HELSINKI, Finland-First Hop Ltd. has introduced a system designed to give mobile phone customers the ability to pay for movie tickets and other passes via what it called digital tokens, billed to the uses' wireless account.Escio Tokens is meant to replace physical movie tickets,...
Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market as early as mid-1999.Those early predictions seemed believable at the time. Who would not...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
Xircom Inc. announced it is acquiring Omnipoint Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Xircom also said last week it will provide Bluetooth access products to Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and partner with Cisco Systems Inc. to provide wireless local area network products.Under...
L.M. Ericsson led the stampede of companies that introduced Bluetooth products in the past few weeks, but some industry experts believe it will be several years away before consumers embrace Bluetooth products."All the talk is based on technology, not on the use of the...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. announced an agreement to acquire the security software business from TeamWare Group Inc."This acquisition will strengthen Nokia's ability to develop secure network access that will complement our wireless LAN solutions," said Markku Rauhamaa, vice president, Nokia Wireless Network Solutions.Approximately 30 security experts...
HELSINKI-Nokia Wireless Business Communications announced its participation in the new HiperLAN2 Global Forum to promote the HiperLAN 2 standard worldwide.The standard will enable high-speed connectivity for mobile communications in corporate, public and home environments and provides wireless transfer of data between portable devices and...
HOUSTON-Eagle Wireless International Inc. signed an agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc. to become a reseller of Lucent's data network products, including Internet service provider infrastructure, wireless local area networks and wide area networks, as well as professional services and support.
LAS VEGAS-Nokia Corp. unveiled several new Internet protocol solutions to provide mobile professionals with broadband wireless access to services such as e-mail, corporate information and the Internet.The solutions can wirelessly extend the corporate local area network to common areas such as meeting rooms and...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-The cable TV and wireless industries are poised to dominate the high-speed Internet access market, according to Datacomm Research Co.'s report, "Bandwidth Bonanza: High-Speed Internet Access Technologies, Markets and Vendors.""The cable TV industry, with its broadband hybrid fiber-coax networks, and the wireless industry, with...
L.M. Ericsson last week spelled out details of its new strategic direction, which includes an increased focus on Internet technologies to piggyback on its established position in the wireless and wireline telecommunications arenas.The company's new strategic focus stems from a growing demand for wireless...
While market research firm Dataquest has diminished its previous 1998 forecast for the semiconductor industry by $15 billion in light of the Asian financial crisis, Harris Semiconductor has experienced a positive second quarter, formed two new business units and introduced new products capable of...
Washington-The wireless telecom industry opposes funding proposals for the Clinton administration's plan to link all schools and libraries to the Internet by 2000, a component of a sweeping $51 billion education package in the five-year balanced budget plan that the president calls his top...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules Jan. 9 that will allow users of unlicensed Part 15 equipment, including laptop computers, to access the Internet wirelessly.By unanimous vote, commissioners ordered that 300 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.15 GHz-5.35 GHz and 5.725-5.825 GHz ranges...
NEW YORK-Telecom Analysis Systems Inc., founded by Bell Labs' alumni in 1984, introduced two new wireless communications testing products Sept. 10 that the company says are industry firsts.The TAS 4500 FLEX4 is the company's fourth-generation radio frequency channel emulator. It can even be used...
While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS '96, the company's new Korean joint venture, AirCom, is busy demonstrating AirNet's software driven and protocol independent base station technology in Korea.Communications Technology Inc. of Seoul is...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The combined total of cellular and personal communications services devices will be in the hundreds of millions by 2000, said Allied Business Intelligence Inc. in its report, "The Wireless World Strategic Outlook."The report evaluated six categories of wireless technology and studied each...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-IBM Corp. announced it has formed an independent business unit, IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems, to provide a complete line of mobile and wireless products for industry applications, including field sales and service, health care and public safety.The new unit will...
WASHINGTON-A notice of proposed rulemaking forwarded by the Federal Communications Commission Thursday could, if adopted, provide 350 megahertz of spectrum for Part 15 unlicensed 25-megabit/second links to multimedia data services.The NPRM was in response to petitions submitted last year by the Wireless Information Networks...
Solectek Corp. of San Diego offers a high-speed wireless bridge system that can link local area networks up to 25 miles apart in an ideal setting, or 7 miles apart in an urban area, using spread spectrum radio technology at 2.4 GHz.Airlan/Bridge Ultra eliminates...
The revolution in wireless communications, already well underway, will dramatically reshape the way we work, play, shop and travel. Which technologies survive and flourish depends not only upon their consumer acceptance in the marketplace, but also, on a more basic level, their ability to...
