Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an intelligent network messaging solution designed to bring messaging mainstream, said the company.The solution makes use of information in network databases to enable a service provider to deliver advanced messaging services to its entire subscriber base, said Lucent."This will make...
Chile's Undersecretary of Telecommunications Juanita Gana announced mobile phone carriers no longer can force subscribers to sign long-term contracts, according to an article in El Diario. Until now carrier contracts have been for between 12 and 24 months.Ericsson Radio Systems announced it bought telecommunications...
If the promise of enhanced wireless services was a hot-fudge sundae with lots of toppings, about the only thing wireless customers have been served so far is vanilla ice cream sprinkled with nuts.That according to Larry Swasey, senior wireless analyst at Allied Business Intelligence,...
Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a joint development and marketing agreement under which the two will create a unified messaging platform converging voice mail, e-mail and fax services on any device or media of the user's choice, the companies said.In this...
NEW YORK-NightFire Software Inc., Berkeley, Calif., debuted NetServ Express, which it said is "the first packaged software solution to automate the telecommunications service supply chain and simplify the order management process between retailers and wholesalers of telecommunications services."NightFire also completed its first round of...
At a somewhat lavish press event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Motorola Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starfish Software Inc., a leading supplier of customized solutions for the Connected Information Device market.Terms of the transaction were not...
NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming language.Spelled J-i-n-i, and pronounced "genie," the new software allows Java to enable devices like...
NEW YORK-Amteva Technologies Inc., Glen Allen, Va., announced May 5 the introduction of Unified Messaging Plus, a carrier-class software to allow wireless and wireline phones and other devices to use the Internet.The result of three years and $20 million of research, the solution allows...
NEW YORK-Spyglass Inc., Naperville, Ill., has established a consulting practice to work with telecommunications, consumer electronics, satellite and other companies interested in using Sun Microsystems Inc. Java technology in devices other than personal computers."Device makers and others are seriously considering Java technology, and they...
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.The Ericsson announcement comes less than two months after Motorola Inc. announced it...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. introduced a wireless intelligent network-based prepaid billing solution, which uses Oracle Corp.'s scalable RDBMS technology on a Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun Solaris platform.SCI's first installation of the PrePay Metered Billing solution, for "one of the largest wireless prepaid carriers in...
Motorola Inc. announced that it will use and distribute the full family of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java platform technologies, according to a licensing agreement the two entered.Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola will incorporate the Java technology into its entire portfolio of consumer...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced its subsidiary, Hughes Software Systems, has signed a nonexclusive agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. to build solutions around Sun's Solstice Enterprise Manager and Solstice Telecommunications Management Network products.Under the agreement, Hughes will provide mediation devices and services including...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Motorola Inc.'s Paging Systems Group has selected Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SPARCengine Ultra 2 motherboards for use in its next generation FLEX family protocol transport and infrastructure equipment, Sun Microsystems announced.According to the company, the new motherboards will enable a scalable platform capable...
NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate Lucent's Inferno, a distributed inter-networking operating system, into its StreamProcessor, a network forwarding product line....
Could this be the year for wireless data?Although proponents of wireless data are no doubt tired of being asked that question, some announcements this week certainly have to cause their hearts to race, if just a little.Lucent Technologies Inc. and NEO Networks, and Sun...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc. want to keep things comparatively simple within the handset as demands on its capabilities grow more complex.With that goal in mind, the two companies announced an agreement last week that will permit delivery of Sun's Java...
NEW YORK-TTI Team Telecom International Ltd., an Israeli developer of operations support and network management systems for telecommunications providers, was slated to go public Nov. 22.The initial public offering was expected to comprise 2.5 million shares of common stock priced between $7 and $9...
Equipment manufacturers with contracts to build personal communications services networks are more than rushed to get those systems up-they're in an all-out run, said a business leader with a company interested in joining the race.Artecon builds rackmounts and creates integrated workstations, in most cases...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Software Platform and Java Powered chips into its future telephones for residential, enterprise and wireless applications.Java is an Internet programming language. Java Powered chips are specialized microprocessors optimized to run Java applications.The first application...
BOULDER, Colo. - CellPort Labs Inc. is providing drivers an on-ramp to the information highway by connecting them to the Internet's World Wide Web via Cellular Digital Packet Data networks.The Boulder, Colo.-based company said its new MobileWeb product turns any vehicle into an untethered...
GENEVA-AirTouch Communications Inc. has teamed with American Management Systems and Sun Microsystems Computer Co. to deliver a customer care system, the companies announced.The new system allows cellular customers to access an exact image of their hard copy phone bill or other information via fax...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-PageMart Inc. has selected Sun servers, from Sun Microsystems Co., as the network computing platform for a new corporate information system that will automate many company operations, announced Mountain View, Calif.-based Sun.PageMart will use Sun's SPARCcenter 2000 servers running Oracle relational database...
Targeting a wireless industry with complicated network management needs, Sun Microsystems Inc. said it has introduced its Solstice family of products to wireless manufacturers and operators as an easier way to manage their networks.Sun said it plans to offer network management via software-based solutions...
