Monthly Archives: September, 2000
Andersen prototype offers wireless Web billing solution
NEW YORK-Andersen Consulting released its Mobile Micropayments prototype, illustrating how consumers can purchase items using an Internet billing solution from a wireless phone without...
Aether signs pact with ePhones
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. signed an agreement with ePhones to resell BlackBerry handheld devices using Aether Wireless' e-mail services through the ePhones Powered...
LG TeleCom collaborates with AppStream for Java handset solution
Korea-based LG TeleCom Co. Ltd. moved one step closer to Java-enabled handsets last week, announcing a collaboration with AppStream Inc. to use AppStream's Java...
Siemens, Wireless Facilities to expand Kuwait network
SAN DIEGO, United States-Wireless Facilities said Siemens selected the company for phase two of its expansion of Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co. dual-band GSM network,...
Best Buy to sell Verizon service
MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Wireless services will be offered at more than 350 Best Buy stores nationwide beginning in October, complementing the retailer's current national wireless two-way...
AirFlash launches partner program
SARATOGA, Calif.-AirFlash Inc. launched its Strategic Location-Relevant Partner Program by announcing nine U.S. service and content providers, including MasterCard International.SLRP program partners may integrate...
Bluetooth at the gate; ready to run: SIG works through testing issues, standards setting and early hype
Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts...
Alltel expects earnings to rise 12 percent in 2001
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. announced stronger wireless customer growth forecasts for 2001 and 2002, with cash earnings per share in each year expected to...
Acedo to head Mexican cellular firms
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola said it named Guillermo Acedo Romero as general manager of the company's wholly owned cellular operating companies in northern Mexico....
Companies hope to establish Cambridge as test bed for third-generation services
CAMBRIDGE, England-Interest group Cambridge3G was launched to establish Cambridge, England, as a leading test bed in Europe for the early rollout of third-generation mobile...
Go local for big benefits
For the most part, the telecommunications industry has survived a furious buildout period during the past five years with nary a scratch-or so it...
Brightpoint de Mexico enters Undefon agreement
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint de Mexico S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., entered into an agreement with Mexican radio spectrum license holder Unefon S.A. de...
CDMA handsets fuel Audiovox growth
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Corp. released financial results for its third quarter ended Aug. 30, showing a 58.5 percent increase in net sales to $470.3 million,...
House telecom subcommittee approves bill-and-keep billing
WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee last week voted to include wireless carriers in a new scheme for carriers to compensate each other for carrying each...
Low-power TV bill passes Senate
WASHINGTON-A bill that would allow low power TV broadcasters to offer high-speed access to the Internet passed the Senate last week, said Sen. Conrad...
Business Briefs
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity and London-based TLcom Partners invested an undisclosed financial amount in privately held Xypoint, a provider of software and...
Siemens sells chip facility to Amtel
MUNICH, Germany-U.S. chip manufacturer Amtel Corp. plans to take over Siemens AG's North Tyneside semiconductor factory in northeastern England, with plans to supply Siemens...
With 200 new wireless exhibitors, Kitchen upbeat about Global Xchange
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-After spending the spring revamping his organization and moving it in a new direction with a new show, Jay Kitchen, president of the...
Wireless Internet content providers struggle to find comfort spot
Being the new kid on the block is always a challenge. Besides trying to keep your own sense of identity, there is the pressure...
Brightpod to help companies sort out wireless Internet connection
With all the wireless enabling solutions, wireless application service providers, devices, software and networks available today, it's not too difficult to see how dot-coms...
AT&T kicks off Safe School Program
LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. kicked off its Safe School Program in Orange County, Calif., by donating wireless phones, airtime and school supplies to...
Image Wireless extends ADC contract
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan-Canadian Wireless cable and data services provider Image Wireless communications signed a $10 million contract extension for ADC Telecommunications Inc.'s Axity Broadband Wireless...
Products
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and...
World Briefs: Asia
IndiaThe government-owned Department of Telecom Operations (DTO) will start its cellular mobile service in some cities by March 2001. It will soon float a...
Rohm to hire 400 additional IC designers
TOKYO-Rohm, the largest specialist maker of custom integrated circuits, decided to increase the number of its IC designers by 400 by 2003, to cope...