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,...
DALLAS-Specialty manufacturer Dallas Semiconductor Corp. announced its latest battery-management chip, which significantly reduces the size and cost of battery electronics.According to the company, the DS2438 Smart Battery Monitor makes battery-management features formerly relegated to high-end systems cost-effective for a variety of portable products. The...
SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia and Visa International signed a global agreement to cooperate on the development of payment solutions for mobile electronic commerce.The deal calls for the companies to develop ways in which financial institutions and mobile phone operators can offer secure payment services to their...
NEW YORK-Qualcomm's meteoric stock price appreciation in 1999 may well be a unique phenomenon that other companies are unlikely to replicate.Nonetheless, other established and new telecommunications players seem poised to offer substantial returns on investment, J. Michael Gallipo, portfolio manager of Monument Telecommunications Fund,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it shipped on time chip samples and system software for the MSM5000 Mobile Station Modem.The company said this product is the world's first third-generation 1x MultiCarrier solution for Code Division Multiple Access handsets that is compliant with the 3G standard...
Qualcomm Inc. shares dropped 16 percent last Wednesday after the cdmaOne innovator warned of slower chip sales this quarter.This warning eclipsed Qualcomm's higher-than-expected first fiscal quarter earnings. Merrill Lynch cut its near-term rating to "neutral" from "accumulate." Salomon Smith Barney lowered its rating from...
NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile communications products.The vision for smart cards is that they will become the tiny pocket...
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...
