The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be a major catalyst for the worldwide uptake of the mobile Internet."We view the creation...
BOSTON-Mobile services company Sonera Zed U.S. Inc. announced it plans to offer a variety of ring tones and icons in addition to its WAP and short message service offerings for mobile phones."There are a lot of great wireless services on the horizon, and carriers...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish mobile carrier Radiolinja said it will begin GPRS services in September. The service will initially include WAP and Internet connections along with wireless office solutions, the company said.Radiolinja will price the GPRS services on the basis of transferred data, and always-on connections...
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...
Wireless e-mail company Etrieve Inc. scored two major deals with two major carriers in separate announcements today, moves that will make its services much more widely available to businesses across the country.In its agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., the carrier will sell Etrieve's e-mail,...
As it stands today, developers of wireless applications have to write those applications in a unique code-whether that be cHTML, VoXML, WML or XML-to make those applications recognizable to the wireless device. But if we look into the future, some unknown years ahead, we...
MELBOURNE-Telstra has made Wireless Application Protocol available on its CDMA digital mobile-phone network.According to director of CDMA at Telstra OnAir, Tim Buckley, Telstra's CDMA customers will enjoy faster CDMA data speeds on more than 80 WAP applications including online shopping, airline flight schedules, e-mail,...
LONDON-Wcities, a location-based information service provider, will offer mobile information on cities throughout the world to Orange subscribers.Wcities will provide continually updated information on local restaurants, hotels, sporting and special events, retail and shopping, entertainment and transportation over Orange's WAP services."A great deal of...
LONDON-About 44 percent of all U.K. households had a mobile phone in 2000, but this year, 68 percent of U.K. households have a mobile phone, according to the "2001 U.K. Mobile Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study" from J.D. Power and Associates.Nearly one in 10 households...
Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a set number of wirelessly enabled Web sites. Some wireless operators have heeded said advice...
NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last week was a welcome wake-up call.More than 900 attendees gathered to exchange ideas and...
If data is the center of gravity for future networks, Tahoe Networks thinks it has found the missing link in the wireless industry that can propel it to success.Tahoe Networks, a startup with $38 million of seed money in its first round of financing,...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The battle between Handspring Inc. and Palm Inc. rose to a new fevered pitch this week as Handspring announced a spate of new services and applications for its personal digital assistants, a move that comes just one week after both companies announced...
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...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Advertising Association released the first few parts of its standards and measurements for mobile advertising, which the association hopes will become accepted as industrywide guidelines.The standards cover advertising through short message service messages sent over GSM networks. The standards define the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Tality Corp., a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc., has developed a GSM/GPRS handset design solution, a platform that Tality said will accelerate the way to GSM/GPRS handsets.The platform uses Conexant Systems Inc.'s new GSM/GPRS chipset and Conexant's GPRS protocol stack. It...
WHEATON, Md.-Not even the faster speeds and packet-based design of GPRS networks can save the WAP standard, which is of such poor quality that operators will continue to be forced to improve it with proprietary WAP extensions, The Shosteck Group said in a recent...
MUNICH-Airtel Spain has chosen Siemens AG's Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group as a main supplier for GPRS technology.Siemens IC Mobile will supply and implement all necessary components, including switching network technology and software upgrades, allowing Airtel to offer mobile Internet and intranet access...
China Mobile Communications Corp., the largest wireless operator in China, recently announced plans to create a wireless Internet setup much like NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Japan, but the company faces some significant challenges due to a cash-strapped population, cloudy government regulations and network...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. will provide Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd. with its Openwave Download Fun WAP platform, a service that allows mobile users to download and personalize handsets with various ringing tones and characters. "In partnering with Openwave, Orange becomes the world's first mobile...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile security company Everypath Inc. today announced eBANK, a Japanese e-commerce financial services provider, selected Everypath's technology to offer its financial services wirelessly.Everypath said its software will allow the company to offer its services over WAP phones using KDDI, NTT DoCoMo's i-mode...
DENVER, United States-Cooperation and services are two focus areas for the GSM Association during the upcoming year, according to Scott Fox, who assumed the association's chairmanship 1 May. Cooperation will extend from the group's GSM Global Roaming Forum, which also includes rival TDMA and...
LONDON-The market for mobile services in the Middle East continues to show strong growth, with the ever-increasing number of new cellular operators barely keeping pace with growing customer numbers. An eventful first-quarter 2001 has seen new network expansion projects, a host of new value-added...
