Amid mounting layoffs and company bankruptcies across the entire telecommunications sector, a little start-up out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is making its debut, hoping to capitalize on the growing voice-enabled applications market.OkamLogic Inc. is beta testing its Wireless Voice Commerce Gateway, a suite of...
NEW YORK-Volantis Systems Ltd., Guildford, England, has crossed the pond and established U.S. offices on both coasts to market its new Mariner software, which is designed to improve the speed, display and usability of data delivered over any wireless or wireline device on today's...
So you can check your e-mail wirelessly. Talaris Corp. says "so what?"How about reserving a table at a nearby restaurant for that important work lunch? How about scheduling a conference room during a busy business convention? Or how about getting a late-night call to...
Sun Microsystems Inc., the inventor of Java technology is embracing ARM Ltd., a provider of microprocessor solutions, to optimize applications for handsets.ARM, which has about 75 percent market share in providing processor chips for wireless devices, is throwing in its Jazelle technology which will...
TOKYO-Amid harsh competition among mobile carriers, Japanese cellular handsets have been evolving rapidly. Most handsets currently used are light, tiny, fashionable and smart. Internet-ready capabilities and color screens are almost standard functions.NTT DoCoMo is selling only i-mode-enabled handsets, all J-Phone's handsets have color screens...
By outsourcing their handset and network equipment production, major vendors may be unwittingly yielding enormous influence to contract electronics manufacturers that could acquire enough expertise and experience to develop their own brands and technologies.Two reports, one by market research firm Bear Stearns and the...
Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services.Involved in marriages and talks of marriages are Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks, Mitsubishi Electric...
Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant's .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...
Microsoft Corp.'s competitors are calling the attention of anti-trust authorities to the company's new initiative .NET as the software player's latest strategy to extend its monopoly.Analysts think that, in spite of the antitrust lawsuit still pending in the U.S. appeals court against Microsoft, the...
Motorola Inc. marked its Smart Networks Developers Forum in New Orleans last week with partnerships and new product initiatives.Far away in Oman, the company signed a $5.2 million contract to expand a GSM digital cellular system in the country.Under the deal which takes off...
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last week was a welcome wake-up call.More than 900 attendees gathered to exchange ideas and...
LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety of companies, both large and small, announced their wireless gaming plans to take advantage...
Going mobile isn't easy. If it were, there would probably be a lot more companies doing it. And differing standards, multitudinous offerings and the simple cost of wireless applications and services are real hindrances many businesses face.Aether Systems Inc., which has been a leader...
WASHINGTON-Congress, watching dazzling new technological and marketing advances driven by the Internet and its uncertain migration to wireless devices, has been dragged into high-stakes controversy over whether business methods patents are stifling innovation in the New Economy. The nasty and highly publicized legal fight...
SAN FRANCISCO-Brience Inc., a provider of mobile infrastructure software, said Sun Microsystems Inc. integrated Brience's Framework 2.0 into its existing IT infrastructure, which will enable Sun to offer its customers self-service capabilities using Web-enabled devices based on the Palm operating system.Sun's customers in North...
A new company out of Andover, Mass., hopes to make the Palm personal digital assistant feel even more like a personal computer than ever before.Kada Systems Inc. launched Monday with its Kada Mobile Platform, a software application platform it claims is the smallest and...
For the love of Java, three companies with two handsets have come together.Using Sun Microsystems' Java software in Motorola Inc.'s phones over Nextel Communications Inc.'s networks, the three companies are targeting both white collar and blue collar users.The particular wireless phones involved in the...
NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect.Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications services. Beyond that deployment, smart-card...
SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp.'s wireless media software server, PVServer, is now available on Sun Microsystems Netra family of carrier-grade servers running Sun Solaris UNIX.Sun Microsystems also placed an equity investment in PacketVideo."Our investment in PacketVideo is a great example of Sun's support of emerging, open...
SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. received $35 million in its second round of financing, which was led by Shelter Capital Partners L.L.C. and Baker Capital Corp."We are extremely excited about Zucotto's prospects as the industry leader in semiconductor Java and Bluetooth solutions for the wireless...
After months of struggling financially and falling behind technologically, Motorola Inc. stands to make its mark as the first handset manufacturer to provide Java-enabled mobile phones.The company entered an agreement with Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Lutris Technologies Corp. to bundle Lutris' forthcoming Enhydra 3.5 Open...
NEW YORK-When NTT DoCoMo began planning for what would become its wildly successful i-mode service, Japan's largest telecommunications company turned to a journalist with an undergraduate degree in French literature."I-mode is now a mega hit, but I was pushed into the valley many times....
Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to develop new ways to combat this revenue-stealing problem.While carriers continue to battle fraudsters on the voice front, a new problem...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. will port Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java 2 Platform Micro Edition onto its Open Multimedia Application Platform in an attempt to expand the adoption of TI's OMAP architecture by providing Java software developers the ability to deliver Java technology-based wireless applications with...
