NEW YORK-Shuffle Master Inc. made a $3 million private equity investment in Sona Mobile Holdings Corp. via the purchase of 2.3 million shares of common stock, the companies announced. Sona provides secure mobile solutions to the financial, enterprise, entertainment and gaming sectors. Shuffle Master...
SAN DIEGO-While wireless chip titan Qualcomm Inc. posted strong first quarter results, the company's stock slipped slightly downward due to warnings of slowing sales in its second quarter. Qualcomm posted $620 million in net income, or 36 cents per share, for its fiscal fourth...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Venture capital funds continue to roll over the wireless industry, with two chip companies and an antenna vendor announcing the latest in fundraising. First up, WiMAX chipmaker TeleCIS Wireless Inc. announced it raised $10 million in its third round of funding. The...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc., a wireless chip designer, for $56 million in cash. Silicon Valley-based Berkana provides metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits, or RF CMOS chips, to the wireless industry, and Qualcomm said it expects Berkana's technology...
Crown Castle International Corp.'s media subsidiary debuted a new name and marketing campaign amid details about its plans to use its tower network and unencumbered spectrum rights to launch live mobile TV in the nation's top 30 markets, including a launch in New York...
Human RFID chipmaker VeriChip Corp. said it filed for an initial public offering, but the company did not release information on the number of shares it expects to release or the share price or what it plans to do with the money it raises...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc., a wireless chip designer, for $56 million in cash. Silicon Valley-based Berkana provides metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits, or RF CMOS chips, to the wireless industry, and Qualcomm said it expects Berkana's...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp.'s subsidiary, Crown Castle Mobile Media L.L.C., said it plans to use its tower network and its unencumbered spectrum rights to launch live mobile TV to the nation's top 30 markets. The company also said it plans to deliver video and...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. plans to purchase ZigBee chip designer Chipcon, which creates chips used in short-range, low-power wireless radio frequency devices such as wireless keyboards. TI said it plans to pay $200 million for Chipcon, which is based in Oslo, Norway. The deal is...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. plans to purchase ZigBee chip designer Chipcon, which creates chips used in short-range, low-power wireless radio frequency devices such as wireless keyboards. TI said it plans to pay $200 million for Chipcon, which is based in Oslo, Norway. The deal is...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. have sought Federal Communications Commission approval of a deal involving the swap of hundreds of broadband radio service channels in the 2.5 GHz band. In documents filed with the FCC and made public last week, the two companies...
The IEEE's November Wi-Fi standards-development meeting came and went without much fanfare, but debate over how to best reach a standard is causing some fireworks. Airgo Networks Inc. said it is disappointed that there was no proposal to vote on at the meeting, and...
AIX EN PROVENCE, France-Near Field Communications vendor Inside Contactless said it closed $10.6 million in financing.Sofinnova, Vertex Venture Capital and Visa International led the round, while GIMV, Vertex Singapore and Siparex also participated.Inside said it plans to use the funds to expand its business...
SAN DIEGO-Chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. both raised revenue forecasts based on improving sales, news that could translate into an improved market for the worldwide mobile-phone industry. First up, Qualcomm raised its revenue expectations and earnings per share forecasts for its first...
SAN DIEGO-Chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. both raised revenue forecasts based on improving sales, news that could translate into an improved market for the worldwide mobile phone industry.First up, Qualcomm raised its revenue expectations and earnings per share forecasts for its first...
MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif.-Alvarion Ltd. is supplying its BreezeMAX 3500 system to France Telecom affiliate Ikatel, which offers broadband data service in Mali.The deployment includes hundreds of customer premise equipment based on Intel's WiMAX chip that will create a WiMAX network for residential and business users...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. launched its fourth-generation single chip assisted global positioning system solution for mobile phones, which the company says enables users to connect to a satellite from their mobile phones to get directions and maps to the nearest ATM or store, find friends...
Watching Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. exchange nasty barbs over intellectual property rights smacks of similar bickering between Qualcomm and L.M. Ericsson in 1999 over patents for the CDMA protocol.The Qualcomm-Ericsson fistfight ended not in court but in a business deal.Here's what RCR Wireless...
SAN DIEGO-As demand for and shipments of Qualcomm Inc.'s chips took off, so did the company's financial performance. Qualcomm, the world's second-largest chip maker for mobile devices, posted fourth-quarter net income of $538 million, or 32 cents per share-a 37-percent increase from a year...
SAN DIEGO-As demand for and shipments of Qualcomm Inc.'s chips took off, so did the company's financial performance. Qualcomm, the world's second-largest chip maker for mobile devices, posted fourth-quarter net income of $538 million, or 32 cents per share-a 37-percent increase from a year...
TEMPE, Ariz.-Research firm Forward Concepts lowered its 2005 digital signal processor forecast to 5 percent revenue growth, or to about the $8.2 billion level. The market research firm also lowered its earlier 2006 forecast to 15-percent growth and revised its forecasts through 2009, saying...
There's little doubt that m-commerce is quickly gaining traction among U.S. users. But exactly what m-commerce means to the wireless industry is far from clear. Contactless payments-speedy point-of-sale transactions that are processed through RFID chips-are being deployed at thousands of merchants in the United...
There is a great future in ethnography. Indeed, this interdisciplinary approach to studying social and cultural nuances of small groups of people in natural, day-to-day settings could hold the key to discovery-and commercial exploitation-of new wireless, Internet and other digital applications heretofore limited to...
The W-CDMA race has just started, but chipset vendors from all corners of the industry are driving to play in the nascent but growing market. Already, industry heavyweights Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Qualcomm Inc. and others have vaulted into the space. Although...
