Mobile asset tracking and wireless data company @Road Inc. announced it will acquire rival wireless enterprise vendor MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc. in a deal worth $86 million. The agreement is the latest in the rapidly consolidating wireless data market.@Road said the combined company's...
Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced a closed sale of common stock to institutional investors, a move the company said would generate $23.2 million. The company said $6.7 million would go to repaying the outstanding principal and accrued interest on its existing $12.5...
"What Simpay is all about is opening up the mobile Internet space beyond the carrier's branded portal," said Jim Wadsworth, Simpay's chief marketing officer.Described as a mobile-commerce company, Simpay's real purpose is to create a common billing mechanism for carriers and wireless content providers....
Citing the need to support two networks serving more than 20 million subscribers, its future ability to provide wireless data services on par with its CDMA-based competitors and poor results in recent customer surveys, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. informed the Federal Communications Commission it could...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Struggling wireless data carrier Motient Corp. announced a closed sale of common stock to several institutional investors, a move the company said would generate a total of $23.2 million. The company said $6.7 million of the funds would go to repaying the outstanding...
Acquisition mania seems to have hit the wireless data industry, as wireless enterprise player Sybase Inc. announced a massive $95.2 million acquisition of rival XcelleNet Inc. Separately, Sybase said its first-quarter revenues will come in below expectations due to several transactions that did not...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reported a strategic partnership with RE/MAX International providing RE/MAX affiliates in the United States with access to the carrier's EDGE wireless data service though laptops equipped with wireless modem cards or EDGE-enabled handsets. AWS said it would provide special...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. said Verizon Wireless has licensed its Infinys rating and billing software called Geneva.The software will be implemented by the two companies and integrated within Verizon's systems portfolio, said the companies."The software will augment our technology to provide broader wireless data services," said...
PRAGUE-Nortel Networks has been chosen to supply Czech Republic-based wireless service provider Eurotel Praha with a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network that will operate in the 450 MHz radio spectrum. The network will allow Eurotel to introduce broadband Internet and other advanced services like wireless e-mail...
San Francisco's Moscone Center meeting and exhibition facility is quickly becoming a haven of high-tech wireless communications technology. The 2 million square-foot facility, developed and owned by the City and County of San Francisco and privately managed by SMG, includes 700,000 square feet of...
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America's board of directors adopted a proposal to restructure the company's board, committees and councils. The restructure calls for a two-year transition from a board of 42 voting members to a board of 18 voting members; the creation of...
SUSSEX, United Kingdom-Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will use games testing company Babel Media for its new Java Verified wireless application program. Babel will test Java applications to ensure they work smoothly on a variety of handsets.Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG, Sony Ericsson...
When Monet Mobile Networks Inc. launched service in November 2002, many in the industry believed that the promise of advanced wireless data technology had finally become a reality-which is why the carrier's bankruptcy filing came as such a surprise."Personally, I'm very, very sorry to...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. reported solid fourth-quarter results with a return to profitability and a hopeful outlook, but investors seemed relatively unmoved and sent the company's stock down slightly after the news to about $18.26 per share.Comverse reported sales of $203 million for the...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-CDMA 1xEV-DO carrier Monet Mobile Networks Inc. said it will shut down its network April 2. The wireless Internet carrier covers eight cites in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North and South Dakota."Due to unfortunate, regrettable circumstances, we're shutting down service to our customers," said...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-BellSouth Corp. said it will launch its first major public Wi-Fi deployment in Charlotte, N.C., providing its customers with free access to high-speed wireless data at public locations concentrated in the Center City of Charlotte and surrounding suburbs. The telecommunications provider added the...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-New research shows Vodafone's Live! wireless data service and NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service are both poised for growth outside of Japan.According to research and consulting firm Analysys Research, data services beyond text messaging will gradually take hold, but operators will have to...
CANNES, France-Despite the less-than-ideal weather conditions at this year's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, the event was highlighted by the GSM industry's announcement of signing up its 1 billionth customer worldwide and the European market's bright expectations for full third-generation networks that have...
Wireless Internet company Openwave Systems Inc. announced a new deal with Microsoft Corp. as well as a major sale to handset maker Motorola Inc. Openwave also announced an acquisition it said will improve its wireless Internet browsing technology.Under Openwave's deal with Microsoft, the companies...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-P-Cube Inc. announced 3 Italy (Hutchison) and Israel's Pelephone have become the first mobile network operators to select P-Cube's Service Control Platform and Encharge solution for traffic analysis, control and network optimization of wireless data services. "Mobile operators currently have very little insight...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced it will sell two new BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices for its GSM/GPRS network, devices that bolster Cingular's longtime support of Research In Motion Ltd.'s products.Cingular said it would sell the monochrome BlackBerry 6280 for $250 and the color-screen BlackBerry 7280...
CANNES, France-Wireless Internet company Openwave Systems Inc. announced a new deal with Microsoft Corp. as well as a major sale to handset maker Motorola Inc. Openwave also announced an acquisition it said will improve its wireless Internet browsing technology.Under Openwave's deal with Microsoft, the...
LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced its second GSM carrier partner with the release of the G4011 clamshell phone for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The phone follows the release of two similar handsets through Cingular Wireless L.L.C."LG's goal is to provide consumers with a range...
SAN DIEGO-As mobile-phone news continues to roll in, LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced its second GSM carrier partner with the release of the G4011 clamshell phone for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The phone follows the release of two similar handsets through Cingular Wireless."LG's goal...
