wireless data

Time will tell if new prepaid plans offered by U.S. nationwide operators this year spur more growth in the wireless industry. Verizon Wireless plans to introduce a new nationwide prepaid …

IPmobile Wireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will …

AUSTIN, Texas-Aeris.net will provide its Microburst wireless data network to consumer and commercial telematics services from LoJack Corp., according to a recent deal. LoJack products include the LoJack Stolen Vehicle …

NEW YORK-MobileLogic Inc. introduced a suite of wireless business solutions designed to help extend corporate information to wireless devices. The solution supports devices such as wirelessly enabled personal digital assistants …

Whatever you do, don’t tell John Beletic he’s running a paging network. “We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and …

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-BuildNet Inc. and HiddenMind Technology Inc. formed an agreement to create a wireless solution for the building industry. The aim is to enable building industry workers to …

WASHINGTON-A divided Federal Trade Commission last week said industry self-regulation of Internet privacy was a failure and called on Congress to legislate consumer safeguards, an action that immediately drew criticism …

PHILADELPHIA-The wireless industry is not ready for the advent of wireless data even as data is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry and the Internet economy, said panelists at …

Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail. Telephia Inc. is conducting a nationwide survey …

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support. Sybase created iAnywhere Solutions Inc. to …

DENVER-MobileLogic reported a software licensing agreement with Aether Software, the products division of Aether Systems Inc., to provide MobileLogic customers the ability to securely “mobilize” Web content for Palm handheld …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with KPN Telecom, acquiring 15 percent of the voting rights in a newly formed holding company called KPN Mobile N.V. …

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will provide wireless Internet access for the Handspring Visor handheld computer through its Go.Web service. The service will allow individuals and businesses …

Front Porch Communications L.L.C., a hardware and software solutions developer for Internet service providers since 1998, expanded its offerings last week to include wireless Internet solutions. Qualcomm Inc. also said …

STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. said VoiceStream Wireless Corp. awarded the vendor a multi-year contract for equipment and services to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network in the eastern United States. …

RESTON, Va.-Proxicom Inc., an e-business consulting and development company, was hired by USA Today to help develop a wireless business strategy targeted at the newspaper’s business-traveler customers. “The business traveler …

Solectron Corp. completed its acquisition of Americom Wireless Services, a privately held company specializing in wireless handset repair and refurbishment and outsourced technical customer-support services. Solectron, a supply-chain facilitator of …

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. agreed to acquire Safco Technologies, which supplies wireless planning, measurement, analysis and predictive software systems and data collection products and services. “With the growing demand …

Reuters Group plc and Aether Systems Inc. launched their Sila Communications European wireless data joint venture, created to host, design and manage content and services for wireless customers. Headquartered in …

British Telecom (BT) could challenge an Internet alliance between Vodafone AirTouch and Vivendi announced just before Vodafone AirTouch’s takeover agreement with Mannesmann in February, the Financial Times reported. The deal …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The commercialization of mobile data services continues its headlong rush as cellular operators look to differentiate themselves in the market. The heavy promotion of an ever-increasing portfolio of …

DENVER, United States- BellSouth and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the second-largest wireless operator in the United …

WASHINGTON-A divided federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled wireless carriers and Internet firms do not have the same right as other telecom service providers to access utility poles on a …

Personal communications services operator Powertel Inc. reached positive operating cash flow in the first quarter and added a company-record 110,000 subscribers. The Southeast PCS company, which analysts suspect soon may …