PageMart Wireless Inc. has begun marketing its products and services through BizBuyer.com, a Web site accessed by small and mid-sized businesses nationwide.
BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced an online demonstration of its Interactive Paging Service. “Our research shows that the best way for potential users to really understand the benefits of the Interactive Paging service in their professional and personal lives is to actually experience it,” said Jim Kelly, vice president of Interactive Paging for BSWD. The company said it will direct prospective customers to the Web site via print ads, direct mail and Web banners.
Internet synchronization technology company FusionOne said it has joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group.
Intelligent Information Inc. announced it has deployed its new Internet Email Gateway.
Virginia Tech and Wavtrace announced the successful operation of their local multipoint distribution services network, deployed three months ago from the Virginia Tech campus. The Virginia Tech LMDS network delivers wireless two-way, high-speed data, voice and video traffic from a hub site on the campus to three off-campus office buildings. It is the first LMDS system in the world based on Time Division Duplexing technology, which allows transmit and receive functions to occur on one channel, said Wavtrace. Wavtrace supplied the transmission equipment.
Motorola Inc.’s Paging Systems Group and Preferred Technical Services Inc. announced an agreement under which PTS will provide warranty and after-warranty support for those using Motorola pagers.
NumerX Corp., the parent company of Cellemetry L.L.C., announced a net income of $312,000, or 3 cents per share, for the third quarter ended July 31, compared with a net loss of $818,000, or 8 cents per share, reported a year ago.
Ortel Corp. reported revenues for the first fiscal quarter ended Aug. 1 of $17.7 million, a slight increase over the $16.5 million reported for the same time the previous year. The company recorded a net loss of $8.04 million, or 68 cents per share, compared with net earnings of $206,000, or 2 cents per share, for the first fiscal quarter 1998. During the quarter, Ortel sold its European wireless subsidiary, Avitec AB, to one of the original founders, Hakan Samuelsson. The company said it also made some management changes and adopted required accounting policy changes and inventory write-offs.
