CANNES, France-VeriSign Inc. teamed with IBM and Gemplus International S.A. to demonstrate a Subscriber Identity Module-based identity offering for wireless carriers at the 3GSM World Congress Tuesday.The product combines over-the-air activation service from Gemplus with VeriSign's password authentication service and IBM's Federated Identity Manager,...
VeriSign Inc. said it will acquire Santa Cruz, Calif.-based picture-messaging company LightSurf in an all-stock transaction valued at $270 million. VeriSign said the deal adds a picture component to its text and multimedia messaging offerings to carriers."We are very excited about the strategic value...
WASHINGTON-The chief executive officer of First Cellular of Southern Illinois, Terry Addington, will be the 2005 chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, CTIA announced.Addington has been serving as vice chairman. He replaces Scott Ford, president and CEO of Alltel. Ford will continue...
OTTAWA-VeriSign Inc. has licensed Bridgewater Systems' authentication, authorization and accounting and mediation capabilities, according to a strategic agreement between the companies. VeriSign will use the technology in its Wireless Data Roaming Service, which enables data roaming for next-generation offerings. The transaction-based service handles key...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. released new services that it says simplifies global roaming for wireless operators and their customers.The company's Protocol Interworking Services for GSM give GSM operators the ability to allow various networks to seamlessly interoperate by providing the appropriate protocol and routing...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Singapore International Airlines customers will be able to wirelessly check in for their flights with short message service through a new agreement with VeriSign Inc.With the launch of SMS Check-in, SIA's frequent flyers and registered users of the airline's Web site can...
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, has spoken out against the wireless industry's attempts to create a ".mobi" mobile-specific Internet domain listing. Further, the World Wide Web Consortium's Technical Advisory Group echoed Berners-Lee's criticism's by voting to endorse his position."Dividing...
Software infrastructure company VeriSign Inc. announced a $273 million acquisition of German wireless content company Jamba!, a move VeriSign said would add wireless content distribution, billing and transaction technologies to its offerings to wireless carriers."We are very excited about the strategic value of this...
Operating system company Symbian Ltd. announced a new certification program to provide a single testing process for all Symbian-based applications. The move is an effort to smooth out the creation and delivery of third-party smart-phone applications, and comes on the heels of several similar...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Messaging company InphoMatch Inc. announced it delivered almost 2 billion text messages in the first quarter, up from 650 million messages in the first quarter of last year. The company said it delivered more than 4 billion intercarrier short message service messages last...
The liberation of wireless local number portability is scheduled to sweep across the nation May 24 as carriers serving markets outside of the already WLNP-enabled top 100 markets will be required to allow wireless consumers to keep their phone numbers when switching carriers. While...
ATLANTA-Long known for its Internet technologies and services, VeriSign Inc. today announced plans to unify its telecommunications offerings and promote its brand to wireless carrier and content customers. The company today also announced it acquired the assets of Unimobile from Electronics For Imaging and...
AUSTIN, Texas-Axalto, formerly Schlumberger Smart Cards & Terminals, entered a strategic marketing alliance with Telespree Communications to deliver Telespree's self-service wireless automation software on Axalto's GSM SIM cards.According to the agreement, Axalto will add Telespree's Self-Service Set-Up applet to its Customer SIM Card Library....
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-As local number portability finally becomes a reality, a variety of players are looking to cash in on the opportunity. VeriSign, Telespree Communications and LetsTalk.com all announced LNP products for switching customers.First, VeriSign and Telespree teamed up to offer their new Self-Service...
Following years of political wrangling and months of preparation, the telecom industry is finally offering customers the chance to keep their telephone number if they decide to switch to another wireline or wireless provider. According to analysts' forecasts, anywhere from 6 to tens of...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-As local number portability finally becomes a reality, a variety of players are looking to cash in on the opportunity. VeriSign, Telespree Communications and LetsTalk.com all announced LNP products for switching customers.First, VeriSign and Telespree teamed up to offer their new Self-Service...
LAS VEGAS-VeriSign announced its upgraded speedSUITE billing and customer care solution will be used by MetroPCS. In addition, MetroPCS will implement SmartPay, VeriSign's secure database solution for debiting and crediting prepaid user accounts in real time. SmartPay provides MetroPCS with activity reports for easier...
LAS VEGAS-VeriSign announced MetroPCS will use its upgraded speedSUITE billing and customer care solution. In addition, MetroPCS will implement SmartPay, VeriSign's secure database solution for debiting and crediting prepaid user accounts in real time. SmartPay provides MetroPCS with activity reports for easier accounting, market...
The advent of packet-data networks and all the resulting applications-from picture messaging to push-to-talk services-creates a host of new issues that network operators and other wireless players must confront. And one important although potentially overlooked issue has absolutely nothing to do with making money...
Numerous wireless companies are making product and partnership announcements at SuperComm in Atlanta this week. Here is a roundup of the news and announcements:SandCherry Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. introduced a joint solution based on the SandCherry SoftServer platform and the new BEA WebLogic...
NEW YORK-Text messaging interoperability provider MobileSpring Inc., along with partner VeriSign Inc., announced it signed up nine new wireless operators in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent weeks to its cross-carrier messaging service. The company said its interoperability service now covers nearly 50...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is running a customer trial of Binary Runtime for Wireless Environment in its Knoxville, Tenn., market, will offer those customers two new BREW games distributed by Summus Inc., Nineball and the
NEW ORLEANS-Petroleum Communications, which provides cellular and broadband satellite communications to drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, will use the speedSUITE billing and customer relationship management system of VeriSign Inc., Mountain View, Calif., under an agreement announced August 22.
ATLANTA—Wireless data company Numerex announced it will create a cross-carrier messaging system through a new deal with MobileSpring Inc. and VeriSign Inc.Numerex will use MobileSpring's Metcalf Global Messaging product to ensure its text messages can be sent over networks operated by other carriers. Several...
