SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Software.com said its InterMail software was licensed by Sprint PCS to provide the Internet Protocol-based communications infrastructure for Sprint PCS' wireless messaging service, which delivers electronic messages directly to wireless phones from the Internet or other wireless devices.
BELLEVUE, Wash.-GTE Wire-less said it will test @mobile.com's Internet-based information services to customers in its Seattle and Spokane, Wash., markets.Services include a group text message broadcast service, a service sending Internet-based content to digital wireless phones at predetermined times and the ability to query...
Sprint PCS's awaited introduction of nationwide commercial Internet-access services will begin in late September, announced the company.Targeting business users and a wide range of consumer customers that are heavy Internet and e-mail users, Sprint PCS will hit the market with Sprint PCS Wireless Web,...
I love August. Things slow down. Congress is in "recess"-one of my favorite activities.And PrimeCo comes out with its "Flash From the Wireless Front: Fun Facts About Wireless Users." The survey, according to its accompanying news release, explores the personal communication habits and behaviors of...
Omnipoint Communications Corp., Message Center Management and Motiva Enterprises L.L.C. signed an agreement for Omnipoint to install wireless infrastructure equipment in 500 Shell and Texaco retail sites in the New England and Westchester county, N.Y., markets. "Message Center Management and Motiva offer us a...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile has launched an initiative to collect unused wireless phones from its customers and reprogram the handsets for emergency calls by community-based public-safety groups in Delaware, southern New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia area."The evolution of wireless phones from analog to...
Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a feature enhancement that increases the battery life of Time Division Multiple Access digital mobile phones. The software, refined by Bell Labs, turns down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, which effectively increases talk...
Two Code Division Multiple Access carriers launched limited data services last week that involve linking wireless phones to laptop computers via a cable, allowing the phones to act both as a voice device and wireless data modem.Such a solution has been available from Global...
To the Editor,Use of mobile phones is strictly prohibited in hospitals, planes and other specific areas because they may interfere with the normal functioning of the electronic or magnetic equipment due to radiation of electromagnetic waves.Owners manuals provided by manufacturers of various mobile phones...
Intelligent agent technology has been long considered a potential boon for messaging applications looking to provide meaningful content to wireless devices.Agents are small bits of code capable of monitoring data, recognizing what information is valuable to its user and then transmitting it to a...
Wireless carrier marketing efforts during the last year have largely focused on new pricing schemes, but that may be about to change.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. kicked off the trend more than a year ago when it introduced its Digital One Rate plan. In the...
Since opening its initial public offering at $16 on July 9, Phone.com Inc.'s stock price recently has been closing in the $70 range, with sales during the day breaking $80.Whether this success will stand the test of time remains to be seen, but for...
Today's satellite-based data and messaging carriers have found the secret to their success is partnering with those they once considered their primary competitors-terrestrial-based wireless data carriers.At first, satellite data carriers figured their greater coverage range would outdo that of terrestrial carriers. While this proved...
Primal Systems Inc., a provider of customer management products, introduced a new product to its suite of e-business solutions, called WebCare, last week at Billing '99 in Dallas.Designed to help carriers maximize the use of the Internet for customer-care functions, WebCare allows customers and...
Qwest Communications International is pursuing an acquisition of U S West in competition with another bidder, Global Crossing.Microsoft announced in mid-May a US$600 million investment in Nextel Communications, the leading trunked radio operator in the United States. The deal is to give Nextel customers...
MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic U.S. carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by the burgeoning data traffic at home."Many of the U.S. carriers I follow have not...
HandsetsKyoceraKyocera plans to begin marketing at the end of July in Japan its VP-210 VisualPhone, a PHS phone with a built-in camera that can transmit and receive images in real time at a rate of two frames per second. The handset incorporates a CMOS...
NEW YORK-Exxon Corp., Irvine, Texas, has posted signs at its domestic filling stations requiring customers to turn off their wireless phones before filling their cars' gas tanks due to the slight chance the devices could ignite a fire.Esso Sekiyu K.K. and General Sekiyu K.K.,...
Global Mobility Systems has partnered with Internet infrastructure company InfoSpace.com to provide Internet content to wireless phones using Global Mobility's @mobile Internet portal.Under the agreement, InfoSpace.com will deliver Web content and interactive Internet services to national wireless carriers, said the companies. The @mobile solution...
SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun's Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com's Palm operating system software later this year.The companies also agreed to make Sun's K Virtual...
XircomXircom Inc. announced a new product line called CompactCard, which it said extends wireless connectivity for Windows CE handheld computers. CompactCard is a series of Type II CompactFlash cards that give Windows CE devices access to Ethernet, modem and Global System for Mobile communications...
Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler has announced this year's Vita Wireless Samaritans, all of whom used their wireless phones to save, protect or improve themselves or the lives of those around them.CTIA will honor a person from each state, the District of...
ORANGEBURG, N.Y.-In an effort to maintain and improve its service quality and reliability in the New York metro area, Bell Atlantic Mobile unveiled its new mobile testing vehicle loaded with $250,000 of equipment.The loaded blue station wagon drives around the New York area five...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular introduced the Community Action Life Line program in Mason City, Iowa, a national community policing program that provides wireless phones to people frequently out in neighborhoods-like postal workers and crossing guards-so they can report unusual activities or emergencies.In Mason City, postal carriers...
