Portal Software

Software giant Oracle Corp. announced it’s spending about $220 million to buy Portal Software Inc., a firm that develops billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industries. …

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Software giant Oracle Corp. announced it’s spending about $220 million to buy Portal Software Inc., a firm that develops billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and …

WASHINGTON-The Export-Import Bank of the United States approved a $15 million long-term loan guarantee to support the sale by U.S. suppliers of cellular equipment, software and services to Colombia Movil, …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Swiss mobile operator Swisscom Mobile AG named Portal Software Inc. a strategic supplier. Portal has been a billing software supplier to Swisscom since 2000. “We already have Portal’s solution …

SYDNEY, Australia-Portal Software said it is the official billing partner of Personal Broadband Australia, the Australian wireless broadband company backed by U.S.-based Arraycomm Inc. The portal solution for the Australian …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Portal Software Inc. announced it has completed a $60 million direct offering of approximately 22.6 million shares of its common stock. The shares were sold for $2.65 each, resulting …

Just as the battle to dominate the handset operating system realm intensifies, the contest for supremacy on the server side has taken a fresh dimension with a new product from …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Colombia Movil SA, an emerging wireless service provider in Latin America, has chosen Portal Software Inc.’s Infranet customer relationship management and billing solution for is GSM/GPRS network. Colombia Movil …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Portal Software Inc. and SAP AG have aligned to deliver a solution combining Portal’s Intranet billing solution with SAP’s Telecommunications solution for the telecom industry. Portal said the joint …

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Boingo Wireless Inc. said it has implemented Portal Software Inc.’s billing solution, known as Infranet, for mobile service providers. “Boingo developed its billing infrastructure with the Infranet solution, which …

LONDON—Logica announced a deal with T-Motion, the mobile online services arm of T-Mobile International, to create a portal to market billable value-added services to customers across Europe. The system uses …

In the Digital Age, it is no longer good enough to produce a product or service that people want. Today, you must be all things to all people all of …

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 …

SINGAPORE-Fixed and mobile telecom provider StarHub has selected Siemens Information and Communications Networks to supply and install Wireless Application Protocol gateway and portal software from Phone.com Inc.

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 …

British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless …

NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory …

Handsets Philips Philips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon …

Nokia and Reuters signed a global cooperation agreement to develop and deliver financial, sports and general news services based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). The new service is optimized …

NEW YORK-Comparatively few of the hundreds of telecommunications billing companies in business today are publicly traded, but that list could grow by one if Daleen Technologies Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., …

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 YORK-Heading into a scorcher of an Independence Day holiday, American stock markets closed in record-setting territory, thereby heating up the prospects for wireless sector companies seeking financing during the …

Xircom Xircom Inc. announced a new product line called CompactCard, which it said extends wireless connectivity for Windows CE handheld computers. CompactCard is a series of Type II CompactFlash cards …

The Palm VII personal digital assistant, announced this month by 3Com Corp. and Palm Computing Inc., continues to generate news and speculation, even though the product is not expected to …