MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. said its Axity broadband wireless access system is now available.The Axity platform will enable providers to deliver voice and high-speed data services to homes and businesses. Included are base station transmitters and receivers, wireless modems and an element management system. ADC...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. signed a contract with Casil Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., a telecommunications subsidiary of China Aerospace Industry Corp., making the company a manufacturing and market access partner for Adaptive Broadband's AB-Access fixed broadband wireless equipment in China.Adaptive Broadband noted that if all...
Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary to build wireless portals for carriers and others.Inktomi provides Internet backbone technology like traffic...
Edgar Online Inc. launched IPO Express2go, a wireless version of its IPO Express Web and e-mail service.The service is designed to provide wireless access to market data on initial public offerings via 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net services.Edgar also made...
NEW YORK-To simulate third-generation wireless before its deployment, Finland's Sonera has just embarked on a new program, Sonera Mspace, said Kaj-Erik Relander, the company's executive vice president.In partnership with content, service and technology providers, Mspace will conduct in Finland "real life trials with consumers...
Com-Net EricssonCom-Net Ericsson Critical Radio Systems Inc. will introduce several new products at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas ranging from trunked and conventional radios to a new voice-over-Internet Protocol product. The Panther 300P portable and Panther 300M mobile conventional radios will...
FinlandL.M. Ericsson will supply a fully integrated solution for a third-generation Global System for Mobile communications system, including the company's General Packet Radio Service system, to Finish operator Alands Mobiltelefon Ab. The contract includes a mobile network solution integrating GSM and 3G with Ericsson...
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla.-e-MedSoft.com completed development of wireless technology for its suite of health care products.The improved suite includes technology compatible with all the industry's handheld and wireless devices. It can be embedded in the company's core server and extends its line of electronic products.The...
PARIS-Phone.com Inc. is incorporating in France and soon will be opening a new sales and support business office in Paris.The company explained that the Paris office will be chartered to manage expanded business growth, provide local support for existing French customers and to further...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Several former executives of Microsoft Corp. and McCaw Cellular have joined other wireless industry pioneers to form Ignition Corp., a holding company designed to fund, mentor and help build wireless Internet start-up companies.Ignition has raised an initial $140 million toward this effort from...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-HiQ, an information technology and management consultancy company, has developed a new Wireless Application Protocol service for L.M. Ericsson's product unit in California.The new service will be included in the next generation of Ericsson's NextCC call center, allowing efficiency to be monitored by...
NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., met March 7 to begin consideration of approximately 250 formal comments about its controversial proposal to eliminate accounting for mergers as pooling of interests.The pooling of interests method records the value of a merger as the...
After spending 10 years and $5.8 billion building and launching a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites to provide mobile voice and paging services worldwide, Iridium L.L.C. is facing a new countdown-toward extinction.If the company doesn't find someone to replace Craig McCaw as its financial...
WASHINGTON-While the Senate appears ready to pass China trade legislation sent to Congress by President Clinton last week, the administration lacks the votes in the House to pass a measure that would dramatically open China's vast wireless telecom market to foreign firms.The vote, which...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc.'s subsidiary, Brightpoint Philippines Inc., signed an agreement with Nokia Corp. to distribute Nokia's digital multimedia terminal, the Nokia Mediamaster digital receiver decoder, for use in interactive multimedia systems.Financial details of the agreement were not available.
NEW YORK-Despite all the cheerleading about the new economy as a global village, the best bets for investments in telecommunications, the Internet and electronic commerce reside in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland.Of the 30 countries that accounted for 85 percent...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said it conducted another exchange of debt for common stock, this time reducing its debt load by $135 million.The company issued 10 million shares of common stock for about $135 million in 10.875-percent senior discount notes due 2008. In...
REDMOND, Wash.-Apex Inc., a server console management and switching technology provider, and Cybex Computer Products Corp., a provider of network hardware used to manage servers and data centers, have signed a definitive agreement to combine in a merger valued at $2 billion.According to the...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Software.com Inc. announced it will acquire @mobile.com Inc. for about $400 million in a stock transaction.@mobile.com is a wireless Internet application service provider offering wireless instant messaging technology and wireless intelligent network integration experience.
Financial analysts are beginning to conservatively incorporate potential wireless data revenues into their valuations of wireless carriers, and many are looking to the future, realizing wireless operators should be evaluated like Internet stocks.This measurement will have huge implications for the wireless industry. Investors have...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service assigned a B3 rating to SpectraSite Holdings Inc. for its pending issue of senior notes and senior discount notes due 2010 with estimated gross proceeds of $400 million.Moody's also assigned a B3 rating to SpectraSite's 12-percent senior discount notes due...
While most wireless companies are looking toward consolidation in the one-way paging market, Scout Electromedia is looking toward overlooked markets to broaden its appeal.Scout Electromedia, a term the company says combines media content and product design, touts the company's mission as "dedicated to the...
BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. announced its partnership with DSET Corp., a supplier of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the telecommunications industry, through the company's Alliance Program.According to SCC, the Alliance Program offers strategic partnerships with businesses and vendors who serve competitive local exchange carriers."DSET and...
DESERT SPRINGS, Calif.-Riverbed Technologies Inc., which has now merged with Aether Systems Inc., announced its ScoutWeb product is now commercially available.ScoutWeb is part of the company's ScoutWare product line of development and management tools and synchronization technologies designed to give Web access to corporate...
