Instant messaging is considered a key element to what the wireless industry calls pervasive messaging, meaning the ability to send a text message from any device-such as a computer, pager or wireless phone-to any other text-enabled device regardless of network connection.As the wireless industry...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, clearing the way for research to begin on whether radio-frequency emissions from wireless phones pose any health risk.Under the agreement, the FDA will review research,...
RALEIGH, N.C.-Nando Media has launched a 24-hour news service for Internet-enabled wireless phones and pagers using Wireless Application Protocol technology.
NEW YORK-WebLink Wireless Inc., Dallas, will target teen-agers and twenty-somethings with a two-way messaging and e-mail service it plans to debut this summer.Subscribers who sign a year-long service contract for $15 monthly will receive an $80 rebate on the $179 retail price of the...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill to phase out the 3 percent telecommunications excise tax."American consumers should no longer be paying for Teddy Roosevelt's ride up San Juan Hill. Now is the right time to eliminate the 102-year old luxury...
Seagull Inc., a provider of e-business solutions for Windows and Web-based systems, extended its reach into the wireless realm last week with the introduction of its server-based Wireless-to-Host Solution.For 10 years, Seagull has offered Web-to-Host and Windows-to-Host solutions, basically providing software that allows enterprises...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association kicked off Wireless Safety Week last week with an emphasis on driver safety.The association focused on different wireless safety aspects each day of the week.CTIA and its member companies launched a national drive-time radio campaign focused on driver safety.In...
Article intended to highlight many contributionsTo the editor: I am concerned that there may be a misperception resulting from my article published by RCR on March 27, 2000, that the U.S. government in some way "favors" CDMA over other wireless technologies. This has been inferred...
Whatever you do, don't tell John Beletic he's running a paging network."We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and people are still calling us a paging carrier," said the chairman and chief executive officer...
OMAHA, Neb.-Nextel Partners Inc. expanded its digital wireless network with the launch of service in Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., as well as in Idaho.The Nebraska coverage area will include the corridor of Interstate 80 into Iowa, from Council Bluffs in western Iowa to the...
How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless phones can cater to the less gallant side of humanity.CTIA this week honors its VITA award winners-people who have used...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-GetThere.com Inc., which offers Internet-based business-to-business travel systems, introduced its GetThere Wireless Network, extending online travel to wireless customers.The wireless service allows travelers to make changes to their flight arrangements, access itinerary, schedules and flight information and receive status alerts on wireless...
Noting more than 100,000 calls are placed every day to 911 from wireless phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has recognized May 22-28 as "Wireless Safety Week," with an emphasis placed on awarding Good Samaritans who have used their wireless phones to help others."The...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Alltel launched a new nationwide rate plan in its mid-Atlantic markets allowing its customers to use digital wireless phones anywhere and at any time for one flat rate without any roaming and long-distance charges.The new plan dubbed "Total Freedom," began in the company's...
NEW YORK-In a perfect world, top executives would not implement a new promotion plan until they received assurances from the engineering department that the system could handle increased use.Instead, demands for quick fixes after the fact are typical in an environment where increasing numbers...
Web sites that offer comparison shopping for wireless phones and services appear to be a dime a dozen these days. Consumers go to these sites because they promise to be objective. But what happens when wireless companies invest in the e-tailers promising that objectivity?Recently,...
As last week's Love Bug virus painfully illustrated, more computer viruses are being spread via e-mail, and they are growing increasingly destructive.But despite the growing popularity of wireless e-mail services, the Love Bug fiasco remained largely a non-event in the wireless world. While some...
OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet solution for the Palm V handheld computer.It's time to see how wide the door...
Microsoft Corp. released its Pocket PC platform for handheld personal computers powered by its Windows CE operating system.Microsoft hardware partners Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symbol Technologies Inc. each introduced devices using the platform. Prices for the new devices...
WASHINGTON-The White House is expected shortly to release a belated report advocating the integration of wireless technologies into the nation's Emergency Alert System, a policy that industry, federal regulators and Congress have not aggressively pushed despite the fact that millions of mobile phones today...
NEW YORK-MessageClick introduced its Mobile Messaging service that allows users to view fax, voice and e-mail messages and forward faxes on wireless phones or handheld computers.The unified messaging solution will allow MessageClick partners like Juno, MindSpring and Mannesmann to offer wireless messaging accessibility to...
NEW YORK-SVI Inc., Pompano Beach, Fla., has begun marketing a product it calls SafeTShield, which the company said blocks a significant amount of electromagnetic waves entering the human ear from mobile and cordless phones."As a company, we don't take a position that wireless phones...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence launched a nationwide "Donate a Phone" campaign designed to collect 1 million, of the estimated 24 million, inactive wireless phones in circulation to benefit victims of domestic violence."The program's main goal is to put...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. introduced a new toll-free telephone service providing consumers with a convenient way to purchase or receive information about hands-free accessories for the company's cellular phones."We want to again remind consumers who choose to use their wireless phones in their cars...
