MILPITAS, Calif.-As expected, PalmOne Inc. announced its new LifeDrive mobile device, which features a 4-gigabyte hard disk drive from Hitachi along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies. Information about the device surfaced a few weeks ago on Amazon.com and other sites. Paul Cousineau, product line...
MILPITAS, Calif.-As expected, PalmOne Inc. announced its new LifeDrive mobile device, which features a 4-gigabyte hard disk drive from Hitachi along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies. Information about the device surfaced a week ago on Amazon.com and other sites.Paul Cousineau, product line manager for...
PalmOne Inc. appears to be getting ready to announce a new gadget that combines Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with a 4-gigabyte hard disk drive. The company recently issued a press release promising to announce a new type of mobile computing product it described as a...
ROK Entertainment Group said its ROK Player allows multimedia memory card-capable mobile phones to play content-loaded multimedia chips on the full screen of their handsets rather than in letterbox formats. "We have already licensed a wide range of content from comedy to music and...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Software and technology developer Aeronix Inc. launched Zipit Wireless Messenger, a portable instant messaging device for use on wireless home networks or Wi-Fi hotspots. Targeted for young IM users, Zipit uses 802.11b/g technology and requires no monthly service fee. The $100 device is...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. said its Voice Command software for Windows Mobile 2003-based Pocket PC and Pocket PC Phone Edition is now available in retail outlets nationwide.Microsoft said this is the first time it has offered standalone Pocket PC software in stores, including CompUSA Inc.,...
The U.S. wireless gaming market recently expanded yet again with the emergence of European gaming powerhouse In-Fusio. The Bordeaux, France-based gaming company has been offering wireless games and technology in Europe since 1999 and last year launched its U.S. efforts."We're setting up now a...
A savvy Amazon.com shopper can find Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P.'s color-screen T616 camera phone with service from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for -$150. That's right: Buyers will actually receive $150 for purchasing the phone.Is Sony Ericsson giving away its phones in a desperate...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Handspring announced it will begin selling its much-lauded mobile phone/personal digital assistant Treo device throughout the nation's retail stores. Further, the company said Cingular Wireless will also sell the device through its retail outlets, and will license the company's popular Blazer wireless...
Vodafone to delay 3G plans due to handset shortageVodafone Group plc said it might delay the launch of its third-generation network until 2003 due to a shortage of handsets. Vodafone confirmed its was cutting back the deployment of 3G base stations in the United...
WASHINGTON-A noted privacy advocate said he is optimistic that legislation can be passed that would limit the government's access to wireless location information, but other experts agreed that general privacy legislation isn't likely to pass this year.General privacy legislation "is not ready for prime...
The wireless industry has already admitted-repeatedly-that it jumped the gun a bit on the whole wireless Internet thing, acknowledged that its fruition still is more than a bit in the future and comes with a significant price tag attached. Still, many are slow to...
WASHINGTON-Congress, watching dazzling new technological and marketing advances driven by the Internet and its uncertain migration to wireless devices, has been dragged into high-stakes controversy over whether business methods patents are stifling innovation in the New Economy. The nasty and highly publicized legal fight...
Location is the buzz.You walk out of your office and messages sent to your desktop are automatically forwarded to your phone because it knows you are away.You are in a new city and need to find an ATM within walking distance. You dial your...
NEW YORK-To help companies extend performance monitoring and feedback beyond their internal technical departments, Managed Objects, McLean, Va., has released beta types of its formula Version 2 software.Since Managed Objects' establishment in 1997, WebLink Wireless Inc. has partnered with it, helping "develop the tools...
NEW YORK-If Silicon Valley's view is correct, all distribution of products and services will migrate to the Internet and companies will therefore close their call centers and stores. But this concept is far from accurate, others argue."The idea of disintermediating channels and going on...
Hoping to speed the adoption of wireless location-based technologies by operators nationwide, Phone.com Inc. introduced several new products at its Unwired Universe conference held last week aimed at tying location services to its wireless Internet platform.Most significantly, the company introduced a mobile location addition...
WASHINGTON-A divided Federal Trade Commission last week said industry self-regulation of Internet privacy was a failure and called on Congress to legislate consumer safeguards, an action that immediately drew criticism from high-tech advocates and further underscored the prospect for new government regulation of wireless...
Nextel Communications Inc. will soon announce commercial availability of wireless Internet service, people close to the company say.According to the company's Web site, its Nextel Online service already is available in 44 markets. Nextel is offering three flat-rate pricing packages ranging from $15 per...
NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory experiment.The 3G experimental system is an Aspira network architecture-based system demonstrating 3G cellular services...
NEW ORLEANS-Amazon.com Inc. intensified its wireless presence last week, announcing a new Web address exclusively for mobile e-commerce customers as well as alliances with Bell Atlantic Mobile and Motorola Inc.The new site, located at www.amazon.com/phone/, is accessible from any Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phone and...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS reported earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, of $996 million and $3.18 billion, respectively. This marks a significant increase from the $437 million and $1.23 billion reported for the 1998 fourth quarter and year.For the fourth...
The story in the Dec. 13 issue of RCR about Sprint PCS teaming with Amazon.com should have identified Amazon.com's wireless Internet strategy as Amazon.com Anywhere.
Clearly, marketing and selling wireless data will be one of the largest hurdles the wireless industry will face as it begins to heavily roll out the service.Wireless operators need to spend the big bucks to tell consumers how data services will be valuable to...
