WASHINGTON-As President-elect Bush crafts a diverse team of Republicans with Pentagon, state government and Old Economy business experience and confronts a slumping stock market increasingly subject to the vagaries of high-tech shares, it remains to be seen whether the next administration can achieve the...
Leap Wireless International Inc. announced it bought NeoPoint Inc.'s myAladdin.com location-based content aggregation portal and wireless information technology.Leap said it will extend the service to its Cricket customers and others in the first half of the year. Financial details of the transaction were not...
While the number of products incorporating Bluetooth technology was slim this past holiday season, the number of companies interested in producing Bluetooth chipsets is bountiful. Of the 82 exhibitors at the recent Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., a majority were showing off...
Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. jumped into the wireless game and into competition with Texas Instruments Inc. after introducing a Micro Signal Architecture that integrates digital signal processor and microcontroller features in a single platform.The architecture is optimized for processing modem, audio, video,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-As we approach what was supposed to be the Bluetooth Christmas, all Santa Claus has to offer those wishing for a Bluetooth-enabled gift is a headset, some PC cards and the promise that next year his bag will overflow with Bluetooth products.Those...
While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to supply those functions have been left out of the limelight. Battery manufacturers are quick to point out that without the...
724 Solutions Inc. boosted its wireless financial services profile last week by acquiring Tantau Software, Inc., a provider of software platforms that help businesses conduct high-volume, secure and mobile transactions.The transaction closes in the first quarter of 2001.724 Solutions provides Internet infrastructure software that...
Continuing the flow of wireless technological improvements from north of the border, Burnaby, British Columbia-based PMC-Sierra Inc. introduced its Power Amplifier Linearizer and Distortion Inhibitor-10 chip, designed to allow traffic over digital third-generation wireless standards, including wideband CDMA, cdma2000 and EDGE to be transmitted...
Digital PagingDigital Paging Co. released its new Hit plus pager, which the company said can carry three different frequencies. The pager also features a hands-on screen programming function, and has an inputted pass code option for resellers. The Hit plus, as well as all...
LittlefeetLittlefeet Inc., a wireless network infrastructure developer, appointed Kai Cheong Chan as the general manager and sales director for the company's new regional office, which will serve Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.Chan will be responsible for developing business relationships and managing distribution channels for...
Computer and telephony infrastructure provider Cisco Systems Inc. posted fiscal first-quarter profits just above analyst expectations, but the company also revealed its inventory levels increased 59 percent during the quarter, causing investors to warily wonder if Cisco is preparing for a spending slowdown by...
BEIJING-Amiosonic's new range of GSM mobile phones will be able to interoperate with Lucent Technologies Inc.'s GSM network infrastructure under a deal announced by the two companies.Mobile operators in China will now have an end-to-end solution starting next year, the companies said.The agreement may...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Having spent vast sums on third-generation (3G) mobile licenses, operators are hoping terminals will live up to expectations. Unlike GSM, where handsets are broadly similar in appearance, it seems likely 3G handsets will come in a number of shapes and sizes to accommodate...
Less than a week after introducing a new suite of messaging services targeted in part to teen users, Sprint PCS introduced a new package of wireless Internet-based games to its Wireless Web service.The move is targeted at capitalizing on two wireless trends-increasing teen usage...
Intel Corp.'s stock rode a roller coaster early last week with its price falling sharply Monday on analyst concerns about depressed microprocessor prices, followed by a surge on Wednesday after the company reported third-quarter results that beat lowered expectations.Monday's slide of $3.44 per share...
BARCELONA, Spain-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced plans to make third-generation technology and product design easier and faster using its system-on-a-chip solution to test both software and hardware as though they were operating within a full system in a real environment."As changes are required, because of...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices will collaborate to develop an architecture for AMD's Flash memory devices and TI's digital signal processors-based Open Multimedia Application Platform.TI said the planned solutions will use AMD's and TI's process technology, manufacturing and chip packaging experience to...
TOKYO-Intel Corp.'s stock took a beating early Friday after the world's largest silicon chip manufacturer reported third-quarter sales would fall short of analysts' expectations.The company's stock lost about 22 percent of its value, dropping more than $14 per share as soon as the market...
E2open has opened its doors.The new electronics marketplace sports 10 high-powered founders, including IBM Corp., Hitachi and Nortel Networks. With this backing, e2open aspires to be nothing less than "one of the largest enterprises of the 21st century," said John Mumford, partner at Crosspoint...
Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market as early as mid-1999.Those early predictions seemed believable at the time. Who would not...
MUNICH, Germany-U.S. chip manufacturer Amtel Corp. plans to take over Siemens AG's North Tyneside semiconductor factory in northeastern England, with plans to supply Siemens with specific semiconductor products and help secure future availability of flash memory chips.Siemens opened the factory in 1995, but closed...
BluetoothSilicon WaveRadio-frequency technology developer Silicon Wave Inc. unveiled its Odyssey line of hardware and software products designed for the Bluetooth short-range wireless standard. Included in the line are the Silicon Wave SiW1501 Radio Modem IC, SiW1601 Link Controller IC and lower layer Bluetooth protocol...
NEW YORK-Dallas-based Texas Instruments has begun making samples of its new Bluetooth chipset available and will begin shipping them by year-end, Christian Dupont, general manager of the short-distance wireless unit, said.Developed by Butterfly VLSI Ltd., an Israeli company TI acquired early last year, the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless Internet and networking infrastructure applications.Intel said the XScale microarchitecture has the flexibility to handle requirements for both ultra-low power and...
