Catfish are jumpin'! Seems that Korn Ferry-a high falutin' company that puts folks in high-paying jobs in big cities-has Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) on the line for the top spot at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. How ya' like that.On paper, Pickering, who...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) confirmed to RCR Wireless News he is being considered for the top job at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, but it is unclear whether the 39-year-old Mississippi lawmaker is the trade group's first choice to lead the $80...
The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) confirmed to RCR Wireless News Wednesday that he is under consideration for the top job at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, and his statement leaves one to wonder whether he is the first choice for the job."I am under...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-The wireless messaging and e-mail market continues its race toward consolidation with news of two new funding and acquisition deals, including a massive $50 million investment in wireless e-mail company Visto Corp.Visto said it extended its recent round of private equity financing...
AMSTERDAM-In Europe, Bluetooth technology will outpace wireless local area network hot spots by 2008, according to a new report from Forrester Research."We believe that much of the money being poured into public WLAN today to enable access-from places as diverse as bars, marinas, hotels...
Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. revealed early last week that their second-quarter report cards would be less than stellar. Add Texas Instruments to the list.All three companies offered common excuses-a soft economy and the SARS epidemic. Their lowered forecasts underlined the importance of China...
The Bluetooth industry is set to welcome the latest standard for the short-range wireless networking technology as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is expected to introduce the 1.2 specification this week at the third annual Bluetooth World Congress in the Netherlands. Unlike the...
SAN FRANCISCO-Semiconductor giant Texas Instruments Inc. has reduced its second-quarter sales forecast to a 5-percent rise instead of 7 percent, with a total restructuring charge of $55 million instead of $40 million.The chip maker now projects sales of $2.19 million in the quarter with...
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a new partnership with chip maker Intel Corp. as well as new plans to sell wireless application services to businesses, all parts of an effort to continue the expansion of the company's Java 2 Micro Edition technology in wireless.The...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp.'s stock jumped on the company's announcement that it narrowed its sales estimates for the second quarter owing to improved demand.The company, which serves as the bellwether of semiconductor companies, said it expects revenues to stand between $6.6 billion and $6.8...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. unveiled a custom chip that combines eight ARM966E processor cores, making it four times more powerful than typical chips, as well as reducing cost and improving time to market. The company credited its system-level expertise, broad IP and leading design...
The evolution of the wireless local area network industry has been so dramatic that it seems almost a certainty that mobile-phone makers will include WLAN technology in future wireless devices.Indeed, all the major mobile-phone chip makers have announced plans to include 802.11 technology in...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems Inc. said it has unveiled a custom chip that combines eight ARM966E processor cores, making it four times more powerful than typical chips, as well as reducing cost and improving time to market."We were able to leverage our system-level expertise, broad...
Following an industry trend toward the consolidation or combination of standards groups, PayCircle and Parlay Group announced they together created an application programming interface to promote interoperable payment services over third-generation wireless networks.The move comes shortly after the Parlay Group merged with the PAM...
In an apparent counter-punch to a recent Nokia Corp.-backed 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 include a W-CDMA...
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," said Toru Arakawa, Access' president...
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 a 20-year track record of business...
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 include a W-CDMA chipset that...
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 government systems.The proposed rules...
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.Starent said several major carriers...
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 the wake of Samsung Electronics'...
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 for voice, according to...
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 their phones to pay for...
