Hoping consumers will continue to think of it as an authority in the emerging wireless Internet space, Motorola Inc. aired an image/branding spot on Oscar night to promote its Mobile Internet Exchange platform by creating a virtual personality for it called Mya.Mya is a...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a broadband wireless Internet Protocol service provider, entered a definitive agreement with Bachow Communications Inc. to acquire 39 GHz licenses in 14 markets covering a population of approximately 37 million people.ART will issue 2.2 million common shares as consideration...
The hype surrounding the possibilities of wireless Internet services has reached an all-time high following Wireless 2000 in New Orleans last month.But in the wake of this fevered pitch has come a backlash from analysts determined to draw a firm distinction between hype and...
NEW YORK-Randy Ostler, mobile computing marketing manager for Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, called his company's new collaboration with Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., a "declaration of independence for software developers."The agreement will open TI's digital signal processors to the legions of software developers writing applications...
One press article after another has asserted that the European Union's single standards regime for wireless services has given Europe an enormous "lead" over the United States. These stories, however, do not present a complete picture regarding the global leadership of the U.S. wireless...
NEW YORK-Telet, a Brazilian cellular operator, partnered with StarMedia Network Inc., an Internet company for Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking markets, to bring wireless Internet to Telet's subscribers. Claro On-line, the new service, will provide Telet's customers with messaging, e-mail and news services, StarMedia said.Telet holds a...
Since its exit from the highly competitive U.S. mobile handset market in late 1998, Siemens AG has vowed to return.The German manufacturer will make its comeback this summer, but to a mobile-phone market that is even more crowded and competitive than ever before. Rapidly...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile named Wireless Internet Solutions Provider Inc. as an authorized value-added customer in a deal designed to expand BAM's distribution strategy.Under the deal, WISP will use BAM's wireless packet data network as a backbone to offer Internet service to regional and...
NEW YORK-The March 16 announcement that Qwest International Inc. will sell some of its properties to The Montana Power Co. complies with a major condition for final Federal Communications Commission approval of the Qwest-U S West Inc. merger.Touch America, the telecommunications subsidiary of Montana...
Leveraging its dominance in the enterprise computing market, IBM Corp. formed a string of partnerships with leading wireless industry players designed to speed the growth of wireless Internet and e-business solutions for enterprise customers.The core of the computing giant's strategy is to give its...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Corp. introduced flat-rate data pricing for corporate wireless Internet phone and data service in more than 3,000 cities.AT&T PocketNet, which is AT&T's Cellular Digital Packet Data service, uses the Mitsubishi MobileAccess T250 wireless Internet phone.AT&T PocketNet business customers will pay a flat...
BLUE BELL, Pa.-PhoneFish. com, a provider of wireless Internet solutions, introduced PhoneFish, a wireless Internet e-mail service specifically designed for Web-enabled phones.With the PhoneFish service, people can access their existing Internet service provider e-mail account via the built-in browser on wireless Web phones without...
Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary to build wireless portals for carriers and others.Inktomi provides Internet backbone technology like traffic...
NEW YORK-To simulate third-generation wireless before its deployment, Finland's Sonera has just embarked on a new program, Sonera Mspace, said Kaj-Erik Relander, the company's executive vice president.In partnership with content, service and technology providers, Mspace will conduct in Finland "real life trials with consumers...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Several former executives of Microsoft Corp. and McCaw Cellular have joined other wireless industry pioneers to form Ignition Corp., a holding company designed to fund, mentor and help build wireless Internet start-up companies.Ignition has raised an initial $140 million toward this effort from...
NEW YORK-Despite all the cheerleading about the new economy as a global village, the best bets for investments in telecommunications, the Internet and electronic commerce reside in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland.Of the 30 countries that accounted for 85 percent...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Software.com Inc. announced it will acquire @mobile.com Inc. for about $400 million in a stock transaction.@mobile.com is a wireless Internet application service provider offering wireless instant messaging technology and wireless intelligent network integration experience.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-PhoneOnline.com, a software development and services company, and w-Trade Technologies have joined the Phone.com Alliance Program.PhoneOnline.com joined as an application developer, while w-Trade joined as a data applications provider.The program is designed to promote the concept of wireless information access and to coordinate...
SAUDI ARABIAL.M. Ericsson and Saudi Telecommunications Co. signed a letter of intent for a major expansion and upgrade of STC's existing Global System for Mobile communications network in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The agreement, valued at more than $300 million, calls for Ericsson...
British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones.BT said it will invest $250 million in WAP technology and form...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday said it would create "guard-band managers" as licensees for spectrum being set aside to protect public-safety users in the 700 MHz band.The FCC is creating two guard bands to protect public safety from interference. One license will be...
While most in the wireless industry seem fairly positive that wireless Internet services are going to be the next big growth cycle of the future, few have solid ideas on exactly how that's supposed to happen.The pace of today's technology makes it possible for...
BLUE BELL, Pa.-PhoneFish.com introduced a wireless Internet e-mail service designed to give Web-enabled phones access to existing POP3 Internet e-mail accounts without the need to create a new e-mail address.The application also includes the ability to dial any phone number in an e-mail message...
U S West Inc. has become the latest domestic carrier to join the wireless Internet revolution with the launch of BrowseNow, a Web-enabled phone service it said integrates the company's wireline and wireless Internet services into one package.BrowseNow is an HDML-based solution using network...
