TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...
Qualcomm Inc.'s financial results came in line with consensus estimates last week, but the company expects falling chip sales because of slower handset sales anticipated in South Korea.Marc Cabi, managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston, downgraded Qualcomm to a "hold" rating, and reduced...
WASHINGTON-Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has begun preparing for the likelihood that many mobile-phone carriers will not meet upcoming deadlines governing location-based 911 wireless emergency service rules.Meanwhile, Sugrue and his staff are mired in other prickly 911 policy issues dealing...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile communications systems start-up QuickSilver Technology Inc. acquired White Eagle Systems Technology Inc., an engineering turnkey design services company."White Eagle brings and wireless cellular engineering experience, adding more breadth and depth to QuickSilver's extensive chip design expertise, engineering and systems know-how,...
Sunday CommunicationsSunday Communications Ltd. announced that Craig Ehrlich, currently group managing director and chief executive officer, will give up his CEO duties. He will continue as group managing director, focusing on the company's regional expansion program. Ehrlich also will continue as the company's principal...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group plans to unveil today a digital signal processor system-on-a-chip family for next-generation wireless and Internet networks that provides significant channel density improvements.The product family, called StarPro, is based on the StarCore SC140 DSP core architecture developed jointly by Lucent...
The world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., said it plans to invest billions to help ease a global shortage of flash memory chips used in mobile phones.Intel said about 45 percent of its first billion flash memory chips were sold to cellular-device makers and...
Bad news hit the cdmaOne community last week as the South Korean government put a stop to cdmaOne handset subsidies and uncertainty lingered about China Unicom's plans to deploy the technology.Though technology stocks across the board took a hit last week, Qualcomm Inc.'s stock...
WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee last week passed legislation to simplify taxation of mobile telephone calls by local and state authorities, setting the stage for the Republican House leadership to resolve a nasty jurisdictional dispute over the bill.The turf fight between the Judiciary Committee and...
WASHINGTON-Popular bipartisan legislation to simplify mobile-phone taxation by state and local authorities ran into trouble last week when a nasty turf fight erupted between the House Commerce Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.On a related front, the top ranking Democrat on the House Commerce...
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry and leaders of state and local government groups took to the road last week with their efforts to pass legislation to mandate that wireless subscribers be taxed based on a single address.This time, they took their message before the House Judiciary...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported company revenue fell slightly in the second quarter, to $727.7 million, compared with $932.4 million for the same period in 1999.Even with the loss of revenue, Qualcomm reported company net income increased from a loss of $42.6 million during the...
NEW YORK-Because of their relative scarcity, augmented by their growth history and potential, wireless carriers seeking financing enjoy elevated status in the eyes of investors, even in volatile capital markets.Good timing still matters, particularly since the trickle of initial public offerings in this sector...
WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king.The trade association again delivered a set of nine stuffed phones-representing the number of potential wireless licensees in a market-to members of Congress,...
WASHINGTON-What to do with the often confusing tax structures of both mobile phones and the Internet collided in back-to-back hearings by the House telecom subcommittee on Thursday.The collision occurred because Internet taxation has been met with a divided commission report and mobile-phone taxation has...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $14.5 billion in February, an increase from $10.9 billion during the same period last year.Asia Pacific and Japan led all regions with 45.4-percent and 42.5-percent growth respectively. The European market saw...
NEW YORK-New York City's Silicon Alley has spawned MobileSpring Inc., an incubator for developing companies that deploy Web-based services to mobile communications devices.Mark Caron, president and chief executive officer of MobileSpring, was a co-founder of Omnipoint Communications.i-Hatch Ventures, a New York City venture-capital firm...
That's why Bill Clinton is president. Last Tuesday, in harmony with Brit counterpart Tony Blair, Clinton accomplished something even the Great Greenspan couldn't pull off. The Big Guy managed to cool the red-hot U.S. economy by blowing up the tech-heavy Nasdaq. Now there's leadership...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), backed by several key Democrats, last week unveiled draft legislation to rein in merger review practices of the Federal Communications Commission.The draft bill, drawing on separate bills by Reps. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.), comes...
The United States and European Union negotiated a compromise on data privacy that could pave the way for a final deal this summer. An agreement on data privacy is key to future transatlantic business, including that involving wireless telecom trade.Scott Cleland, a telecom analyst...
SigmaOneSigmaOne Communications Corp., a provider of location systems and services for wireless carriers and the wireless Internet, reported the development of the company's wireless location system for Global System for Mobile communications carriers in the United States and Europe. Designed to operate as either...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) intends to unveil legislation shortly that is expected to go far beyond last week's proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to streamline its merger-review process."Clearly, it's (the FCC proposal) a pre-emptive strike," said Ken Johnson, Tauzin's press...
IBM and AT&T announced an alliance to offer wireless data services to their business customers. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. The companies said they expected significant opportunities for wireless services linking corporate information systems with a wide range of portable computer...
HANOVER, Germany-Alcatel announced its single-chip Bluetooth solution, which brings all functions, including radio-frequency, base-band, processor, memory, antenna and filtering devices into a single die package."We have taken a hard look at the Bluetooth spec and have chosen not only to implement the mandatory features,...
