tags: Wireless

Retriever honored as top Intermec partner Retriever Communications has won the 2007 New Market Innovator Award for the Asia Pacific Region at the Intermec Global Sales and Partner Summit, held in Orlando, Florida.

Ruling opens SMS can of spam SMS messaging has grown in popularity as a marketing tool, but a recent court ruling could mark the beginning of its end.

Google's Wi-Fi plan for San Francisco envisions ambitious testing ground Google Inc. wrote grandly of the importance of Wi-Fi in a proposal for free wireless in San Francisco that was made public on the Web Monday, but the search company downplayed its own potential role in delivering Internet service.

WiMax is hype, says Nokia The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to one Nokia exec.

Intrinsyc Unveils "MicroPhone" Telephony Software Vancouver, BC based Intrinsyc has unveiled their MicroPhone telephony software which consists of drivers and applications for Windows CE based embedded wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs.

U.S. General Accounting Office Releases Report on Mobile Phones and Health Issues A GAO recent report found that though research to date does not show radio frequency energy emitted from mobile phones to have adverse health effects, more study is required.

SMEs Want Fixed Broadband Wireless A new report from Insight Research says that small and medium-sized businesses will soon be clamoring for fixed broadband wireless services.

Big Business Wants Wireless for Workers According to a recent IDC survey, businesses are looking to adopt wireless initiatives for employees and internet processes first, before venturing into mobile commerce for customers.

GSM Mobiles Reach Half Billion Landmark More than half a billion GSM mobile phones are now in use worldwide, according to a recent study by the GSM Association - the mobile/wireless industry's worldwide body - and the wireless research organisation EMC World Cellular Database. Nearly 40 per cent of all GSM customers are outside of Europe, reflecting the increasing globalisation of GSM. In fact, the largest single country GSM population is now China with some 82.4 million customers - China alone has almost as many GSM customers as any other digital standard.

The M-Commerce 2001 Forum The M-Commerce 2001 Forum offers business strategies for maximising m-commerce penetration through the deployment of integrated services. The event will be held in London on June 11-12, 2001.