WASHINGTON-A congressional report due out later this summer is expected to determine that a Pentagon study-which cast doubt on making military spectrum available for third-generation wireless services-is incomplete and needs further study, a finding that could help industry as momentum gains in the Bush...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it could cut jobs at a semiconductor plant in Scotland and put off an increase in chip output at a Chinese joint venture as part of its restructuring efforts. NEC had said in April that the Scottish plant, which employs 1,570...
NEW YORK-Although it recently affirmed its ratings on Semtech Corp., a wireless device semiconductor maker, Standard & Poor's Corp. revised downward its ratings outlook for the company to reflect "stresses" in its target markets.Semtech, headquartered in Newbury Park, Calif., provides power regulation chips for...
H.O. SystemsH.O. Systems has chosen Scott Berry as vice president of professional services. His 12 years of industry experience includes executive positions at Alltel, Convergys and Cellular One. At H.O., Berry will be responsible for streamlining and growing business operations for the company. Of...
WASHINGTON-As policy-makers last week voiced support for a plan to move the Pentagon off spectrum sought by the mobile phone industry for third-generation wireless systems, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Henry H. Shelton warned Congress that further loss of frequencies will compromise military capability...
In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...
Handsets/ devicesMitsubishiMitsubishi released three new handsets. The Eclipse is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with a color display. The dual-band phone offers 256 colors and up to 86 kilobits-per-second data speeds. It has several features for business users. The phone allows users...
DENVER, United States-The third-generation (3G) hype is much less intense than a year ago, as executives and engineers get down to the nitty-gritty of making the new technology-and their business plans-work. It is a time of industry transition and stealth-mode research and development, along...
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry, putting the brakes for now on major legislation to avoid unnecessarily provoking the Pentagon, is floating a stop-gap plan on Capitol Hill that urges federal regulators to postpone next month's ruling on third-generation mobile-phone spectrum and that calls on the departments...
In a triangular deal, German-based operator T-Mobil is partnering with Agere Systems to adopt Samsung's General Packet Radio Service class 8-cell phone.The phone, which will be made available commercially during this quarter, uses Agere's semiconductor chips and software.The Samsung GPRS wireless handsets equipped with...
WASHINGTON-An upcoming House bill could diminish the Pentagon's role in deciding the terms and conditions governing the transfer of Department of Defense spectrum to the mobile-phone industry for third-generation wireless systems, a move designed to put Commerce Secretary Donald Evans in charge of the...
"Come on in, there's room for everybody!"That's apparently the call a variety of companies hear when it comes to the personal digital assistant market. And even though PDA giants Palm and Handspring have recently announced severely sluggish sales, that hasn't stopped a flood of...
Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services.Involved in marriages and talks of marriages are Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks, Mitsubishi Electric...
Cambridge Silicon Radio introduced its MicroSira and CompactSira development tools for integrating Bluetooth functionality into a range of personal computer and personal digital assistant applications. Both products contain CSR's single chip solution, BlueCore01 and development software.Transilica Inc.'s OneChip Bluetooth lower and upper protocol stacks...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-OmniVision Technologies Inc. continues to shrink electronic technology with it new OmniStar Cam, a miniature camera module compatible with second generation, 2.5G and 3G mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other portable digital devices.The new device, which is based on OmniVision's OV6645 CMOS...
SMYRNA, Ga.-Murata Electronics North America introduced Blue Module, a Bluetooth module the company claims to be the smallest in the world.Developed using Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics technology, Murata said its has integrated both active devices and passive components onto a single surface mount ceramic...
HILLSBORO, Ore.-Under a $1.3 billion deal, chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. will merge with wireless components maker Sawtek Inc., a move the companies said will allow them to create highly integrated radio-frequency products that will benefit wireless manufacturers with significantly cheaper, smaller and better...
Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others have seen how Intel Corp. has dominated the mobile computer market with its...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
One of the big stumbling blocks remaining for widespread Bluetooth adoption continues to be interference issues in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed spectrum band, which the technology uses. In addition to household items using the spectrum band, numerous local area network standards also use the...
WASHINGTON-Proponents of a bill that would allow the Baby Bells to offer long-distance data services pointed to the largely deregulated wireless industry as a positive example of deregulation."Broadband is a nascent market that does not need regulation. What it needs is the ability to...
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian's EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week.A simulation using content from Emblaze's content partners and Symbian-based smart phones will be available on Symbian's...
Chips are falling through the cracks of the slowing economy.Just like phone makers, solutions providers and operators, chip makers are buckling in what analysts describe as their worst time ever.Big names like Texas Instruments, Intel Inc. and Conexant Systems Inc. have reflected the sour...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he is bullish on third-generation wireless services but believes not only is new spectrum needed, but carriers must also make efficient use of the spectrum they currently have."I am one who is bullish about the prospects...
