NASHUA, N.H.-CMG Telecommunications released version 1.2 of its WAP Service Broker, a Wireless Application Protocol portal that includes an online service and user profiling system for carriers to keep track of their subscribers' wireless Internet usage.The new version supports Time Division Multiple Access and...
As the wireless Internet evolution develops, government should resist the temptation to bury the industry in regulations and instead, let competition for customers shape the market.In France, customer ownership issues are under scrutiny. A Paris trade court recently ruled that France Telecom must stop...
Comverse Network Systems introduced its Nex2Me wireless instant messaging solution, a Wireless Application Protocol and short message service suite that enables the creation of mobile communities shared by mobile and Internet users.The system will notify users when a member of their instant messaging community...
BOSTON-Ovum warned that Wireless Application Protocol supporters don't have much time to take advantage of the now-open window of opportunity, which the global research and consulting company said will close quickly.In a new report, "WAP Market Strategies," the company said upcoming technologies like Extensible...
Seagull Inc., a provider of e-business solutions for Windows and Web-based systems, extended its reach into the wireless realm last week with the introduction of its server-based Wireless-to-Host Solution.For 10 years, Seagull has offered Web-to-Host and Windows-to-Host solutions, basically providing software that allows enterprises...
A running joke dogging the Wireless Application Protocol industry is that its initials, WAP, stand for "Where are the phones?"Applying that to the messaging industry, desperate to be included in the wireless Internet game, the question may be asked, "Where are the pagers?"All discussions...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. unveiled Nokia Activ for its Wireless Application Protocol Server 1.1, a one-button solution enabling Web sites to send WAP service settings to WAP-enabled mobile phones wirelessly.The service will allow consumers to click a Nokia Activ button on a Web site and...
AUSTIN, Texas-Neomar Inc. said it will use Wireless Transport Layer Security Protocol technology from Certicom to protect transmissions using its WAP browser technology designed for Research In Motion Ltd. devices and other wirelessly enabled handheld computing devices.
LONDON-enCommerce Inc. announced it will launch a global initiative to wirelessly enable its e-business security solutions, which includes creating a wireless division within the company, developing a mobile server software solution and joining the WAP Forum.enCommerce is in the process of merging with security...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced several solutions designed to improve the services available from the company's third-generation and Internet Protocol product offerings.Based on Open Service Architecture standardized by the 3G Partnership Project, Nokia's new 3G Service Creation and Execution Platform is designed to provide seamless...
How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless phones can cater to the less gallant side of humanity.CTIA this week honors its VITA award winners-people who have used...
Interactive SolutionsTeltronics Inc. announced its subsidiary, Interactive Solutions Inc., developed a new product offering, the MentisSoft iCommunicator system, which makes verbal communications possible between the hearing world and a hearing-impaired or profoundly deaf person. According to the company, the multisensory device improves comprehension of...
SEATTLE-Conversa, which develops speech-recognition technologies, and Phone.com Inc. signed an agreement to interface Conversa's speech technology with Phone.com's Wireless Application Protocol-compatible UP.Browser microbrowser.Optimizing embedded speech-recognition technology from Conversa for the UP.Browser is expected to result in a device-based voice-navigation user interface for Internet-enabled mobile...
HONG KONG-Infinite Technologies Inc. unveiled its Infinite Enterprise Wireless Application Protocol server, a secure WAP gateway the company said will make access to a range of confidential information possible for mobile Internet subscribers."We expect that our scalable version will encourage many more companies...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. reported it has purchased equipment and developed a strategic alliance in anticipation of launching wireless Internet services later this year.A company spokesman said Dobson will use infrastructure software and applications developed by Phone.com Inc.to provide network capabilities for its Wireless...
Unity is something more easily achieved as a goal rather than a reality. Let's face it: It's difficult to agree.Ask a husband and wife where they would like to spend this summer's vacation, and you are likely to get two different answers. Ask two siblings...
LONDON-AnywhereYouGo.com, an independent community of wireless developers, launched an independent lab to test Wireless Application Protocol applications across multiple devices and gateways, providing an extensive range of testing and analysis services to help developers and information technology managers accelerate deployment of new WAP applications."The...
LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc announced it is testing an international Wireless Application Protocol system that would allow users to access WAP-based information when roaming between the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.Participating in the pilot program are carriers Vodafone UK, Verizon Wireless and...
While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the wireless Internet experience, and not all are convinced WAP will remain the popular standard it is today. Pixo Inc. is...
British Telecom (BT) could challenge an Internet alliance between Vodafone AirTouch and Vivendi announced just before Vodafone AirTouch's takeover agreement with Mannesmann in February, the Financial Times reported. The deal may be incompatible with existing contracts among the involved companies. The report said the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The commercialization of mobile data services continues its headlong rush as cellular operators look to differentiate themselves in the market. The heavy promotion of an ever-increasing portfolio of data services by many of Europe's leading operators is setting the trend for others...
Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks' claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company.Geoworks claims its patent concerning a flexible user interface implicates all carriers, vendors and applications developers using WAP technology, while the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it signed a contract with Jilin Mobile Communication Co. to offer commercial Wireless Application Protocol solutions to Jilin's 1 million Global System for Mobile communications subscribers in China.Nokia noted deliveries of the company's Artus Messaging Platform, including both WAP gateway...
Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit.And they are, with help from Neomar Inc., a start-up firm in San Francisco that has created a WAP...
