LAS VEGAS-Along with continuing to combine various industry standards groups, the Open Mobile Alliance said it will initiate a new interoperability testing program to cover a variety of wireless data technologies, ranging from multimedia messaging services to digital rights management.Under the OMA's new release...
Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Meanwhile, wireless application publisher Moviso L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA,...
Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many in the industry as being behind the times. The buzz surrounding WLAN technology based...
LAS VEGAS-Along with continuing to combine various industry standards groups, the Open Mobile Alliance said it will initiate a new interoperability testing program to cover a variety of wireless data technologies, ranging from multimedia messaging services to digital rights management.Under the OMA's new release...
NEW YORK-Sony Music Entertainment acquired wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony's Music Digital Services division.Sony's move underscores the rapidly growing importance of the ring tone business and the wireless industry in...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Palm Inc.'s operating system subsidiary, PalmSource Inc., announced it will join the Open Mobile Alliance standards group."The efforts of the Open Mobile Alliance are in line with PalmSource's strategy to enable interoperability between handhelds, wireless data devices and smart phones through open standards,"...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said more than 5 million gpsOne-enabled wireless devices are now in commercial use in Japan, South Korea and the United States, making it the most widely deployed personal location system for wireless handsets."We are seeing that carriers offering gpsOne-enabled wireless data...
DENVER, United States-Santa's helpers will be able to stuff stockings with a new gift this year-wireless data.U.K.-based wireless entertainment and publishing company Digital Bridges plans to sell packaged, prepaid ring tones through a major U.S. retailer by the end of the year, with wireless...
SAN JOSE, California, United States-ArrayComm and CommWorks announced an agreement to provide standards-based Internet connectivity and seamless mobility in ArrayComm's i-Burst Personal Broadband System.ArrayComm said it has demonstrated seamless compatibility with CommWorks' Total Control 1000 Packet Data Serving Node. The i-Burst system is a...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. and CommWorks announced an agreement to provide standards-based Internet connectivity and seamless mobility in ArrayComm's i-Burst Personal Broadband System.ArrayComm said it has demonstrated seamless compatibility with CommWorks' Total Control 1000 Packet Data Serving Node. The i-Burst system is a wide...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having failed to attract European third-generation (3G) license holders to use its alternative cdma2000 technology, Qualcomm now appears to have revised its strategy and is looking to tempt Far Eastern GSM operators away from General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to Qualcomm's GSM...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. and Voyager Systems Inc. introduced a suite of secure wireless data applications designed to enable law enforcement officers and other authorized personnel to search federal, state and local criminal justice and public records databases, as well as collect and report...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company Onset Technology announced sales of its METAmessage for Wireless product line doubled during the third quarter compared with the same quarter last year. The company also announced it raised $2 million in new funding from first-time investor Catalyst Fund...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support.Skeptics are coming out of the wireless woodwork to question whether greenfield operators can survive...
WASHINGTON-U.S. wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent, and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)."Wireless technology continues to show robust growth, defying the downward trends in the...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge Inc. and Novatel Wireless Inc. have paired to jointly promote their products.According to the marketing agreement, Novatel will push Wireless Knowledge's Wireless Workstyle product family while Wireless Knowledge promotes Novatel's high-speed wireless data products to its enterprise customers. Separately, Novatel Wireless...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Inc. selected Global Wireless Data to participate in its National Master Agent Program, which the carrier said will broaden the customer distribution network for its Express Network data offering.As part of the distribution network GWD will offer current and future channel...
SAO PAULO, Brazil—Brazilian fixed wireless operator Vesper has signed separate contracts with Nortel Networks Ltd. and L.M. Ericsson to supply gear for a cdma2000 1x EV-DO network.Airvana Inc. said it will provide the channel card upgrade for data for the networks for Nortel."Our customers...
WASHINGTON-Wireless data revenues have grown by 135 percent and voice revenues have increased 19 percent since last year, according to the semi-annual survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association."Wireless technology continues to show robust growth, defying the downward trends in the tech and...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has been selected by Operator Vesper as the sole to supplier of cdma2000 1xEV-DO networks in 17 states in the southeastern and northern regions of the country."Our customers will be provided with access to the Internet and...
RESTON, Va.-Actix, which provides software to optimize the performance of wireless networks, is showing its new Enterprise Advance Metrics Solution OSS software at this week's TeleManagement World.E-AMS allows wireless carrier to analyze network data to learn which services, devices and applications are most used...
SEOUL, South Korea-The Mobitex Operators Association (MOA) said two new wireless data networks will begin operation in China.Telecom Digital has officially launched its Mango Mobitex-based network and service in Hong Kong. The network provides bilingual e-mail, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), short message service (SMS),...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, the United States and Latin America.CMG provides intercarrier text messaging services to Bell Mobility,...
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed separate contracts with two Indian operators, Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices, to deploy nationwide cdma2000 wireless networks. Lucent did not release the value of the contracts."This new cdma2000 network will enable Reliance to offer...
