wireless data

Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market. Carriers had better beware. Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise …

FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Paradigm4 said the Police Department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico awarded it a $9.23 million contract to add wireless data communications capability to the commonwealth’s law enforcement community. …

PageMart Wireless Inc. has begun marketing its products and services through BizBuyer.com, a Web site accessed by small and mid-sized businesses nationwide. BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced an online demonstration …

NEW YORK-Even amid the rapidly expanding parade of venture capital investments, the telecommunications/wireless sector of American industry stands head and shoulders above the crowd. Venture capital investments in this sector …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells broadband data …

Convinced that wireless growth was significantly outpacing its own estimates, Lehman Brothers Inc. last week dramatically upped its long-term forecast for the wireless industry and upgraded a number of wireless …

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 …

At the crossroads of four wireless industry trends is where Cupertino, Calif.-based Morphics Technology Inc. believes it has found an opportunity. The four factors are expensive spectrum, expensive infrastructure, the …

The Wireless Data Forum celebrated its first birthday last week by releasing its first book, called “Going Mobile: A Cookbook of Wireless Data Solutions.” The WDF said Going Mobile is …

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.-Wynd Communications Inc. announced it has completed the beta testing of its AAA Emergency Roadside Service for deaf and hard of hearing users, and said the service …

Handsets Nokia Nokia announced a new NMT 450 analog handset, to be available in the third quarter, that features true 3-volt technology and the Nokia NaviKey concept. The Nokia 640 …

Bolivia Bolivia’s GOB Superintendent of Telecommunications is accepting international bids for a 20-year concessionary contract for providing PCS. Bidding documents must be submitted by 23 September. The service area to …

Aether Systems Inc. announced it will acquire mobeo Inc., a company that provides financial news and stock updates on wireless devices such as pagers. Formerly called DocuPro Inc., mobeo delivers …

Wireless industry members agree smart phones will become a critical differentiating factor for handset vendors and mobile-phone operators within the next two years, but the proliferation of these devices remains …

German telecom operator Mannesmann AG said it executed its option rights on shares of Italian mobile operator Omnitel, raising its stake in the company by 1.5 percent to 55 percent. …

The paging industry made further progress toward implementing content services last week, as both Motorola Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. introduced products and services targeting the space. Arch said …

The Ginger Media Group, owners of U.K.-based Virgin Radio, is collaborating with L.M. Ericsson in early trials of wireless third-generation technology that would allow local or national radio stations to …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life …

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Data Inc. and Paymentech announced they entered a two-year transaction processing agreement under which Paymentech will offer wireless credit-card authorization services using USWD’s Wireless Express Payment Service.

SAN FRANCISCO-Discover Brokerage introduced a wireless investing service called TradeRunner, which uses 3Com Corp.’s Palm III and Palm IIIx personal digital assistants. The service allows customers to control their investment …

Analysts have long criticized operator-assisted dispatch as the weak link in the alphanumeric paging chain, citing its inherent lack of privacy and potential for misinterpreted messages. But users have accepted …

A Baltimore-based company called reachNET introduced a wireless messaging solution that provides a direct connection between a wireless device and the telephone teletype machines commonly used by the deaf and …

OWNINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Technologies Inc. announced it will join L.M. Ericsson’s new Wireless Internet Solutions unit to co-market and develop wireless data services specifically targeting the online financial investment community. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. unveiled its i500plus multiservice wireless phone. The integrated Digital Enhanced Network handset is a Wireless Application Protocol-compliant phone that features an Internet microbrowser, two-way e-mail and wireless …

NEW YORK-w-Trade Technologies Inc., which developed the w-Trade wireless trading system, introduced a new product called w-Bank. Much like the way w-Trade allows brokerages to offer wireless access to their …