WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), attempting to play off GOP tax-cut and anti-big-government campaign themes, said he will push legislation this year to kill the telecom excise tax, to further deregulate the wireless industry and to downsize a Federal Communications Commission he...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-According to a report just released by Strategies Unlimited, a Silicon Valley market research firm, the worldwide market for Radio Frequency semiconductor devices in cellular telephones will grow from $3.9 billion in 1999, to $7.7 billion in 2004.The report, RF Semiconductors for...
After telling a friend in California about buying a computer for my kids and signing up for Internet access, I got this e-mail from him: "What a wonderful world your kids are inheriting." The e-mail included a NASA Web address so my kids could view...
Analog Devices Inc. today plans to introduce the first digital signal processor to use the company's TigerSharc DSP architecture.The TigerSharc architecture, which ADI introduced last year, is optimized for data, image and voice processing and is targeted at large-scale and multichannel signal processing tasks...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology to DSP Communications Inc., which Intel agreed to purchase in October.Qualcomm granted DSPC a cross license for CDMA technology in...
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced legislation to remove the spectrum cap for third-generation wireless spectrum to be assigned by auction after Dec. 31. "The Third-Generation Wireless Internet" is not as far reaching as the spectrum cap repeal initiative Brownback planned to sponsor in July,...
LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson announced its first consumer product incorporating Bluetooth technology at Comdex/Fall '99. The cellular phone headset connects to a mobile phone by a radio link instead of a cable. The product will be commercially available in mid-2000, said Ericsson.The 0.75-ounce wireless mobile...
Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., has entered into an agreement with STMicroelectronics Inc. to develop an AM/FM decoder chip for Cue's new SkySpeed.com network for mobile Internet applications for automotive and consumer products."We expect that within a year the SkySpeed network will cover 90 percent...
WASHINGTON-A company with a name that means "a rapid gallop" or "the blare of a horn" next month plans to begin alpha testing a technology that could greatly reduce the gap between those who have high-speed Internet access and those who do not.Using dedicated...
Alain Rossmann, founder of Phone.com, told the opening session audience at CTIA's Wireless I.T. conference last week in Santa Clara, Calif., that the wireless data industry has moved beyond the technology issues and now must address the business model.While Rossmann may be a bit...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs has developed a single-chip digital signal processor that operates at 100 MHz using only 1 volt of power, the company said.Typical system-on-a-chip technology combines on a single silicon chip a number of components that formerly had to...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Following up its widely acclaimed NeoPoint 1000 smart phone, NeoPoint Inc. last week at Wireless I.T. introduced a location-based wireless portal called myAladdin.com.The portal is positioned as a smart-information service, with features including driving directions and route guides, ATM Locator, traffic information,...
Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+ portfolio for wireless systems.The processor incorporates a DSP core and an M-Core microcontroller. It supports such standards as Code Division...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a 46-percent gain in net income, to $3.83 billion, for the fiscal year, and a 42-percent gain in net income per share, to $1.22, excluding one-time charges related to mergers and acquisitions.Net income for the fourth quarter rose by...
News that the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., plans to purchase mobile-phone chipset maker DSP Communications Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash left some analysts concerned last week that CDMA innovator Qualcomm Inc. may wreak havoc on the benefits.DSPC licenses Code Division Multiple...
AgilentAgilent Technologies debuted the SQL server 7.0 database scanner and HP SFCommand. HP SFCommand will help network operators integrate all security applications, such as monitoring and the implementation of security policies, across every server in their networks. The SQL Server 7.0 database scanner enables...
The popularity of wireless may be contributing to an industrywide shortage of some components used in mobile devices, although device manufacturers may not be feeling the effects just yet.After suffering through a slump during the last several years that was characterized by an oversupply...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Mobicom Corp. said they are working together to build and deliver wireless handsets to China's Global System for Mobile communications market, estimated at more than 29 million subscribers. Lucent will supply for Mobicom's handsets its Sceptre GSM...
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short time, RIM has transformed itself into a market leader in technically advanced interactive pagers...
SHENZHEN, China-Konka Group Co. Ltd. of China and Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced a five-year agreement under which Konka will use Lucent's Global System for Mobile communications technology platform in its cellular phones.The platform is based on Lucent's Sceptre GSM chipset, which includes...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments plans to introduce today a chipset that combines radio-frequency data transmission and reception with a microcontroller unit.The chipset consists of the TRF6900 single-chip RF transceiver, which provides for flexibility in low-power RF transmission and reception, while the MSP430 MCU is part of...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it has expanded its development of third-generation telecommunications technology to include a commercial "system on a chip" using Frequency Division Duplex technology.InterDigital is designing the new system on a chip so it can be embedded into advanced...
Cupertino, Calif.-based chip manufacturer DSP Communications Inc. today plans to introduce two new products for current and future Code Division Multiple Access handsets.Immediately available is DSPC's new CDMA Manufacturers Development Kit for wireless handsets, which will enable handset manufacturers to reduce development cycles, said...
Every day does not produce news about the 3G standards process; it just seems that way. The basic reason, as Jimmy Durante once succinctly put it: "Everybody wants to get into de act."There seems to be consensus that if "convergence" or "harmonization" is good, then...
