LONDON-By the end of the year there are expected to be 16.7 million wireless portal end users in Europe's top 15 markets, according to a study released by The Strategis Group.The study, European Wireless Portals: Strategies & Market Positioning, projects that the year-ending holiday season...
As anticipated, Geoworks Corp. has released the revised terms of its licensing program concerning its Flexible User Interface patent, which it says is used by anyone building or deploying Wireless Application Protocol products or services.The company first extended the date by which licensing agreements...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp., Australia's dominant telecommunications provider, "hates to be considered an incumbent because we transitioned to a New Age company years ago," said Philip Wise, managing director of its Mobile Consumer Division.To provide a full suite of services, the company is involved in...
Looking to wirelessly enable vertical markets and corporate enterprises, Veriprise Wireless Inc. was formed this January by the co-owners of NextGen Technologies, a consulting firm focused on enterprise and e-business wireless enablement."We saw an opportunity in the wireless space. Until recently, what's been touted...
NEW YORK-SBC Wireless hopes to take a bite out of the Big Apple as one part of a territorial and services expansion plan accompanying combining its wireless operations with those of BellSouth Corp.With the closing of the joint venture agreement, which is expected in...
NEW YORK-InfoWave Software Inc. will make commercially available in July its new FirstHand server software package, which give devices enabled with Wireless Application Protocol access to Microsoft Exchange information.FirstHand lets mobile workers point the microbrowser of their wireless device at the Universal Resource Locator...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Singapore mobile operator M1 plan to begin field trials of third-generation wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology.Nokia said it will use the trial to evaluate 3G W-CDMA technology in a real operating environment, including a demonstration of Internet Protocol-based mobile...
Two-way messaging equipmentMotorolaMotorola introduced its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, featuring a full Qwerty keyboard with a flip-top screen and a four-line, 80-character display. It supports two-way messaging, wireless Internet e-mail and on-demand information services. It also features a private-time feature, which users may...
HONG KONG-The government of Hong Kong is likely to be among the first in the Asia-Pacific region to clear spectrum and issue licenses for third-generation (3G) mobile phones, according to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA)."While the USA and Europe may take five...
Alcatel.Benin. With Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) for a GSM network, along with fiber-optic and switching equipment.Value: US$32.8 millionKenya. With KenCell for a 50,000-subscriber capacity GSM network.Value: UndisclosedMorocco. With Maroc Telecom for mobile switching centers.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With Portugal Telecom's TMN for a GPRS network.Value: UndisclosedQatar. With Q-Tel...
SINGAPORE-Governments in Asia will issue licenses of third-generation (3G) cellular networks to around 40 operators in 11 countries within the next year, representatives from several equipment vendors said at the CommunicAsia show here recently. And 3G deployments may begin in the most advanced markets...
BEIJING-The mobile Internet revolution is knocking on China's door. With 60 million mobile-phone subscribers and only 10 million people surfing the Internet using personal computers, Web access through mobile phones is a hot topic in China. Web portals, such as Sohu and Sina, and...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Brazilian mobile operator Global Telecom licensed Phone.com Inc.'s UP.Link Server Suite to provide Wireless Application Protocol-based wireless Internet access to subscribers through its Code Division Multiple Access network.Global Telecom, which covers states in Parana and Santa Catarina in southern Brazil, is a...
Just days before Geoworks Corp. is expected to introduce dramatic changes to the licensing program supporting its patent claim on aspects of Wireless Application Protocol technology, the company escalated its dispute with Phone.com Inc. by filing a countersuit against the company.Geoworks' countersuit asks the...
Nearly 41 million people worldwide subscribed to Time Division Multiple Access-Enhanced Data for Global Evolution technology by the end of the first quarter, an increase of 87 percent from the previous year, according to the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium. UWCC said North American TDMA-EDGE...
A new company called Informio was established today, created with the goal of voice-enabling enterprise applications, either hosted at its data center or at the enterprise, and providing wireless carriers access to these applications, which can be marketed to end users as an enhanced...
Red-M, a wireless Internet server developer, and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to cooperate on enabling Wireless Application Protocol applications over Bluetooth technology.The idea is to allow mobile access to Internet and intranet information written in WAP via a Bluetooth connection between devices, the companies...
TORONTO-724 Solutions Inc., an Internet infrastructure software developer for financial services providers, has licensed a Wireless Application Protocol gateway designed by Neomar Inc. and integrated it into its Financial Services Platform.Services on the platform include wireless banking and brokerage services, allowing the WAP devices...
LONDON-Within three years, mobile telecommunication operators will be sending 100 billion short messages per month, a 170-percent per year increase over current levels, according to computer consultancy firm Logica plc.At the predicted growth rate, short messages will surpass Internet usage over the same period...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless application service provider Datalink.net signed a contract with Wizshop.com to provide Wireless Application Protocol and Palm wireless transaction capabilities for Wizshop.com's shopping portals including Earthlink, MindSpring, Internets.com, Worldpages.com and Wizshop.com.The $1 million contract calls for Datalink.net to create WAP and Palm...
ATLANTA-Wireless infrastructure vendors made their wireless Internet plans a major priority at SuperComm here last week, introducing network solutions portfolios that, while different in makeup, have the same goal-to help wireless carriers avoid commoditization when converging with the Internet.Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson...
In the Digital Age, it is no longer good enough to produce a product or service that people want. Today, you must be all things to all people all of the time.The old adage of doing one thing and doing it well is not...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported it carried out the first Wireless Application Protocol service over a trial wideband Code Division Multiple Access system.The tests, completed in Beijing, involved Chinese language WAP services transmitted via the W-CDMA system and radio network."The demonstration of seamless interoperability of...
ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward.The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet another indication the wireless Internet...
