BOULDER, Colo.-Wireless location services developer SignalSoft Corp. said last week it acquired BFound.com, a Victoria, British Columbia-based company experienced in mobile asset tracking on the Internet.By adding BFound.com's tracking service to its suite of wireless location services, SignalSoft said it now can offer applications...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $14.5 billion in February, an increase from $10.9 billion during the same period last year.Asia Pacific and Japan led all regions with 45.4-percent and 42.5-percent growth respectively. The European market saw...
It is a match made in heaven. BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the second-largest wireless operator in the United States, serving 16.2 million subscribers and reaching 175 million...
NEW YORK-A pair of state legislators from New York City has written twin bills, identically worded to ensure expedited review, that would bar wireless phone companies from rounding up airtime charges to the next minute.Assemblyman Scott M. Stringer, (D-Manhattan), and state Senator Guy Velella,...
ARLINGTON, Va.-In a study by eBrain Market Research, 30 percent of wireless phone owners stated they were more likely to give up their home telephones than mobile phones. For respondents in the 18-to-34 age group, the likelihood increased to 45 percent, and among personal...
ATLANTA-World Access Inc. completed the sale of its Wireless Local Loop Division to Nera ASA, a Norwegian-based designer and manufacturer of wireless equipment and wireless broadband access solutions.World Access last year reported it was pursuing strategic alternatives for its Equipment Group as part of...
WASHINGTON-Some see the eventual fate of license winners in the 1996 personal communications services C-block auctions as one of strategy and planning; others see it as the Federal Communications Commission treating everyone the same in a way that negatively hurts everyone.Which views are expressed...
PORTLAND, Ore.-WellMed Inc. announced an initiative to provide consumers with access to their personal health information and medical resources via wireless phones, Palm Pilots, two-way pagers and other wireless terminals.According to WellMed, the Personal Health Manager will allow consumers to access relevant health information...
DALLAS-WebLink Wireless Inc. added three companies to its Enterprise Solutions Partner program-InfoSoft Inc., Mobile Computing Corp. and SolutionLand.com Corp.InfoSoft and Mobile Computing said they will use WebLink's network for their dispatch applications targeting the courier and transportation industries. SolutionLand said it will provide system...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Vyyo, a supplier of broadband wireless access systems, last week announced the initial public offering of 6.7 million shares of its common stock at a price of $13.50 per share.The offering, which is being managed by Banc of America Securities L.L.C., CIBC World...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Subsidiary IV Corp., a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless Corp., received tender and consents from holders of all the outstanding series A zero coupon notes due 2006 and the series B zero coupon notes due 2008 of Aerial Communications Inc., a personal communications...
NEW YORK-The ongoing fight for dominance of the U.S. wireless market flared up once again last week as Bell Atlantic Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc said they will commence this year an initial public offering of Verizon Wireless, the joint venture that combines the...
BEAUMONT, Texas-US Unwired, a Sprint PCS service provider, awarded a customized Volkswagen New Beetle to Levy Guidry of Houma, La., during a giveaway and media event at the company's Beaumont, Texas, retail outlet.The giveaway was the culmination of an 11-city tour by US Unwired....
NEW YORK-The Consumers' Association of the United Kingdom is advising readers of its "Which?" report not to "waste your money" on radio-frequency shields or certain kinds of hands-free kits for cell phones.The Association reported last week that it had tested on a "dummy head"...
AUSTIN, Texas-traq-wireless Inc., a Web-based provider of wireless management solutions for business, acquired the cellular resale business of Motorola Cellular Service Inc."Acquiring the MCSI cellular reseller business represents a great opportunity for traq-wireless to use a solid Motorola business as a platform to launch...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a customer care, billing and order management provider, completed its previously announced acquisition of Solect Technology Group Inc., a provider of Internet Protocol customer care and billing software."This merger establishes the industry's most complete business systems solution for communications and Internet...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. completed the first phase of a transaction to swap wireless interests in 13 states, eliminating the overlapping cellular operations that would be created by the combination of Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch plc wireless properties.The first...
PARIS-Shares of Alcatel rose dramatically after the company reported operating profits will rise to $95.6 million in the first quarter, up from a loss of $147.3 million in the first quarter of last year.On the New York Stock Exchange, shares in the company were...
LUBBOCK, Texas-Alamosa PCS Holdings Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate, reported results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 1999.For the year, Alamosa reported a net loss of $39.6 million, or 68 cents per share, on revenue of $8.9 million. The previous year's...
AUSTIN, Texas-Mobile Internet content and commerce solution provider agentGO.com announced an agreement with Motorola Inc. under which it will provide customized Internet content on Motorola Web-enabled wireless phones.The company also announced it has become a member of Motorola's wireless Internet alliance program.
VIENNA, Va.-Aether Systems Inc. has launched a nine-week tour of seminars examining the benefits mobile and wireless computing has on businesses and enterprise applications called "Powering Your Mobile Enterprise."The sessions include presentations by Palm Inc., Symbol Technologies Inc. and various customers and integrators. They...
ARLINGTON, Va.-According to statistics released by the Telecommunications Industry Association, U.S. exports of telecommunications equipment totaled more than $22.5 billion last year, an 11-percent increase from 1998.Canada led all countries, importing almost $3.7 billion in U.S. telecom equipment, followed by Mexico at $2.4 billion...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-The Swedish government plans to sell about 30 percent of Telia, the state-owned telecommunications company, by this summer, according to international press reports. Reports value Telia at about $46.5 billion.The initial public offering follows Telia's collapsed merger with Norway's Telenor late last year....
