To the Editor: I found the opinion by Tracy Ford (RCR, Oct. 25, 1999) to be oddly uninformed, especially in view of the long-term coverage your publication has given to the wireless phone health issue. While I have certainly had my differences with RCR over...
A U.S. investigative news television program caused a mild stir in the wireless industry after airing a report in October on the possible link between cellular phones and health problems. It was the first major U.S. media report on the issue since lawsuits claiming...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Just as the cellular fight in Israel intensified with the latest marketing campaigns, the Ministry of Communications announced it may license a fourth and maybe a fifth provider by the end of next year.Deputy Prime Minister and Communications Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer recently...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking minority member of the Governmental Affairs Committee, called for a congressional investigation into whether mobile phones pose a health risk to the nation's 80 million subscribers."In the last five years, the numbers of Americans using cellular telephones has increased...
NEW YORK-The irony inherent in the proliferation of communications devices and technologies is the difficulty of getting them to interact with home base.Therein lies a business opportunity for MobileSys Inc., a Mountain View, Calif., start-up that provides middleware. Its mission is to serve as...
WASHINGTON-In some respects, the Main Event was a non-event.Wireless stocks did not go into free fall. Major dailies did not go wild with follow-up stories on ABC's "20/20" broadcast on mobile-phone health concerns last Wednesday evening. Congress did not call for hearings, although Sen....
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week attempted to delay ABC's "20/20" broadcast on mobile phones and attacked the credibility of the man who led CTIA-funded health research.ABC said it plans to air the segment on mobile phone health concerns, possibly this week. "60...
Nokia Corp. and Palm Computing Inc. have entered into a joint development agreement under which the two will cross-license their respective technologies to create a new category of wireless phones featuring Palm's pen-based user input method and personal information management functions."It's an expansion of...
NEW YORK-Despite its investments in the troubled Iridium L.L.C. satellite carrier, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., reported strong third-quarter results Oct. 12 that reflected growth in its wireless handset business.Including one-time charges, the company earned $91 million, or 14 cents per share, up from $27...
Microsoft Corp. teamed with Socket Communications Inc. to introduce the Microsoft Communications Kit-a carrier-independent solution designed to wirelessly enable laptop or palmtop computers running Windows or Windows CE using data-enabled wireless phones as modems.Using either a cable attachment or infrared port connection, users can...
The popularity of wireless may be contributing to an industrywide shortage of some components used in mobile devices, although device manufacturers may not be feeling the effects just yet.After suffering through a slump during the last several years that was characterized by an oversupply...
The convergence of the Internet and wireless networks was punctuated last week as Internet heavy hitters Amazon.com Inc., America Online Inc. and Oracle Corp. made announcements extending their services further into the wireless realm.Perhaps the strongest statement made was Amazon.com's aggressive entry to the...
CDMA handsets were the No. 1 selling handset in the United States during the first quarter of this year, with sales of 3.2 million units, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc. TDMA handset sales were at 2.8 million units in...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services on a large scale.TDMA operators-which in the late 1980s banked on Cellular Digital...
WASHINGTON-Reps. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.), celebrity spokeswoman Gabrielle Reece, Denise Brown of the Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation, and Rita Smith, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, helped launch the Call to Protect program.Call to Protect is a partnership...
Three quarters of the way into 1999, we are inundated with good news from many of the wireless carriers showing record numbers of new customers added to their networks. These numbers are impressive and, in spite of local resistance to towers and the controversy...
NEW YORK-Those who think Internet-based services provision will reduce overhead should remember the conventional wisdom once was that computers were heralds of a paperless society.Nevertheless, Web-based customer care promises its own rewards over the longer term for companies that meet its unique challenges, said...
NEW YORK-I.D. Systems Inc., a newly public company, has deployed its patented wireless monitoring and tracking system to help the U.S. Postal Service keep its promise of "We deliver."The company, headquartered in New York's Silicon Alley, developed its technology, which uses the unlicensed 900...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services in large scale.Time Division Multiple Access operators-which in the late 1980s banked on...
PITTSBURGH-Crisis Center North and Bell Atlantic Mobile launched the Phone Recycling Program, which will allow BAM customers in the Pittsburgh area to recycle their older model wireless phones by donating them to the crisis center to benefit victims of domestic violence. Donated phones must...
NEW YORK-North American telecommunications carriers rank below manufacturing, consumer products and financial services companies in their adoption of Internet-enabled enterprises, concluded a recent report of American Management Systems, Fairfax, Va."eCommerce in the Telecommunications Industry: Trends and Innovations" is a study based on AMS' evaluation of...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-@mobile.com Inc. introduced its Wireless IMessenger Internet service, which extends Internet instant messaging to digital wireless phones.The company said the product is compatible with all current digital wireless phones and networks.
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected privacy and industry concerns in approving six of nine additional capabilities to an industry interim technical standard implementing the digital wiretap act.The decision was not surprising. Last October, the FCC tentatively concluded five of the nine so-called punch-list items...
Soon my constant companion will leave me-no I don't mean my husband or my adorable bulldog-rather I mean my Sprint Spectrum phone.I (along with all of the other Sprint Spectrum subscribers) am being "upgraded" to Sprint PCS. In other words, I am being moved...
