HungaryMotorola Inc. said it is providing Hungarian mobile operator Westel 900 its Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform. The trial is Hungary's first deployment of the Wireless Application Protocol. It will allow mobile users to access Internet content via Internet portals such as Yahoo! and...
Wireless Internet start-up firm OpenGrid Inc. found itself in the wireless spotlight last week when industry titans Motorola Inc. and Philippe Kahn-chief executive officer of Motorola's Starfish Software subsidiary-invested in the company.Additionally, the charismatic Kahn was named OpenGrid's chairman.While the total investment equaled only...
TORONTO-Wyrex Communications Inc. announced it formed a new business division specializing in wireless data.The first phase is concentrated on developing Wireless Application Protocol applications for clients, including WAP gateway vendor selection, gateway implementation, Wireless Markup Language site development and application development, the company said.
The Wireless Application Protocol had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month life span during Telecom '99 in Geneva, with more than 100 carriers, vendors and content providers displaying WAP and WAP-related products, warts and all.While WAP's momentum has grown all year, many consider...
HarrisHarris Corp. previewed its ClearBurst 2.5/3.4/10.5 GHz point-to-multipoint system, the newest addition to the Harris broadband wireless access product line, which is intended for deployment by public service providers as well as private network operators. The ClearBurst product offers a solution for delivering Time...
GENEVA - Sonera SmartTrust and L.M. Ericsson announced a digital signature solution for secure wireless e-commerce using Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones. Sonera SmartTrust developed wireless security solutions based on Public Key Infrastructure, digital signatures and 1024 bit RSA data encryption. Ericsson developed the new...
GENEVA-Sonera, the Finnish telecommunications operator, announced it plans to enter the wireless portal business. The company said it initially will focus its efforts on Western Europe and the United States, competing head to head with U.S. firms such as Phone.com.Called Sonera Zed, the service...
GENEVA-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Wireless Application Protocol Forum signed a cooperation agreement designed to drive interoperability of standards for wireless mobile Internet, according to the WAP Forum.The organization said this new agreement underlines the importance of collaboration between standardization groups to...
NEW YORK-A parallel universe of messaging service providers is coming into existence alongside Internet service providers to manage and unify the proliferation of devices and modes by which people receive communications.Increasing numbers of wireless and wireline devices are transmitting growing quantities of fax, e-mail...
Oracle Corp. introduced wireless Internet software called Portal-to-Go, a universal translator of sorts designed to allow wireless devices to communicate with any Internet site, intranet database or network-aware appliance.Based on Oracle's Internet database software, Portal-to-Go is available to carriers, Internet content providers or enterprise...
GENEVA-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced at Telecom '99 a new company initiative focused on the mobile electronic services industry that combines products, a subscription- and transaction-based payment model, and centers for product development and testing. The company is targeting wireless carriers with the initiative.HP said its...
Phone.com Inc. added to its mounting momentum last week by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ireland.According to the agreement, APiON shareholders will get 1.3 million shares of...
Wireless Application Protocol pioneer Phone.com Inc. introduced a WAP 1.1 compliant UP.Link Server, and announced a major strategic agreement with Motorola Inc. for both its server and microbrowser products.Release 4 of the UP.Link Server is fully WAP 1.1 compliant, the company said. Previous UP.Link...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. launched Symmetry, a PC-based intelligent agent software package provided through Infowave Software Inc. that connects Glenayre pagers to information stored on Microsoft Outlook software.The two companies together began developing the wireless desktop extension software, then code-named Kodiak, in June. According to...
Motorola Inc. released a new communications platform last week called Mobile Internet Exchange, or MIX, with the goal of giving users the ability to access Internet information by either voice or data on a mobile basis."Motorola expects that by 2005, 1 billion people will...
The Edge Consultants, an affiliate of agency.com, released a Wireless Application Protocol browser for handheld computers running either Palm Computing or Windows CE operating systems, called WAPman.Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed the first call on a prototype wideband radio platform designed to help...
The convergence of the Internet and wireless networks was punctuated last week as Internet heavy hitters Amazon.com Inc., America Online Inc. and Oracle Corp. made announcements extending their services further into the wireless realm.Perhaps the strongest statement made was Amazon.com's aggressive entry to the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it began its first shipments of the 7110 Wireless Application Protocol handsets. The GSM 900 and 1800 handsets are WAP version 1.1 compliant, according to a Nokia spokesperson. The first deliveries will be to Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
SAN JOSE, Calif.-APiON Ltd., a Wireless Application Protocol infrastructure provider, and Symmetry Communications Inc., which provides General Packet Radio System equipment, announced that have cooperated to demonstrate WAP-GPRS interworking.The two tested using WAP over GPRS with such applications as banking, e-mail and entertainment on...
TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing up to develop equipment for wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA).NTT DoCoMo in April selected a total of 11 3G vendors, including three foreign...
NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld DynaTAC mobile phone, a clunky device that weighed nearly 0.9 kilograms and measured 0.09 cubic meters (35 cubic inches). To be sure, the days of weighty loads...
Nokia and Reuters signed a global cooperation agreement to develop and deliver financial, sports and general news services based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). The new service is optimized for the Nokia 7110 media phone and supports the WAP 1.1 specification.Comverse Technology acquired...
NEW ORLEANS-Nokia Corp. announced an agreement with IBM Corp. and Sabre for a pilot project designed to provide a travel interactive service for users equipped with Wireless Application Protocol phones.The carrier-independent solution is an enterprise product, requiring installation behind the corporate firewall, provided by...
