NEW YORK-Vulcan Ventures Inc., the investment organization chaired by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen, announced Oct. 14 it would increase its stake in Metricom Inc., a wireless data and Internet access company, to 49 percent.Vulcan, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., has had a minority...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Flash Comm Inc. formed a strategic alliance with DBA Systems Inc. to manufacture its first-generation communications and tracking products, which initially will focus on the commercial transportation market.Flash Comm, a privately held wireless data communications network provider, said it initially will market to...
NEW YORK-Expanding an offering available to corporate customers for the last year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced its PocketNet service, which allows Internet access from analog cellular phones, to retail customers.The service, with an air link secured by encryption and authentication, costs...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-TAL Wireless Networks Inc., formerly American Phoenix Group Inc., filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.The company provides wireless data communications services to customers located primarily in developing economies. TAL focuses...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service announced Oct. 2 the speculative grade ratings it assigned to $490 million in new debt securities that Rogers Cantel Inc., Canada's largest wireless carrier, sold privately.The rating agency assigned a Ba3 rating to $275 million in 10-year notes due in...
NEW YORK-After a two-year bear market, wireless stocks began a rebound in April that is ongoing, and companies involved in all aspects of the industry are well worth a look, securities analysts told institutional investors at last week's Wall Street Forum.Financial and technical disappointments...
NEW YORK-Pennsylvania State University, Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom have launched a campus-wide network that is the basis for a joint effort of at least four years to study digital wireless information technology."No one has ever assembled such a diverse team to...
Nettech Systems Inc. formed an alliance with Racotek Inc. to deliver mobile computing solutions leveraging Racotek's Systems Integration and production support services with Nettech's InstantRF middleware product family. Racotek said it will integrate its applications, interface tools and network management software with the InstantRF...
BellSouth Mobility named Scott Stone, Jack Landham, Rick Rudden and Terry D. Newberry to management positions for Alabama and northwest Florida. Stone, who was named director of finance, joined the company in 1992 as a business operations manager for BellSouth Cellular. Landham, the company's...
OCTOBER6-7 Wireless Directory Assistance & Enhanced Services, by AIC Conferences. The Hotel Monaco, San Francisco. (800) 409-4AIC.6-8 Billing & Customer Care in Telecom, by International Quality & Productivity Centre. Holiday Inn on King, Toronto. (800) 882-8684.6-8 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology...
IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international markets.The agreement will see the two companies working together in two areas: technology, and marketing...
Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The initial proposal to consolidate the technologies was presented at the Mobile Data Initiative earlier this year in Munich.The purpose of...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. won a one-year renewable contract from AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division to supply its Cellular Digital Packet Data smart phones.The phone combines analog and CDPD technologies, giving subscribers access to public and private networks as well as...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it supports a proposed consolidation of wireless data technologies into a license-free and platform-independent protocol.The purpose of the Wireless Application Protocol is to expand the usage of wireless data by providing a de facto platform for developing new value-added services....
BOSTON-People are still slow to adopt wireless mobile data services, the Yankee Group reported. In fact, there has been no significant increase in the number of people who use wireless data services since last year, according to the company's 1997 Mobile User survey.Only 4...
NEW ORLEANS-The integration of wireline and wireless capabilities into the local loop "may not happen the way we all envision it," said John Woodward, director of program implementation for GTE Wireless Corp. in Atlanta. Rather, he added, "it may be taken over by such...
SINGAPORE-An air of triumph permeated last week's second annual CDMA World Congress as the supporters of Code Division Multiple Access celebrated the past year's network launches, announced a unified branding plan and prepared to enter the next millennium with a platform for advanced wireless...
NEW YORK-Competition from personal communications services companies in the United States is proving to be good news for wireless carriers and their stocks, David A. Freedman, managing director of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., New York, said June 4."If you look at a graph...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-American Phoenix Group Inc. officially changed its name to TAL Wireless Networks Inc.The company's common stock will begin trading under TALW, and the symbol for warrants has been changed to TALWW.TAL Wireless provides wireless data communications services to customers located primarily in developing...
SKOKIE, Ill.-U.S. Robotics and Northern Telecom Ltd. agreed to jointly develop wireless data access products for mobile professionals needing wireless access to e-mail, the Internet and other data applications."Digital wireless technology promises faster, higher quality and more reliable data transmission than circuit-switched analog cellular...
DSP Communications Inc.'s board of directors authorized an increase in the number of shares of common stock to be repurchased under the company's repurchase plan announced in April. The company may repurchase 8 million shares, an increase of 4 million shares from the original...
Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally polarized signals in the 2400-2500 MHz frequency band. The antenna consists of a single broadband microstrip patch, which provides a...
MAY18-20 Asia Pacific Regional Conference-Creating a Wireless World with TDMA/WIN, by Universal Wireless Communications. The Kuala Lumpur Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (206) 205-4800.19-20 Wireless Buildout, by RCR Publications Inc., the American Planning Association and Message Center Management. New York. (800) 608-9641.19-20 Wireless Business Telephone...
NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communications Inc. will merge with Cetronic AB, a privately held company based in Sweden that develops and markets software and hardware for wireless data communications markets.According to the proposed terms of the merger, Socket will issue $11.4 million in Socket common stock...
