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GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology services firm with more than 9,000 corporate clients, Hewlett-Packard Co. …

Aether Systems Inc. introduced an integrated wireless solution for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows CE-based Pocket PC products, sold by a variety of handheld computer manufacturers. Targeted specifically at large-volume corporate customer accounts, Aether’s wireless Enterprise ISP solution includes the Pocket PC …

PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co. to integrate Nortel’s wireless data technology into HP’s wireless hardware. Nortel is …

ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward. The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet …

Solectron Corp. completed its acquisition of Americom Wireless Services, a privately held company specializing in wireless handset repair and refurbishment and outsourced technical customer-support services. Solectron, a supply-chain facilitator of customized electronics technology, manufacturing and service solutions, received specialized repair …

Microsoft Corp. released its Pocket PC platform for handheld personal computers powered by its Windows CE operating system. Microsoft hardware partners Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symbol Technologies Inc. each introduced devices using the platform. …

Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary to build wireless portals for carriers and others. Inktomi provides …

NEW YORK-Last May, 25 technology companies established the ASP Industry Consortium, Wakefield, Mass., to accomplish a delicate but important mission. Bring some order to the burgeoning and somewhat chaotic application service provider sector, but avoid actual standards setting. By definition, …

BOGOTA, Colombia-The Colombian telecommunications sector has experienced growth over the last year despite the 1998-1999 economic recession. Although expectations that the sector would boom in 1999 were overshadowed by economic problems, several government initiatives promise to pave the way for …

Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian announced a wireless computing platform for handsets and other devices. Quartz is a reference design for …

NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communications Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a collaborative effort to support Bluetooth technology for Windows CE solutions. The partnership was created to ensure Socket’s upcoming line of Bluetooth-enabled CompactFlash CR plug-in cards are compatible with HP’s Jornada family …

NEW YORK-Hewlett-Packard Co. received a nice surprise from the capital markets as it spun off its test and measurement division, Agilent Technologies Inc., in an initial public offering Nov. 17. Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, Calif., had registered with the …

United Kingdom British Telecommunications plc is close to a deal with Viag, the German utility, that would give it access to the Austrian telecom market and more control in Switzerland, the Financial Times reported. BT will take a 50-percent stake …

Wireless was a dominant theme at Telecom ’99, the ITU’s massive communications exhibition held every four years in Geneva. The exhibit halls at the October event were full of the promise of 3G mobile multimedia services and broadband wireless access. …

Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal provides an entry point to Phone.com for selling …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. signed an agreement under which Symmetricom will acquire HP’s Communications Synchronization business, said the companies. The business, part of HP’s Santa Clara, Calif., division, designs and manufactures network synchronization and timing equipment for …

NEW YORK-The Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 16 to spin off its test and measurement division by taking it public. The unit, given the name of Agilent Technologies Inc., plans to raise …

MCLEAN, Va.-Nineteen network service providers and telecommunications companies, including Amdocs, Andersen Consulting, Convergys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Portal Software and Sun Microsystems Inc., have formed a working group to develop a new key Internet usage billing standard. The standard to be …

NEW YORK-A corporate culture of hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil spells problems ahead, even for companies that think they have gotten the millennium bug out of their systems, Johnson M. Hart said. Since 1994, Hart, founder …

LAS VEGAS-Tessco Technologies Inc. announced it was selected by IFR Americas Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to be an equipment supplier. In addition, Ericsson Inc. selected Tessco to provide telesales and logistics services for Ericsson in North America. Tessco said it …

In the first major initiative since the group formed in December, the WirelessReady Alliance held its first member meeting last week in Vancouver, where members discussed the state of the wireless data industry and plotted future strategy. Sierra Wireless Inc.-which …

Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall …

NEW YORK-RadiSys closed March 1 on a $28 million purchase of IBM Corp.’s Arctic business, the first of up to 10 acquisitions the Hillsboro, Ore., company plans during the next three years, primarily to bolster its presence in telecommunications. “Our …

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with VeriFone Inc., a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., to develop wireless point-of-sale solutions. The two said they will work together to create end-to-end solutions linking wireless credit …

Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace. Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies to semiconductor manufacturers. One segment that has been particularly active …