WASHINGTON-USAToday.com news and information are new featured within the News & Weather, Business Tools and What's New categories on Sprint PCS' Wireless Web.USAToday.com said its agreement with Sprint PCS was part of a larger strategy focused on expanding delivery of USA Today news and...
Like any healthy, enterprising entity, the wireless broadband industry is comprised of various companies and associations with products to push and agendas to satisfy. The industry's quest for a single, standardized technology is peppered with individual desires, but the final goal is all the...
NEW YORK-ResQNet.com Inc. looked at the market opportunity for connecting mobile workers to corporate databases and decided the field of middleware suppliers had too many players.Complex Systems Group, parent of the New York-based company, has incorporated graphical user interfaces into legacy computer applications for...
WASHINGTON-Nine utilities from across the country are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its decision last year that allowed private-wireless spectrum to be auctioned."It is irrational for the commission to state that Congress intended to exempt services used by utilities and that the...
WASHINGTON-The United States' current export-control policy is so stringent that instead of achieving the goal of national security, the policy could in reality be harming national security, defense experts told the Senate Banking Committee last week."America needs effective export controls to protect its national...
To know what the broadband industry is going to do tomorrow, just look at what the cellular industry is doing today.Year after year, several key cellular carriers and vendors have systematically acquired or merged with competitors to form vast corporations offering diverse product and...
With AT&T Wireless Services Inc. behind it, Panasonic Telecommunications Systems Co. hopes to rise out of the shadows of the U.S. market and push its weight around with two new lightweight multi-network wireless phones.The products, ProMax and DuraMax, mark Panasonic's entry into the U.S....
LONDON-BABT Product Service, a test, certification and approvals management organization, chose Anite to upgrade its GSM test equipment. Anite will supply the U.K-based group with a GPRS Radio Measurement Tester, as well as a GPRS upgrade to its SAT signaling tester.
To the Editor: Peter Angelos has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now this high priest of the mass tort has his...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The auction of three band D licenses in Brazil that began on Tuesday and ended the same day drew a total $1.33 million for the government. Telecom Italia Mobile companies took two of the three licenses, while Brazil's fixed-line carrier Telemar won...
NetCom Technologies Inc. announced it has changed its name to VelociTel Inc. to reflect the rapidly expanding wireless industry. The company also announced a new corporate structure. The five existing NetCom subsidiaries-Alvar Architects Inc., National Site Development Inc., ComNet TelCom Construction Inc., Spectrum Technologies...
NEW YORK - Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation for its eventual surge, said Jason Tsai, wireless services and data analyst for C.E....
As carriers and companies worldwide rush to offer all kinds of location-based services, one consulting firm is warning that location-based services may not live up to the wireless industry's expectations.Telecommunications and new media advisor firm Analysys released a report cautioning that location-based services may...
Editor's Note: Posted on Quantum Group, Inc.'s Web site, www.mergeusa.com, is an outspoken and somewhat controversial article on consolidating industries. It is an article that predicts general doom and misery for consolidators in any industry - including the tower industry. While the prophecy of consolidation...
Robert Gemmell is thinking about a group of people, scattered throughout the world, who each live in a nice house or apartment in a semi-rural area. These people want fast Internet access, but they either can't get a cable or digital subscriber line installed,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sentica, a wireless convergence company, announced a new pact with entertainment software company Electronic Arts aimed at establishing itself as the delivery vehicle for all interactive wired and wireless gaming companies.The agreement will enable the delivery of mixed media content and notifications...
Wireless carriers like to promote the clarity of their digital wireless voice services every chance they get. Whether it's in commercials or how they word press releases, each carrier wants the public to think of their service as the clearest choice.Unfortunately, in the real...
BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems and Lotus Development Corp. signed a strategic agreement to develop data synchronization and device management technologies for the Lotus Domino Everyplace server family of mobile and wireless software solutions.Terms of the agreement were not released.
BEIJING-China Mobile Communications awarded Nortel Networks a $130 million contract to expand its GSM network in Shaanxi province. The dual-band digital cellular network will increase capacity by about 1.5 million customers.
PLEASANTON, Calif.- InPhonic Inc., a developer and manager of virtual private networks, signed an agreement with Nhancement Technologies Inc., a unified communications and information provider, to acquire 1 million inUnison mailboxes to be integrated into InPhonic's wireless solutions.Under a revenue-sharing model, both companies will...
AUSTIN, Texas-Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Chicago is adopting the wireless, Web-based VendCast system from Isochron Data Corp. to help the soft drink company manage their full-service vending operations, Isochron said."The acceptance of the VendCast system by the largest, independent Coca-Cola bottler in the country...
CAMBRIDGE, Ontario-COM DEV Wireless, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., and Alpine PCS will partner to conduct initial trials of COM DEV's M/ERGY high-speed wireless Internet system in the 1.9 GHz PCS spectrum beginning in the second quarter.The trials will be carried out...
WASHINGTON- Winstar Communications Inc. said it entered a long-term agreement to utilize LighTrade Inc.'s bandwidth pooling points, which switch bandwidth among carriers and service providers in minutes.Through the agreement, Winstar will serve as a major provider of local broadband access for other LighTrade customers.LighTrade...
HAYWARD, Calif.-In an effort to raise awareness of the issue of security as a key enabler of mobile and wireless technologies, Certicom has announced the Certicom Trust Partner Program, an open industrywide initiative dedicated to providing leading security solutions for today's wireless marketplace.Participants include...
