BROWSING: AMS

A fleet of autonomous boats will start navigating the canals of Amsterdam next year following a research collaboration between AMS and MIT. The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in the Netherlands and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. have joined...

Knock the PlayBook all you want, but by all accounts it appears to be doing what Motorola Inc.’s Xoom did in its first two months of availability, according to RBC Capital Markets.RBC’s general manager Mike Abramsky has estimated the number of Research In Motion...

Kunekt | January 24, 2011 | Press Release Kunekt to Design, Build and Market Quality Mobile Phones and Android Smartphones and Tablets in Developed and Developing Countries HONG KONG, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Kunekt Corporation (OTCBB: KNKT), creator of the Kunekt global brand of affordably priced,...

Kunekt | January 24, 2011 | Press Release Kunekt to Design, Build and Market Quality Mobile Phones and Android Smartphones and Tablets in Developed and Developing Countries HONG KONG, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Kunekt Corporation (OTCBB: KNKT), creator of the Kunekt global brand of...

CANNES, France-Mobile-commerce software provider Qpass Inc. and American Management Systems Inc. formed a global alliance to deliver Qpass' Prosperity Series software to the mobile market.The companies said the combination of Qpass' software with AMS' consulting and systems integration expertise will help carriers speed delivery...

CANNES, France-Billing and Customer Relationship Management-related news is plentiful at this week's 3GSM World Congress.Amdocs launched an enhanced version of its partner relationship management product that helps operators enable and manage convergent support for multiple content and commerce partners.The company also announced that Canada's...

Wireless call centers should be gearing up for this fall's implementation of wireless number portability when they are likely to be inundated with calls for information about the service, according to research from billing and customer-care services provider Convergys. The company's research shows nearly...

FAIRFAX, Va.-Broadband wireless service provider XO Communications has hired consulting firm American Management Systems Inc. to help it implement a proactive customer loyalty program to improve XO's customer retention efforts. "Through analysis and segmentation, AMS is enabling us to truly get granular with our...

While a variety of wireless companies, from vendors to carriers, continue to talk about the benefits mobile commerce will bring, many industry observers agree that the explosion won't happen anytime soon.Last week Nokia Corp. worked to fan the flames of mobile commerce, releasing the...

TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...

NEW YORK-Ubiquitous connectivity, driven by consumer demand rather than carrier plan, could well develop into a completely new kind of convergent telecommunications, said Joan Barten Kline of J.D. Power and Associates."Access may become a new product category altogether, instead of the bundling of different...

NEW YORK-North American telecommunications carriers rank below manufacturing, consumer products and financial services companies in their adoption of Internet-enabled enterprises, concluded a recent report of American Management Systems, Fairfax, Va."eCommerce in the Telecommunications Industry: Trends and Innovations" is a study based on AMS' evaluation of...

NEW YORK-Wireless carriers can only imagine scaling back their costly call-flooded customer support centers and slashing the overhead that comes with them. And wireless users long to regain those wasted afternoons on hold with a receiver glued to their ears only to find they've...

NEW YORK-Anderson Financial Network Inc., Bloomington, Ill., and American Management Systems Inc., Fairfax, Va., announced a strategic alliance to offer outsourced receivables management for the telecommunications industry.Under terms of the agreement, the two companies will use AFNI's nationwide infrastructure to deploy AMS' CACS-Telecom and...

3Com Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to develop co-branded home networking products that initially will include traditional ethernet and home-phone-line networking kits, with radio-frequency and power-line kits to follow. Using a single Internet connection, two or more family members can simultaneously surf...

INTERDIGITALGerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate with Gary Lomp, chief technology officer, on growth and enhancement of the company's technology and products. Pepenella joined InterDigital with...

NEW YORK-To get a better idea of the impact of cellular phone use while driving, tap the World Wide Web, but please don't do it while your vehicle is in motion, even if you do have Internet access via your mobile handset."To see how...

It was designed to be a way to compete against Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology, but instead the joint venture between Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. and American Paging Inc. has dissolved into a lawsuit and counter lawsuit.In the most recent round of feuding, American Paging...

NEW YORK-Several billing and customer-care providers have announced new products in recent weeks, among them, American Management Systems Inc., International Telecommunications Data Systems Inc., Kenan Systems Corp. and Subscriber Computing Inc.AMSTapestry from AMS, Fairfax, Va., is the company's next-generation platform, which uses object-oriented, client/server...

Tectonic Engineering Consultants P.C. named Robert E. Lister a supervising engineer, with responsibility for the structural design and analysis of buildings, infrastructure projects and wireless communication facilities. A licensed professional engineer, Lister most recently was responsible for the construction buildout of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s...

Startel, a wireless network operator in Chile, launched digital service on its network using Interim Standard 136 Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology provided by L.M. Ericsson. The new digital services are being introduced initially in Santiago and later will be expanded to cover...

After experiencing continual poor financial results, American Paging Inc. announced last month it would halt spending on narrowband personal communications services development to fix its core business. The company also may stop contributing financially to American Messaging Systems Inc., a joint venture between the...

Since the passage of the telecom act, telecommunications providers have taken significant steps toward offering bundled services on one bill.Nearly a year ago, regional Bell operating companies' cellular divisions began offering cellular long-distance service to their cellular customers and a few of the RBOCs...

WASHINGTON-Motorola Satellite Communications Inc. filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to modify its license for the Iridium mobile satellite system to include authority to provide aeronautical mobile satellite services.AMS services are route services for voice and data that support flight safety communications...