Yearly Archives: 2000

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Cimarron TechnologiesWith the addition of versatile hardware options, Cimarron Technologies' Skymark VehicleTracker now allows dispatchers to view mapping software in both digital or database...

Hutchison to invest $400M in China Unicom

HONG KONG-Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. said it will invest $400 million in China Unicom in its pending initial public offering. In addition, the companies will...

Ford named associate publisher

DENVER-Tracy Ford, editor of RCR, has been promoted to associate publisher of RCR and its sister publication, Global Wireless.She will continue in her duties...

Blink.com launches wireless feature

NEW YORK-Blink.com, a provider of bookmark management and Web searching services, launched its wireless feature, Blink Mobile, the company announced.Blink Mobile will allow Blink.com's...

Castle Harlan leads in race to save Iridium

Castle Harlan Inc., a New York City-based merchant bank, pulled away from its fellow contenders last week in the race to save Iridium L.L.C....

FCC opens re-auction to big firms

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will delay the re-auction of C-and F-block licenses to give the wireless industry time to digest rules that allow large...

CMG delivers new version of portal

NASHUA, N.H.-CMG Telecommunications released version 1.2 of its WAP Service Broker, a Wireless Application Protocol portal that includes an online service and user profiling...

CPP leaves limelight

The prospect of calling party pays looks like a dying one in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission appears to be backing...

Aether, Data Critical form alliªance

BOTHELL, Wash.-Aether Systems Inc. and Data Critical Corp., which provides wireless communications to the health-care industry, signed an agreement to enter an alliance for...

DoCoMo approaches international markets

While wireless operators worldwide have formed joint ventures and made strategic acquisitions and investments, Japan's NTT DoCoMo has remained in Japan, developing wideband Code...

DoJ uses wireless plans against Microsoft

WASHINGTON-To bolster its case for splitting Microsoft Corp. into two companies-a remedy U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson may agree to as early as...

Deal lets EuroTel customers buy prepaid vouchers at ATMs

BUDAPEST, Hungary-Euronet Services Inc. said it signed an agreement with EuroTel, a Global System for Mobile communications wireless service provider in the Czech Republic,...

Faith Hill to promote Alltel plans

LITTLE ROCK-Alltel Corp. signed Faith Hill to help it launch Total Freedom, its national digital wireless rate plans that eliminate all roaming and long-distance...

Motorola solution targeted at commercial kitchens

STRATFORD, Conn.-Motorola Inc. and Food Automation Service Techniques Inc. announced a solution to speed the implementation of Internet-enabled appliances in commercial kitchens.FAST said it...

GiantBear.com forms agreement

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Wireless Internet application service provider GiantBear.com Inc. signed an agreement with Hollywood.com Inc. to serve as the centralized Web-to-wireless application provider for...

LG Bets Heavily on Music Phones in China

LG Electronics is raising its bet on music phones in emerging nations, while focusing on touch-sensitive phones in developed nations.

Teligent, Telcom Ventures deploy network in Argentina

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. and Telcom Ventures L.L.C. began deploying fixed wireless communications networks in Argentina, launching the partnership's first point-to-multipoint link in Buenos Aires.The...

TIW to offer InfoSpace platform to operators in Brazil

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. and InfoSpace signed an exclusive agreement to offer InfoSpace's platform of integrated wireless Internet services to all cellular operators and...

Toshiba licenses Geoworks technology

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced Toshiba Corp. has licensed its Premion Server+ technology to allow Toshiba's i-Value Creation Company to develop custom mobile content and...

telezoo.com caters to business buyer

Just as a zoo is a place where different species from around the world can peacefully co-mingle, telezoo.com said it is a place where...

United Messaging integrates Motient service

ORLANDO, Fla.-United Messaging Inc. announced it has integrated Motient Corp.'s eLink wireless e-mail service into its hosted mailbox services, using devices from Research In...

BT could buy telecom interests from utilities

MUNICH, Germany-German utilities Viag and Veba are said to be in talks to sell their stakes in telecommunications interests to British Telecom.British Telecom currently...

Report says WAP window will close quickly

BOSTON-Ovum warned that Wireless Application Protocol supporters don't have much time to take advantage of the now-open window of opportunity, which the global research...

Western Wireless begins local service in Kansas, Minnesota

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. unveiled a competitive local telephone service in several rural communities in Kansas and Minnesota after receiving Eligible Telecommunications Carriers status...

WRC details yet to be harmonized

WASHINGTON-The United States appears poised to win support for a multiband global spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems heading into the final week...
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