DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. has created a Telemetry Strategic Business Unit as part of its strategy to extend in-progress ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network to more "off-the-hip" applications and customers.The new unit already has entered into an exclusive strategic alliance with Interactive Technologies...
LONDON-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced 23 companies have joined the organization since May, and it recently expanded and elected new officers to its board of directors.Formed last summer by Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc., the WAP Forum's goal...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
MILAN, Italy-Omnitel Pronto Italia plans to test Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless Internet technology on its Global System for Mobile communications network.The new services from Omnitel will use Unwired Planet's UP.Link open software platform, which provides users access to e-mail, interactive information services, Internet/intranet applications...
SAN DIEGO-SecurFone America Inc. announced it signed a letter of intent to enter a strategic alliance with Las Vegas Entertainment Network to develop and deploy wireless Internet telephony and prepaid cellular communication services.Initially targeting key markets in Brazil, the venture aims to extend to...
Meeting its planned mid-1998 launch deadline, General Magic Inc. began commercial rollout of its Portico virtual assistant service July 30 through a network of nationwide resellers.Portico, formerly code-named Serengeti, is a second-generation virtual assistant that General Magic hopes will allow it to take advantage...
At a somewhat lavish press event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Motorola Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starfish Software Inc., a leading supplier of customized solutions for the Connected Information Device market.Terms of the transaction were not...
FWT Inc. announced its first installation of the PowerMount antenna system on anything other than an electrical transmission tower-this one inside the legs of a Shell Oil Co. sign at a gas station in North Attleboro, Mass. The new site is part of a...
U.S. utility companies could become significant players in the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years if they can figure out the right strategy to enter the business.Analysts indicate utilities seriously are evaluating opportunities to branch out into the telecommunications arena in light of deregulation...
The Federal Communications Commission narrowly voted June 12 to keep in place the controversial funding for connecting schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities to the Internet, albeit making some minor changes to the program, such as connecting the neediest schools first.Whether the U.S. government...
MONTREAL-Microcell Labs-a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc.-and Northern Telecom Ltd. announced they plan to create a joint venture to offer wireless data applications globally.The venture will provide operators with the necessary bureau services, software and hardware to offer customers wireless Internet access,...
Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market.But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data USA L.P.-believe two-way interactive text...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Data Broadcasting Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new wireless service that the companies said will provide real-time financial information and access to online trading.Customers can purchase Sierra Wireless Inc.'s AirCard modem to connect their laptop computers to AT&T's wireless...
ChinaL.M. Ericsson announced it signed a $64 million contract with the Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Administration to expand its Global System for Mobile communications dual-band network. Ericsson said it provided SPTA's first commercial GSM 1800 trial system, which was implemented last year. The network...
InStep Mobile Communications Inc. announced it is collaborating with BC TEL Mobility, Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications to test a new wireless Internet dispatching solution.A select group of customers in the Vancouver area are being offered a limited trial of the Internet...
SAN FRANCISCO-MobileSoft announced it formed an alliance with GoAmerica Communications Corp. through which MobileSoft will market GoAmerica's Web@Hand wireless data services on its website.MobileSoft is a provider of software for handheld personal computers and GoAmerica is a wireless Internet and intranet service provider with...
NEW YORK-Wireless online financial information services are a hot item, judging from the flurry of recent announcements about new offerings in this category.w-Trade Technologies, New York, said AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s PocketNet Service will offer its new w-Trade Internet securities trading platform.In its announcement,...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. announced they will participate in a trial of Code Division Multiple Access data technologies for information services with Lucent Technologies Inc. and 3Com.The companies will test new CDMA data technologies and evaluate CDMA data-capable phones, information...
Multinational Automated Clearing House U.S.A. said it signed agreements to provide roamer call data clearing services to Global System for Mobile service providers American Personal Communications, Powertel Inc., Microcell Connexions Inc., Aerial Communications, Airadigm Communications, DigiPH PCS, Conestoga Wireless and NPI Wireless. A subsidiary...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson built the first phase of Cable & Wireless Panama's digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service network infrastructure as part of a projected five-year investment in that company, said Ericsson. To support the expanding business in Panama, Ericsson has established Ericsson de Panama...
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PLANO, Texas-Inet Inc. and GoAmerica Communications plan to offer two free months of GoAmerica's wireless Internet and intranet services with the purchase of Inet's Spider Cellular Digital Packet Data modem for $500.The offer, designed for corporate users, is available from GoAmerica until Jan. 31.
