WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Home improvement retailer Lowe’s will offer Arch Wireless Inc.’s Arch Webster 100 wireless interactive two-way messaging service through its nationwide chain of stores. The Arch Webster 100 service enables …
Beginning early next year, insurance brokers will be able to access quotes, check on the status of cases and edit quotes wirelessly from Palm Inc.’s personal digital assistants and software …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc., the H.L. Yoh Co. L.L.C. and TAC Worldwide Companies announced an agreement to manage the procurement and administration of contract labor services for Motorola operations in …
Wireless messaging services are looked upon by many wireless service providers and Internet service providers as the “killer app” that will fuel both future subscriber and revenue growth. Unfortunately, the …
MADRID, Spain-Spain’s Telefonica has finally added Mexico to its Latin American footprint with the acquisition of Motorola’s Mexican mobile-phone assets. The $2.5 billion acquisition is also an important stepping stone …
NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on new importance. Presence is shorthand for …
A new report from Ovum warns new entrants planning to deploy broadband technologies such as digital subscriber line may find the cost and complexity discouraging, and other access methods such …
SAN FRANCISCO-Oracle Corp. announced pending availability of complete middleware for developing and deploying wireless Internet content and applications services. The Oracle9i application server wireless edition leverages Oracle’s portal-to-go technology and …
TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial, which manufactures cell phones under the Panasonic brand name, is discussing an alliance on third-generation mobile phones with European mobile carriers, according to a report in the …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Voice Mobility International Inc. signed an agreement with Taiwan’s Logtech Info-Net Inc. to jointly provide Voice Mobility’s Unified Communications software suite to telephone, Internet and cellular phone users …
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. entered a five-year, $1 billion agreement for Lucent to be the primary provider of data, voice and access infrastructure for SBC’s national …
WASHINGTON-The mobile phone industry is expected shortly to unveil a privacy policy to guide carriers as they reinvent business plans to capitalize on the Internet and new location-based wireless technology. …
MONROE, La.-CenturyTel Inc. completed its purchase of approximately 133,000 telephone lines from Verizon Communications in Wisconsin for $364 million in cash in two separate transactions. The first transactions involved CenturyTel …
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this session has before it three mobile-phone health cases, a sign of things to come in a Digital Age where technology outpaces the law and raises novel …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Veritas Software Corp. and Corsair Communications Inc., a provider of real-time billing and mobile commerce systems, plan to deliver integrated and optimized application solutions to wireless carriers. The …
Arch Wireless Inc.’s shareholders approved the company’s pending merger with Paging Network Inc. at a special meeting of shareholders. The transaction still requires the approval of PageNet stockholders. In addition, …
Congress approved legislation that will increase to 600,000 the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers during the next three years. The measure also includes provisions funding scholarships for …
RCR Wireless News announced that Dan Meyer, formerly editorial assistant, has been promoted to reporter. Meyer has been with RCR since December 1999. “Dan came to RCR Wireless News less …
Ireland’s telecom regulator launched a comparative tender for a national 15-year TETRA license. The result of the competition will be announced in January 2001. Licenses for the two blocks of …
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications has unveiled its first bundled offering allowing the residential customer of many of its local telephone companies who purchase any Verizon Wireless digital calling plan of at …
