As wireless phones become smaller on the outside, their usefulness to the outside world continues to grow. In addition to wireless Internet capabilities, newly designed unified messaging and voice recognition technologies are opening up a whole new avenue for cellular phone users and new...
NEW YORK-Canadian users of Web-enabled wireless phones and two-way pagers can get walking or driving directions to any location within the country, under an agreement announced Nov. 22 between Maptuit Corp. and Sympatico-Lycos Inc.Sympatico-Lycos, an Internet service provider, is jointly owned by Lycos Inc....
NEW YORK-For Samsung Telecommunications America, South Korea's mandatory elimination of wireless handset subsidies created a ripple effect across the ocean that translates into more aggressive marketing in the United States.Next year, the manufacturer plans to introduce several new models, including a combination personal digital...
RENO, Nev.-Globus Wireless Ltd. announced it acquired wireless products distribution company Edge Continental Inc. for $2.5 million.Edge, founded in 1997, is an international distributor of wireless phones and original equipment manufacturer accessories. The company had about $7 million in sales this fiscal year.The effective...
ATLANTA-BulletIN.net, which develops and supplies two-way wireless Internet solutions, won patents in the United States and New Zealand for a single-button reply process for short message service e-mail.BulletIN.net said the patent solves a problem on typical wireless phones that allows users only to reply...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.-Airbiquity and Televigation hope to take over the elusive location-aware phone market by integrating their technologies to offer real-time, voice-activated navigation services.Under the deal, Airbiquity will combine its global positioning system accessory, which can retrofit wireless phones with GPS technology, with Televigation's...
Over the past several weeks, Sprint PCS has rolled out several additions to its Wireless Web service designed to target the consumer market, particularly teen users.In the last month, users of Sprint's Wireless Web service have seen new folders added to their launch screens...
Deutsche Telekom expects to obtain approval of its proposed purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by the first quarter of next year, according to a report in German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The deal, valued at $37 billion, still requires U.S. regulatory approval.Lucent Technologies...
In the effort to alter consumers' perceptions of wireless phones, Sprint PCS turned up the volume last week with the introduction of an online music service offered in conjunction with the first combination MP3 player/wireless phone available in the United States.The introduction of the...
After pioneering efforts to bring Bluetooth technology to market, Ericsson dropped plans to launch the T36 cell phone, its first Bluetooth-enabled handset, in an attempt to pull its handset division back toward profitability. The T36, announced in June, was one of two cell phones...
HandsetsNeopointThe company released new dual-band and tri-mode smart phones that include increased capacity for personal digital assistant functions, built-in e-mail capabilities and a NeoPad Qwerty keyboard. The dual-band NeoPoint 2000 and tri-mode NeoPoint 2600 phones hold more than 2,000 contacts, schedule, task and personal...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. signed a 2-year agreement with Standard Telecom Co. Ltd. to market CDMA digital phones marketed under the Audiovox brand name throughout North and South America.The first of two wireless phones included in the agreement is the CMP-3, a dual-mode CDMA...
EndwaveEndwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands. The antennas include flat horizontal radiation pattern, rapid azimuth pattern...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.-David Bell has quite a resume.He founded his own company in 1997 in his basement. He helped evolve the company from a mostly hardware-focused business into a software and content developer focusing on a niche market. Three months ago, Bell secured...
TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like green tea, Panasonic's wireless phones have not achieved the same level of success in the...
LOS ANGELES-Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. are donating 100 pre-programmed digital wireless phones and free airtime to eight domestic violence prevention programs in the Los Angeles area as part of Call to Protect, a national education and philanthropic initiative to help victims of domestic...
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
MCLEAN, Va.-Ventera Corp., an e-business solutions provider, announced it has formed a wireless Internet and mobile commerce practice group.The company already uses WAP technology to allow network system administrators to use wireless phones to access Windows NT servers for maintenance and monitoring activities. The...
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.-Sierra Wireless Inc. will use PrairieComm Inc.'s PCI3800 integrated baseband processor to enable a next-generation TDMA/EDGE wireless modem now in development, allowing notebook computers and other mobile computing devices to access data networks through wireless service providers.The AirCard, expected to begin shipping...
CHICAGO-At what was overall a relatively slow show in terms of floor traffic, Handspring Inc. took a piece of the spotlight by introducing an attachment to its Visor organizer product that adds voice functionality to the primarily data device at the Personal Communications Industry...
Verizon Wireless' recent announcement that it would back laws restricting the use of cell phones while driving in Illinois may pump fresh life into attempts by local communities across the country to pass such regulations. The decision also showed the first cracks in the...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. has teamed with Bell Mobility of Canada to make Bell Mobility's Mobile Browser service accessible via Wireless Knowledge's WorkStyle Server.The combined solution will allow business users to use their Mobile Browser service to get work-related e-mail on their wireless phones...
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...
LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. kicked off its Safe School Program in Orange County, Calif., by donating wireless phones, airtime and school supplies to Edison Elementary School in Santa Ana, Calif., as part of a partnership with the Orange County Rescue Mission's Backpack Program.The...
