NEW YORK-Nexthaus Corp., Raleigh, N.C., plans to help wireless carriers "squeeze as many dollars as possible from existing 2G networks" with its new SyncSuite synchronization software, said Rob Lease, co-founder and vice president.The company based its product on the premise that people will continue...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
WASHINGTON-The trade association for state legislators said recently it will try to find "common ground" on the use of wireless devices while driving."Our goal was to bring the various stakeholders together. Safety advocates in the same room with telecommunications carriers, automobile manufacturers and state...
Like the stubborn ache of a mild whiplash, new wireless application service providers (WASPs) and wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) are chipping away at the territories of established carriers, according to a study released by Friedman, Billings and Ramsey & Co. Inc., a consulting...
DALLAS-Esoftsolutions Inc., an e-business integrator and solutions provider, adapted the Docent Enterprise Learning Management System platform to support a wireless capability for Gradepoint Inc., a provider of computer training and eLearning.With this wireless capability, Gradepoint hopes to improve communication between the home office and...
DES MOINES, Iowa-Nextel Partners Inc. was awarded the "Business of the Year" award from the Iowa Crime Prevention Association for its Nextel Partners Project Patrol the company launched last May in Des Moines, West Des Moines and Davenport, Iowa.The program provides free wireless phones...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The Westchester County Legislature voted unanimously last Monday to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld cellular phones.The measure authorizes fines of up to $150 for an offense in the county unless the driver is using a hands-free device or is placing an...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-WorldCom Inc., the nation's second-largest provider of long-distance service, on Wednesday laid off about 6,000 U.S. employees, or roughly 7 percent of its worldwide work force, as part of a restructuring announced last year, a company source said.Nearly every segment of the...
BALTIMORE, Md.-Advertising.com Inc. introduced a new Web-based delivery system that allows advertisers to reach consumers online with manufacturer coupons and promotional materials. Consumers will be able to print the coupons directly or to forward them to e-mail addresses or wireless phones for future use.According...
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Denso Wireless, a manufacturer and supplier of wireless phones, and Unitech Industries, a manufacturer of phone accessories, signed a strategic alliance to jointly develop accessories for phones supplied to Sprint PCS.The companies said they expect to jointly develop digital hands-free car kits, single-slot...
According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users in the United States and Europe, 80 percent of all wireless customers, will play...
WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra time to deploy enhanced 911 Phase II service in exchange for providing disaster-warning alerts to the phones of subscribers."We made...
TOKYO-Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it was adding Internet services to its second-tier personal handyphone system, in an attempt to cut into a market dominated by its rival KDDI Corp.NTT said the service will offer faster transmission speeds, as high as 64...
Mounting brick walls between businesses remain obstacles in an economy that integrates by the day. But XMLSolutions Global aims to turn barriers into networks by bringing its expertise into the flawed territory of WAP.Extensible Markup Language, often exalted as the meta-language for third-generation m-commerce,...
WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry insists steady progress has been made in the five years since the Federal Communications Commission was asked-but held back-from mandating hearing-aid compatibility for mobile phones, the hearing-impaired community is now unwilling to accept anything less than government intervention.The Cellular Telecommunications...
As industry spends billions of dollars on spectrum and banks on a future driven by third-generation wireless phones and mobile commerce, there is every reason to believe the serious business of tomorrow is actually child's play.While wireless executives with sweaty palms write checks to...
In tune with lowered expectations, Motorola Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings dropped, confirming fears of an industrywide slowdown.Including special items, its net income dropped 58 percent to $135 million, or six cents per share, from $323 million a year ago. Excluding special items, its profits declined...
DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. users can now be alerted about the arrival of a specified e-mail message to their AOL account via text-enabled digital wireless phones or pagers.The AOL Mail Alerts service, which is free for its customers using AOL 4.0 or newer, is...
While content may remain king, many feel content is only as good as the user interface to it.One company hoping to ease the user interface frustration for both wireline and wireless Internet users is Yodlee Inc., an account aggregation service provider that allows users...
The talk throughout 2000 centered on third-generation (3G) technology-its high costs, functionality, risks and mostly its promise. But 3G has different meanings in different circles. Because 3G is something that is not yet officially tangible, a concrete definition is not easy to come by.The...
As the debate rages on in Britain over the possible health effects cellular phones may have on children, a recent survey from London-based NOP Research Group showed that one in 10 British adults planned to give a mobile phone as a present for Christmas,...
Logistics services provider CellStar Corp. has agreed to sell Motorola's wireless phones and accessories to carriers and dealers in the United States on terms that could rake in revenues in excess of $325 million for CellStar.The deal covers a wide array of handsets offered...
Time to sit up and pay attention. Last week, a Navy midshipman was cleared of vehicular manslaughter charges after he was involved in an auto accident while talking on his cell phone that resulted in the death of a New York couple. The judge...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said last week he thinks the time has come to mandate digital wireless phones be compatible with hearing aids."It is time to think about a mandate. ... We were very very patient," said William Kennard, noting that...
