PARIS-In Fusio, a games development and animation provider, announced it has joined forces with Webraska, a provider of mapping and guidance services for Wireless Application Protocol phones, to create location-based games for Internet-enabled phones.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. released beta version 4.0 of its UP.SDK software development kit, providing the wireless developer community with a Wireless Application Protocol version 1.1 compliant development environment.The SDK is available free of charge, the company said.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it will provide travel information to wireless devices by adding content from Worldspan, an online travel reservation system, to the Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform.The agreement will allow carriers to offer travel services such as flight arrangements, hotel reservations and...
HELSINKI-Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia Corp., said it and Mitsubishi Electric initiated interoperability testing between their products and solutions supporting the Wireless Application Protocol 1.1.The intent of the tests is to enhance the compatibility of WAP-based products and services, ensuring they will...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced a uniform gateway to its Autoplex and Flexent Wireless Networks products, enabling network operators to introduce personalized or user-customized wireless data services that depend on specific customer information.The data call is initiated by the customer from a handset...
The Lexicus Division of Motorola Inc. introduced its iTAP keypad text entry system, which requires one key press to select a letter instead of several, based on a dictionary of more than 40,000 words.The initial iTAP version supports English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and...
Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+ portfolio for wireless systems.The processor incorporates a DSP core and an M-Core microcontroller. It supports such standards as Code Division...
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month lifespan 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 Telecom...
BUCHAREST, Romania-A subsidiary of Canada's Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) won the third Czech Republic mobile telephone license in September. The price tag for the GSM 1800 license was fixed at US$29 million.The license requires Cesky Mobile, the TIW subsidiary, to cover 37 percent of...
Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal provides an entry point to Phone.com for selling its WAP products to...
Perhaps the greatest indicator of how the wireless data industry has matured is the almost giddy buzz of excitement generated by this week's Wireless I.T. show in Santa Clara, Calif., sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association.In the fall of 1997, some 56 companies...
Telstreet.com announced it offers wireless phones, service and accessories online. "Telstreet.com takes responsibility for the entire customer experience from buying to fulfillment to delivery of the order," said Terry Dwyer, president and chief executive officer of Telstreet.com. "Consumers are guaranteed to find the wireless...
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...
There was a time, not so long ago, when reasonably priced voice service with decent coverage delighted most wireless subscribers. But subscribers soon were demanding the same features-like voice mail, caller ID and three-way calling-offered on wireline phones.These features, previously known as enhanced services,...
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...
GENEVA-Sun Microsystems Inc. announced three manufacturers of Global System for Mobile communications handsets have agreed to incorporate Java technology in their products.First, Motorola Inc. plans to launch the Timeport P10888 smart phone with Java technology in Europe in the second quarter. Also, Sony Corp....
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, 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...
ScandinaviaAs expected, the European Commission approved the merger of Telia of Sweden and Telenor of Norway. To secure the approval, the two companies have consented to sell their cable TV operations and eliminate overlapping activities in Sweden, Norway and Ireland. The merger will create...
