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NEW YORK-ThinAirApps L.L.C. released its ThinAirServer 1.1, which permits two-way, real-time information access to a range of out-of-the-box applications from a variety of wireless devices. The new platform is compatible …

ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going …

WASHINGTON-To bolster its case for splitting Microsoft Corp. into two companies-a remedy U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson may agree to as early as this week-Justice Department lawyers in the …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association said its GlobalXChange trade show will feature a special pavilion of Bluetooth technology adopters led by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, a nine-company promoter …

Add another wireless application service provider to the mix, as Everypath Inc. commercially launched a service designed to extend Web content wirelessly, at Internet World 2000 last week. The company’s …

Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary …

NEW YORK-Last May, 25 technology companies established the ASP Industry Consortium, Wakefield, Mass., to accomplish a delicate but important mission. Bring some order to the burgeoning and somewhat chaotic application …

NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc. has been relatively quiet about its plans for the wireless Internet, but last week it announced a number of initiatives to propel itself into this arena. …

CANNES, France-Several well-known firms in the Internet and wireless industries have come together to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum with the intent to accelerate the deployment of open, Internet-based …

In what has been called primarily a preening gesture for Mannesmann AG shareholders, Vodafone AirTouch plc announced plans last week to launch an Internet portal designed for wireless Internet and …

OSLO, Norway-Telenor Mobile and Sun Microsystems Inc. have agreed to develop new mobile Internet services. The agreement specifically involves development of an electronic organizer/calendar with combined Web and Wireless Application …

NEW YORK-To further enable data communications, Sun Microsystems Inc. has updated its Java2 platform for the corporate enterprise and is at work on a Year 2000 release of a version …

Several big names in the wireless and computing industries last week took additional steps in the process of converting wireless networks from a switch-based to a packet-based environment. Cisco Systems …

SAN FRANCISCO-In line with the wireless data focus that has engulfed the industry throughout 1999, the four keynote speakers on the opening day of the 1999 CDMA Americas Congress represented …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Motorola Inc. and Telcordia Technologies Inc. revealed plans to develop a next-generation call agent as Telcordia’s contribution to the Aspira platform-a multicompany vision to merge wireline and wireless …

Perhaps the greatest indicator of how the wireless data industry has matured is the almost giddy buzz of excitement generated by this week’s Wireless I.T. show in Santa Clara, Calif., …

Motorola Inc.’s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+ portfolio for wireless systems. The processor …

Oracle Corp. introduced wireless Internet software called Portal-to-Go, a universal translator of sorts designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with any Internet site, intranet database or network-aware appliance. Based …

NEW YORK-Wireless devices and the services they deliver in the Internet age represent an opportunity so large it is nearly unfathomable and dwarfs any second-place possibilities, according to Bill Joy, …

Wireless middleware and software provider Aether Systems Inc. filed an initial public offering prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week with the intention of selling 6.9 million …

NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., recently issued a proposal for public comment that would eliminate accounting for mergers as pooling of interests, which are the sum of …

MCLEAN, Va.-Nineteen network service providers and telecommunications companies, including Amdocs, Andersen Consulting, Convergys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Portal Software and Sun Microsystems Inc., have formed a working group to develop a …

BOSTON-Smart cards are poised to move beyond their role in identifying Global System for Mobile communications subscribers, due to momentum outside wireless and beyond U.S. borders. The challenge both for …

TeleCorp PCS TeleCorp PCS Inc. hired Raul Burgos as vice president and general manager of its Puerto Rican operations. He most recently served as general manager and vice president of …

SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun’s Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com’s Palm …