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VoiceStream Putting AIM In New Phones
News VoiceStream Wireless is offering a cell phone with instant-messaging capabilities already built in, thanks to a deal the company signed with America Online. VoiceStream is including AOL Instant Messenger products as a feature on the new Nokia 3390...
[November 8, 2001, 16:41]
VoiceStream Up On Buyout Rumours
News Shares of VoiceStream Wireless jumped in pre-market trading, after reports surfaced about a possible buyout. The Financial Times reported that Deutsche Telekom is considering a deal that would value VoiceStream at more than $30bn (£19.8bn).
[July 11, 2000, 13:50]
Wireless Firms Get The Urge To Merge
News There's also speculation that AT&T Wireless, Cingular and VoiceStream will be balled up together into one monolithic provider. Most companies simply ignore the chatter, but AT&T Wireless spokesman Ritch Blasi was reduced to answering his phone on...
[July 12, 2002, 14:14]
Handspring Begins Selling Treo In US
News The Treo will cost $399 (£279) with activation from either Cingular Wireless or VoiceStream and is available with a keyboard or with room to input text using the Palm OS' Graffiti characters. Those who buy the device with service from Cingular or...
[February 11, 2002, 9:48]
Nokia Links Two Networks With One Modem
News VoiceStream Wireless already owns MobileStar, which sells wireless Internet access in Starbucks cafes. VoiceStream Wireless is so far the only carrier to add 802.11b into its repertoire. The company continues to offer service, according to...
[March 18, 2002, 11:22]
T-Mobile Rolls Out Voice-enabled BlackBerry
News The announcement builds on a US deal announcd last year between RIM and VoiceStream, a US subsidiary of T-Mobile International. In March, RIM announced the voice-enabled BlackBerry 5810 for the US market, which will run on VoiceStream networks...
[June 13, 2002, 13:26]
Keyword Searching Is Going Wireless
News VoiceStream Wireless announced Thursday morning it will offer its 2.6 million subscribers a way to just type a company or brand name into a wireless Internet-enabled device to access a Web site, instead of having to enter a URL.
[January 4, 2001, 16:16]
Danger Holds Back Hiptop Handheld
News In the United States, T-Mobile (formerly known as VoiceStream) will be the first carrier to offer the company's signature device. Danger plans to announce on Tuesday that Hiptop, its combination cell phone and Web-browsing handheld, will not arrive...
[August 6, 2002, 10:57]
Intel Debuts Symbian Mobile Designs
News The designs are for advanced mobile devices similar to the Thera, a Windows-powered Pocket PC-based phone and PDA (personal digital assistant) that Voicestream Wireless and Verizon Wireless plan to sell later this year, an Intel representative said.
[April 25, 2002, 7:03]
Microsoft Hopes To Create Buzz For Stinger
News Prototypes of the phone are in trials, or soon will be, with three American carriers: AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless and VoiceStream Wireless, he said. The software maker will announce on Monday that it invested an undisclosed sum in Sendo, a UK...
[July 23, 2001, 9:42]
Cisco Installs 19 Airport Hot Spots
News In the US, providers include Voicestream and Wayport are putting WLANs into airport lounges and other public places, while in Europe, Megabeam is getting licences for similar sites. Network giant Cisco Systems is putting its Aironet wireless LANs...
[July 12, 2002, 9:20]
Jornada Phones In Its Swansong
News T-Mobile, until recently known as VoiceStream, is offering the same HTC-made device in the United States. The Jornada is dead. Long live the Jornada. Although Hewlett-Packard is killing off the Jornada line of handhelds in favour of the more...
[July 26, 2002, 7:57]
Wireless Gadgets Lift Off At CTIA
News Rushing to Dayton's defense was VoiceStream Wireless president John Stanton, who joined Wheeler and Dayton on stage. How tough is the telecommunications industry nowadays? At the industry's biggest trade show, a lot of proud executives were on...
[March 21, 2002, 9:14]
Strong Sales Do The Trick For Handspring
News The company will do so this month by adding support for VoiceStream and Powertel wireless networks. Buoyed by stronger-than-expected handheld computer sales, Handspring on Tuesday posted a fiscal second-quarter loss that was several cents narrower...
[January 18, 2001, 12:14]
Handspring Wireless Handhelds To Launch On Monday
News The VisorPhone is now free with service activation with wireless service provider Cingular Wireless or VoiceStream Wireless. Handspring received Federal Communications Commission approval in late August for two such devices with built-in wireless...
[October 12, 2001, 12:12]
TechXNY: Microsoft To Unveil Office 11 And Tablet PC Plans
News The software will debut later this summer on systems from VoiceStream/T-Mobile, Raikes said. Jeff Raikes, Microsoft group vice president, will make the announcements during a keynote speech on Tuesday at the TechXNY conference in New York.
[June 25, 2002, 15:47]
Openwave Gets To The Source
News Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, VoiceStream Wireless and AT&T Wireless have all rolled out part or all of their new mobile phone networks. A wireless software maker with equipment in most of the world's telephone networks is releasing some of...
[May 31, 2002, 11:33]
Samsung Dials Up Smartphone 2002
News Microsoft also has deals in place with Verizon Wireless, VoiceStream, Sprint PCS, mm02 and Vodafone, among others. Samsung Electronics received approval Wednesday from the Federal Communications Commission for a new cell phone running Microsoft's...
[August 16, 2002, 7:59]
Comdex Chicago: The World Is Wireless
News VoiceStream Wireless will initially support the device on its GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network. It's a wired world for now, but if Tuesday's three keynote speakers at Comdex Chicago 2002 have anything to say about it, the world will soon...
[March 6, 2002, 13:38]
IBM Report Cites Mobile Phone Hacking Risks
News VoiceStream has released about 7.5 million of the phones, while Cingular and AT&T are building out their GSM networks. IBM researchers released a report on Tuesday showing that some cell phones' security cards could be cloned in minutes, letting...
[May 8, 2002, 8:57]
