Yearly Archives: 2000

NetPace prepares to boldly enter m-commerce space

Union City, Calif.-based NetPace continues to develop a suite of wireless m-commerce applications, aiming to preview its yet-unnamed flagship wireless application platform next month."We...

PacketVideo adds consumer apps

SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. has expanded its Programming Division to include consumer application development for mobile devices, re-naming the unit the Consumer Applications & Services...

SCI provides PowerLoc products

TORONTO-Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc., through its PowerLoc wireless location division, entered a contract with Atlanta-based Special Circuits Inc. to make SCI a provider of...

Private wireless asks to revise trunking rules

WASHINGTON-The private-wireless industry asked the Federal Communications Commission to revise its procedure for classifying systems with trunked operations.Centralized trunked (YG) systems could be converted...

CTIA urges FCC to suspend CALEA deadline

WASHINGTON-Reminding the Federal Communications Commission that a federal appeals court said earlier this month that government must implement the digital wiretap act in a...

Qsent targets consumers

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.-Qsent Inc. has been formed to provide wireless Internet services aimed at the consumer market.Patrick Cox and Kevin Anderson, formerly of Metro...

Quake communicator gets type approval

SAN DIEGO-Quake Wireless Inc. which manufactures subscriber communicators for the Orbcomm low-earth-orbit satellite network, announced the company's QHE-2500 heavy equipment tracking and monitoring communicator...

Metrocall partners with SalesMountain

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has partnered with SalesMountain Inc. to deliver local sale alerts and specials advertising to Metrocall messaging subscribers.Customers may receive SalesMountain's aggregated...

Silicon Wave raises $52M

SAN DIEGO-Silicon Wave Inc., which supplies radio-frequency systems-on-a-chip for wireless and broadband communications, raised $52 million in its fourth round of financing.The financing included...

Sonera zed prepares cautious entry into wireless Internet

NEW YORK-In November and December, Sonera zed U.S. Inc. "will dip its big toe into the waters of mobile commerce to see if they're...

New Sprint PCS Wireless Web suite targets enterprise applications

Almost exactly one year after becoming the first wireless carrier to introduce wireless Internet service to customers, Sprint PCS has introduced a new program...

Small office employees to generate $20B in annual service revenues

BOSTON-Very-small-office employees will generate $20 billion in annual service revenues for wireless companies this year, according to a report by Strategy Analytics.The report, "Very...

Swisscom reorganizes

BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom said it plans to reorganize the company's corporate structure, transforming the Swiss telecom company into a group of operationally independent companies by...

FASB works to eliminate mergers as pooling of interests

NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., expects by early next year to complete its project to eliminate the advantageous tax treatment of...

TI acquires Burr-Brown

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. finalized its acquisition of analog semiconductor developer Burr-Brown Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction.TI will issue 1.3 shares of its common stock...

Intel powers up for wireless Internet with new chip architecture

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless...

Bluetooth SIG OKs Extended Systems software kit

BOISE, Idaho-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group placed Version 1.1 of Extended Systems Inc.'s XTNDAccess Blue SDK on its Bluetooth Qualified Product List, ensuring its...

FCC: CMRS carriers can be subject to lawsuit damages

WASHINGTON-Nearly a week after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that wireless carriers can be subject to damages awarded in civil lawsuits, consumers and the...

WorldCom files with FCC for fixed wireless broadband applications

WorldCom Inc. moved one step closer to officially jumping into the wireless broadband game by filing last week its first round of applications with...

Aether to buy Cerulean, establish new business unit

Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy Cerulean Technology Inc., a provider of public safety software and solutions, for $150 million, adding the public...

Marvel, Riot team to deliver content to wireless devices

NEW YORK-Marvel Enterprises Inc. has teamed with Nokia Ventures Corp.-funded Riot Entertainment to develop and offer programs and other content for wireless devices based...

Wireless Internet Briefs

Easy Access Inc. has selected SeaGull Inc.'s Wireless-to-Host solution to wirelessly enable its EZ-Vote mobile voter registration management system.MG Financial Group has introduced wireless...

Viewpoint: Power, privacy and public safety

Score one for the wireless industry. The D.C. Federal Court of Appeals last week ruled that the Federal Communications Commission must use a narrower...

D.C. Notes: For sale

Seven years ago this month, Congress approved a new, market-based telecom licensing mechanism that would forever change the wireless industry. Spectrum auctions not only...

Broadband contributes to IC growth

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Broadband technologies will play an important role in the growth of the wireless communications integrated circuit market, according to a study released...
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