BROWSING: smart phones

Geoworks announced a significant evolution to its GEOS operating system that will allow handset manufacturers to quickly produce a range of low-end to high-end smart phones.Consumer electronics giant Mitsubishi has licensed the upgraded system, the GEOS-SC, to manufacture and ship next year a new...

GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network partnerships with Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division Multiple Access carriers.For now,...

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. opened its wireless data service center for wireless network operators.The center provides carriers with a single source for marketing end-to-end wireless data solutions over their network and in markets outside their territory, said the company. Offering turnkey wireless web services...

CAMBRIDGE, England-The Technology Partnership plc and STNC Enterprises Ltd. announced a strategic alliance to create smart phones for Internet and World Wide Web browsing capability in cellular phones.The companies define current such smart phones as bulky and say that its Webwalker handset using TTP/STNC...

WASHINGTON-More than half of wireless subscribers and 40 percent of non-users expressed an interest in two-way wireless e-mail, representing a potential market of 44.3 million users, according to a study conducted by The Strategis Group.The study, Wireless Internet and E-mail Markets: 1997, predicted the market...

NEW YORK-Imagine a bell curve for a clear picture of the landscape this year for batteries used in wireless handsets.That big bulge in the middle represents the domain of rechargeable nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride batteries, which seem likely to retain their dominant...

NEW YORK-Like the fabled elephant described by a group of blind men positioned near various points of its anatomy, equipment vendors at the recent "PCS-1900 in North America" conference gave widely different definitions of so-called "smart phones."The closest thing to a consensus reached was...

ATLANTA-Motorola Inc.'s Platform Software Division and Unwired Planet Inc. signed an agreement to provide an optimized solution for delivering Internet-based content to wireless communications devices such as cellular smart phones and alphanumeric pagers.The agreement calls for Unwired Planet's UP.Link server and UP.Browser client applications...

NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel Nov. 20 on wireless technology."No intelligent network platform is as reliable as a switch....

RadioMail Corp. announced the availability of its RadioMailer wireless Internet access solution for Cellular Digital Packet Data networks. Service previously was limited to Mobitex and DataTAC packet radio systems."By extending our service to operate on CDPD and cellular networks, we are the only company...

The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...

Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the company. "You build better equipment by having better silicon and you have better silicon...

The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...

The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Geoworks and Ericsson Inc. announced an alliance to deliver a range of afforadable "smart phone" next-generation cellular phones combining voice and data transmission capabilities.Under the terms os the agreement, Ericsson has licensed Geoworks' Geos open operating system platform.Ericsson smart phones are...