Wireless Internet

LOS ANGELES-Cybiko Inc. introduced a digital, wireless, portable entertainment and communication system combining interactive gaming, instant messaging e-mail and personal information manager capabilities in one device. “We are thrilled to …

They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors. All …

WASHINGTON-A comprehensive proposal by European and Arab states covering third-generation mobile phone spectrum and other issues appeared to be disintegrating late last week at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, …

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. …

COSTA MESA, Calif.-Twice as many wireless customers subscribe to Code Division Multiple Access technology today than one year ago, according to a report by the CDMA Development Group. The Group …

The underwriters of Vyyo Inc.’s recent initial public offering exercised their options to purchase the entire over-allotment of more than 1 million shares of common stock, bringing the total offering …

BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecommunications company, finished the spinoff of its stake in telecommunications equipment supplier Nortel Networks Corp., closing a transaction valued at approximately $59 billion. BCE distributed its …

DAYTON, Ohio-Lexis Publishing, a provider of products and services for the legal profession, and GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will co-develop a Web-based wireless product and service for …

While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the wireless Internet experience, and not all …

OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to “kick the barn door open” to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its Argentine subsidiary launched the first phase of its service rollout in the Buenos Aires area. Millicom Argentina also will provide wireless Internet services …

British Telecom (BT) could challenge an Internet alliance between Vodafone AirTouch and Vivendi announced just before Vodafone AirTouch’s takeover agreement with Mannesmann in February, the Financial Times reported. The deal …

LONDON-The wireless sector in the Middle East is still widely accepted as a vibrant and growing market, with the wireless Internet and several wireless trade shows coming on the scene. …

RESTON, Va.-TRW Inc. formed a strategic partnership with Wireless Inc. to develop and market high-speed, broadband wireless Internet access equipment. The partnership includes licensing TRW’s SpitFire point-to-multipoint access technology. The …

Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks’ claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company. Geoworks claims its patent concerning a …

Nextel Communications Inc. last week delivered strong first-quarter results and introduced Nextel Online Internet access. Nextel said it added a company record 540,300 domestic digital customers and 93,700 proportionate international …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular SA announced that its wholly owned Tele2 (UK) Ltd. subsidiary won a Wireless Telegraphy Act license from the U.K. Radio Communications Authority. The license allows Tele2 …

InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company’s biggest opportunity and fastest-growing area. Within that space, InfoSpace …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. is expected to announce the formation of its Intel Wireless Competence Center in Beijing to promote wireless Internet technology in China, Reuters reported. The center will …

Content is king. That’s the mantra repeated by many looking to make it big in the wireless Internet space these days. But for content to be valuable, it must be …

STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc., a personalized wireless Internet content and commerce services provider, said TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, will offer i3 Mobile services to its …

Sprint PCS announced better-than-expected results in customer growth, revenues and cash-flow losses for the first quarter and released some long-awaited information about customers using its wireless Web offering. The nationwide …

NEW YORK-Mobilestop.com, the newborn Internet offspring of Strax Inc., a Miami-based wireless phone and accessory distributor, launched its Web site this month and plans operations on four continents within a …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Metricom Inc. and National Semiconductor entered a strategic alliance to develop Metricom’s Ricochet modem technology for the information appliance market. National will integrate Ricochet technology into its information …

While wireless executives in North America plot in their war rooms about how to sell the wireless Web in an already highly penetrated Internet market, executives just south of the …