NEW YORK-Vivendi Universal has worldwide ambitions, particularly in the area of wireless technology and interactive television, and equally important, it possesses a balance sheet to support its plans, said Jean Marie Messier, chairman and chief executive officer."We believe we are the world's first global...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Argnor Wireless Ventures secured US$50 million for investments in Nordic wireless technology and products. Investors include Skandia, American Bessemer Venture Partners, Artic Ventures and TIF Ventures.Argnor is looking for wireless investments primarily in Sweden and Finland, but also in Denmark, Norway and Iceland,...
DOVER, N.J.—Casio and Sierra Wireless announced their plans to jointly deliver several wireless solutions. The Sierra Wireless AirCard wireless modems will support the new Cassiopeia BE-300 and the new E-200 Pocket PC 2002. The Sierra Wireless technologies will also be integrated with other Casio...
WASHINGTON-One word describes wireless telecom policy in the last 20 years: competition."Wireless was competitive before competition was cool," said Brian Fontes, vice president of federal relations for Cingular Wireless Inc. and former senior vice president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International, agreed to form a forum to develop a platform-free standard for multimodal and telephony-enabled access to information, applications and Web services for...
NEW YORK—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Inc.'s Car Working Group released a definition for how Bluetooth wireless technology will enable hands-free use of mobile phones in automobiles as part of its Hands-Free Profile, which are expected to be adopted by its membership.Prototypes using the...
NEW YORK—Fanlink Networks plans to debut its "fan-friendly" wireless technology at the Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints NFL game this Sunday at the Louisiana Superdome.The new technology will allow ticket holders to order food, drinks and merchandise and have the purchases delivered to...
HOLMDEL, N.J.—Unified communications provider uReach Technologies and wireless technology and services provider GiantBear Inc. announced a partnership that will allow GiantBear to offer its customers personal information management services powered by uReach.
TORONTO—RFID developer SAMSys Technologies Inc. has joined the Research In Motion BlackBerry Independent Software Vendors Alliance Program in hopes of integrating RIM's BlackBerry solution with SAMSys' multiprotocol, multi-frequency reader architecture."In keeping with our forward-looking and innovative approach to RFID system functionality, we believe that...
SALT LAKE CITY—Valence Semiconductor announced its VS7001 integrated circuit for GPS applications is now available. "The VS7001 represents a milestone in GPS design engineering and innovation moving toward the world's first single chip GPS," said Antony Beswick, vice president of strategic marketing for Valence....
LONDON-Wireless technology battles for the potentially lucrative home broadband market are heating up.Broadband in the home will dramatically change online consumption patterns and expectations of Internet access. With high-speed access and flat-rate pricing, always-on bandwidth becomes a domestic resource akin to electricity or water....
SANTA CRUZ, California, United States—Software developers plan to expand investments in wireless application development, despite uncertainties in today's economy and future technologies, according to a recent Evans Data study."Even though the public has adopted wireless data devices more slowly than expected, the wireless Internet...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell phone operators will see Bluetooth-enabled devices generate revenues of US$2 billion by 2006, claims a new market study conducted by Pyramid Research. The short-range wireless technology is, according to the company, only months away from making an impact on Western...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. completed the sale of its directory information services business to Verizon Information Services, a Yellow pages and online directory provider.Telus said it would use the $527 million in gross proceeds to pay down debt and help finance its national growth...
CLEVELAND-Sprint PCS is joining the movement to market wireless technologies to young adults with its new Cube, an easy-to-manage prepaid wireless phone.The phone, marketed to people between the ages of 14 and 24, offers voice, e-mail, Internet access and more than 100 video games....
The Personal Communications Industry Association announced ten new companies plan to join its Global Initiative program for help in assessing and managing m-convergence opportunities. The program provides marketing, regulatory and technical business tools through various products and services, PCIA said. "Organizations need to know...
NEW YORK-Businesses should hold off on investing in wireless applications for the consumer and should instead look at the potential of wireless for internal operations, according to a new report from Deloitte Consulting."In the near term, strategic investments in wireless applications within the company...
Even with more than 100 million customers across numerous carriers and a handful of technology choices, wireless subscribers in the United States hold and complete a conversation of acceptable audio quality more than 95 percent of the time, according to a report by wireless...
MINNEAPOLIS-Circata, a Minneapolis wireless infrastructure enabler, and the Trading and Development Partnership Co., a partner of the Saudi Telecom Co., will sell and distribute Circata's products and related technologies in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.As part of the exclusive, three-year agreement, the companies...
NEW YORK-"If they build advanced networks and better devices, mobile commerce will fly."That's been the resounding incantation from m-commerce hopefuls in the wireless industry to date. The reason mobile commerce hasn't taken off yet is because the networks are way too slow and the...
WASHINGTON-In an effort to prove it is a viable company and at the same time help a struggling icon, bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. said on July 2 it has signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to begin building out a CDMA network."We are...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-An international boom in Internet use and the increasing popularity of mobile phones in countries without wireline infrastructure is expected to greatly increase demand for wireless wide area network equipment, according to "World Wireless Wide Area Network Markets," a new report from...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems says NEC Corp. will begin using its chips for two Internet-enabled GSM cellular phones by the end of this year."GPRS, a 2.5-generation wireless technology and a bridge to third-generation wireless technology, offers data transmission speeds that are approximately five times faster...
Personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. released its much-anticipated earnings report last week, showing better-than-expected revenues and a positive outlook for the coming year.Wall Street jumped at the news, sending Palm's stock up about $1 per share. By Friday, the company's stock was selling...
