SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris Communications Inc. announced that Century Cellunet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Century Telephone Enterprises Inc., will deploy its MicroBurst technology throughout its seven-state territory.MicroBurst is a wireless data and messaging solution enabling such telemetry applications as global positioning systems, Automated Meter...
GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network partnerships with Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division Multiple Access carriers.For now,...
Geoworks announced a significant evolution to its GEOS operating system that will allow handset manufacturers to quickly produce a range of low-end to high-end smart phones.Consumer electronics giant Mitsubishi has licensed the upgraded system, the GEOS-SC, to manufacture and ship next year a new...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Put four analysts up on a podium, ask them what they think and while their answers don't always agree on specifics, their big picture themes often seem similar.That's what happened at the recent 1997 CDMA North American Regional Congress when four wireless market...
DALLAS-MCI Communications Corp. announced the completion of its new dispatch system that uses wireless technology to send technicians to customer sites.The new system, called Dispatch.Mgr, is a computerized wireless dispatch system that allows MCI's field technicians to receive work orders via wireless modems in...
The use of mobile data products by police departments has gained such rapid acceptance across the country this year that it may be emerging as the most popular current application of wireless data technology, according to wireless data carriers and vendors.Cellular Digital Packet Data...
WASHINGTON-The predicted growth areas for wireless services will not be dominated by voice, according to a Commerce Department 1998 outlook report. Rather, current and prospective carriers will try to develop and build out advanced messaging, data transmission, location and remote monitoring applications. In addition,...
WOOD BRIDGE, N.J.-Ram Mobile Data USA L.P. announced it will join with Microsoft Corp. to familiarize programmers with applications development for the Windows CE platform by distributing some 25,000 compact discs at COMDEX '97, with Microsoft's Windows CE Toolkit.The CD contains programming and other...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. opened its wireless data service center for wireless network operators.The center provides carriers with a single source for marketing end-to-end wireless data solutions over their network and in markets outside their territory, said the company. Offering turnkey wireless web services...
Hoping to cash in on the expected integration of wireless voice and data applications, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based General Magic Inc. has been striving to complete a service that will do just that.Nearly a year ago, the company, founded in 1990, dramatically switched gears by completely...
Aeris Communications Inc. announced that Ameritech Cellular Services will deploy Aeris' MicroBurst technology for short-burst data applications in Ameritech's cellular territory.The wireless data messaging solution enables mobile telemetry services like Global Positioning System, remote monitoring, automated meter reading and security alarm systems, Aeris said.With...
The wireless data industry has long been considered the most optimistic bunch in the world of wireless. Each year, it seemed, was going to be "the year" the technology would rocket into mass acceptance.This upcoming year is again touted as having the potential for...
NOVEMBER10-11 Channel Development for Wireless Distribution and Retail, by AIC Conferences. The Hotel Monaco, San Francisco. (800) 409-4AIC.10-12 Intele-CardNews Expo of the Americas: A Global Partnership, by Intele-CardNews. Fontainebleau Hilton Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Fla. Call Clare Parsons at (281) 298-1431, ext. 105.10-12 Impact...
Pre-Paid Solutions said it introduced a new debit conversion technology for the prepaid cellular market. The technology will be available this month under the name Pre-Cell Technology and Pre-Cell Chip. Pre-Cell Technology offers prepaid cellular through chip-based phone conversions. Pre-Cell Chip allows customers to...
SEATTLE-Some 1,900 wireless data professionals gathered in Seattle last week to determine what future their long-struggling industry might have at Wireless APPS '97.In this muggy Emerald City, they found the yellow brick road to the future of wireless data is indeed changing. Attendees left...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Worldwide Data Solutions Division announced an agreement that will allow its VersiTAC Integrated Wireless Data Solution to incorporate AT&T Wireless Services Inc.' nationwide cellular digital packet data offering.The agreement allows Motorola to extend its VersiTAC wireless data coverage area to more...
SEATTLE-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it signed a licensing agreement with Unwired Planet Inc. at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless APPS '97 conference last week.The agreement will add the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company's UP.Link Server Suite for wireless handheld devices to Hackensack, N.J.-based GoAmerica's...
CellPort Labs Inc. introduced its second-generation communications server platform for wireless data applications in intelligent vehicle communications.Formerly called Mobile Web, the renamed C/P Connect server platform is "an embedded, programmable gateway between two fragmented environments: the wireless airlinks and the vehicle's own electronics," said Tom...
BellSouth Corp. announced it will buy Ram Broadcasting Corp., thereby gaining complete control of Ram Mobile Data USA's wireless data network, which the two companies co-own.Under a definitive agreement signed Friday, BellSouth also will fully acquire Ram Mobile Data Ltd., a United Kingdom-based wireless...
Could this be the year for wireless data?Although proponents of wireless data are no doubt tired of being asked that question, some announcements this week certainly have to cause their hearts to race, if just a little.Lucent Technologies Inc. and NEO Networks, and Sun...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications.The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing the Web, said Spyglass. It is a server-based solution that reduces the time required to access Web sites by converting...
Could this be "the" year?The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold's Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS '97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this week in the technological mecca of Seattle. The show is in its third year focusing...
OCTOBER27-28 Telecommunications Law and Regulation Fundamentals: Your Roadmap to Opportunities, Options and Obstacles in this New Era, by Government Institutes. Arlington, Va. (301) 921-2345.27-28 Wireless Local Loop-Asean '97 Summit, by IBC Asia Ltd. Shangri-La's Edsa Plaza Hotel, Manila, Philippines. (65) 732-1970.27-28 Electromagnetic Compatibility Wireless Forum,...
OCTOBER20-21 Wireless Business Telephone Systems Seminar, by Alexander Resources. Dallas. (800) 948-8225.20-22 Discovering the Value of LMDS, by Shorecliff Communications International and RCR Publications Inc. ANA Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 608-9641.22 Wireless Developer Workshop, by Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants Inc. Farmington Hills, Mich. (517)...
