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Wireless browser company Access Co. Ltd. said it will include Macromedia’s Flash technology in its NetFront browser. “Macromedia Flash is the obvious choice for our NetFront browser because of its ability to effectively deliver rich content in a compact format,” …

GENEVA-STMicroelectronics has reinforced its interest in the smart card market with the acquisition of Incard, the world’s sixth-largest maker of cards. Incard has rolled out products covering terminals, security, wireless local area networks, mobile business and telecom applications. “ST has …

Barely a week after Nokia Corp. announced an initiative with Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm Inc. has seized the spotlight with a series of chip announcements, drawing attention to itself as a premier player in the space. The announcements …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed last Thursday to make 255 megahertz in the 5 GHz band available for unlicensed devices. The FCC praised the proposal, which suggests that devices built to use this spectrum deploy dynamic frequency selection to avoid …

Starent Networks calls its solution voice instant messaging-with emphasis on the word “instant,” thereby distinguishing itself from the prominent voice solutions already in the marketplace, including push-to-talk service and more traditional voice instant messaging, which suffer some degree of latency. …

Following a trend by wireless players to chip away at Qualcomm Inc.’s stranglehold on the CDMA market, Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics announced a joint development program to offer chipsets for cdma2000 1x and 1xEV-DV. This announcement comes in …

WASHINGTON-Just as in 1993 when the current wireline industry probably didn’t expect its customers to be cutting the cord in favor of mobile phones, the licensed-wireless industry should watch out for unlicensed technologies replacing them-not only for data but also …

DALLAS-Nokia Corp. announced it is continuing its mobile-commerce trial with credit card company MasterCard International through a new trial in Nokia’s home base of Irving, Texas. The market trial will launch this month and will allow mobile-phone users to use …

BEIJING-The first GSM/TD-SCDMA chipset may be ready for rollout by mid-2004, according to RTX Telecom, which plans to make the products. “The GSM/TD-SCDMA chipset will be based on the chip supplier’s EDGE and W-CDMA chipsets,” said RTX, which said it …

Chipmakers continue to stake claims in anticipation of an assured industry upswing. Bellwethers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. offered optimistic second-quarter projections, reinforcing a view that the sector has seen its worst days. In separate filings with the Securities …

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it plans to spend $500 million to upgrade its dynamic random access memory chip plant in Texas. The company still leads in memory chips with Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor Inc still struggling.

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said it has introduced a low-power read-channel chip that enhances performances and extends battery life in handheld computers and other wireless devices. “The Agere’s TrueStore read-channel RC6500LP is optimized to deliver superior signal integrity and performance …

TOKYO-Oki Electric, a leading electronic manufacturer in Japan, plans to expand sales for semiconductors for PHS handsets to meet far-expanding demand for PHS units in Asia, the firm said Wednesday. The company is targeting to sell a total of 7 …

NEW YORK-LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark airports, all operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will have public and private wireless local area network access by year-end. Concourse Communications, Springfield, Mass., has begun deployment of …

SINGAPORE-The telecom regulator in Singapore announced a collaboration with chip maker Intel Corp. on a Wi-Fi initiative that the Infocomm Development Authority said would help achieve “seamless connectivity in the wireless world for Singapore and Asia.” The total investment by …

Matsushita Electric Industries, the leading consumer electronics company in Japan, has launched an experiment of a cashless train riding system in Hokkaido, a Northern Island in Japan. For the month-long experiment to be conducted until March 15, Matsushita provided a …

SAN FRANCISCO-Researchers from Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs announced what it describes as the world’s first turbo decoder chip for terminals that support an enhanced version of UMTS called High Speed Downlink Packet Access. “The Bell Labs-designed chip, which will …

CANNES, France-Zyray Wireless, developer of W-CDMA and space time technology (STP), will launch SPINNERchip 1.0 at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes later this month. SPINNERchip 1.0, a W-CDMA FDD add-on baseband processor chip for existing GSM/General Packet Radio Service …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Zyray Wireless will take part in a panel on third-generation wireless at the ChinaTech 2003 Conference taking place in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 18 and 19. “Migrating to next generation technologies in a rapid and cost-effective manner poses a …

NEW YORK-Responding to demand from carriers with heavy corporate users, Aperto Networks, Milpitas, Calif., said it has introduced commercially the PacketWave 600 Series Wireless Bridge to provide connectivity between locations up to 30 miles apart. “Unlike conventional point-to-point systems on …

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics said it has approved a plan rumored earlier this week to spend US$1.23 billion in a plant to produce dynamic random-access memory and flash memory chips. The plant-the company’s 12th-is located in Hwasung, Kyungiddo, south of …

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics said it has approved a plan rumored earlier this week to spend $1.23 billion in a plant to produce dynamic random-access memory and flash memory chips. The plant-the company’s 12th-is located in Hwasung, Kyungiddo, south of …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Global semiconductor sales hit $12.68 billion for the month of November, slightly up from the $12.51 billion reported in October, and well above the year-ago’s $10.6 billion, according the Semiconductor Industry Association. “The November sales of the global …

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., with the goal of turning a profit in its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. released a new chip the company said will work as a smart antenna for CDMA networks, doubling the networks’ capacity for voice and data traffic. The new application-specific integrated circuit will work in Lucent’s newly …