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Researchers at Xerox Corp.s Palo Alto Research Center are focusing on two key areas of concern in the wireless industry—security and interoperability—with efforts to automate public- and private-key infrastructures and to improve the way devices communicate. PARCs new security method is called “gesture-directed automatic configuration,” and officials promise that the system makes it possible for […]

Extended Systems Inc. is expanding its enterprise strategy with added services, support and security for its remote access server solutions. The wireless middleware developer is forming partnerships with carriers, systems integrators and security companies to improve its OneBridge Mobile Server software. “Our corporate emphasis is shifting to support the enterprise,” said Charles Jepson, president and […]

Nine major mobile computing companies on Wednesday announced a joint venture aimed at issuing domain names to mobile devices. The participants include Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp., whose mobile operating systems compete against each other. Other participants include European service providers Vodafone Group, Orange PCS and Hutchison 3G Ltd.; the GSM Association; Hewlett-Packard Co.; Samsung […]

Infowave Software Inc. is set to unveil the next version of its mobile application software suite, which includes new customer relationship management and calendar modules. The suite, to be announced this week, integrates Infowave software with assets the company acquired when it bought the majority share of Telispark Inc. in January. Telispark Mobile Enterprise 2.5 […]

As carriers embrace next-generation data services on LANs and WANs, the companies that service them are responding in kind. Telecommunication services company TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. is changing its name to show it wants to be more than a telecom services company. Last week, TSI announced it will be called Syniverse Technologies Inc., a name […]

As handset makers and wireless carriers continue to debate fault for the lagging state of third-generation mobile services, both camps agree its necessary to support WLANs as well as WANs. “There wont be a battle of competing technologies,” said Paul Otellini, president and chief operating officer of Intel Corp., at the 3GSM World Congress in […]

Telecommunication services company Telecommunication Services Inc. (TSI) is changing its name in order to show that it wants to be more than a telecommunication services company. On Monday, TSI announced that from here on in the company will be called “Syniverse Technologies,” a name picked from more than 2,200 candidates. “We continue to bring together […]

Cingular Wireless LLC last week announced plans to buy AT&T Wireless Services Inc., following years of rumors and an 11th-hour bidding battle with Vodafone Group PLC. Cingular, a joint venture between San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc. and Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., will pay some $41 billion in an all-cash deal that is expected to close by […]

As Wi-Fi hot spots pop up all over the world, so do hot-spot roaming agreements. Last week, Sprint PCS Group and STSN announced a deal that gives PCS Wi-Fi customers access to some 500 of STSNs hotel hot spots in the United States and Canada. Meanwhile, Boingo Wireless announced a deal with Visacom in France […]

A major health insurance company is providing PCS and networked handheld computers to thousands of doctors, hoping to cut down on paperwork and prescription error. Launched last month, WellPoint Health Networks Inc.s $40 million program includes 19,000 physicians in California, Missouri, Georgia and Wisconsin. The majority belong to WellPoints network through Blue Cross and Blue […]