Wireless Internet

With a population hungry for services, Latin America is challenging telecom and Internet companies to tap their imaginative resources to provide the devices, killer applications, high-speed networks and customized content, …

While content may remain king, many feel content is only as good as the user interface to it. One company hoping to ease the user interface frustration for both wireline …

Belgium KPN Mobile will acquire 50 percent of Belgian operator KPN Orange Belgium from France Telecom for US$443.5 million, giving KPN 100-percent ownership. France Telecom had to divest its KPN …

At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the new events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting …

Openwave Systems Inc. and Geoworks Corp. ended their year-long patent dispute last week with a cross-licensing settlement, ending a fight closely watched by wireless Internet players concerned about possible ramifications …

Multiplier Industries Multiplier Industries Corp. released its new line of rechargeable replacement batteries for Motorola radios. The line, which features polycarbonate plastic material with greater impact strength, includes the 1,400 …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Data Forum announced its membership overwhelmingly approved its proposed merger with the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. The WDF said the merger means CTIA will increase its emphasis …

Chris Gent has had quite a year. For the chief executive of Vodafone Group plc, 2000 began with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann AG, parent of its rival Orange plc, …

As the industry whets its appetite on the prospect of third-generation services and all the revenue-generating opportunities wireless Internet access can bring, telecom vendors are watching their stock prices fall …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced a “wireless travel concierge” portfolio to its Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service via partnerships with several companies and content providers. Alaska Airlines, Biztravel.com, Delta …

NEW YORK-Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Materials Corp. has established offices here to prepare for a 2001 commercial launch of its SWIFTcomm data platform, which it believes is a low-cost challenger to third-generation …

Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services. PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video …

NEW YORK-OZ.COM, Reykjavik, Iceland, formed OZ Canada, a Montreal-based subsidiary, through the purchase of a company recently established by L.M. Ericsson and a venture capital unit of Microcell Telecommunications Inc. …

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Just a week after rival L.M. Ericsson introduced its first i-mode phone for the Japanese market, Motorola Inc. laid out plans to get in to the i-mode game as …

Extolling them as “wings of light,” Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter growth, the Internet and communications company …

FREMONT, Calif.-The Mobile Wireless Internet Forum announced it has finalized its recommendation for a new Layered Functional Architecture, designed to provide a unified structure for better integration of the mobile …

Motorola Inc. and Oracle Corp. teamed last week to create a UNIX-based e-business platform designed for carriers, Internet service providers, enterprise customers and application vendors. The deal is the second …

NEW YORK-Basic research for wireless Internet development received a multi-million-dollar stimulus as one of three parts to the new California Institutes for Science and Innovation, announced Dec. 7. The San …

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-A new survey from market research firm Solomon-Wolff Associates found three out of four consumers said they are interested in wireless Internet service. “They are willing to pay …

Motorola Inc. entered the wireless game sector this week in a major way, teaming up with UIEvolution to develop multi-player games for next-generation mobile handsets based on Sun Microsystems’ Java …

While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to supply those functions have been left …

AvantGo Inc., a wireless Internet provider, unleashed a barrage of new initiatives last week, beginning with the creation of two professional services programs designed to support businesses deploying its AvantGo …

As wireless phones become smaller on the outside, their usefulness to the outside world continues to grow. In addition to wireless Internet capabilities, newly designed unified messaging and voice recognition …

724 Solutions Inc. boosted its wireless financial services profile last week by acquiring Tantau Software, Inc., a provider of software platforms that help businesses conduct high-volume, secure and mobile transactions. …

As part of its recently released Wireless Web for Business initiative, Sprint PCS unveiled its Wireless Web Modem, a portable solution designed for business customers to wirelessly access the Internet …