Just as a zoo is a place where different species from around the world can peacefully co-mingle, telezoo.com said it is a place where telecommunication buyers and sellers can easily interact.The Web site is home to telezoo.com's ZooCommerce platform, which includes a large database...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. signed an agreement with Telecom Italia Mobile to provide a range of Yahoo!'s Wireless Application Protocol-enabled content and services in Italian to TIM's customers."The wireless market continues to grow at an exponential rate-in Europe and Asia in particular, penetration is...
NEW YORK-Excluding the third-generation wireless impact, the number of cell sites for mobile communications in the United States likely will reach 140,000 in the next two years, said Ric Prentiss, senior vice president of equity research for Raymond James & Associates.Citing Cellular Telecommunications Industry...
As carriers develop relationships with wireless portals and content providers, they may find a new and beneficial trend emerging: that is Internet companies battling for the premier spots on wireless phone screens.The favorable spot for those Internet companies is what is known as "above the...
Having been ruled a monopoly and found guilty of violating federal antitrust laws to maintain that status, Microsoft now faces an uncertain future as federal courts determine how best to provide relief to competitors harmed by its actions, as well as deal with a...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. launched second-generation services for wireless Yahoo! users as part of the company's "Yahoo! Everywhere" strategy.The new services allow consumers with Wireless Application Protocol-enabled mobile phones and devices to access Yahoo! Auctions, Movies, the Yahoo! Directory and user registration options on...
The Personal Communications Industry Association announced another initiative last week to turn the association around in the midst of dwindling membership and public-relations problems surrounding its annual trade show.PCIA said it is repositioning and renaming its annual conference and trade show PCIA GlobalXChange to...
NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc. has been relatively quiet about its plans for the wireless Internet, but last week it announced a number of initiatives to propel itself into this arena. Lucent, Sun Microsystems and iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance, released an end-to-end solution...
NEW ORLEANS-Just how wireless Internet access will explode may depend on how carriers work with Internet players, executives said at last week's Wireless 2000 show.While Sprint PCS made one of the largest announcements at the show by teaming up with the country's biggest Internet...
TORONTO-Bell Mobility Inc.'s new Mobile Browser is providing plenty of new options to customers who want access to online services from their digital personal communications services phones.GetThere.com Inc., a provider of Internet-based business-to-business travel booking systems, will team up with Bell Mobility, a wireless...
Clearly, marketing and selling wireless data will be one of the largest hurdles the wireless industry will face as it begins to heavily roll out the service.Wireless operators need to spend the big bucks to tell consumers how data services will be valuable to...
Carriers across the United States are scratching their heads trying to figure out what the best business model is when teaming up with content providers to offer Internet access.It's a difficult question to answer."Each content provider has a different type of business model," said...
SAN FRANCISCO-In line with the wireless data focus that has engulfed the industry throughout 1999, the four keynote speakers on the opening day of the 1999 CDMA Americas Congress represented Internet heavy-hitters.Executives from Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Cisco Systems and Yahoo! Inc. gave...
As wireless access to the Internet becomes an increasingly popular selling point for wireless carriers, a new concern arises over how carriers can offer valuable Internet-based content without becoming marginalized as a pipe.With 1 billion wireless customers expected by 2003, it is no surprise...
NEW YORK-The astounding success of NTT DoCoMo's mobile Internet access service is a resounding note of affirmation to proponents of wireless Web services, said Crispin K. Vicars at the Yankee Group's conference Nov. 8.By the end of September, DoCoMo's wireless Internet service had 1.7...
NEW YORK-Because of the burgeoning demand for data communications in the United States, wireless local access is emerging from the shadows of its mobile brethren and coming into its own as a bona fide business opportunity."There is tremendous enthusiasm for data, and the enthusiasm...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-@mobile.com Inc., an application service provider for wireless carriers and Internet content providers, and GTE Wireless announced they will offer Internet content from Infospace, Starbucks, Weather.com, LinksTime.com and UV115.com to select GTE Wireless subscribers in the San Francisco Bay Area.GTE Wireless subscribers...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Following up its widely acclaimed NeoPoint 1000 smart phone, NeoPoint Inc. last week at Wireless I.T. introduced a location-based wireless portal called myAladdin.com.The portal is positioned as a smart-information service, with features including driving directions and route guides, ATM Locator, traffic information,...
HungaryMotorola Inc. said it is providing Hungarian mobile operator Westel 900 its Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform. The trial is Hungary's first deployment of the Wireless Application Protocol. It will allow mobile users to access Internet content via Internet portals such as Yahoo! and...
There was a time, not so long ago, when reasonably priced voice service with decent coverage delighted most wireless subscribers. But subscribers soon were demanding the same features-like voice mail, caller ID and three-way calling-offered on wireline phones.These features, previously known as enhanced services,...
WASHINGTON-After last year's PCS show was largely disrupted by Hurricane Georges, Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association, said he's been assured this year's show will not be a repeat performance.The list of speakers at Personal Communications Showcase '99, set to begin...
Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market.Carriers had better beware.Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise of a gift in the form of a Trojan horse. Looking back, it seems hard to...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. said it has formed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to display GoAmerica's wireless connectivity solutions on Yahoo! Mobile, a new service of which GoAmerica is a charter sponsor.
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,...
