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...
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...
GENEVA-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced it has reached 200 members, which it calls a significant milestone in the organization's growth.The forum has more than doubled its membership in the last four months. The organization credited its new Associate Member category as a key...
NEW YORK-Ericsson Inc.'s CyberLab NY introduced a program designed to speed growth of the wireless Internet industry by providing market and technical information, development and testing tools and on-site expertise and seminars to help developers build new wireless Internet applications and services.The Developers Network...
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...
Wireless middleware and software provider Aether Systems Inc. filed an initial public offering prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week with the intention of selling 6.9 million shares at $15 a share by next year.The offering will consist of 6 million...
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 FRANCISCO-Saraide.-com Inc. announced it has formed partnerships with Critical Path Inc. and EDS.Critical Path provides business-to-business messaging solutions. Its partnership with Saraide.com is designed to deliver Internet messaging solutions, such as POP2, IMAP4 and Web-based e-mail and message notification, to wireless carriers on...
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...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services on a large scale.TDMA operators-which in the late 1980s banked on Cellular Digital...
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...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The phrase on everyone's lips within the cellular industry at Telecom '99 will be value-added services, a world apart from the talk at the 1995 exhibition. This simple dictate is being touted as the only way for operators to achieve the future...
While Motorola's Woody Ritchey admitted that, at the time of Telecom '95, the company did have cellular infrastructure architecture that included Internet Protocol (IP), it was only at the drawing board stage. "We were not talking publicly about IP at the exhibition, and neither...
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...
NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Cellular Corp. announced it will begin a Wireless Application Protocol trial with customers in some of its Global System for Mobile communications markets next month in a partnership with Saraide.com and InfoSpace.com.Several hundred BellSouth customers in Raleigh, N.C., and Greenville, S.C., will...
NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Wireless Data said it plans to introduce a portfolio of secure wireless electronic-commerce offerings by the end of this year.The company also announced several companies it is working with to develop wireless e-commerce infrastructure and applications enabled for the BellSouth Intelligent Wireless...
TORONTO, Canada-Web2PCS.com introduced a wireless Internet service called the WAP Search Engine.The company said it allows those using Wireless Application Protocol technology on wireless devices to conduct keyword searches on the Internet form their WAP-enabled mobile device.Searches using the Web2PCS.com engine provides subscribers with...
NEW YORK-Speedia L.L.C. announced a communications initiative to enable delivery of Internet information, news and messaging services for mobile and fixed communications devices.Speedia said it will send subscriber requested information-such as stock quotes, news and weather-to a subscriber's choice of communication device. Customers of...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Digifone, an Irish Global System for Mobile communications carrier, announced the first service in Ireland that allows customers to access Internet information via mobile phones.The service, called dot digifone-on-line, is based on Wireless Application Protocol technology.Users can access news, airline information, stock...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services in large scale.Time Division Multiple Access operators-which in the late 1980s banked on...
By almost all accounts, the market for in-vehicle wireless communications and information services-called telematics-is going to explode in the next few years.Studies by consulting firms Strategis Group and Allied Business Intelligence predict more than 1.2 million automobiles will be equipped with telematics devices by...
