SAN JOSE, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division teamed with Infinite Technologies to provide users with remote access to local area network-based e-mail.Using Infinite's InterChange remote e-mail server software and AT&T's PocketNet service, customers can manage their e-mail over the Internet from a...
VimpelCommunications said shares of its common stock are authorized to trade on the Russian Trading System market, an online, screen-based trading system used by brokers in Moscow and throughout the Russian Federation. Dmitri Zimin, president and chief executive officer of VimpelCom, said the company...
Since the passage of the telecom act, telecommunications providers have taken significant steps toward offering bundled services on one bill.Nearly a year ago, regional Bell operating companies' cellular divisions began offering cellular long-distance service to their cellular customers and a few of the RBOCs...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-ConectUS Wireless Communications filed a trademark infringement suit Thursday against Greenville, S.C.-based Conxus Communications Inc., which changed its name from PCS Development Corp. in October."Their new name is confusingly similar to ours," said ConectUS President Dennis Scully. "We have been using the...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division introduced its PocketNet service to give businesses access to the Internet and corporate intranets.Using PocketNet, business users will be able to read and respond to e-mail messages, forward documents to a fax machine and access stock...
WASHINGTON-The mobile data industry still is in its infancy, according to manufacturers, service providers and users, but the next few years promise a mini boom in applications easy for almost anyone to use. A study recently released by Booz Allen Hamilton predicts 17.4 million...
SAN DIEGO-An innovation in wireless data was announced last week that could answer CDPD's main problem: coverage.GTE Mobilnet Inc., Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Pacific Communications Sciences Inc. introduced Circuit Switched-Cellular Digital Packet Data, which will allow data users to access CDPD functionality across an...
NEW YORK-If the conventional wisdom holds true that a rising tide lifts all boats, then wireless companies seeking to go public this year can take comfort in the results of the 1997 Super Bowl.For 27 of the 30 previous years, a win by a...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-American Phoenix Group Inc. announced the creation of Tetherless Access New Zealand Ltd. to supply data communications services to New Zealand companies.The company will be headed by Greg Cross, former managing director of Microsoft New Zealand and general manager of sales and marketing...
MONTREAL-Dataradio Inc. purchased E.F. Johnson Co.'s Data Telemetry Division and formed the Johnson Data Telemetry Corp. to focus on the wireless data communications sector."This combination will have a tremendous impact on the market both in terms of services offered to customers around the world...
SAN DIEGO-At the CDPD Forum's membership meeting here last week, proponents of Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, industry analysts, customers and potential customers agreed that CDPD needed a stronger presence in the marketplace, but differed on how to go about facilitating that.Some of the...
DSP Communications Inc. expects to see continued growth in 1997 and 1998, when the company may reap rewards from its new product, a wireless branch exchange system.The company reported revenues of $88.9 million for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, an 118 percent increase...
NEW YORK-Depending on who wins the battle of wills at the May 1 annual shareholders meeting of Metricom Inc., the public company might be sold.Metricom, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has provided wireless data applications to utilities for more than a decade. Last year,...
NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers."It's all about making the Internet easier to use. The customers coming on line today are not information...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group made its Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol available free to wireless application developers on the World Wide Web. The arrangement was made in cooperation with the Personal Communications Industry Association.The protocol allows wireless applications and product developers to...
As part of a holiday promotion, Powertel Inc. is offering unlimited local calling within its entire coverage area for $50 per month for all of next year. Customers who sign up before Jan. 18 will become "Prestige Partners" and will receive priority offerings for...
Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company's wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director at AT&T Wireless Services...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group is phasing out its Marco and Envoy personal digital assistants by the end of the year, said Cheryl Beck-Ruff, public relations manager.However, the Wireless Data Group will continue producing its Personal Messenger wireless modem card, which supports PDAs,...
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
NEW YORK-MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc., based in Richmond, British Columbia, went public in the United States Nov. 26 with an offering of 1.725 million shares of common stock at $14.88 each.MDSI stock, which traded on the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges prior to...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. and Proxim Inc. announced they mutually have agreed to terminate their planned merger. The companies reported declines in the share prices of each company's stock after a merger was announced, prompted DSPC and Proxim to discontinue their plans.The companies said...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp.'s InfoStream technology allows mobile professionals to send faxes and e-mail, and access office databases and the Internet, from a laptop computer using a digital personal communications phone.The company launched its VoiceStream service, which offers the InfoStream technology, in Oklahoma City...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada-Teklogix International Inc. was awarded a contract by Montreal-based Canadian National Railways to provide it with narrowband wireless data communication networks.The networks will include the Ethernet Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol connectivity and 85 vehicle-mounted data terminals. They will be installed at Canadian...
