Handsets/wireless devicesSonySony Electronics unveiled its CLIE handhePEG-T415 ld with reduced profile, featuring a slim design with aluminum case and enhanced infrared port for controlling audio and video equipment. The company also...
NEW YORK -Simon Hayward, vice president and research director of The Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn., is waiting for the real "WAGs" to come to the fore and realize the unfulfilled vision of a "Supranet" of anytime, anywhere data communications.These wireless application gateways of the...
AudiovoxAudiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal communications services frequencies. The new...
TheRightSizeTheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers search for their favorite brand and style of clothes. The service also can find sizes...
AetherAether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of encryption security, enabling users to access Web content and applications via standard SSL connections that...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-JP Systems introduced a new platform at CTIA's Wireless I.T. show last week called SureWave, along with a WAP browser for Palm OS devices, supporting the Palm Query Application over multiple wireless networks.The SureWave platform replaces the firm's InfoBeam technology as its...
WOODBURY, Spain-Comverse Network Systems demonstrated its third-generation-capable unified messaging service, including video messaging, over Nortel Network Corp.'s Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network at the UMTS Conference in Barcelona, Spain.The demonstration allows users to compose, send and view video messages using a personal computer. Comverse...
After months of relative silence, Ignition Corp. has begun making noise again, providing its mentoring and funding proficiencies to two more companies.The most recent is Avogadro, launched this week with the vision of combining business-to-business, mobility and Internet technologies into a new communications service....
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Everypath Inc., a wireless application service provider and technology enabler, introduced its Mobile Application Server, designed to give enterprise customers the ability to convert content into mobile applications accessible from wireless devices.Everypath originally launched purely as a wireless ASP. The Mobile Application...
With all the wireless enabling solutions, wireless application service providers, devices, software and networks available today, it's not too difficult to see how dot-coms and corporate entities mulling wireless extension of their content may feel a little overwhelmed.Even reporters and analysts attempting to keep...
BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a Global System for Mobile communications expansion contract with Liaoning Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom, in Shenyang to boost the capacity of its network to more than 1.2 million subscribers.The contract calls for Lucent to supply two stand-alone home...
OracleMobile added support for two-way wireless messaging devices to its OracleMobile.com wireless Internet portal service, which Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. both agreed to make available to their messaging customers.The two-way pager service, called Ask@OracleMobile, allows users to access information based on...
OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet solution for the Palm V handheld computer.It's time to see how wide the door...
Leveraging its dominance in the enterprise computing market, IBM Corp. formed a string of partnerships with leading wireless industry players designed to speed the growth of wireless Internet and e-business solutions for enterprise customers.The core of the computing giant's strategy is to give its...
IBM Corp. and American Mobile Satellite Corp. took their existing business relationship to another level last week, allowing AMSC to better target the potentially lucrative business-to-business market IBM commands.The agreement calls for IBM to jointly market AMSC's eLink wireless messaging and e-mail forwarding service...
