WASHINGTON-Vice President Gore last week promised high-tech tax cuts and increased information technology research funding as part of his official announced candidacy for president. “I will craft these tax cuts …
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it is beta testing a service that will allow mobile users to comparison-shop wirelessly, by scanning product barcodes and checking competing vendor prices on wireless …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. introduced myTalk, a free ad-supported Internet service allowing users to manage their e-mail using the phone and spoken word commands. The company said it intends to …
Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, entered the public realm with a bang last Friday with an initial public offering that proved exceptionally successful in a market where technology stocks don’t …
PLANO, Texas-EDS introduced a service offering that will enable Internet service providers, phone companies and others to brand, sell and bill for the latest e-business applications such as enterprise resource …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week unveiled a new tax certificate program to attract more women, minorities and small businesses into wireless and other sectors of the telecommunications …
WASHINGTON-Despite threats that legislation to relax export controls on encryption technology will hand over that technology to terrorists and weaken American national security, encryption legislation continued plugging along on Capitol …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. will deploy its PhonePrint fraud-prevention system for MobileTel Inc., a B-band cellular operator in southern Louisiana, announced Corsair. Corsair will use its RF fingerprinting system …
Fresh from his turnaround performance leading MobileMedia Communications Inc. out of bankruptcy, former president and chief executive officer Ron Grawert has been named CEO of Clariti Telecommunications International. The company …
NEW YORK-Sierra Wireless Inc. announced its AirCard 300 wireless Cellular Digital Packet Data is compatible with computers running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 95/98 or NT operating systems. The Type-II PC card …
WASHINGTON-The Senate last week, after an arduous process, passed a bill to limit lawsuits resulting from the millennium bug. The action sets up what promises to be difficult negotiations with …
United Parcel Service introduced a new wireless package tracking system, created in conjunction with Motorola Inc., that uses American Mobile Satellite Corp.’s Ardis packet data network. The system is the …
SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. in Australia will extend its Code Division Multiple Access mobile phone network to include country locations currently covered by Telstra’s Global System for Mobile communications network, …
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has agreed to license its Spyglass Prism Internet technologies to Telenor Mobil of Norway. The technology will allow customers using cellular phones and other mobile …
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. is offering its handsets and wireless services via an e-commerce section on its redesigned Web site-www.powertel.com. Mike Bashaw, vice president of marketing and product development for …
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc announced its tender offer for Japanese telecommunications carrier International Digital Communications was successfully concluded, with sufficient shares having been tendered to take Cable & Wireless’ holding …
It was grand symbolism on the fourth floor of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last Monday morning. There they were, two birds of a feather, Nextel …
Microsoft Corp. launched its MSN Mobile service, a wireless extension of its MSN.com Internet portal that allows customers to receive their information services on pagers, cell phones and other wireless …
WASHINGTON-The United States and Japan are at a standoff over renewal of the 1980 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone procurement agreement, which governs fair telecom procurement practice by the Japanese government. …
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. is expected to unveil a new marketing plan and pricing structure this week, following news that it has laid off 15 percent of its work force. According to …
