NEW ORLEANS-Several Wireless Application Protocol announcements were made at Wireless 2000 in New Orleans last week. RTS Wireless demonstrated its Advantage WAP Gateway e-commerce solutions Datalink.net said it joined the WAP Forum. Motorola Inc. announced the availability of its WAP gateway, compatible with WAP...
NEW YORK-The telecom/wireless sector of U.S. industry stood out last year, riding high on an overall rising tide of venture capital investments, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' "MoneyTree Survey."Taken in aggregate, venture-backed investments in domestic companies during 1999 shattered all previous records, with 4,006 firms receiving...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium launched its Time Division Multiple Access-EDGE brand identity campaign at CTIA's Wireless 2000 show."This is an exciting time in the wireless community and especially for us at UWCC," noted Sheila Mickool, president of the UWCC. "We are on...
ANKARA, Turkey-The Turkish government announced the time frame for auctioning two new wireless telephone licenses. The tender for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses is scheduled for March, Reuters reported. Each is expected to bring $650 million.The government also plans in April to...
TRW Inc. said last week it will merge its subsidiary, TRW Milliwave Inc., with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based broadband equipment manufacturer Endgate Corp. to create a new company called Endwave Corp."Endwave's products will provide the cost-effective wireless solutions customers are demanding for the expansion of e-business,"...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. said Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Chase Capital Partners will make a $300 million investment in TIW under terms of an agreement signed last week by the companies.Hutchison and Chase Capital each will purchase $150 million of equity subordinated...
WASHINGTON-Senate Judiciary Committee members last week voiced serious concerns about the proposed $160 billion America Online Inc.-Time Warner Inc. merger, a deal that takes on added significance in light of new strategic partnerships between AOL and several wireless firms."he most significant danger to the...
SAN FRANCISCO-According to a survey by Yankelovich Partners, almost 70 percent of people surveyed said they expect in the future to use wireless phones to send and receive e-mail and to use global positioning system location-based services.The survey, commissioned by LetsTalk.com, also showed that...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s board of directors approved a three-for-one common stock split in the form of a stock dividend, subject to approval by stockholders of an increase in the number of the company's authorized common shares.Motorola said if stockholders approve the increase in the...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Solectron Corp., a supply-chain facilitator for customized electronics technology, manufacturing and service solutions, agreed to acquire privately held Americom Wireless Services, according to a letter of intent signed by the companies.Solectron will gain specialized repair and testing equipment and assume responsibility for Americom's...
NEW ORLEANS-Solomon Trujillo, U S West chairman, president and chief executive officer, told Wireless 2000 attendees he won't join Qwest Communications International Inc. after the companies' merger is completed this year.He said he will remain chief executive of U S West until the merger...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Siemens Information and Communications Networks Inc. demonstrated its next-generation wireless networks and phones equipped with General Packet Radio Service beginning with a live demonstration shown last week at CTIA's Wireless 2000 trade show in New Orleans.Currently, Siemens is conducting more than nine...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc., the Murray Hill, N.J., telecom equipment company spun off from AT&T Corp. in 1996, announced plans last week to divest the slower growing parts of its business in an initial public offering later this year. The effort will allow the...
Speculation circulated last week that Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG is in talks with Qwest Communications International Inc. about a possible merger between the two, while SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. also were rumored to be in merger talks.There are signs that the pending...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. completed its acquisition of SnapTrack Inc., providing Qualcomm with SnapTrack's patent portfolio of nearly 50 patents, either issued or pending, that the company says are critical to the efficient, cost-effective deployment of wireless-assisted global positioning system technology.The acquisition, in which Qualcomm...
While Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc. were the stars of the Internet content provider show at Wireless 2000, several supporting players launched wireless portals of their own, some with scene-stealing flair.They include GiantBear.com, Strategy.com, SpyglassMobile. com, WiredCEO, Logica and Speedia.com.John Dorfman, analyst at...
WINTER GARDEN, Fla.-Pilot Island Publishing and its PocketPay Joint Venture partner, eConnect, have structured a licensing arrangement with PalmPilot enabling the first-ever wireless handheld Internet terminal transactions.The PocketPay, a handheld combination Palm VII, phone and bank-card Internet terminal, will send encrypted data from an...
NEW YORK-3Com Corp. spun off 4 percent of its Palm Computing unit March 2 in an initial public offering of 23 million shares that received enthusiastic investor reception.The IPO, lead-managed by Goldman Sachs & Co., debuted at $38 per share and closed its first...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 985 licenses at 929 MHz and 931 MHz for paging services closed late Thursday, after 28 rounds, with 78 winning bidders pledging $4.1 million."In exactly one week the FCC was able to sell almost a thousand licenses to...
There's an ancient Japanese custom in which a man wooing a woman leaves romantic haiku poems tied to flowers or branches on her front lawn every day for as long as it takes until the woman agrees to accept his advances. According to one...
Craig McCaw's Eagle River Investments L.L.C. announced it will not invest in Iridium L.L.C., forcing Iridium to look elsewhere for financial backing to pull it out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Eagle River said it will instead focus its satellite communications investments on bailing out...
NEW ORLEANS-A standoff over 1XRTT technology enhancements began to brew at last week's Wireless 2000 show, as Motorola Inc. challenged the business case of Qualcomm's proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1X enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to consider.Qualcomm has aggressively marketed HDR...
WASHINGTON-In the aftermath of the recent wave of cyber attacks, President Clinton immediately called for and hosted a high-profile summit with Net and telecom executives. Last week, congressional hearings were held. So, far, they all have come to the same, sobering conclusion: There is no...
NEW ORLEANS-Just how wireless Internet access will explode may depend on how carriers work with Internet players, executives said at last week's Wireless 2000 show.While Sprint PCS made one of the largest announcements at the show by teaming up with the country's biggest Internet...
