SQUAW VALLEY, Calif.-Livemind Inc. launched its wireless application service provider program at Red Herring's Venture 2000 conference by wirelessly enabling Internet merchants GiftCertificates.com, MotherNature.com and RestaurantRow.com with its mobile-commerce solution.Livemind's ASP also features personal information management functions, a walleting system and voice-to-text capabilities, the...
DAYTON, Ohio-Lexis Publishing, a provider of products and services for the legal profession, and GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will co-develop a Web-based wireless product and service for legal professionals.The venture will work to enhance the existing lexis.com Wireless Powered by GoAmerica...
Dear Editor,In writing in the April 24 issue on the absurdly high bids for U.K. 3G licenses, "U.K. Prices: Up, up and away," RCR states: "But the United Kingdom's four incumbents must win a license at any cost. If they lose, they face destroyed...
KPN Telecom is said to be in discussions with Spain's Telefonica regarding a possible US$54 billion merger. At press time, international reports said the companies had agreed in principle to a deal that would evenly split control of the two entities. Such a merger...
Qualcomm Inc. appears to have gotten its way in Japan.DDI Corp., which plans to take over IDO and KDD in October, is expected to file for a third-generation license application with the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications this week, selecting cdma2000 technology, sources...
MILAN, Italy-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is committing technical and business expertise in Italy to promote collaborative projects with government, industry and academia to accelerate development and introduction of third-generation mobile Internet applications, services and products."In collaboration with government, businesses and universities, we will...
ChileNexus Telocation Systems Ltd. formed a joint-venture company in Chile to deploy communication and location services. The new company, Ubinet Telecom S.A., will offer two-way messaging, car and personal location services and home security applications. "The quality of the shareholders, the technology of Nexus...
LONDON-ICO Global Communications announced the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Delaware has approved ICO's plan of reorganization.The plan and related plans of arrangement in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands have been approved by more than 95 percent of the creditors and shareholders who voted on...
On the heels of press reports that the British government soon will require mobile phones to carry health warnings, a Swedish team of medical investigators released findings from a new study that resurrects concerns about links between brain tumors and cellular phones.In the report,...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. launched its Mobile Site service as a complement to its existing Mobile ASP solution. Mobile Site pulls data from a Web site and reformats it for wireless device languages and technologies, the company said.Mobile ASP is a more robust and customized...
WASHINGTON-Even with President Clinton's decision last week to dramatically improve global positioning system accuracy for civilians, vendors that offer a network-based E911 solution say their products are still valid.Meanwhile, mobile-phone carriers remain tight-lipped about which location-based wireless technology they will choose to meet enhanced...
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry and leaders of state and local government groups took to the road last week with their efforts to pass legislation to mandate that wireless subscribers be taxed based on a single address.This time, they took their message before the House Judiciary...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) last week disclosed portions of a 1998 memo of a former federal prosecutor that pushed for a probe of President Clinton and Loral Corp. Chairman Bernard Schwartz because of the $1.5 million Schwartz gave to the Democratic National Committee and...
NEW YORK-SkyBridge L.P. is building a network and a business model designed to sidestep the negatives associated with other land and space alternatives for local loop broadband communications delivery.The Bethesda, Md., company expects to launch commercial service covering temperate latitudes sometime during 2003, at...
WASHINGTON-Worldwide cellular and personal communications services handset sales reached 96 million in the fourth quarter of 1999, led by Nokia Corp. with 27 percent of the global market share, according to analysis done by The Strategis Group.For the year, cellular/PCS handset sales rocketed to...
SAN FRANCISCO-Rate-Xchange Corp. said it will conduct its first online CustomAuction to buy and sell telecommunications bandwidth.The auction is being conducted for a carrier selling a wavelength of bandwidth between London; Frankfurt, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Paris and Brussels, Belgium."This is significant not only for...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. pulled out of an agreement that would have resolved a class-action lawsuit filed by former employees resulting from the sale of the assets of the company's infrastructure division to L.M. Ericsson last year.Qualcomm spokeswoman Christine Trimble said a significant number of...
PLEASANTON, Calif.-Positive Communications, which provides paging and wireless messaging services, launched an e-commerce portal offering wireless products and services targeted at mobile consumers in the top 75 U.S. markets.The site, www.TalkPositive.com, features a comparison engine that allows users to identify the best products and...
NEW YORK-Portable Life, Cupertino, Calif., launched a Web site May 3 intended to provide a portal to a variety of information sources related to portable and mobile electronic devices.The initial focus of the new site, www.portablelife.com, will be on laptop computing, said Mike Elgan,...
While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the wireless Internet experience, and not all are convinced WAP will remain the popular standard it is today. Pixo Inc. is...
BOSTON-PhoneRun Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they will jointly market to service providers a mobile Internet service called "phonecasting," a media network of Internet-sourced audio channels for news, entertainment and shopping available to any telephone via voice-enabled technology known as "voicetone."PhoneRun's service will...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. finally reported year-end and fourth-quarter 1999 financial results and filed its 10-K annual report, following repeated delays blamed on a massive accounting effort under way regarding its pending merger with Arch Communications Group Inc.Fourth-quarter net loss was reported as $64.9 million,...
OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet solution for the Palm V handheld computer.It's time to see how wide the door...
HELSINKI, Finland-Inktomi Corp., a developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, and Nokia Networks have agreed to deliver carrier-class infrastructure software to mobile network operators.According to Nokia, the deal will enable to companies to deliver next-generation mobile data services and applications to both current and...
