DALLAS-The chip market is not looking as cheery as a year ago as some of the bellwethers are witnessing slips in their fortunes. Texas Instruments Inc. and RF Micro Devices epitomized this trend as both failed to swing upward in their net earnings.TI reported...
A U.S. District Court sided with Qualcomm Inc. in its fight against a northern California technology company accused of infringing on technology patents, the chipmaker said Tuesday.The court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Maxim Integrated Products Inc. from using Qualcomm trade secrets, but stopped...
More than 1.5 billion people subscribe to wireless services. The vast majority of those wireless users see their mobile phone as a device that allows them to talk to other people-and nothing more. The wireless industry, however, is spending billions of hours and dollars...
KINGSWOOD, United Kingdom-ROK Entertainment Group launched its ROK Player technology in the United Kingdom through a deal with Sony/BMG Music Publishing. The technology allows users to view video content including films, TV shows and music videos on their mobile handsets in full-screen formats. The...
KINGSWOOD, United Kingdom-ROK Entertainment Group launched its ROK Player technology in the United Kingdom through a deal with Sony/BMG Music Publishing.The technology allows users to view video content including films, TV shows and music videos on their mobile handsets in full-screen formats. The product...
Just a few years ago, players on the CDMA aisle of the technology wars believed the future belonged to them alone. The other players, huffing with GSM, could not figure out what armor to deploy. Qualcomm Inc.-which gave CDMA to the industry and the...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. said it has signed a deal with AT&T Corp to research and develop high-speed wireless broadband, Internet telephone technology and converged voice and data devices for enterprises.This chimes in with the chip bellwether's new model of reaching telecom equipment vendors through...
LOS ANGELES-Texas Instruments Inc.'s shares fell 1.6 percent as the chip maker announced its fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share will fall within the mid range of its projected estimates.The company said it anticipates revenue of $3.02 billion to $3.14 billion, with earnings per...
The world's two most popular consumer electronics devices may soon be combined into one-the mobile TV phone. Behold. Although one is designed for sedentary, passive entertainment and the other for portable, two-way interactions, technology companies the world over are scurrying to build devices that...
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Motorola Inc.'s former semiconductor subsidiary, became a free, independent company following the completion of the spin-off. As a result, Motorola issued its shareholders 0.110415 of a share of Freescale Semiconductor Class B common stock for each outstanding share of Motorola common...
One vendor's end-to-end strategy is another vendor's poison. Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Motorola Inc. market their end-to-end strategies as one-stop shops for carriers. But Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks Ltd. and Alcatel Alsthom say end-to-end solutions actually limit choices for carriers. In between...
Wi-Fi is quickly taking the place of integrated cameras and push-to-talk functions as the new hot technology for the handset market. As a result, chipmakers, carriers and handset suppliers are rushing to take advantage of the perceived demand for such converged devices. And the...
MUNICH, German-The MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group said it completed its physical layer 1.0 specifications, which will be made available to its promoter, contributor and adopter members.The specifications will allow companies to finalize their standards-based ultra-wideband chip and board-level designs, said the group."This...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The board of directors of Motorola Inc. said it will distribute about 0.11 of a share of Freescale Semiconductor to Motorola shareholders tax free Dec. 2.The board described the share as class B common stock for each share of Motorola common stock and...
Mobile-phone industry lawyers said they intend to ask a D.C. court to dismiss six brain-cancer suits on federal pre-emption grounds. In July, U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake of Baltimore sent back the six lawsuits to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia where...
LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which last week was acquired by Cingular Wireless L.L.C., is taking Napster mobile.The Internet music vendor is introducing Napster To Go, a mobile music subscription service for AWS users on the Audiovox SMT5600 smart phone. The service, which costs...
It didn't take long for Qualcomm Inc.'s planned mobile television network to attract attention. Sprint PCS Chief Operating Officer and President Len Lauer said Tuesday his firm is negotiating with the wireless chip and technology vendor to deliver live broadcasts to Sprint users. Verizon...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Zeevo announced a new reference design using Wolfson audio CODECs that will allow original device manufacturers to design wireless stereo headsets, speakers or wireless MP3 players with CD-quality sound.The reference design is based on the ZV4301 Zeevo Bluetooth ARM-7-based microcontroller chip to...
Failing to make strong inroads into Europe with its second-generation CDMA offering, Qualcomm Inc. wants to write a different story for UMTS technology. Within a two-week span, the San Diego-based vendor penned two deals that underscore its intention to be a mainstream player in...
In spite of a slowdown in cell-phone sales, Samsung Electronics Co. still roared to a 46-percent profit compared with the same period last year. Much of its boost came from its chip division.But the result showed the company did not continue the overall momentum...
KAWASAKI, Japan-NEC Electronics Corp. launched three single-chip melody LSI solutions that offer sound technology for mobile phones.The product line-up consists of the microPD9993 chip, which offers 64 polyphonic tones and is the first LSI device to support MP3 and advanced audio coding playback; the...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers said it has set up a working group for a standard to tap open channels in the television spectrum for wireless broadband applications and services. Known as 802.22, or wireless regional area networks, the new standard...
Before the spinoff of its chip business, Motorola Inc. often came across as an octopus-a many-sided giant. With Freescale Semiconductor Inc. now a standalone company, the wireless vendor still weighs heavy in the industry. This has been both boon and pain for the Schaumburg,...
A year ago, the semiconductor sector seemed on cruise control, while other sectors of telecom had just begun to rev up their economic recovery engines. Quarter after quarter companies reported sequential growth, confirmed by studies reflecting a surge in demand to feed a growing...
