Carmen Nobel

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week introduced several products designed for carriers and enterprises that want to offer mobile services. Based on existing HP products and revamped consulting offerings, the new products include the following: * Advanced voice interactive services and mobile extentions to the HP Opencall media platform; * A mobile advertising delivery platform for service […]

Handheld devices are only as good as the applications that run on them. Realizing that, Microsoft Corp. brought several application developers up on stage when it launched the latest version of the Pocket PC operating system last week. New to Pocket PC 2002 are the ability to do instant messaging and support for the 802.11 […]

AT&T Wireless on Monday announced that it will buy the 77 percent of TeleCorp PCS Inc. that it does not own already, in an all-stock transaction worth $4.7 billion. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the transaction. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2002. It is the […]

The whole wireless world watched this week as NTT DoCoMo introduced the first third-generation cell phone network, but it seems clear that it will be a while before such a network hits the United States. The service, dubbed “FOMA” (freedom of multimedia access), is based on wideband CDMA and is available within a 30-kilometer radius […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday will start shipping Pocket PC 2002, the latest version of its handheld operating system, which is geared toward corporate users. The new OS, which the company unveiled at the DemoMobile trade show last month, will be incorporated into handheld devices from Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Computer Corp., Toshiba Corp. and a slew […]

In the latest response to a decreasing demand for handheld computers, Handspring Inc. on Tuesday announced that it has dropped the price of its Visor Prism handheld computer from $399 to $299. The Prism is Handsprings only device with a color screen. Like other Visors, it runs the Palm operating system. Handspring also announced a […]

In what could be an indirect hit to Palm Inc., Sprint Corp. last week said it is licensing the Blazer Web browser from Handspring Inc. Besides being bundled with Sprint products that use Palm OS, the Blazer browser will be available as a free download to existing Sprint customers. Previously, Blazer was available only for […]

The role of cell phones in the wake of last months terrorist attacks may have focused the nations attention on the importance of wireless services, but it hasnt helped carriers gain new radio spectrum from regulators. Despite repeated requests from carriers in recent months, the Federal Communications Commission last week said it will not relocate […]

In the latest chapter of an ongoing spectrum saga, NextWave Telecom Inc. on Monday said that the bankruptcy court overseeing the companys reorganization has granted a three-week delay of its bankruptcy hearing. The hearing originally was scheduled for Monday. The delay is another sign that the company is still in bargaining talks with the Federal […]

Microsoft Corp. next week will discuss a road map for its messaging platform thats making some developers uneasy. At the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2001 in Orlando, Fla., company officials will detail how they plan to phase out the current Web data store in Exchange, called WebStore, in favor of a future version of SQL Server. […]