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SARASOTA, Fla.-Intelliworxx Inc. said it has joined Cerulean Technology Inc.’s Partner Program, running Cerulean’s PacketCluster Patrol and Rescue public-safety wireless solutions on its VoiceTablet computer, designed for voice-driven applications.

OSLO-Newly merged Telenor and Telia agreed to acquire a 30-percent stake in DiGi Swisscom Berhad, a Malaysian telecommunications group that operates a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network, said Telenor. The investment is valued at approximately $207 million. …

Hungary Motorola 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 …

TORONTO-Ericsson Australia and Solect Technology Group signed a partnership to jointly provide a range of wireless Internet Protocol solutions to the Australian market. Under the agreement, Ericsson will sub-license Solect’s billing and customer care solution, Internet Administration Framework, to end …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. reported a net loss of $994,000, or six cents per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, compared with a loss of $4.6 million, or 29 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. received two separate contracts for $16.5 million and $1 million to upgrade the nationwide paging network of the Long Distance and Mobile Business Group of ChungHwa Telecom, Taiwan’s national telecommunications company. Under terms of the contract, …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission proposing to offer up to 3.3 million additional shares of its common stock. Of the total, 1 million will be sold by the company, with the …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The four-week license hearings for the third cellular operator in South Africa held in September and October offered some of the best theatrical presentations ever seen on the African continent. For the sake of transparency, the hearings were …

TOKYO-Japan’s major carriers said they had taken all necessary measures by the end of September to cope with any potential Y2K problems. Now, say the carriers, they are busily preparing for counter measures for the upcoming critical days. Reports say …

WASHINGTON-House Republicans last week signaled their intention to pursue Federal Communications Commission reform sooner and in a more drastic fashion than envisioned by FCC Chairman William Kennard. “Five years is simply too long,” said House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The decision of the South African Regulatory Authority (SATRA) and Department of Communications about whether to support TETRA as a digital standard for professional mobile radio (PMR) in South Africa is still pending. A decision is possible during …

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Stanton said the carrier is likely to complete its mergers with Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. in the first quarter as the companies wait for government approvals. Three parties have …

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it signed a letter of intent to add Metrocall Inc.’s CountDown prepaid paging to its CellEase prepaid services portfolio. According to the agreement, Metrocall will supply pagers from both Motorola Inc. and Cirkisys to …

Telstreet.com announced it offers wireless phones, service and accessories online. “Telstreet.com takes responsibility for the entire customer experience from buying to fulfillment to delivery of the order,” said Terry Dwyer, president and chief executive officer of Telstreet.com. “Consumers are guaranteed …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Illinois Commerce Commission on Friday approved the proposed merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., bringing the $53 billion deal a step closer to reality. The proposed merger is still under consideration by seven states and the …

In the debate over whether radio-frequency emissions from handsets cause adverse human health effects, the wireless telecommunications industry should borrow a page from the energy industry. Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a package of stories on corporate response to …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Democratic Leader last Wednesday called for a public-private partnership to ensure that rural America has access to advanced telecommunications. “A public-private partnership is clearly our best hope for closing the digital divide. Where the private sector through competition …

Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal provides an entry point to Phone.com for selling …

Authentix Inc. will begin final carrier testing on SimplySay 1.0, its voice-activated e-mail and wireless portal system, the company said. The system allows users to access their e-mail via any telephone and hear text-to-speech translations of their e-mail messages. The …

Low-earth-orbit satellite voice provider Globalstar L.P. has reduced the number of handsets expected to be available at the end of the year from 70,000, as announced in September, to between 35,000 and 50,000. Globalstar spokesman Mac Jeffery said the lower …

Wireless location-based services have been talked about for years and few carriers have deployed them, but reality should begin to set in within the next few years. The Federal Communications Commission’s revised enhanced 911 rules released in September have put …

First, let’s start with the premise that at the moment you were assigned a social-security number, all privacy rights went to hell. But if that were the extent of it, we’d be lucky. Privacy’s slippery slope is getting steeper and …

Perhaps the greatest indicator of how the wireless data industry has matured is the almost giddy buzz of excitement generated by this week’s Wireless I.T. show in Santa Clara, Calif., sponsored by the Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association. In the fall …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it proposed unified Time Division Multiple Access technology guidelines that would allow interoperability and easier migration between TDMA technology and the Frequency Division Multiple Access technology already approved for Project 25 Phase II two-way radio standards. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced its Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector acquired Software Corporation of America Inc., which markets wireless software applications and middleware for public-safety and other markets. SCA pioneered many of the software applications for Cellular Digital Packet …