Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, one of the world's premier breeding grounds for mobile-phone technology, wireless network security developer Columbitech is gearing up to take on the United States with a wireless virtual private network product that will allow users to access their corporate local...
AudiovoxAudiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal communications services frequencies. The new...
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...
The push to implement unified wireless messaging services into wireless providers' portfolios of services and enterprise customers is growing stronger as both messaging providers and wireless operators look to capitalize on a market ready to explode.Wireless research firm ARC Group predicts unified wireless messaging...
Wireless messaging services are looked upon by many wireless service providers and Internet service providers as the "killer app" that will fuel both future subscriber and revenue growth. Unfortunately, the cost of implementing such services into networks is still prohibitively high compared with the...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The myth that prepaid cellular users are by definition low-value customers has been firmly discredited, and prepaid services did much to increase GSM penetration among the young and cost conscious at a time, around 1997, when European growth rates were slack.Now European operators...
WASHINGTON-While international attention is focused on Deutsche Telekom AG's $50.3 billion bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and the fireworks it has set off in Congress, merger and acquisition activity in the coming months is expected to be dominated by smaller wireless transactions as large...
NEW ORLEANS-Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group and WorldCom Inc. revealed the first details of the Breckenridge Agreement, a document established to ensure the cooperation of wireless broadband carriers building systems in adjacent markets.The agreement encompasses carriers operating in the multichannel multipoint distribution service, multipoint...
ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward.The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet another indication the wireless Internet...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. agreed to acquire Safco Technologies, which supplies wireless planning, measurement, analysis and predictive software systems and data collection products and services."With the growing demand of new wireless data and Internet services, carriers are faced with the daunting task of...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...
Teligent Inc.'s board of directors authorized a two-for-one stock split subject to shareholder approval of an amendment to the company's certificate of incorporation authorizing an increase in the number of shares of Teligent common stock. The proposed amendment will be presented to shareholders at...
Financial analysts are beginning to conservatively incorporate potential wireless data revenues into their valuations of wireless carriers, and many are looking to the future, realizing wireless operators should be evaluated like Internet stocks.This measurement will have huge implications for the wireless industry. Investors have...
PLANO, Texas-EDS announced it is helping GTE Wireless bring the convenience of online bill payments to its more than 7 million customers by providing interactive online billing as part of the GTE's corporatewide e-commerce strategy.Interactive Billing Services, based on EDS' electronic billing offering, allows...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
L.M. Ericsson introduced a mobile Internet portal solution developed for wireless networks called the Ericsson WISE Portal. WISE was designed as a single point of access for various Internet-enabled devices, including personal computers, browser-enabled mobile phones and connected personal digital assistants. It supports both...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Thanks to Bell Atlantic Mobile and Bell Labs, people with speech or hearing disabilities will be able to make digital cellular phone calls-including 911 emergency calls-using text-telephone devices plugged into wireless telephone handsets.Using software from Bell Labs-the research and development unit of...
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...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced Metricom Inc. signed a 10-year master license agreement for up to 500 wireless data sites on Crown Castle's domestic communications towers.Metricom is expected to collocate Wired Access Points in order to launch its 128-kilobit-per-second service next year. Rental rates...
HarrisHarris Corp. previewed its ClearBurst 2.5/3.4/10.5 GHz point-to-multipoint system, the newest addition to the Harris broadband wireless access product line, which is intended for deployment by public service providers as well as private network operators. The ClearBurst product offers a solution for delivering Time...
GENEVA-3Com Corp. unveiled its third-generation technology strategy last week that calls for the company to develop wireless networking technologies that will give people and businesses total network availability and secure access to voice, video, data and e-business applications, regardless of their physical location."Wireless access...
AgilentAgilent Technologies debuted the SQL server 7.0 database scanner and HP SFCommand. HP SFCommand will help network operators integrate all security applications, such as monitoring and the implementation of security policies, across every server in their networks. The SQL Server 7.0 database scanner enables...
BOULDER, Colo.-SignalSoft Corp., a software developer focused on the wireless location market, found high consumer demand for wireless location services in two market research studies the company conducted.The studies were designed to determine consumer attitudes about location-based services.The first survey, conducted with The Strategis...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.), in the latest effort to strengthen state and local oversight of antenna siting, has introduced legislation to shift the burden to wireless carriers to ensure transmission towers meet with approval of local residents.The Local Zoning Preservation Act of 1999, introduced...
