SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Trimble Navigation Ltd. was awarded a contract from the Chinese Ministry of Railway to provide 40 GPS Total Station 4700 systems to be used to construct a 400-mile railway …
OmniSky OmniSky Corp., a provider of wireless Internet services for handheld computing devices, named five new people to its executive management team. Lawrence Winkler is the company’s new senior vice …
TORONTO-Microcell Connexions, a subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., and Ernst & Young reported the deployment and real-world trial of Microcell Wireless Office, a next-generation service enabling a company to incorporate …
HONG KONG-Netalone.com Ltd., an e-commerce enabler in Asia, formed a strategic partnership with L.M. Ericsson in an attempt to capture the mobile e-commerce business in China. Netalone will provide its …
NEW YORK-IBM announced alliances with eight Internet professional services firms to build mobile e-commerce solutions for IBM’s wireless Internet initiatives. IBM said the companies-Agency.com; Answerthink; Luminary Worldwide Corp.; Organic; R/GA; …
Hong Kong Cable & Wireless HKT Mobile Services and Nokia Corp. successfully completed their third-generation trials and the provision of a commercially available 43.2 kbps high-speed circuit switched data service …
PETAH TIKVA, Israel-InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems Ltd. said it will supply fixed wireless access systems to Global Village Telecom in Brazil through a supply agreement valued at up to $165 …
Comverse Network Systems introduced its Nex2Me wireless instant messaging solution, a Wireless Application Protocol and short message service suite that enables the creation of mobile communities shared by mobile and …
WASHINGTON-Carriers and tower owners wishing to build out their networks by siting more antennas are running into regulatory roadblocks that often delay buildout. “The pressure is building on carriers and …
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Mesa Communications Group L.L.C. acquired Spectrum Resources Towers L.P., based in Falls Church, Va., from VS&A Communications Partners, the private equity affiliate of New York-based media merchant bank …
WASHINGTON-The importance public image holds for competitive wireless carriers was highlighted last week when a major daily newspaper here-pointing to the lack of mobile-phone service in underground subways that run …
LG Electronics is raising its bet on music phones in emerging nations, while focusing on touch-sensitive phones in developed nations.
ATLANTA-XcelleNet Inc., a mobile enterprise management solutions firm, announced strategic technology alliances and partnerships with Microsoft Corp., Research In Motion Ltd., the Symbian initiative and Symbol Technologies Inc. in an …
WASHINGTON-The United States appears poised to win support for a multiband global spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems heading into the final week of the World Radiocommunication Conference in …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. unveiled a competitive local telephone service in several rural communities in Kansas and Minnesota after receiving Eligible Telecommunications Carriers status for purposes of federal and state …
BOSTON-Ovum warned that Wireless Application Protocol supporters don’t have much time to take advantage of the now-open window of opportunity, which the global research and consulting company said will close …
MUNICH, Germany-German utilities Viag and Veba are said to be in talks to sell their stakes in telecommunications interests to British Telecom. British Telecom currently holds 45 percent of Viag …
ORLANDO, Fla.-United Messaging Inc. announced it has integrated Motient Corp.’s eLink wireless e-mail service into its hosted mailbox services, using devices from Research In Motion Ltd.
Just as a zoo is a place where different species from around the world can peacefully co-mingle, telezoo.com said it is a place where telecommunication buyers and sellers can easily …
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced Toshiba Corp. has licensed its Premion Server+ technology to allow Toshiba’s i-Value Creation Company to develop custom mobile content and commerce applications for businesses in Japan. …
