WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-In the wake of the devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, Cingular Interactive said its Interactive Intelligent Wireless Network continued operations in the region providing customers with a means of communications.Cingular said all base stations in the area remained operational throughout the event,...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-Triton PCS Inc. selected Agilera's Extended Enterprise as the platform for its Lawson Software applications, allowing Agilera to integrate and host the suite of human resource applications and provide business process outsourcing services including the printing and distribution of payroll checks for Triton...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Capital One Financial Corp. reported the conclusion of a direct marketing test relationship with Sprint PCS. The relationship involved Capital One originating wireless telephone accounts for Sprint PCS with the wireless carrier providing the telephone service and management of the accounts."After evaluating...
Mobile computing company Psion plc shook the European wireless market-and sent its stocks rocketing to a new 27-month low-with news that it is dropping out of the running in the smart-phone industry, cutting its workforce and now plans to focus on industrial WAN and...
TORONTO-Avaya Canada, a provider of business communications systems and services, signed an agreement with OnSat Hospitality Joint Venture Ltd., which provides broadband satellite-based wireless Internet connections to deliver wireless broadband services to the hospitality industry.Avaya's wireless systems will be combined with OnSat Communications' Digital...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it will introduce Kyocera Corp.'s 6035 smart phone onto its network beginning March 5.The dual-branded, Palm OS-powered handset features wireless Web access and a near-Palm handheld size screen, and it supports the installation of applications compatible with Palm OS software....
WASHINGTON-TV broadcasters said they plan to fight any proposal that would force them to pay fees for 700 MHz spectrum they have not vacated by 2007. Further, during a Senate panel hearing on the transition to high-definition television, bickering between cable operators and TV...
WASHINGTON-Huawei Technologies Inc., a Chinese telecom firm that is quickly becoming a global wireless juggernaut, is reportedly suspected of violating U.N. sanctions by supplying Iraq with fiber optic cable to improve its air defense capability.The Washington Post, citing Western and Asian sources, said Western...
TORONTO-Mist Inc., which provides wireless technologies applications and other information management technologies, is conducting a test of its MIST Freedom II Wireless point-of-sale terminal with McDonald's Corp., in the Vivencia Restaurant franchise at the Stouffville, Ontario, location.The terminal is an interactive, portable wireless device...
NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect.Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications services. Beyond that deployment, smart-card...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc., a provider of outsourced services, said it completed its plan to repurchase 130,000 of its convertible, subordinated, zero-coupon bonds due 2018.As of December 31, 2000, the bonds had an accreted book value of approximately $506 per bond and were repurchased at an...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc., a provider of wireless telecommunications systems, said it received notice of contract suspension and termination from Metricom Inc. with regard to remaining RF engineering and deployment services for Metricom's data network build-out.Wireless Facilities expects the Metricom-related revenue impact in the...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Tele-communication & Internet Association launched its new Wireless Internet Caucus (WIC), a forum addressing development of the wireless Internet.An inaugural meeting of WIC will take place in Las Vegas Monday, March 19, just before CTIA's WIRELESS 2001 begins. CTIA said its goals...
WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Duane Ackerman told reporters at the Precursor Group annual conference that the country's third-largest local telephone company had no plans to cut its work force, in light of recent cuts made by telecom competitors Verizon Communications and...
If professionals need to be productive on the go, vVault thinks it has a platform on which they can walk.A mobile productivity applications provider, the company sets out to provide a technology platform to power network operators, ISPs, telecom carriers and device manufacturers."By coupling...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The Westchester County Legislature voted unanimously last Monday to prohibit drivers from talking on handheld cellular phones.The measure authorizes fines of up to $150 for an offense in the county unless the driver is using a hands-free device or is placing an...
NEW DELHI, India-HFCL, a leading Indian telecom equipment manufacturer, has bagged a contract in Nepal to supply 5000 wireless local loop (WLL) lines. The contract, part of a World Bank-aided project in the Himalayan kingdom, is said to be worth $4.5 million.HFCL will supply...
The results of a wireless advertising study released today show consumers are extremely open to receiving advertisements on their wireless devices, and that wireless marketing may be so effective it will drive the adoption of mobile commerce and the usage of the wireless Internet.SkyGo...
AT&T Wireless Group jumped into the very active debt capital market last week selling off $6.5 billion worth of senior unsecured notes, the largest private bond sale ever by a U.S. company.The bond sale followed Qwest Communications International Inc., Sprint Corp. and Verizon Communications,...
MOSCOW-The Russian Agency for Radio Frequencies (GKRCh) decided to allow the creation of 3G trial zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg.GKRCh passed the decision after the Russian 3G Association submitted its research on 3G trial network creation. The applications to join the project have...
NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step toward landline replacement.In late 1999, Rob Mechaley founded the privately held company, which is...
Practically everything you ever wanted to know about a specific stock is now accessible through a Palm, Research in Motion Inc. Blackberry or Microsoft Corp. Pocket PC handheld device courtesy of iphrase Technologies Inc.'s One Step Research for Wireless software.Iphrase, based in Cambridge, Mass.,...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The St.Petersburg-based RadioTel carrier concluded an agreement with the Russian Transport Ministry regarding the construction of the first Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) network along the Moscow-St. Petersburg-Vyborg-Finnish border highway.TETRA was designed by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI), which was also...
According to MicroOptical Corp.'s vision of the future, a person could watch a movie while on a train journey and the passenger on the next seat would not know.The key, said the company, is its set of products called EyeGlass Displays, which the manufacturer...
