SAN FRANCISCO-Discover Brokerage introduced a wireless investing service called TradeRunner, which uses 3Com Corp.’s Palm III and Palm IIIx personal digital assistants. The service allows customers to control their investment …
Analysts have long criticized operator-assisted dispatch as the weak link in the alphanumeric paging chain, citing its inherent lack of privacy and potential for misinterpreted messages. But users have accepted …
A Baltimore-based company called reachNET introduced a wireless messaging solution that provides a direct connection between a wireless device and the telephone teletype machines commonly used by the deaf and …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Corsair a patent for technology relating to PhonePrint, the company’s cellular fraud prevention product. PhonePrint uses a …
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. acquired Cambridge, Mass.-based InTouch Systems Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction, said Comverse. Comverse said it issued about 340,000 new shares to InTouch Systems shareholders, and is …
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. acquired the business and certain net assets of Mobicall, a wholesale distributor of wireless handsets and accessory products throughout the Netherlands, said CellStar. “This acquisition provides CellStar …
CALGARY-Cell-Loc Inc. said it completed the first phase Code Division Multiple Access trial of the Cellocate System PCS/CDMA, after three months of testing. Results of the digital wireless location testing …
WASHINGTON-Companies like Qualcomm Inc. that wish to enter the potentially lucrative Chinese wireless market now must wait for the United States and China to negotiate issues surrounding technology transfer, the …
Personal communications services carriers can be credited with spurring huge demand for wireless service, but they continue to struggle with brand awareness and perceptions customers have about coverage. “It’s a …
Rural Cellular Corp. last week demonstrated its Phase II wireless enhanced 911 service at the International Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials show in Minneapolis. Jim Alstadt, project manager and research …
NEW YORK-San Francisco-based World Wide Wireless Communications Inc., which has a patent pending for putting wireless network infrastructure onto computer chips, is engaged in a battle with a bank over …
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. launched its first ever cross-branding effort that unites all of RCC’s wireless companies, which traditionally have not communicated a consistent marketing message, said the company. Television …
DENVER-Wireless technology can play a key role in developing competition in the local telecommunications market as envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, according to Dale Hatfield, chief of the …
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. introduced lower PrimeTravelSM roaming rates and bundled long-distance services. Now, customers opting for a PrimeCoNowSM plan of 100 to 300 minutes will receive toll-free, in-state calling …
LISBON, Portugal-TMN, the mobile division of Portugal Telecom, posted 1999 first-half results showing net income of $54 million, a 10-percent increase compared with the same period in 1998. The average …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. released its first-ever quarterly earnings report since going public in June, posting a net loss for the fiscal fourth quarter of $6.8 million, or 62 cents …
Aeris Aeris Communications Inc. added to its senior management team, naming Peter F. Stone chief financial officer and Patricia E. Hart vice president and general counsel. Aeris also announced Douglas …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-France Telecom and Telecom Italia said they completed their joint acquisition of the 35-percent stake in Nortel Inversora S.A. in Argentina, previously held by Perez Companc and JP …
DENVER-Broadband wireless provider Formus Communications Inc. received a broadband wireless access license from Finland’s regulatory authority. The multiple-frequency BWA licenses, allowing provision of all voice and data services, cover the …
The desire of European paging carriers to migrate to a two-way paging paradigm has opened the paging market there-once dominated by the ERMES transmission standard-to FLEX-based paging systems. Although prepaid …
