Monthly Archives: December, 1999

Analog Devices’ new DSP to use TigerSharc architecture

Analog Devices Inc. today plans to introduce the first digital signal processor to use the company's TigerSharc DSP architecture.The TigerSharc architecture, which ADI introduced...

Ericsson wins Sichuan contract

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson announced a contract valued at about $100 million with China's Sichuan Mobile Communications Co. to expand its Global System for Mobile communications...

More big-name companies join Bluetooth SIG

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc.These industry...

Go2 counts 300 Web sites for wireless device-based searching

IRVINE, Calif.-Go2 Systems Inc. has created 300 individual Web sites that allow portable communications devices to access more than 11 million Yellow Page records,...

FCC proposes greater flexibility for spread-spectrum technology

WASHINGTON-The coming of the new millennium may bring with it new products using spread-spectrum technology.The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules that would increase...

AT&T to sell Motorola StarTac

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and AT&T Corp. announced the availability of Motorola's ST7797 StarTac Time Division Multiple Access digital wireless phone.The ST7797 offers up to...

Class-action securities lawsuit moves

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court said last week a class-action securities-fraud lawsuit against battery maker Valence Technology Inc. can go forward.Shareholders became upset when Valence...

Telstra combines KPN’s satellite interests, offers prepaid solution

SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. and KPN of the Netherlands said they may merge their global mobile satellite businesses to form a joint venture aimed...

Tivoli Systems creates new business unit

NEW YORK-Tivoli Systems Inc., an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of IBM Corp., has created a Service Provider Business Unit to execute its new Net Generation...

Sprint, Motorola to trial 3G CDMA technology

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector signed an agreement to begin a third-generation trial of Code Division Multiple Access digital...

AT&T affiliate Tritel to launch IPO

NEW YORK-Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss.-based personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., plans to go public just in time for Christmas.Tritel...

Protecting trade secrets complicated by job-hopping

NEW YORK-Protecting trade secrets may seem impossible in a marketplace characterized by the simultaneous increase in the amount of privileged information and the frequency...

AT&T to implement ScoreBoard quality measurement solution

More spectrum, better call quality and expanded coverage are the battle cries of the wireless industry as of late, and ScoreBoard Inc. in Herndon,...

Rohde: Hunt for 3G spectrum to dominate 2000 agenda

WASHINGTON-Gregory Rohde, President Clinton's new telecom adviser, last week said the top international telecom issue next year will be finding more spectrum for third-generation...

Battery life remains Holy Grail for industry

NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent...

UWCC reports 30M TDMA users worldwide

SEATTLE-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced there were 30 million worldwide Time Division Multiple Access subscribers as of the end of the third quarter."We...

Vendors make plans to move to packet networks

Several big names in the wireless and computing industries last week took additional steps in the process of converting wireless networks from a switch-based...

VIEWPOINT: Fine lines

The clash between World Trade Organization protesters and police last week in Seattle underscores the problems of balancing new free-trade initiatives with concerns about...

Nokia program to provide WAP apps.

HELSINKI, Finland-The Nokia Artus Developers Program, which covers Nokia Networks' developer activities, said it has advanced to play a major role in bringing top...

International WLL vendor now targets U.S. market

Adicom Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based provider of wireless access equipment, plans to enter the U.S. market in the beginning of the new year,...

WTO pact, technology transfers pave way for China CDMA

China's on-again, off-again plan to allow commercial deployments of Code Division Multiple Access networks looks like it's on again.The recent World Trade Organization pact...

Wysdom receives $7M investment from VenGrowth

TORONTO-Wysdom Inc., a developer of wireless Internet applications, has received a $7 million private equity investment from The VenGrowth Investment Fund Inc., a Canadian...

Y2K efforts lead paging teamªwork

The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and...

Carriers debate making OHG official

The Operators Harmonization Group began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied group of four operators trying to end the world's...

Qualcomm, Intel reach license pact

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology...
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