SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology said it teamed with DoCoMo/NTT Mobile Communications Network to provide cellular phone users in Japan wireless Internet access to corporate groupware application information through Puma's Intellisync Anywhere software and DoCoMo's i-mode cellular phone service.The i-mode service provides users a mobile...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
CdmaOne vendors in China anxiously are awaiting official government word on whether China Unicom is allowed to deploy Interim Standard-95 technology."It appears China Unicom has been told that they can proceed with their plans to deploy a CDMA network using the spectrum they already...
Tensions ran high at the International Telecommunication Union two-week meeting on third-generation technology in Fortaleza, Brazil, as the industry waits for an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson on cdmaOne patents.Qualcomm and Ericsson won't comment on progress made in negotiating a settlement over...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.), in the latest effort to strengthen state and local oversight of antenna siting, has introduced legislation to shift the burden to wireless carriers to ensure transmission towers meet with approval of local residents.The Local Zoning Preservation Act of 1999, introduced...
While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 "the year of wireless data," few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year.In 1998, several new devices were introduced that met the form factor and price requirements needed for...
NEW YORK-Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has wandered far from its home base and original paging strategy as it pursues emerging opportunities in developed and developing markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia."We like to say that only crazy people never change their minds,"...
HANNOVER, Germany-Motorola Inc. introduced a portfolio of digital wireless devices at the CeBIT exhibition and promised to offer Internet-browsing capability on its entire line of digital mobile phones by 2000.The new product line includes what the company called the world's lightest and smallest dual-band...
NEW YORK-The promises of wireless voice communications as a landline replacement and of mobile data as a significant wireless revenue generator are moving closer to fulfillment but remain a few years away, chief technology officers of three carriers said at a recent seminar.On the...
Taqua Systems Inc., a Centerville, Mass., company founded one year ago, introduced a new switching architecture called Open Compact Exchange, designed to provide what it calls the 'missing link' between voice and data networks.The telecommunications industry has been bombarded with various proposed solutions to...
With vendors putting their time and energy into the three main U.S. digital standards and into developing standards for third-generation technology, there hardly seems room for commercialization of the more obscure technologies touted years ago."You need volume production and vendor financing behind it," said...
Reuters and other national news agencies reported Sony Corp. is undergoing a restructuring process that will consolidate various business segments and lay off 10 percent of the company's work force.But according to U.S.-based employees, the measure will not affect the company's wireless product business,...
Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, Los Angeles and New Orleans markets.Datalink.net announced it can allow companies to extend Web-based...
NEW YORK-Venture capitalists are beating a path to the door of those who would build a better mousetrap for the burgeoning telecommunications/wireless sector, according to results of the quarterly PriceWaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey.Telecom/wireless investments posted a record of $2.23 billion in 1998, a 55-percent...
Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace.Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies to semiconductor manufacturers. One segment that has been particularly active during the last several months...
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Level One Communications Inc., Sacramento, Calif., has agreed to be acquired by Intel Corp. in a $2.2 billion stock swap that is expected to close by mid-year."The transaction is one of a series of actions taken by Intel to broaden it presence in...
Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial equipment.BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it selected Compass Telecom Services L.L.C. as its vendor for...
Sources close to International Telecommunication Union activity on third-generation technology say standards likely will not be set during the 31 March meeting in Brazil.The ITU had hoped ideally by the end of March to set a single 3G standard-one that will allow for global...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University is working to set a research agenda that will facilitate deployment of General Packet Radio Service, a new wave in wireless data communications.GPRS is a large, complex system that merges cellular telephone radio transmission technology...
The wireless industry's toughest challenge may not be choosing 3G standards, or whether the handset or the network should transmit E911 information. Rather, the industry's greatest stumbling block may be its customers.The majority of the nation's 60-plus million wireless phone users most likely do...
SONY ELECTRONICSSony Electronics introduced a new alphanumeric pager with a synthesized tuner, generic-over-the-air programming capabilities and the company's Jog Dial operation, called the MP-7001. The generic-over-the-air programming technology, or GOTAP, is an advanced feature of the Motorola Inc. FLEXsuite protocol. Sony also released the...
The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of mobile satellite carriers based on interviews with industry contacts. The list is arranged alphabetically because most companies are not yet offering service and therefore cannot be ranked by subscriber numbers.Many of the companies...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a three-year vendor agreement with Qualcomm Inc. for its NewNet wireless messaging products, SMserver short messaging service and the OTAserver over-the-air activation product.ADC said the SMserver software manages transmission of text messages to mobile handsets, providing subscribers with...
NEW ORLEANS-Spyglass Inc. released version 2.2 of its Prism platform for converting Internet content into formats that can be displayed on mobile phones.The most significant advancement of Prism 2.2 is that it conforms to existing Wireless Application Protocol standards and thus can format content...
