ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems says NEC Corp. will begin using its chips for two Internet-enabled GSM cellular phones by the end of this year."GPRS, a 2.5-generation wireless technology and a bridge to third-generation wireless technology, offers data transmission speeds that are approximately five times faster...
NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces.PC-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
TOYKO-Usen, the largest music cable caster in Japan, launched a six-month field test for high-speed wireless services in Tokyo in mid-June in cooperation with Root. According to Usen, the services, based in the 2.4 GHz band, will provide up to 11 Megabits per second...
SINGAPORE-Singapore network operators will not make General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) widely available to consumers here before the end of this year, executives from operators and handset manufacturers said at the CommunicAsia exhibition recently. Handset manufacturers also admitted the shortage of devices is delaying...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Mobile communications are vital to Israel. The permanent tension, caused by terrorist attacks, compels everyone to be in constant communication. Despite its conflicts and small population, Israel has been able to excel in wireless communications.Similar to several other countries around the world,...
PacketVideo Corp. scored a major deal today with Siemens Information and Communication Mobile, which will resell the streaming media company's MPEG-4 technology platform to mobile operators. The deal is another in a long string of significant sales for PacketVideo."It's a further endorsement of our...
HONG KONG-Repeater Technologies Inc. announced at the 3G World Congress in Hong Kong receiving type acceptance for its Over-the-Air 850C Network Repeater from China's Ministry of Information Industry's State Regulatory Commission, a move coinciding with China Unicom's decision to implement CDMA technology on part...
Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
NEW YORK-By early fall, the Federal Communications Commission expects to issue rules governing software-defined radio, which industry participants believe will revolutionize wireless communications, Bryan Tramont said June 11 at the SDR Forum Conference."There is support for SDR within the FCC ... Commissioner (Kathleen) Abernathy...
While some industry observers have been harping on how long the wireless industry will have to wait before it sees the widespread use of mobile data services, a report from Dataquest Inc. offers a more hopeful outlook, forecasting that wireless data subscribers will blossom...
ScoreBoard likes to keep the networking slate clean of errors.The company, which specializes in network management and optimization for the mobile communications industry, helps operators to improve network quality and leverage existing core network assets and, therefore, lower costs.The key, according to the company,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a Web-to-wireless telemetry network operator, and American Innovations, a supplier of remote monitoring systems, have teamed up to offer what they say is a surer way to prevent explosions and leaks in the more than 2 million miles of pipelines traversing...
Worldwide rollout of next-generation wireless services went 2 for 1 last week as both Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc introduced handsets for high-speed data services, while Finnish operator Sonera said it was delaying its rollout due to a lack of...
WASHINGTON-While the wireless industry steadfastly maintains the safety of cell phones, top mobile-phone manufacturers during the past decade have quietly sought-and received-patents to reduce the kind of radiation absorbed by the human head that some research suggests could be linked to brain cancer and...
NEW YORK-GoAmerica Inc.'s new Mobile Office, touted as a single solution for the growing wireless enterprise marketplace, is attracting attention from various players in the industry.Mobile Office provides mobile professionals with desktop replication capabilities. In includes access to e-mail, intranets and the Internet as...
While Bluetooth chipsets are expected to be commonplace in wireless handsets in the next few years, Bluetooth's current push in the market is being spearheaded by the mobile computer industry in the form of PC Cards. These cards typically fit into the Type II...
NEW YORK-For the price of additional transceiver cards and its Zone Manager product, mDiversity, San Jose, Calif., promises it can double second-generation GSM network capacity without additional base stations or handset modifications."We believe there is a real opportunity in improving today's 2G voice system,...
SnapTrack Inc. will provide its SnapTrack SnapSmart Hybrid Wireless Assisted GPS location server software to Seoul-based wireless infrastructure developer, Neolink Technologies Inc. Neolink will incorporate SnapTrack's software into its Position Location Service System carrier-class mobile positioning server, thus adding location-based services to wireless handsets.Meridian...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and DoCoMo AOL Inc. announced the June 1 nationwide launch of AOLi, which gives i-mode users access to America Online e-mail.AOLi will offer i-mode users their own AOL screen name, allowing them to link to the AOL e-mail service via either...
GoBeam Inc.GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible through the GoBeam Web site and requires no software to run. The GoBeam Dashboard includes...
Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, preserve TDMA and serve as an interim solution in the sojourn to the third-generation...
One of the big stumbling blocks remaining for widespread Bluetooth adoption continues to be interference issues in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed spectrum band, which the technology uses. In addition to household items using the spectrum band, numerous local area network standards also use the...
TOKYO-Korea Telecom Freetel, South Korea's second-largest mobile carrier, launched 1XRTT technology in May, targeting to win 1 million 1X subscribers during the first year. To facilitate more advanced data services, the carrier will provide 1X EV-DO, a data-only service based on 1X, on the...
MOSCOW-CDMA carriers continue to operate in Russia, working to recoup costs and hoping for a possible replacement of Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who warned last year that the U.S.-developed IS-95 standard is doomed in the country."I continue to believe that the standard has absolutely...
