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RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with Aether Systems, Amazon.com, eDispatch.com, Wireless Data Inc., IBM and MicroStrategy to offer wireless Internet applications unique for businesses through Nextel Online. Nextel Online …

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Siemens Business Services will jointly provide a Global Packet Radio Service customer care and billing infrastructure for wireless Internet services and applications. The solution will be …

Canada Granite Systems Inc.’s Xpercom solution has been selected by Bell Mobility Inc. of Canada to provide network configuration management to all of the company’s sites. According to Granite, the …

I missed out on the conga line of carriers, vendors and Digerati who stole the show last week in New Orleans. It’s a wireless data world after all. The Net …

America Online Inc. took its AOL Anywhere strategy further into the wireless space last week with the introduction of its AOL Mobile Messenger service, created through several strategic deals with …

NEW YORK-The telecom/wireless sector of U.S. industry stood out last year, riding high on an overall rising tide of venture capital investments, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ “MoneyTree Survey.” Taken in aggregate, …

WASHINGTON-Senate Judiciary Committee members last week voiced serious concerns about the proposed $160 billion America Online Inc.-Time Warner Inc. merger, a deal that takes on added significance in light of …

While Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. were the stars of the Internet content provider show at Wireless 2000, several supporting players launched wireless portals of their own, some with …

IBM Corp. and American Mobile Satellite Corp. took their existing business relationship to another level last week, allowing AMSC to better target the potentially lucrative business-to-business market IBM commands. The …

DENVER, United States-Attention to wireless security concerns has emerged as several internationally recognized corporate security software firms stated their intentions to concentrate on the wireless industry going forward. “Everybody has …

SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile telecom carriers are looking to stake out the biggest share in the fast-growing wireless Internet and data market, shifting from a voice-oriented strategy. The explosion of …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Latin American data-transmission industry has been surprised at the unusual technological and financial display of Diginet Americas, which plans to offer fixed-wireless broadband communications in some of …

Things are going well for most mobile companies around the globe. Penetration rates are increasing, subscriber numbers are reaching all-time highs and wireless data holds future promise for the industry. …

IBM and AT&T announced an alliance to offer wireless data services to their business customers. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. The companies said they expected significant opportunities …

TOKYO-The number of Japanese PHS subscribers expanded in the December-January time frame, demonstrating that the long-ailing PHS business is starting to revitalize. The number of PHS users in the country …

Much has been made of the battle for supremacy of the operating system for the wireless data terminal market. With the number of Internet-enabled wireless devices expected to outnumber PC …

Leveraging its strength as a leading management and consulting firm to most of the top companies in the world, Andersen Consulting has unveiled a new wireless portal designed for the …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-According to a new study from Allied Business Intelligence Inc., a technology research company, the emergence of third-generation technology will lead to a boom in the wireless data …

CTIA Wireless 2000 February 28-March 1 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (202) 785-2842. Strategic Cellular and Wireless Communications Seminar March 2-3 Herschel Shosteck Associates …

Competition First in 2000-CompTel Annual Convention & Trade Exposition February 20-23 Competitive Telecommunications Association. Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif. (330) 425-9330 ext. 802. www.comptel.org. Wireless Symposium-Portable By Design …

Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice new “virtual” operators that will help …

Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a number of new test-solution products and made improvements to others. The Agilent 84000 RFIC series model A20E is a low-cost test solution developed …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. and Schlumberger Resource Management Inc., a provider of business services for utilities and energy service providers, unveiled a perpetual license agreement for Metricom’s UtiliNet technology. The …

Application developers looking to break into the increasingly popular wireless Internet industry will soon have an ally on hand to guide them through the maze of technologies, specifications and ever-multiplying …