BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Mobile Web customers now can access an information provider, Afronet.com, focused on content by and for the African-American community.Afronet.com offers customer's daily news updates, business news, access to personal advertisements, entertainment news, and restaurant and nightlife listing for major cities."Afronet.com is...
BOTHELL, Wash.-Infowave Software Inc., a global provider of software that connects enterprise applications to wireless devices announced its support for RIM BlackBerry 950 and 957 wireless pagers through Infowave's Wireless Business Engine. Infowave's Exchange Connector, which provides mobile users access to Microsoft Exchange e-mail,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hybrid Networks Inc., a leader in design, development, manufacturing and marketing of fixed broadband wireless systems has entered into an agreement with a fund of The Palladin Group L.P. that will provide the company with up to $15 million in cash to...
Two of the country's largest wireless operators saw their stock prices jolted last week, as financial and performance concerns continued to plague the telecommunications market.Nextel Communications Inc.'s stock fell to a 52-week low of $20.62 per share last Tuesday, continuing its fall following the...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-GN Hello Direct Inc. filed a suit covering about $11 million in damages against Plantronics Inc., Plantronics said. Hello Direct said the damages stem from Plantronics' termination of its reseller agreement with Hello Direct after Hello Direct was acquired by GN Netcom."We...
Motorola tried to square up to recent hard times with a series of announcements from product launches and contract wins to brokered alliances and games.The announcements made last week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, include the launch of a five-strong portfolio...
CANNES, France-GVC Corp. signed a deal for Agere Systems to supply its GPRS Class 8 cell phone chipset and software platform solution for wireless handsets."We chose Agere Systems' Class 8 solution because it can enable much faster Internet data rates on wireless handsets than...
WASHINGTON-The re-auction of guard-band manager licenses in the 700 MHz band ended Wednesday after 38 rounds with nearly $21 million in total bids.Access Spectrum L.L.C. bid the most at nearly $9.3 million for two licenses covering Little Rock, Ark., and Omaha, Neb. Pegasus Guard...
GUEMLIGEN, Switzerland-Comfone announced it completed the first stage of testing on its GRX product, which the company said will act as an Internet Protocol backbone to connect GPRS networks to allow carriers to provide worldwide roaming.The end-to-end tests over the GRX backbone involved several...
NEW YORK-Go2 Systems announced the completion of a wireless point-of-sale I-commerce trial that demonstrates a wireless order, purchase and payment transaction with a quick-serve restaurant using an Internet-enabled device. According to the company, this is the first true I-commerce transaction that has been completed...
CANNES-Gemplus, provider of smart card-based solutions, security and wireless applications, announced an alliance with SLP Infoware, a Gemplus company that provides predictive customer relationship management solutions. Together, the companies have developed SIM card-based CRM applications."The inherently secure and pervasive SIM card with its standard...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission needs more engineers today and will need even more very soon as 30 to 45 percent of its current engineers reach retirement age."We certainly wish there were more of us. ... We have good engineers ... but we need to...
With President Bush banking on churches, synagogues and mosques to do what government policies and free-market forces cannot, it is only fitting that a faith-based approach be adopted by the wireless industry in the face of a variety of woes that will only worsen...
ADC introduced the Axity Base Transceiver Station, designed for multicell deployments. The product will allow carriers to address capacity issues of super-cell network architectures and fill out coverage areas. It accommodates early deployments of single carriers and can expand to multiple carriers as capacity...
NEW YORK - Audiovox Communications Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y., has tapped into the computer expertise of its 5 percent owner, Toshiba Corp., to develop a combination cell phone and personal digital assistant that will go on sale late this year.Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS have...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless introduced Customer Advantage, a program designed to ensure customers receive benefits of the company's wireless service.The program includes calling plan flexibility, designed to help subscribers find a calling plan to better fit their needs; equipment upgrades, offering qualifying customers renewing annual...
AT&T Corp. is reported to be in "exploratory discussions" with Dobson Communications Corp. regarding a potential transaction between the two companies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.The report cites an AT&T filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission."As part of this...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Inc. announced it set up a new customer information database, which it said will make its sales and marketing strategies more efficient.The database, created with tools developed by Experian, will initially allow Arch to capture, store and analyze detailed customer data....
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless completed the acquisition of 20 personal communications services licenses in six states from Alltel Corp.The company said the purchase of the 10 MHz licenses expands its licensed footprint and increases its spectrum capacity to meet the growing demand for wireless voice...
CLEARWATER, Fla.-Pinnacle Business Management's subsidiary All Pro Wireless completed negotiations with Sprint PCS to become a nationwide distributor of Sprint PCS products and services.Terms of the agreement have been set and the contract is currently being finalized."We expect this agreement will open a vast...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a provider of Web-to-wireless and machine-to-machine communications services has joined forces with PeopleNet Communications Corp., a provider of Internet-based vehicle location and mobile communications solutions to the transportation industry. The companies announced an agreement that will provide PeopleNet customers with hourly...
BALTIMORE, Md.-Advertising.com Inc. introduced a new Web-based delivery system that allows advertisers to reach consumers online with manufacturer coupons and promotional materials. Consumers will be able to print the coupons directly or to forward them to e-mail addresses or wireless phones for future use.According...
In one simple moment last week, when all my usual technology aids disappeared, the need for the United States to have a 3G spectrum policy that uses the same frequencies as the rest of the world crystallized.It was just a minute of panic, really....
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired Inc., a Sprint PCS Network Partner, signed up 35,000 personal communications services subscribers during the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, bringing the company's total customer base to 126,000 customers.Company revenue increased from $16.5 million during the fourth quarter of 1999,...
