REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will stop accepting customers on its slow-speed packet-data CDPD network by next year, and will shut down the network in 2004.The company is working to alert all its CDPD customers of the change, and is offering them incentives to...
LAS VEGAS-Businesses in the United States and Europe have a great demand for high-speed data, especially for e-mails with data-heavy attachments and Internet and corporate Intranet access, according to a study sponsored by Lucent Technologies Inc."The research indicates that businesses want a wireless data...
TAMPA-Zeosoft is releasing version 1.5 of its Zeosphere application server at this week's CTIA Wireless IT and Internet show in Las Vegas.Zeosoft's new solution, which was built based on feedback from trials with beta versions of 1.0 Zeospere, released in late Feb. 2002, offers...
MAARSSEN, The Netherlands-Wireless enterprise company iAnywhere Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase Inc., announced its mobile database technology will be integrated into a wireless ticketing trial for a Dutch railway company.Under the six-month trial, which CMG Wireless Data Solutions is managing, a group of...
MAKUHARI, Japan-Sony showed off two new versions of its Clie PDA at this week's CEATEC Japan 2002 show in Makuhari, Japan-the PEG-NX60 and PEG-NX70, both of which feature Palm's new version 5.0 operating system and an ARM processor. Both models have slots for adding...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp., which is in the middle of overlaying its CDMA/TDMA network with cdma2000 1x technology, said it has begun testing Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW solution in Knoxville, Tenn.The carrier said the test, which is scheduled to run through next January, will allow the...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. announced EarthLink Inc. will take over its billing, customer care and network services operations under a major new partnership between the two companies, a move that also involves GoAmerica cutting its work force in half as part of a significant cost-savings...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced its software has been deployed for PCS Vision applications from Sprint PCS, allowing users to send and receive alerts through Openwave's Push technology as well as downloading new games using the Openwave Mobile Browser and Openwave Download Manager."Openwave's...
TORONTO-Canadian and U.S. wireless carriers are planning soon to offer text messaging services across all their networks.Since April, Canadian cell-phone subscribers have been able to send text messages to users on any of the four national networks, after Bell Mobility, Microcell, Rogers AT&T Wireless...
SEATTLE-Rogers AT&T Wireless in Canada is expanding its relationship with ViAir Inc. to offer its new Wireless Desktop, which gives customers wireless access to Internet and corporate e-mail, as well as calendar and contacts.Using ViAir's WirelessInbox, users will be able to access corporate applications...
Beijing-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a $40 million contract to expand GSM wireless networks in the autonomous regions of Xinjiang Uygur and Ningxia Hui, the Shanxi province and the city of Chongqing.The upgrade also will enable China Unicom to offer new wireless...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. and Oracle have joined to offer enterprise customers a solution for testing and analyzing wireless application performance.According to their agreement, Telephia will provide its Wireless Data and Network Application (Wireless DNA Performance), a performance testing solution, to Oracle customers that have...
NEW DELHI, India-The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has decided to review universal service obligation of telecom operators, including cellular service providers.It has proposed to include several new services, including short message service (SMS) and other wireless data services, in the list of designated...
BEIJING-China United Telecommunications Corporation launched its 11.5 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) domestic initial public offering (IPO), the largest ever in China by number of shares and the second-largest in value, following oil giant Sinopec. The A shares are reserved for Chinese citizens, who for...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Students and faculty at the University of Southern California campus will get to jump into the market for mobile commerce under a new service from infrared-based proximity payment company Harex InfoTech Inc. and CrossCheck Inc., a financial services firm.Under a new project,...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, N.J., has completed the successful seamless hand-off of a wireless data call from an 802.11 wireless local area network to a third-generation UMTS network, the company said Sept. 18.Lucent also has demonstrated seamless roaming capabilities between Wi-Fi and...
DALLAS-Paging and messaging carrier WebLink Wireless Inc. announced it has officially emerged from bankruptcy, and that the company's president and chief executive officer, N. Ross Buckenham, will also now serve as the company's Chairman of the Board."I would like to thank all WebLink Wireless...
Vizzavi's wild ride seems to have come to an end. At least, sort of.Wireless giant Vodafone Group and media titan Vivendi Universal founded the European portal in January 2000 with a whopping US$1.6 billion investment. But Vizzavi, touted as a multi-access Web/mobile-phone entertainment portal,...
NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data announced it has entered a three-year agreement with Paymentech L.P. in which Paymentech and its affiliates will purchase wireless-based transaction processing products and services from USWD. "This agreement with Paymentech is a landmark event that will extend our leadership position...
NEW YORK-U.S. Wireless Data announced it sold its NXT Corp. subsidiary, which provides data services and landline-based connectivity for credit-card transaction processing, to Merchant-Link L.L.C. for $5 million in cash."The sale of NXT provides us with an immediate, non-dilutive infusion of capital," said Dean...
HELSINKI, Finland-Danish, Swedish and German telecom companies TDC, Telia and Deutsche Telekom are showing an interest in acquiring the Stockholm, Sweden-based communications and financial services group Kinnevik's 33.5-percent shareholding in mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (MIC), headquartered in Luxembourg. Kinnevik, whose future remains the...
While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path as their worldly brothers when it came to deploying third-generation (3G) networks. Those models...
NEW YORK-The $410 million in outstanding subordinated convertible debt issued by Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, Pa. received a speculative-grade ratings downgrade August 30 from Moody's Investors Service, to B3 from B2. The New York-based rating agency cited its expectations that Agere's operating losses and...
TOKYO-Yozan, a venture business in Tokyo, is going to launch a new service combining PHS, wireless local area network (WLAN) and paging, the firm announced.According to Yozan, the new services will provide high-speed data services by constructing Bit Stand, wireless data base stations, on...
