March 2003

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. reported a net loss for its fourth quarter of $8.3 million, down from its net loss of $191 million in the same …

SAN FRANCISCO-Kabira Technologies Inc. will provide infrastructure software and services to Visa, enabling the financial services company to leverage Kabira’s expertise in messaging, transactional data processing and real-time high volume …

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-More than 430 billion mobile messages were sent worldwide during 2002, according to a new report from Telecom Trends International. More than 580 million users sent the messages. …

MILAN, Italy-Telecom Italia and parent Olivetti announced a plan to merge, in an attempt to simplify the group’s complicated ownership. Olivetti will offer seven shares for each Telecom Italia share. …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Several of Sierra Wireless’ wireless data products will be included in the “20 Years of Wireless Commemorative Display” at CTIA Wireless 2003, which will highlight companies and products …

HANNOVER, Germany-Research In Motion Ltd. released two new BlackBerry devices, the 6210 and the 6220, for users in Europe. “We continue to lead the industry with a growing choice of …

NEW ORLEANS-EverLink Wireless’ new red e SC1100 Microsoft Windows powered smart phone will make its American debut at the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2003 in New Orleans, following its introduction in …

LAS VEGAS-Centurion Wireless Technologies Inc. announced at IWCE in Las Vegas it is celebrating 25 years as a designer and manufacturer of antennas and power products for wireless communications. “I …

KANATA, Ontario-Bridgewater Systems will demonstrate the latest addition to its suite of 802.11 offerings, the Wi-Fi Service Manager, a managed wireless local area network service for enterprises, at CTIA Wireless …

METUCHEN, N.J.-Berkeley Varitronics Systems will launch Version 3 of its Yellowjacket 802.11b Wi-Fi Analysis System at the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2003 in New Orleans. YJ3 includes an 802.11b receiver, an …

KOLN, Germany-Under a new agreement, the VoiceObjects Factory developed by VoiceObjects AG, will become available on the Comverse Media Server, a standards-based VoiceXML gateway for wireless and wireline networks. VoiceObjects …

NEW YORK-The Sony Music Mobile Products Group reported the debut of Java-based Sony Music Mobile on AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s mMode service offering. Sony said the service will provide customers …

NEW ORLEANS-Comsys Communications & Signal Processing Ltd. believes U.S. corporate data users can benefit from using WLAN and EDGE as complementary technologies and the company is integrating tools and software …

HANNOVER, Germany-The march of new, advanced devices continued in conjunction with the CeBIT trade show, with Samsung, Siemens, NEC and Symbol all making announcements. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made perhaps …

WALTHAM, Mass.-IONA, provider of Rapid Integration software, said its Mobile Orchestrator will support Intel’s Centrino technology to provide uses with an “occasionally connected computing” solution. Mobile Orchestrator allows clients to …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Broadband wireless system provider Ceragon Networks Ltd. launched FibeAir 3128, a new ultra-high-capacity network connectivity solution. According to Ceragon, the new system enables better spectrum utilization for the …

IRVINE, Calif.-SMC Networks will make commercially available at the end of March the SMC EZ Connect Universal Wireless CardBus Adapter, which enables connectivity to standards-based Wi-Fi networks, 802.11a, 802.11b and …

WESTPORT, Conn.-Peace of Mind at Light Speed Inc., a developer of location-based and location-aware services, has entered a strategic alliance with New York-based Igicom L.L.C. to provide in-house software development …

HANNOVER, Germany-Nortel Networks issued separate announcements with two carriers, T-Mobile International and MmO2. T-Mobile selected the Brampton-Ontario-based vendor as a preferred supplier to deliver GPRS across it main markets in …

TORONTO-Canadian wireless operator Rogers AT&T Wireless Inc. introduced Motorola Inc.’s T720 handset onto its network. As part of an introductory promotion for the hew handset, Rogers said it will offer …

NEW YORK-Former Nextel Communications Inc. chief operating officer James Mooney was named chairman of Britain’s largest cable television operator NTL Inc., which recently emerged from Chapter 11-bankruptcy protection. Mooney, who …

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it plans to demonstrate its i.Smart smartphone reference design at the CTIA conference in New Orleans, La. The design combines its 2.5G integrated wireless platform and …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems and Ubicom Inc. will collaborate to deliver 802.11b reference designs. Their first joint offering, on display this week at CeBIT in Germany, is a single-board reference design …

NEW YORK-In its first privatization of a state-owned company, the government of South Africa sold a 25-percent stake in Telkom South Africa on 4 March, raising US$488 million, well below …

NEW YORK-KTF, South Korea’s second-largest mobile operator, has hedged its bets on a next-generation wireless strategy, with plans to launch or expand this year on cdma2000 1x EV-DO, W-CDMA and …