves a problem on typical wireless phones that allows users only to reply...
NEW YORK-The battle over customer ownership in the emerging mobile-commerce market will evolve, by necessity, into a model of "coopetition," said Philip Yen, executive vice president of e-Visa International.Banks, credit-card companies, middleware providers, telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers must and will join forces, each...
SAN FRANCISCO-Critical Path Inc. and Logica announced they have extended their relationship in which they jointly provide wireless messaging infrastructure to wireless carriers.The two combine Logica's Short Message Service Center with Critical Path's InScribe Wireless Messaging Internet messaging infrastructure, allowing for two-way text messaging...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Israel is determined not to be shaken from its pristine position of having one of the highest cellular penetration rates in the Middle East by the current unrest in the region."Penetration in Israel is growing steadily at a double-digit rate for next...
MOSCOW-Russian wireless carriers, which this year considerably expanded their client bases thanks to radically decreased prices, registered a major average revenue per user (ARPU) decrease from more than US$215 two years ago to US$36 for one Russian carrier this year. Therefore, carriers have launched...
HandsetsNeopointThe company released new dual-band and tri-mode smart phones that include increased capacity for personal digital assistant functions, built-in e-mail capabilities and a NeoPad Qwerty keyboard. The dual-band NeoPoint 2000 and tri-mode NeoPoint 2600 phones hold more than 2,000 contacts, schedule, task and personal...
UTRECHT, The Netherlands-A television program in Germany used short message service (SMS) to allow viewers to interact with the contestants.Viewers sent answers to questions via SMS messages using mobile phones. CMG Telecommunications collected and analyzed the messages. Correct answers were forwarded for the final...
EndwaveEndwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands. The antennas include flat horizontal radiation pattern, rapid azimuth pattern...
CAIRO, Egypt-Africast introduced a free wireless Internet access and messaging service. Mobile users can access Africast Mobile by creating a profile on the Africast.com site, allowing the latest news headlines and personal information to be sent via short message service to digital cell phones...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.-David Bell has quite a resume.He founded his own company in 1997 in his basement. He helped evolve the company from a mostly hardware-focused business into a software and content developer focusing on a niche market. Three months ago, Bell secured...
NEW YORK-As carriers' capital expenditures race ahead of revenues, existing wide area and new local area data networks are poised to capture a good chunk of the market for corporate e-mail connectivity, today's killer application in wireless communications."In Europe, the (3G) bids were so...
Sygate TechnologiesInternet security and access management solutions provider Sygate Technologies Inc. introduced its OneNIC Internet Sharing Solution through the release of the newest version of its flagship software product, Sygate Home Network 4.0 Internet access sharing software. Sygate said the OneNIC technology is designed...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. reported that its NewNet OTSserver TDMA application and NewNet SMserver application were approved through the Nortel Network Wireless Interoperability Testing program, gaining the Nortel Networks Compatible Product stamp of approval.ADC said the OTSserver software offers over-air-activation and programming for CDMA and...
Czech RepublicThe Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) has preliminarily decided to issue fixed wireless access mobile telephone network licenses to three companies selected from 13 applicants, CTU Vice President Vladimir Kukra said Sept. 14. CTU is giving final consideration to the three applicants; it will...
PARIS-Czech Republic GSM operator RadioMobil chose Sema Group's short message service (SMS) to provide text messaging services to its customers. The system will provide users with messaging and enhanced information services, Sema said.The service, the SMS2000 message center, allows customers to communicate with the...
