HELSINKI, Finland-New World Mobility, a mobile operator based in Hong Kong, has selected the Nokia Artuse Unstructured Supplementary Services Data Centre, a platform that offers faster interactive messaging services within GSM networks.According to Nokia, the USSD operates up to seven times faster than existing...
NEW YORK-With the March 12 commercial debut of NetProfile Wireless Edition, Bridgewater Systems, Kanata, Ontario, is offering a chance and a challenge to mobile operators seeking a profitable way out of their walled gardens of data delivery.The new software product allows network operators to...
Adicom WirelessAdicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
CANNES, France-Sema, an information technology and business services company, announced Mobile E-mail, its new messaging service offering for telecom operators. The product allows operators to offer interactive Internet e-mail services, so users can choose how to send and retrieve e-mails, whether by SMS, WAP...
GREAT RIVER, N.Y.-ThinkersGroup, a leading wireless development company, has announced that its subscribers can now access optimized Web content through a wireless portal that organizes information into categories such as finance, shopping, new, and sports. Subscribers can also search and surf the entire Web...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said it and Openwave were chosen by China Mobile Communications as the main suppliers to build out China Mobile's WAP-based services in China. Siemens will provide the complete WAP solution using Openwave's WAP-compatible UP.LinkServer technology.Initially, capacity is expected to be for about...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communication Corp. has deployed and received customer acceptance for what it said is one of the first U.S. wireless GPRS systems.AirNet's AdaptaCell base stations and its AirSite Backhaul Free base stations are included in the GPRS system AirNet is supplying to MBO...
PLEASANTON, Calif.-Mobileum Inc., which provides wireless and mobile-commerce solutions, announced it has joined the Openwave Developer Alliance Program.The Openwave Developer Alliance Program aims to promote the concept of wireless information access and to coordinate the exchange of ideas and information among is members.The companies...
When Verizon Wireless introduced the Kyocera 6035 smart phone last week, many were surprised by how quickly the country's largest wireless operator brought the new phone to market."Time to market is very important, and Verizon did a good job of getting the phone to...
CEDEX, France-France Telecom Mobiles added MichelinTravel.com to its Itineris WAP portal. With the new service, users will be able to access the complete database of addresses tested and classified by the Michelin Red Guide all over Europe, with more than 60,000 establishments listed in...
BUCHAREST, Romania-At the end of February, ONE began offering GPRS service throughout Austria. Billing is based on the data volume transferred. The handsets for the network are the GPRS-enabled Motorola Inc. Timeport 260 handsets."Our customers merely have to pay for the data volumes actually...
MUNICH, Germany-Cellplus, a wholly owned subsidiary and mobile operator of Mauritius Telecom, has awarded Siemens Telecommunications a turnkey contract to design and implement a full WAP-enabled solution.This solution, which will take the form of a phased approach, is intended to see Cellplus become 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...
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz.-Amid the scorched desert ground abutting the lush greens of golf courses, the future of the wireless Internet was the topic of discussion in the small community of Litchfield Park, Ariz., where industry consultant Andrew Seybold held his 2001 Summit 4Mobility. And...
Mobile computing company Psion plc shook the European wireless market-and sent its stocks rocketing to a new 27-month low-with news that it is dropping out of the running in the smart-phone industry, cutting its workforce and now plans to focus on industrial WAN and...
NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect.Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications services. Beyond that deployment, smart-card...
The results of a wireless advertising study released today show consumers are extremely open to receiving advertisements on their wireless devices, and that wireless marketing may be so effective it will drive the adoption of mobile commerce and the usage of the wireless Internet.SkyGo...
In France, the country where they offer calorie-laden pain au chocolats and croissants for breakfast, keeping one's weight under control does not seem to be a problem-probably because the locals walk the region's hilly terrain to the bus stop or train station rather than...
NEW YORK-Atinav Inc. and Computer Associates International Inc. plan to partner to provide wireless customer-relationship-management solutions.Atinav provides Internet communications and collaboration software, while Computer Associates International offers e-business software. Atinav said it will integrate its aveAccessO WAP gateway module into CA's Intelligent CRM Suite,...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. "is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company's Internet Software and Content Group, said in a keynote address at the recent Internet World Wireless 2001...
DENVER, United States-While some countries in Latin America are moving forward with advanced wireless networks, Central American nations are not likely to see commercial next-generation systems any time soon. Mass-market demand for data services remains weak due to low incomes, and market development lags...
TOKYO-Matsushita Communications Industrial, the leading cellular vendor in Japan, is putting the final touches on its new third-generation (3G) mobile terminals for NTT DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo, Japan's leading mobile carrier, is scheduled to launch its 3G services by the end of May, earlier than...
CANNES, France-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc. announced they will be working together to accelerate the delivery of end-to-end mobile Internet services solutions.The companies said they plan to jointly test and optimize interoperability among their infrastructure products. Specifically, Sun and Openwave said they...
Microsoft Corp. threw its rather large hat in the wireless arena at last week's 3GSM World Congress, announcing plans to launch software aimed at multimedia-enabled phones that leverage its Windows-based software.Microsoft said the smart phone platform, code named "Stinger," is built on a version...
