Competition in the wireless personal digital assistant space will be heating up soon, as Casio Computer Co. Ltd. and Siemens' Communication Devices division have announced a strategic alliance to jointly develop a new line of palmtop personal computers with wireless Internet capabilities.Of particular note...
Clearly, marketing and selling wireless data will be one of the largest hurdles the wireless industry will face as it begins to heavily roll out the service.Wireless operators need to spend the big bucks to tell consumers how data services will be valuable to...
RESTON, Va.-Ztango.com Inc. introduced software solutions that enable the delivery of Internet-based services to digital wireless phones and Wireless Application Protocol-based smart phones.Ztango.com's software delivers custom information and news, e-mail, fax and other mobile office services. It supports Global Standard for Mobile communications, Time...
NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc., New York, will receive $900 million from its sale of a 13-percent stake to a group of investors, including Microsoft Corp., the fixed wireless access carrier announced Dec. 15.Others participating in the purchase include Credit Suisse First Boston Equity Partners...
BALTIMORE-In what he hopes will be the first of many such appearances, Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week told 800 civic leaders here that the marrying of the computer and wireless industries can happen anywhere, "not just in Silicon...
In a move seen as strengthening their respective weaknesses in the wireless industry, L.M. Ericsson and Microsoft Corp. said they plan to create a joint venture designed to develop and market end-to-end solutions for wireless Internet services.In addition, Microsoft introduced its long-awaited dual-mode microbrowser,...
In a bid to strengthen its position in the wireless industry and expand its influence overseas, Internet infrastructure provider InfoSpace.com announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire wireless Internet portal Saraide Inc.According to the agreement, InfoSpace.com will issue about 2.4 million shares of...
LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc said it awarded Ericsson a contract to supply General Packet Radio Service in Britain, the Netherlands and Greece. Vodafone UK, Libertel in the Netherlands and Panafon in Greece will be the first Vodafone wireless networks to integrate GPRS into their Global...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-Sales of smart phones and wireless personal digital assistants are set to skyrocket, with smart phones grabbing nearly 90 percent of mobile-phone sales within five years, according to a new report from Datacomm Research Co., "Wireless Web Wonders: Opportunities for Smart Phones and PDAs.""Handheld...
BOSTON-Accessibility and improvements in efficiency will drive adoption of mobile data services, according to a new report by independent research and consulting company Ovum titled, "Data over Cellular: The Road to Third Generation."Investment in new technologies, changes in traditional market models and an increase in...
BURNABY, British Columbia-Infowave Software Inc. said it entered into a joint marketing agreement with Bell Atlantic Mobile, under which the two will collaborate on joint sales and marketing activities to promote Infowave's wireless enterprise solutions in conjunction with BAM's wireless Internet Protocol network.Infowave solutions...
NEW YORK-Judging by their investments during the third quarter, venture capitalists can't seem to get enough of technology companies, including those involved in the wireless communications sector."Investments in sector for the first three quarters of 1999 approached the total amount invested in (it...
WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. announced last week that early next year it will begin testing high-speed wireless Internet access in Houma, La., using wireless communications service spectrum."BellSouth realizes the importance of establishing a method of delivering high-speed Internet access to areas of the country not wired...
More spectrum, better call quality and expanded coverage are the battle cries of the wireless industry as of late, and ScoreBoard Inc. in Herndon, Va., said it is offering carriers a new way to "get more bang for their buck."Since 1993, ScoreBoard Inc. has...
TORONTO-Wysdom Inc., a developer of wireless Internet applications, has received a $7 million private equity investment from The VenGrowth Investment Fund Inc., a Canadian venture capital firm.Proceeds will permit Wysdom to accelerate new product development and aggressively pursue the wireless e-commerce market, the company...
Adicom Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based provider of wireless access equipment, plans to enter the U.S. market in the beginning of the new year, according to company President and CEO Adel Ghanem. The vendor already is scheduled to begin voice and data trials of...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Siemens AG and Phone.com Inc. announced that Spain's Airtel Movil selected Siemens to provide a commercial Wireless Application Protocol platform for wireless Internet-based services. Airtel, the second-largest wireless operator in Spain, plans to begin providing wireless Internet services to its customers later...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it signed a $15 million contract to provide AB-Access broadband wireless networking equipment to United Online, a Colorado-based carrier delivering high-speed wireless Internet access to businesses.Following the deployment of AB-Access, United Online will be able to deliver rates of...
LONDON-BT Cellnet, Britain's second-largest mobile phone operator, teamed with Freeserve, the United Kingdom's largest Internet service provider, to develop information services for wireless Internet access. The two companies signed a strategic agreement to collaborate on developing sports, entertainment and financial services for cellular phone...
TeleCommunications Systems Inc. launched a free wireless portal service called Data4Me, aimed directly at end users with the goal of increasing awareness of wireless e-mail services across multiple networks.The portal allows users to send and receive messages to and from others on the same...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, a federal appeals court in New York last week sided with the Federal Communications Commission and reversed a lower court ruling that had approved a bankruptcy judge's decision to lower NextWave Telecom Inc.'s payment for personal communications services licenses from...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. struck deals with two different content providers to add Internet services to its MyPhone portal service-Traffic Station Inc. and Data Broadcasting Corp.Traffic Station is a national provider of personalized traffic and transportation information. The company said it will use the...
LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its wireless data network in the Los Angeles market.AT&T Wireless Internet Protocol service will provide instant, wireless access to the Internet, as well as connections to e-mail, stock quotes, corporate databases and other network services using Cellular Digital...
About 10 years ago Qualcomm Inc. had a goal-to ensure CDMA technology's success by heavily promoting it, investing in companies that would deploy it and entering the equipment supplier business.Now total worldwide Code Division Multiple Access subscribers number more than 43 million, and Qualcomm's...
