Add another wireless application service provider to the mix, as Everypath Inc. commercially launched a service designed to extend Web content wirelessly, at Internet World 2000 last week.The company's technology allows enterprise customers and dot-com companies to make their content available on wireless devices...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Envision Development Corp. unveiled a wireless mobile transaction application called Web2Wireless, which allows users to access corporate Web sites and transfer documents via e-mail or fax on browser-enabled wireless phones.
NEW YORK-SVI Inc., Pompano Beach, Fla., has begun marketing a product it calls SafeTShield, which the company said blocks a significant amount of electromagnetic waves entering the human ear from mobile and cordless phones."As a company, we don't take a position that wireless phones...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence launched a nationwide "Donate a Phone" campaign designed to collect 1 million, of the estimated 24 million, inactive wireless phones in circulation to benefit victims of domestic violence."The program's main goal is to put...
NEW YORK-NTT DoCoMo Inc., Tokyo, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue up to $9.55 billion in dollar-denominated bonds over the next few years.The shelf registration becomes effective April 11, meaning Japan's largest wireless carrier can sell any or all of...
KANATA, Ontario-Newbridge Networks said it expects to achieve record revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter ending April 30, due largely to the company's core broadband switches and access products.Highlights of the fourth quarter have included BT Belgium's selection of Newbridge as the supplier of...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. unveiled its latest version of Smart IP, a mobile middleware product designed to allow Internet or intranet data and Internet Protocol-based applications over wireless networks not otherwise optimized for such transmission.The new version includes features like dial-up networking control, auto-connect...
NEW YORK-MobileLogic, New York, established last year to help companies and their mobile workers communicate, has secured $25 million in first-round venture capital from six private equity companies, led by CMGI Ventures and The Investcorp Group.The investment group, announced March 27, also included several...
RICHARDSON, Texas-MobileStar Network Corp., a high-speed wireless Internet access provider for business travelers, secured $38 million in a second-round of private funding from venture capital firms Mayfield Fund, Blueprint Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Sienna Holdings and Tarrant Venture Partners.According to MobileStar, this recent round...
Was anyone paying attention to the debacle that was the U.S. C-block spectrum auction of 1996? Has anyone been paying attention to what has happened to the C-block "winners" since then? When RCR decided in this issue to look at the C-block winners and...
Having been ruled a monopoly and found guilty of violating federal antitrust laws to maintain that status, Microsoft now faces an uncertain future as federal courts determine how best to provide relief to competitors harmed by its actions, as well as deal with a...
WASHINGTON-The fact that MCI Worldcom Inc. will acquire Sprint Corp.'s extensive mobile-phone network if its proposed merger is approved was completely ignored at a forum held last week by the Federal Communications Commission's Common Carrier Bureau.The forum instead focused on the impacts on the...
Mobile commerce services are almost universally expected to become huge revenue generators for carriers in the future. Analysts predict a market potential of more than $200 billion by 2005.As such, a slew of start-up companies have sprung up offering various types of m-commerce applications...
WASHINGTON-The State Department last week charged Lockheed Martin Corp., a top space-based wireless system vendor and integrator, with numerous violations of U.S. export control law by giving a Chinese-controlled firm technological assistance in 1994 before the launch of a rocket carrying a telecom satellite.The...
LOS ANGELES-Lexico L.L.C., a provider of language learning services on the Internet, and Sprint PCS announced nationwide availability of Lexico's Dictionary.com on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web.The new service enables users to search for the meaning of more than 135,000 words, including more than...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless communications carrier, Leap Wireless International Inc., signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to purchase personal communications services operating licenses in Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y., for an undisclosed amount.The acquisition, which is expected to be finalized by May 1, will give Leap the...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Independent Wireless One Corp., a Sprint PCS Northeast Network Partner, has contracted Lightbridge Inc.'s Retail Management System on an outsourced basis through an application service provider model.According to Lightbridge, the ASP delivery mode will provide IWO with a way to acquire new customers...
Adaptive Broadband Corp. was awarded a $56 million, five-year contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless broadband equipment to Cybertech Wireless Inc., a privately held, business-to-business Internet Service Provider.Aether Systems Inc. has acquired IFX Group plc, a European provider of mobile financial data, for...
ELKHART, Ind.-CTS Corp. formed a strategic relationship with Kyocera Corp. to exchange the license of patents and intellectual property with regard to the design and manufacture of frequency control products, predominantly for wireless communications applications.Specific details of the agreement were not made available.
DALLAS-JP Systems Inc. reported it has designed technology for the wireless exchange of vital medical data for STATmail, a provider of home health care communications.The new system, InfoBeam Healthcare Agent, works with STATmail's handheld computers to give visiting nurses and other mobile health care...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week was rocked by two confounding controversies involving a California bill to promote hands-free devices as a precautionary measure against mobile phone radiation and a British consumer magazine's claim that such gadgets cause a three-fold increase in electromagnetic emissions to...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular and the Wisconsin Center District announced a six-year, $2 million "title sponsorship" agreement renaming the former Milwaukee Arena the U.S. Cellular Arena.The company's name will appear on the 50-year-old venue's exterior, on the new basketball floor and scoreboard, on interior signage, in...
BALTIMORE-ReachNET Inc. introduced an instant messaging application for Research In Motion Ltd. Inter@ctive pagers called Pulsar, which it said is compatible with existing instant messaging products like AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.Pulsar allows users to maintain their buddy lists as they appear on...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...
