Carmen Nobel

Synchronization software company Pumatech Inc. on Monday announced the acquisition of Starfish Software Inc., previously a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc. that also makes synchronization products. Pumatech, of San Jose, Calif., traditionally has focused on personal digital assistants and PCs. Starfish, of Scotts Valley, Calif., is a co-founder of the SyncML Inititative standards body. […]

Nortel Networks Corp. on Monday unveiled several new wireless LAN products and a companion strategy aimed at enterprise customers and service providers, marking the Toronto companys entry into the WLAN market. Nortels goal is to provide roaming capability across public and private networks as well as commercial “hot spot” WLAN enivironments, officials said. “Nortel Networks […]

John Stanton on Tuesday announced that he is stepping down from his post as CEO of T-Mobile USA Inc. Stanton, 47, was the founder of T-Mobile predecessor VoiceStream Wireless, of Bellevue, Wash., which was bought by German telecom giant Deutsche Telekom A.G. in 2001. He will remain chairman of T-Mobile. Robert Dotson, president of T-Mobile […]

NEW ORLEANS—Major carriers disagree on the commercial viability of public WLAN hot spots and, as such, are taking very different approaches to the market. While companies such as Nextel Communications Inc. and Sprint PCS Group are taking a wait-and-see approach to 802.11b, or Wi-Fi, others such as Verizon Wireless Inc., AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and […]

As the wireless industry pushes for the proliferation of public wireless LANs, security experts continue to issue warnings about keeping the data from becoming public. At the in New Orleans last week, several companies announced products and services for deploying Wi-Fi, or 802.11b WLAN, services. Vivato Inc., a Wi-Fi infrastructure startup funded by Intel Corp., […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is testing a system that uses personal digital assistants to send biological warfare information to health-care workers. The three-month pilot test of the PDA network is meant to determine the best way for federal officials to communicate with clinicians on the front line in the event of […]

Cisco Systems Inc.s foray into the small-office/home-office networking space, with its purchase of Linksys Group Inc. last week, is being met with mixed reactions from customers and industry watchers. While some believe the move is a natural extension, others worry that Ciscos influence could ultimately result in traditionally simple products becoming more difficult to install […]

Handheld computer maker Palm Inc. on Thursday posted a loss for the third quarter of fiscal 2003. The Milpitas, Calif., company reported a loss of $172.3 million, or $5.93 per share, on revenues of $209 million for the third quarter, down 28.6 percent from last year when the company posted revenues of $292.7 million. The […]

NEW ORLEANS—Boingo Wireless Inc. and T-Mobile U.S.A. Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to combine wireless LAN and 2.5G network services, as industry leaders discussed the future of both. At the CTIA Wireless show here, Boingo CEO Sky Dayton said that his company and T-Mobile are developing software that will make it easier for users to […]

Users face bountiful choices in the coming year as wireless hardware vendors ready new devices with an array of feature combinations and platform support. Customers this year will see new offerings from Kyocera International Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Panasonic Digital Communications and Security Co., BenQ Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. […]

NEW ORLEANS—Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday announced several licensing agreements with companies that have traditionally been competitors of the corporate wireless data technology company. At the CTIA Wireless 2003 show here, RIM revealed plans to cooperate with operating systems from Symbian Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. RIM and Symbian announced plans to bring push-based corporate […]

NEW ORLEANS—Nokia Inc. on Monday introduced several new handsets that run on CDMA (code division multiple access) networks, which have not traditionally been a focus for the Finnish phone giant. “Weve been in a scenario where we havent really scaled our efforts right with CDMA, but thats changing,” said Soren Petersen, senior vice president and […]