Monthly Archives: October, 2000
Baltimore Technologies, Motorola partner for security
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Baltimore Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced a strategic agreement to provide security solutions for Internet-enabled wireless devices.Under the agreement, Baltimore will provide...
Hungary to award UMTS licenses next year
BUCHAREST, Romania-Hungary is preparing to launch an auction for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) licenses in second-quarter 2001.According Andras Somogyi, the director of the...
WMLBrowser.org supports Blackberry
MONTREAL-WMLBrowser.org, an open source development project developing a WML browser that will work with Linux environments, is supporting the Research In Motion Ltd. Blackberry...
Airspan announces six wireless DSL contracts
LONDON-Airspan Networks announced orders from six telecom companies for wireless digital subscriber line (DSL) equipment.In Asia, Golden Cellular Communications in China purchased equipment for...
CDMA adds 71M subscribers in 3Q counts
SAN DIEGO-CDMA subscribers for the third quarter of this year totaled more than 71 million, which is a 73 percent increase from the previous...
U.K. operators quietly slip 3G timescales
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While many of the public statements from the U.K. cell-phone operators have always mentioned early 2002 as the commercial deployment date for...
`Charmed’ accessories mix wireless with fashion
NEW YORK-Imagine your life story and your daily life compressed into a fashion accessory that combines computing and communications into a fashion accessory.Charmed Technologies,...
U.K. business users unimpressed with WAP services, study claims
OXFORD, United Kingdom-A survey of U.K. businesses has found more than 70 percent have no intention of implementing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in...
Hughes, AOL market satellite service
NEW YORK-Hughes Network Systems and America Online have begun marketing AOL PLUS Powered by DirecPC, the satellite delivery of AOL's content, the companies announced...
Industry takes pro-consumer stance on location privacy policy
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week said it will soon ask the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to craft national...
Brightpoint to distribute Alcatel in China
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced today that one of its subsidiaries operating in China reached an agreement with Alcatel Suzhou Telecommunications Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of...
China Unicom to use narrowband CDMA
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard.After...
Mobile scandal affects Bulgarian market
BUCHAREST, Romania-Bulgaria, a small country in Eastern Europe, has been shaken during the last few months by a scandal in the communications market.The mobile...
Juno to deploy Certicom technology
HAYWARD, Calif.-Mobile e-commerce security provider Certicom Corp. reported a strategic licensing agreement with Juno Online Services Inc. in which Juno will deploy Certicom's SSL...
Aether tries to paint wireless Internet masterpiece: One year after IPO, company is in center of convergence
Aether Systems Inc. is celebrating its one-year anniversary as a public company, capping a busy year of acquisitions, investments and partnerships that have positioned...
Cross Country, WirelessCar tackle total telematics solution
Cross Country Automotive Services, a 28-year-old company responsible for much of the behind-the-scenes work for several car manufacturers' roadside assistance programs, announced last week...
AT&T Wireless stands alone
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could have a more difficult time offering bundled services to its customers after the business unit is separated from the...
Arch Message Center to debut in November: Offering aims to simplify e-mail access
NEW YORK--With the debut of its Arch Message Center in November, Arch Wireless Holdings Inc. plans to simplify the lives of its customers by...
Crown Castle shows increase of 76 percent in 3Q
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said its revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 increased 76 percent to $174.6 million compared with $98.9 million...
STM Wireless wins patent for CDMA-related technology
IRVINE, Calif.-STM Wireless Inc. announced it was awarded a patent for its special form of CDMA called Cyclic Code Phase Multiple Access.The technology provides...
Brience, Ericsson Canada work on enterprise solutions
SAN FRANCISCO-Brience Inc., an enterprise wireless Internet technology enabler, is cooperating with Ericsson Canada Inc. to deliver mobile Internet solutions to service providers and...
Nokia unveils European WAP directory gateway
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Always a keen advocate of mobile Internet technology, Nokia has linked with Excite Europe to offer a directory search engine on the...
Trading firm to provide free i-mode services
TOKYO-Marubeni Telecom will start providing free home page services for i-mode users on 25 October, the firm announced. Users of the services can store...
Motorola starts carrier trials of Bluetooth products
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. has begun carrier trials of its first Bluetooth-capable wireless phone, the Timeport 270, and expects to begin shipping the CDMA handsets...
Unimobile.com, Advertising.com team for global wireless ads
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Unimobile.com and Advertising.com have teamed to provide a method to include global ads in messages delivered to wireless devices. The deal combines...