Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can't provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are also spending a little...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless introduced a wireless Internet service called Mobile Web, featuring the ability for users to create custom home pages.Subscribers can configure a personal home page by dictating which text message alerts they wish to have sent to their phone, as well as...
TOKYO-Qualcomm Inc. unveiled a digital chipset and system software solution that it said facilitates development of Code Division Multiple Access handheld devices suitable for wireless Internet services and applications.The Mobile Station Processor 1000 solution is a microprocessor system designed to perform the functions associated...
NEW YORK-Andrew Seybold offered attendees of a recent New York New Media Association meeting this twice-told tale to illustrate how mobile data badly needs an application of common sense, that least common of all the senses.The respected wireless Web guru and curmudgeon offered this...
In a Dallas factory once used for making bombs during World War II, Stick Networks Inc. is building a new class of wireless Internet services it hopes will prove just as explosive.Much has been discussed about the convergence between the Internet and wireless networks....
SEATTLE-Personal safety tops the list of reasons why most Americans want location-based services, according to a study conducted by Integrated Data Communications Inc.The study, conducted for a wireless data and location services provider, found most Americans want their location transmitted in case of an...
A broadcast radio alternative is fast approaching that will allow drivers to access a variety of audio newspaper and magazine content in their cars using a wireless Internet connection.More than three years in the making, American Autocast Corp. plans to launch an "autocast" service...
The term wireless application service provider has been tossed around a lot lately. But what exactly is a wireless ASP and why is it so popular at this stage of the wireless Internet industry?A traditional ASP model is the implementation of an application that...
BOSTON-Five Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni launched a custom wireless application strategy and solutions firm called Lobby7, focusing specifically on the wireless Internet.The firm hopes to create solutions that help enterprise and business customers deploy mobile wireless Internet solutions.
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo announced it entered arrangements with Hutchison Whampoa and KPN Mobile to cooperate on European third-generation mobile networks. The agreements cover four European markets-the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Belgium.The announcement comes as U.S. mobile-phone carriers begin to express concern about being competitive...
LONDON-Amid the flickering satellite communications business, Craig McCaw's ICO-Teledesic Global Ltd. appears to be shining bright after receiving more than $1 billion in investor financing led by McCaw's Eagle River Investments L.L.C., Clayton Dubilier & Rice Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates' Cascade...
NEW YORK-Korea Telecom Freetel, the second-largest wireless provider in South Korea, is leaning toward deploying new technology in the third-generation license band.As recently as late June, Y.D. Hong, KT Freetel's chief financial officer, told securities analysts at a public forum in New York that...
OWNINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. invested $20 million in wireless Internet solutions designer Novatel Wireless Inc., which is widely known for its Minstrel modem product line.In separate news, Aether said it has agreed to wirelessly enable Vitria Technology Inc.'s e-business platform.Novatel's Minstrel V is...
LONDON-U.K. wireless operator Orange plc announced a $752 million wireless Internet strategy, including numerous acquisitions, investments, partnerships and content agreements.Dubbed OrangeWorld, the initiative aims to take "wirefree communications beyond two-dimensional voice and data and into intelligent interactive response to individual customer requests and the...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Brazilian wireless carrier Telesp Celular S.A. launched wireless Internet access service using Phone.com Inc.'s UP.Link Server and MyPhone applications on its Code Division Multiple Access network.Telesp expects 500,000 subscribers to be using Wireless Application Protocol-enabled CDMA handsets by the end of the...
CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. announced it entered into an agreement with OpenGrid Inc. that will bring together Cell-Loc's Cellocate network with OpenGrid's Intelligent Wireless Services offerings."By coupling the two technologies, customers benefit from our ability to provide wireless location information and OpenGrid's ability to provide...
Sprint PCS affiliate IWO Holdings filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $173 million in an initial public offering. The company said it would use proceeds from the offering to expand its network. IWO serves more than 56,000 subscribers in...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Cable & Wireless introduced a global wireless Internet platform.Cable & Wireless is supplying the data center infrastructure and connectivity to its global Internet Protocol backbone, while Nokia provides the services platform, applications and systems integration services.The two expect Cable &...
Sunday CommunicationsSunday Communications Ltd. announced that Craig Ehrlich, currently group managing director and chief executive officer, will give up his CEO duties. He will continue as group managing director, focusing on the company's regional expansion program. Ehrlich also will continue as the company's principal...
LONDON-British mobile provider BT Cellnet reported a 34- percent increase in new mobile- phone customers for the second quarter of this year compared with the same time frame last year.According to the company, 670,000 new customers signed up for wireless service during the second...
NEW YORK-The interplay between intelligent networks and Internet Protocol is a battle of the Titans, according to David Berndt, director of wireless mobile technologies for The Yankee Group.Carriers must avoid getting caught in the crossfire while emerging from this transition as winners that take...
Any industry that converges with the Internet has seen its entire model be destroyed and rebuilt. Like a tidal wave, it crashes and levels the playing field. For many, this tsunami of change is a disaster, destroying those caught unprepared. But this so-called disruptive...
NEW YORK-smartRay.com announced partnerships with seven national, international and regional carriers, including Nextel Communications Inc.Under terms of the agreement with Nextel, smartRay.com said it will provide Nextel's wireless Internet customers access to news content via a link to mobile.smartRay.com.Nextel also agreed to promote smartRay.com's...
Mobile LifestreamsA Web site designed for the mobile communication professional was launched by Mobile Lifestreams Ltd. According to the company, the new site, www.mobile4mobile.com, was designed to cover the needs of those involved in the mobile communications industry. The site aggregates information about mobile...
