Wireless Web site enabler 2Roam Inc. announced several new deals last week, one of which the company hopes will propel it into new and more profitable markets in the Asia-Pacific and European regions."In the last 90 days, 2Roam has really expanded its business," said...
WASHINGTON-Education Secretary Roderick Paige refused to retreat from President Bush's plan to scrap the schools and libraries Internet program, a posture that prompted Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) to demand that the administration come forward with more details about how it will pay for an...
Despite some `hiccups' within the industry and key supply channels, phone sales worldwide grew 46 percent to 412.7 million units last year, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc.This rosy picture was, however, sullied by a general slowdown as the year...
CLINTON, Miss.-WorldCom Inc., the nation's largest wireless reseller, revised the terms of its merger with Intermedia Communications Inc. to settle a lawsuit filed by the minority shareholders of Digex Inc., which is majority-owned by Intermedia.WorldCom's merger with Intermedia, which offers broadband data, Internet access,...
WASHINGTON-Enforcement of government rules, including telecommunications rules, should be efficient and fair and have the consent of the governed, said FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth.Furchtgott-Roth was the keynote speaker at the Practicing Law Institute conference on "Working With the FCC in the New Millennium: Regulation to...
ATLANTA-Seagull, a provider of e-business enabling software, announced a partnership with Symbol Technologies, a supplier of rugged wireless devices and wireless network solutions.As partners, Seagull and Symbol will be able to offer a single solution for many markets including warehouse and distribution, transportation, retail...
SEATTLE-Imaging technology company LizardTech Inc. partnered with computer chip giant Intel Corp. to enter the wireless Internet market with a product the company said will allow wireless users to view large, complex images.LizardTech, which currently designs technology to transmit high-quality images over the Internet,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-America Online Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. reported a comprehensive services, content and marketing agreement to provide America Online's features and services to customers as part of VoiceStream's wireless Internet service.Under the multi-year agreement, AOL members, AOL Instant Messenger users and VoiceStream Wireless...
NEW YORK-Loral Space & Communications Ltd. reiterated in its fourth quarter and year-end 2000 financial results that it is substantially revising its plan for participation in the broadband communications market and it has modified its involvement in Globalstar L.P.The company reported a net loss...
WASHINGTON-The Privacy Coalition is calling on lawmakers at the state and federal levels to sign what it is calling a privacy pledge.The privacy pledge says that "privacy is one of America's most fundamental values." It then goes onto to recite the Fourth Amendment to...
Many discussions about what's inherently wrong with the wireless Internet, m-commerce or mobile data in general seem to end up placing the blame squarely on the device. It's too big. It's too small. It's too slow. It's not powerful enough.It definitely is rough to...
I am beginning to see a pattern.President Bush talks about restoring integrity to the White House, a not so subtle reference to the Clinton sex and fundraising scandals.Secretary of State Colin Powell warns about being overly fixated on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a not...
In the RCR Wireless News article, "Cellport finds positive landscape for its product in negative problem," (Feb. 12, page 33) the founder and chief executive officer of Cellport should have been identified as Pat Kennedy.
WASHINGTON-Susan Ness, the most senior member of the Federal Communications Commission, is planning on leaving the agency before the end of her recess appointment; her aid confirmed last week.Rumors about Ness' future began circulating after her fellow commissioner, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, announced he would not...
WASHINGTON-There is probably not a need for Congress to pass legislation to reform the Federal Communications Commission especially if new FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell is successful in his attempts to reform the agency, said out-going FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth."If one looks at most...
Alltel Corp. followed its disappointing fourth quarter financial results with reduced 2001 financial forecasts last Thursday, including slower customer additions and plans to cut 1,000 jobs through early retirements and layoffs.For the year, Alltel expects diluted earnings per share to range between $3.20 and...
WASHINGTON-A new anti-crime bill would streamline law enforcement's ability to clone numeric pagers and raise the legal standard for location-based mobile phone wiretaps, changes designed to fight drug trafficking and other illegal activities that have proven controversial for industry, Congress and the Justice Department...
WEST BOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Group's shares jumped up 14 percent at the start of trading Feb. 15 to about $1 per share after announcements it received $250 million for the sale of its SMR licenses to Nextel Communications Inc. and its plans for new...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and IBM Corp. said they will join to help financial services companies deliver mobile Internet offerings that go beyond today's business-to-consumer services. The companies plan to develop and implement technology that will enable high-value, high-volume B-to-C services such as wealth management,...
RICHARDSON, Texas- @Track Communications Inc. announced the execution of a stock purchase and exchange agreement with Minorplanet Systems plc, a provider and distributor of telemetric-based vehicle management information systems.Under terms of the agreement, Minorplanet will acquire 10 million shares of @Track common stock for...
In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline.Against a background of outsized estimates, employee downsizing, technological miscues and a haunting investigation of its accounting practices, the company's credit rating suffered downgrades from two...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. reported revenues for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31 of $202 million and $649.2 million, respectively, compared with $114.2 million and $345.8 million for fourth-quarter and year-end 1999.The company recorded a net loss of $59 million, or 40...
BOSTON-The wireless application service provider market will grow to $3.6 billion by 2005 and is in the same formative stages as the fixed Internet ASP industry was a few years ago, according to Strategy Analytics.The firm's report, "Entering the WASP's Nest: Wireless ASP Opportunities &...
LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. completed its merger with Roberts Wireless Communications L.L.C. and Washington Oregon Wireless L.L.C., increasing Alamosa's licensed population from 8.5 million residents to 12.5 million residents. The combined company had a total of 166,127 subscribers, made up of...
