Texas Instruments Inc., ever seeking a new berth for itself in the chip business, has developed a new device to enable handset manufacturers to build smaller systems with fewer components and at lesser costs.The product, TRF6150, is compliant to both 2.5 and third-generation technologies...
VIENNA, Va.-The Newspaper Association of America partnered with Aether Systems Inc. to create a wireless news gateway, which will allow users to access content from multiple participating newspapers, in an attempt to find out how best to offer mobile news and information.Users' preferences will...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Des Moines, Iowa.The Des Moines market is contiguous to AT&T Wireless' St. Louis and Kansas City digital personal communications markets and includes a portion of the Interstate 35 corridor.
WALTHAM, Mass.-Germany's Lesswire AG will use NetSilicon Inc.'s complete connectivity solution in its LocalNavigator Bluetooth base station. The base station is designed to deliver remote wireless connectivity of Ethernet-attached devices using the Bluetooth protocol.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Business communications solutions and services provider Avaya announced it will create a Solutions Department Program to help third-party vendors design hardware and software applications for Avaya's communications products."It gives us the opportunity to improve customer satisfaction by offering a wide variety of...
PALM BEACH, Fla.-Applied Digital Solutions Inc., a single-source provider of e-business solutions, formed a strategic alliance with AT&T Wireless as its wireless carrier of choice for the Digital Angel Delivery System.ADS said Digital Angel data is transmitted wirelessly, on a real-time basis, to an...
RESTON, Va.- XO Communications Inc. reported revenues for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 of $253.1 million, a 181-percent increase from the $90.02 million reported for fourth-quarter 1999. The company also reported year-end 2000 revenues of $723.8 million.XO said $112.9 million of the total...
How it came to pass that AT&T let its cellular licenses slip away during its 1984 divestiture is the stuff of wireless industry urban legend. Some say AT&T was less-than-concerned about giving up its cellular business, believing industry forecasts that at the time predicted...
NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it is slowly beginning to clear.Investors still are sorting out a host of concerns that...
MALAYSIAMotorola Inc. signed a $130 million infrastructure contract with Maxis Communications Bhd to increase Malaysia's network capacity to accommodate more than 3 million subscribers during the next three years. The deal allows Motorola to deploy its 3G-ready Horizon platform to urban and rural Malaysia....
As the South African telecommunications industry prepared for a meeting to map out the legal future of communications in the country, Telecom Namibia said it fears no competition when its own market is liberalized.Speaking recently at the African Convergence conference in Rosebank, South Africa,...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with Airput, @Road and ClickSoftware to provide Nextel Wireless Web customers with solutions for real-time, remote management of time sheets, scheduling and fleets.Airput said its time-sheet management solution allows information entered via a wireless phone to be saved...
TOKYO-FunMail announced it is a step closer to introducing its animated messaging service after several successful tests between two mobile phones."Our tests are going extremely well," said Akio Kogane, chief executive officer of FunMail Japan."The messages are very easy to send and colorful and...
SAN ANTONIO-Telecommunications infrastructure service provider CCI Telecom Inc. acquired Berkshire Wireless Inc., a wireless facilitates deployment specialist.CCI Telecom President Mike Novak will serve as president and chief executive officer of Berkshire, which will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of CCI Telecom."This is the first...
Mobile Commerce ConferenceFebruary 12-13 Key3Media. The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Calif. www.key3media.com/mc2.Vamos Wireless! 2001 ConferenceFebruary 12-13 Latin Venture Partners. Miami. www.latinventure.com.Wireless/Portable Symposium and ExhibitionFebruary 12-16 Penton Media Inc. San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif. (888) WIREREG.Financing and Investing in BroadbandFebruary 13-15 Institute for...
PLAINVIEW, N.Y.-Toymax International Inc. formed a subsidiary, Maxverse Interactive Inc., to create wireless toys targeted at teens and children.The subsidiary was formed with $4.6 million in Toymax stock.Maxverse has a variety of wireless toys scheduled for release this year, including WireFly, which the company...
ATLANTA-UPS Logistics Group, a subsidiary of United Parcel Service, agreed to expand its logistics services for Sprint PCS' returns management services.Under the terms of the three-year agreement, UPS Logistics will operate and manage the Sprint PCS National Returns Processing Center. UPS Logistics has also...
SAN DIEGO (AP)-Qualcomm Inc. is trying to recover $573,527 in legal costs from former employees who sued the company, claiming they were denied stock options when Qualcomm sold a division to L.M. Ericsson in 1999.Gary LeBlanc, Vincent Malgapo and Ron North signed releases assuring...
CAIRO, Egypt-Orascom Telecom said its subsidiary SyriaTel was awarded a new GSM license in Syria. The GSM 900 MHz license will cost about $20 million.SyriaTel won one of two contracts granted by the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment.The 15-year contract to build, operate and transfer a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Once again the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has been consigned to the dust bin of failed technology by the U.K. consumer magazine Which?. The independent guide said the "concept of WAP was far more striking than the reality."The organization conducted consumer tests...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan-The Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan restored AMPS/D-AMPS licenses to two carriers that it earlier recalled for failure to stand up to their commitments.The Uzbek Agency for Posts and Communications restored the licenses to the Indonesian Buztel and the Rubicon US-Uzbek joint venture...
NEW DELHI, India-Thai cellular companies foresee a big jump in use of WAP phones during 2001.About 70 percent of the 1.4 million new handsets that Advanced Info Service (AIS) expects to sell this year will use WAP technology, according to Yanyong Akrajindanon, vice president...
BEIJING-The listed vehicle of China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) is making plans to lease a Code Division Multiple Access network its parent has recently acquired.Terms of the original plan called for the company to acquire the network once it became profitable, but this would...
PHILADELPHIA-Biztravel.com will provide travel services to book airlines, hotel and car rental reservations via AT&T Wireless' Digital PocketNet service.
