Bob Woods

Motorola’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) is rolling out its Motorola Short Messaging Service (SMS) Gateway, which provides inter-carrier SMS operability solutions. Motorola’s SMS Gateway provides interoperability for messaging between the majority of wireless messaging technology networks, including Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and […]

Telecom equipment giant Nortel Networks Corp. said its first-quarter revenues and pro-forma loss would come in below analysts’ expectations, as it fully draws on a $1.75 billion of bank credit. Before today’s opening bell on Wall Street, Nortel said it expects first-quarter revenues to total $2.9 billion, which is below Thomson Financial/First Call-reported analyst expectations […]

Communicator Inc., a White Plains, N.Y.-based provider of secure electronic communications products and services, has implemented what it calls the world’s largest multi-enterprise instant messaging (IM) service for the corporate market. The new Communicator Hub IM joins more than 30,000 professionals at eight of the world’s largest financial institutions as well as over 2,000 money-management […]

PresenceWorks Inc. said it has signed a pact with AOL Time Warner Inc.’s America Online (AOL) unit, where the technology developer now has the ability to embed Web sites with presence-enabled technology that’s based on AOL’s Instant Messenger (AIM) application. Terms of the pact call for Alexandria, Va.-based PresenceWorks to offer AIM-enabled presence for both […]

As workforces become more mobile, IBM Corp. is looking to capture that market with the roll-out of WebSphere Everyplace Access (WEA), which allows enterprises to deploy applications to multiple devices from a single platform. Building on Big Blue’s pervasive computing initiative and the WebSphere platform, WEA offers a core set of capabilities — including synchronization […]

Users who want to find the latest financial news and information, and communicate with friends and co-workers at the same time, can benefit from a new service launched jointly by Yahoo! Inc. and E*Trade Group Inc. . Yahoo!, meanwhile, could see bottom-line benefits from the relationship as well. Through the partnership, Yahoo! is setting up […]

Travelers can now received personalized travel information and even the latest on an impending flight, through a new deal signed between Expedia.com Inc. and software giant Microsoft Corp. . Through the pact, Expedia users can access the travel information they want through an Expedia tab found within MSN Messenger. The Expedia tab can be personalized […]

Whether they’re aware of it or not, the companies exhibiting at this week’s FOSE 2002 government IT show — the largest of its kind — are tapping into what one research firm says is one of the largest areas of information-technology spending over the next several years. Gartner Dataquest has identified the government sector — […]

Through a deal signed between extensible IM and presence management applications developer Jabber Inc. and enterprise software developer Oracle Corp. , users of the Oracle9i Application Server can now use wireless IM via the Jabber Communications Platform (JCP) to communicate with a wide variety of devices. Jabber’s JCP now has interfaces for the Oracle9i application […]

Users of public instant-messaging (IM) networks and Internet Relay Chat (IRC), beware: You may be the target of malicious hackers — known as “crackers” — that want to use your computer in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that could affect Web sites. Just participating on those networks, though, won’t put you directly at risk. The […]

Digital-trust services firm VeriSign Inc. is taking advantage of two recent acquisitions to move into the telecommunications market. Among other things, the moves will let it embrace the secure messaging market. The company, which is better known for its digital certificates and management of Web domains through its Network Solutions subsidiary, said it is launching […]

Just one month after it called off its $71.2 million merger with Jupiter Media Metrix , NetRatings Inc. — through its Nielsen//NetRatings Internet audience measurement partnership with Nielsen Media Research — has rolled out a new Web-measurement reporting service that promises statistics based on site content rather than the technical structure of a Web-page address […]