NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data Inc. has begun providing its trademarked Synapse to bridge the divide between rural farmers and their city customers.The pilot program, involving wireless point-of-sale terminals at 45 urban Green Markets in New York state, represents just one way the company "is...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer free and unlimited two-way text messaging services through Feb. 28. After the free promotional period ends, customers can continue service through a choice of two plans. For $5 per month, customers can send, receive and...
NEW YORK-The $41.6 billion bid by Deutsche Telekom AG for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. was the largest merger announced last quarter and the second-largest during the first nine months of this year, Mergerstat L.P., Los Angeles, reported.The semiconductor sector, with mergers totaling $49.5 billion, led...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-JP Systems introduced a new platform at CTIA's Wireless I.T. show last week called SureWave, along with a WAP browser for Palm OS devices, supporting the Palm Query Application over multiple wireless networks.The SureWave platform replaces the firm's InfoBeam technology as its...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp.'s board of directors is meeting this week to discuss several issues, including a spinoff of the company's consumer long-distance business and a possible merger of AT&T Wireless Services and Nextel Communications Inc., according to The Wall Street Journal.AT&T Wireless and Nextel...
As it initiates a beta launch of its wireless Internet solution and wireless portal this week, YadaYada Inc. is preparing to go head to head with competitors OmniSky Corp. and GoAmerica Inc.Calling itself a wireless version of America Online, YadaYada uses the same equipment...
The life of a start-up company is as unpredictable as the weather, and sometimes the plotted course turns out to be the wrong path to success.Such was the case with Reason Inc. Just eight months ago, the company launched as Reason Wireless Ware, selling...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Travelocity.com launched a mobile flight-booking tool with rebooking capabilities for customers using various types of wireless devices.The service allows travelers to buy airline tickets via their devices, as well as rebook previously purchased tickets if necessary. The service is available to subscribers...
VIENNA, Va.-Focusing on customer-based applications is ruining the potential of the wireless industry as demonstrated last week by the dip of Motorola Inc.'s stock price, said W. Kevin Hazzard, director of wireless services for Whitlock EBS.Wireless Web products were oversold in Europe, leading to...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-ESat Inc. launched its Tera-Point Wireless services in Los Angeles, capable of delivering up to 155 Megabits per second of data capacity.Tera-Point initially will offer businesses in Los Angeles three service plans based on length of contract. A two-year service contract offering...
SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM Corp. announced a number of software developers have chosen its WebSphere Everyplace Suite as the platform on which they will extend their applications to various wireless devices."Combining the strengths of IBM technology with leading applications, software developers are key to completing the...
Just less than a year after bursting onto the wireless Internet scene with a wireless solution for the Palm V, OmniSky Corp. this week is introducing a similar solution for the Handspring VisorPhone.The company also is unveiling version 2.0 of its service, which is...
Aether Systems Inc. announced USAToday.com as the first customer for the recently introduced AirLoom service, which adapts Web content for wireless distribution.In addition, Aether said it will help USAToday.com develop and deliver customized wireless services in the future, possibly including personalized alerts, enhanced search...
Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PCS licenses in Eugene, Ore., and Fort Collins and Greeley, Colo., from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. The licenses, covering 700,000 potential customers, were the subject of a previous memorandum of understanding between the...
For the mobile commerce market to succeed in winning over consumers from the wired Internet and bricks-and-mortar space, it will have to be flexible in meeting consumer expectations, according to a recent report by the Aberdeen Group.The report, "Mobile Electronic Commerce: The New Economy on...
Shares of AT&T Corp. fell after Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman lowered his recommendation on AT&T from "outperform" to "buy" on Friday. The stock was trading at $26.94 at RCR Wireless News press time, down $1.94 from the previous day's close.Grubman also cut...
Following months of speculation, regulatory red tape and the seemingly elusive approval by the Federal Communications Commission that came Sept. 29, SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Mobility officially came together last week, announcing its joint venture now will be known as Cingular Wireless."Cingular is...
WASHINGTON-Language to allow the Federal Communications Commission to take back RF licenses from bankrupt entities has been stripped from the FCC spending bill being considered by Congress.Legislation that would allow the FCC to take back the licenses of bankrupt companies was included in a...
CHICAGO-"Spectrum is like money, everyone always wants more of it and you can never get enough of it," said Mark Kelley, chief technology officer of Leap Wireless International Inc.It is a widely held theory in the wireless industry. But is it accurate?This was a...
CHICAGO-One of the first commercial deployments of EDGE technology could be in Mexico next year based on presentations and interviews at the PCIA GlobalXchange event. Mexico's largest wireless carrier, Telcel, plans to roll out commercial EDGE service in the country's three largest cities in...
ATLANTA-Domestic United Parcel Service customers can now track packages, find the nearest UPS drop-off location, calculate shipping rates and determine transit times for shipment via any wireless device, including one- or two-way text messaging, Web-enabled phones, personal digital assistants, pagers or other pervasive computing...
WASHINGTON-In a move with major implications for the future of mobile commerce and the $183 billion merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc., the Federal Communications Commission last week launched an inquiry into whether high-speed Internet open access should be mandated for...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. reported that its NewNet OTSserver TDMA application and NewNet SMserver application were approved through the Nortel Network Wireless Interoperability Testing program, gaining the Nortel Networks Compatible Product stamp of approval.ADC said the OTSserver software offers over-air-activation and programming for CDMA and...
NEW YORK-Wireless users may be free of the wire but not of the clutter. Despite the image of untethered communications, they are burdened with a bevy of devices.Only technology buffs are willing to carry around a bag full of wireless communicators that cannot interact...
