It is only a question of time before the magic M-word 'mobile' is teamed up with every one of the planet's existing global brands, and the blockbuster gaming brand SEGA is no exception. First SEGA leveraged their video game heritage across the Internet, now they propose doing the sam...

(November 27, 2002) - Mobile Java application developers are empowered to create professional applications for PDAs with Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7, PDA Edition. The newest addition to Metrowerks' tools for wireless application development supports building PersonalJava ...

(February 28, 2003) - North America's very first wireless J2ME-based software app for viewing and sharing photos on Java-enabled mobile phones has been announced. Called 'MyMobilePix,' the application is the joint work of Tira Wireless, a publisher of wireless Java apps for mobile phon...

(May 22, 2003) - A just released consumer research study reports that nearly one-half of all U.S. households would switch from their primary wireline service to a 'family share' type wireless service plan that provided for unlimited local calling from the home and 600 anytime minutes, ...

(March 19, 2002) Oberthur Card Systems, widely recognized as a global player and innovator in the 'smart card' industry, has been steadily leveraging their unrivaled expertise in Java and GSM technologies to deliver advanced, open and interoperable SIM, WAP, and 3G solutions to mobile ...

(June 12, 2002) - It worked for the Walkman, it worked for the DVD player, and now Palm hopes it will work to attract first-time buyers for handheld computers: the tactic of offering a model at below the magic hundred-buck level.

The Wherify GPS Locator is, shall we say, the Mr. Hyde side of location-based technologies, but let's not forget that many people around the world are already talking too about their Dr. Jekyll side. Some companies already use RF tags (similar to those used to tag pets) in workwear ...

(November 27, 2002) - The newly announced Nokia 6200 tri-band (GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900MHz) phone is the world's first 3GPP compliant EDGE (Enhanced Data-Rates for GSM Evolution) handset, offering users advanced voice features and robust mobile data services via high speed Internet...

(March 7, 2003) - Nokia and Metrowerks have collaborated on an all-in-one developer kit for the Series 60 Platform. Metrowerks will distribute the kit, which makes Series 60 application development in the CodeWarrior environment possible for the first time. Included in the new CodeWar...

(May 22, 2003) – By the end of 2003, more than 1,300 Tibetan villages will have access to satellite-connected public payphones, utilizing solar electric generating systems from Kyocera Solar, Inc. Kyocera is working with Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. to provide the systems to China Te...

(March 19,2002) Security was very much the paramount concern when a nationwide wireless data and Internet service provider (GoAmerica) and a provider of wireless infrastructure management software (mFormation Techologies) got together to enable a not-for-profit health-care provider (Ba...

(June 12, 2002) - With Openwave Systems, Inc., on a recent buying binge in which it snapped up SignalSoft for $59 million and acquired mobile data downloading technology from Ellipsus Systems for over $17 million, and with Extended Systems acquiring mobile data vendor ViaFone for $11.4...

(August 26, 2002) - QUALCOMM has expanded a cross-licensing agreement with Germany's Siemens AG, granting Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) the rights to make and sell infrastructure equipment worldwide for CDMA wireless systems. The agreement now provides ...

(November 26, 2002) - Wireless Business & Technology staff met yesterday with representatives from FedEx and Motorola for an advance briefing on the announcement FedEx will make today regarding the new FedEx PowerPad, a $150 million project that took more than seven years to complete. ...

(March 17, 2003) - In an exclusive interview, Ari Kaplan, CEO and cofounder of Expand Beyond Corp., explained to WBT News Desk how the new Mobile IT Ready Kit provides enterprises with low-cost insurance against major IT disruptions. An essential component of an IT response and recover...

(May 22, 2003) - blah!, the leading provider of 'infotainment' products for wireless carriers in Latin America, is now in North America, where it's targeting the trend-setting mobile youth market. Industry research indicates there are more than 50 million mobile youth in the U.S., 32% ...

What's the connection between business travelers, workers in vertical industries from the resource and marine sectors, government agencies, and organizations involved in security and humanitarian missions?

(March 21, 2002) - If you live in San Diego, the future arrived for you today. Verizon Wireless customers there are the first mobile phone users in the entire USA to be able to download entertainment, gaming, information, communications, and productivity applications onto their phones ...

(June 12, 2002) - One man's ceiling is another man's floor, they say. So not even ardent admirers of Boingo Wireless should be surprised that Boingo's success with deploying Wi-Fi has got wireless wannabe IBM thinking that it could maybe muscle in on the act... on a national basis.

(August 26, 2002) - Narus has announced the latest release of its convergent mobile mediation solution - MobileSight - that acts as an engine to speed the deployment, management, and revenue capture of new segmented or personalized mobile services for voice and data networks. MobileSi...

(December 18, 2002) - Motorola and Nextel have developed two new rugged handsets for those needing a mobile phone that can withstand tough situations in industrial sectors such as construction and public safety. The new Motorola i35s and GPS-enabled i58sr give mobile users unique hands...

(March 25, 2003) - IBM's new plug-and-print Wi-Fi adapter provides businesses with instant, high-speed, wireless network print capabilities. IBM's new offering enables users of notebooks, personal computers, or PDAs to print documents remotely, without the need to purchase a new Wi-Fi-...

(May 28, 2003) - Motorola Inc. is now delivering hardware and software samples to several development partners in support of the draft IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.15.4 Standard being driven by the ZigBee Alliance - an association of companies working to...

Now that wireless LANs are spreading rapidly in offices, schools, and homes, it came as a bit of a shock in September to hear the chief technology and development officer of wireless LAN 'hotspot' provider MobileStar, Ali Tabassi, telling the world that his company was having to sudd...

(March 24, 2002) - From the very first moment back in December 2000, when Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo originally bought its 16% stake in AT&T Wireless Services Inc; the industry had been waiting to hear that i-mode was on its way to the U.S.

(June 18, 2002)-ThinkFree®, a leader in Web-based office productivity solutions, and SavaJe Technologies have formed a partnership to integrate ThinkFree Office Viewer technology with the SavaJe OS 2.0 Smartphone Edition.

(August 26, 2002) – As the worlds of wireless and Web services begin steadily to converge, Wireless Business & Technology News Desk asks IBM’s Andrew Donoho, Web Theorist, for a heads-up on where we are, where we’re headed, and what technical challenges still remain in connecting the t...

(December 18, 2002) - TruePosition, Inc., a provider of location-based technologies, has successfully completed field testing of its network-based wireless location solution for the GSM air interface with Cingular Wireless. TruePosition's Uplink-TDOA platform achieved the FCC's mandate...

(March 25, 2003)-Tira Wireless, a full service publisher of wireless Java applications for mobile phones, now offers the Java Universal Mobile Porting (JUMP) platform. The Tira JUMP platform is the first technology infrastructure of its kind to directly address the most significant cha...

(May 28, 2003) - Nokia added momentum to the growing mobile content publishing market by announcing its Mobile Internet Toolkit 4.0. Notable is the incorporation of the content publishing feature of Digital Rights Management version 1.0 from the Open Mobile Alliance. This standard all...

Could a brand new interface completely transform the way wireless devices are designed and used? Could it pay for OEMs and operators alike, in other words, to ditch the 12-button cell phone keypad and introduce instead this intriguing-looking new keypad, 'Fastap'?

(March 26, 2002) - Why shouldn't the world's leading supplier of mobile phones, with its listings on six of the world's major exchanges, also get close to its grassroots users? Accordingly, Finnish-based Nokia had the idea last November of launching a 'Nokia Mobile Challenge' and tryin...

(July 2, 2002) - Nextel Communications Inc. and Motorola, Inc. have teamed up to add color to the mobile phone user's life with the first color display, JavaTM technology-enabled phone in the U.S.- the Motorola i95cl, available now from Nextel. The handset's large color screen, maximiz...

(August 26, 2002) - QUALCOMM has expanded a cross-licensing agreement with Germany's Siemens AG, granting Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) the rights to make and sell infrastructure equipment worldwide for CDMA wireless systems. The agreement now provides ...

(December 18, 2002) - Aplix Corporation has begun shipping a new version of its JBlend platform to early access customers. This new version has complete support for the recently-ratified J2ME MIDP 2.0 (JSR 118). Mobile phones leveraging JBlend technology for MIDP 2.0 are expected to be...

(April 15, 2003) - The Service Availability Forum, an industry coalition of communications and computing companies, has released the Application Interface Specification (AIS). This is the SA Forum's second open interface specification enabling carrier-grade platforms, middleware and ap...

(June 3, 2003) - Developers of smart handheld devices can now receive Motorola's high performance, low-power applications processor as part of Metrowerks' advanced CodeWarrior Development System for i.MXL. The release bundles the Motorola, i.MXL processor with Metrowerks' comprehensive...

They may hold the lion's share of the PC microprocessor market, but Intel Corp. has been late out of the starting block as far as chip architecture for wireless terminals is concerned. But already they're gaining ground. Their third-quarter revenues on wireless and communications prod...

(March 26, 2002) CTIA’s Orlando event is not the only game in town, of course. Far way in San Francisco, the world of Java beckons, in the form of JavaOne – Sun Microsystems’ annual developer conference. At this year’s JavaOne, which opened just yesterday, the entire sub-industry of “w...

(July 9, 2002) - Nokia and IBM have agreed to collaborate on digital content delivery for mobile applications and services. Combining their expertise, Nokia and IBM will provide wireless operators and service providers with a complete solution for content management and delivery. IBM w...