At the advent of every new industry, people simply cannot predict how the industry will evolve. VCRs were supposed to be used only to record missed TV shows. Today every parent watching their daughter's piano recital has a camcorder attached to a hand to...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Apple Computer Inc. this week introduced AirPort Express, a solution that allows consumers to wirelessly connect to the Internet and to wirelessly access iTunes music selections from home stereos or powered speakers. The first version of AirPort was introduced in 1999 to enable...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...
After facing harsh criticism over the sluggish introduction of its camera phone line-up, the world's No. 2 phone-maker Motorola Inc. is hoping to regain the industry's cutting edge by placing itself at the intersection of music and wireless. Indeed, Motorola executives have hinted at...
In addition to propelling the combined entity past Verizon Wireless as the nation's largest wireless carrier, Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s successful $41 billion acquisition of smaller rival AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to have an enormous impact on many of its competitors as well...
AAT Communications Corp. announced it plans to acquire all tower assets of Signal One L.L.C., a privately held Chattanooga, Tenn.-based tower owner and site management company. The assets include 226 owned towers and 199 managed sites mainly located in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia....
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the activity at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Audiovox Communications Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone makers...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. said it will develop personal wireless location solutions using a platform developed by Wheels of Zeus Inc., the startup founded last year by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.Wheels of Zeus has developed a wireless platform that offers a range of location, status,...
LAS VEGAS-RealNetworks Inc. said it will include support for PalmOne Inc.'s Treo 600 smart phone in its newly unveiled Internet music download service. The move marks likely the first such music download service to target wireless devices.RealNetworks' Music Store will sell MP3 digital music...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Apple Computer Corp. said the newest version of its QuickTime video player technology supports wireless video standards, including those from the 3GPP and 3GPP2 wireless standards bodies.Apple said its QuickTime program supports Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Qualcomm Code Excited...
Apple Computer Corp. said the newest version of its QuickTime video player technology supports wireless video standards, including those from the 3GPP and 3GPP2 wireless standards bodies.Apple said its QuickTime program supports Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Qualcomm Code Excited Linear...
Although there are numerous complexities in selling music over wireless, mobile-phone maker Siemens announced a new offering designed to give the world's carriers a quick and simple way to jump into the market. European carrier MmO2 took the first plunge with its O2 Music...
PARIS-Apple launched its Bluetooth-based Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Wireless Mouse. The products use Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) software that eliminates interference between Bluetooth devices and other wireless networks and devices, allowing them to perform reliably in home, office, school and lab settings where...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said its Microceptor Window Mount Antennas are being used in Schlotzsky's Deli made-to-order sandwich restaurants to provide Wi-Fi coverage to countertop Apple Mac computers and to customer-owned laptops."The Andrew Microceptor antennas are easy to install, provide strong signal strength throughout...
Heavy call volumes on wireless networks frustrated end users and caused cell sites operating on backup generators and batteries to quickly falter during the massive power outage that crippled the northeastern United States late last week.Given the situation, even the best system would have...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-3Com Corp. reported a deal with Apple Core Hotels to provide free wireless local area network access in its five Apple Core hotels in New York City.The hotel chain said it has implemented 8,000 WLAN access points in hallways throughout its five hotels,...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Wheels of Zeus Inc., a startup founded by Apple Computer company luminary Steve Wozniak, offered further details on its business plan, as well as additional executives.Woz will offer a wireless platform, system reference design and wireless network that will "help people take...
BOSTON-NewburyOpen.net and Tech Superpowers joined to demonstrate Wi-Fi technology during the Boston Marathon last month.The companies' "Surfin' Marathon" project included: two Wi-Fi-enabled vehicles, including one with two Internet-enabled kiosks; a video crew using Apple's iMovie to create Web-sized movies; a video crew documenting the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-As the initial boom of the wireless industry slows, mobile-phone makers are looking for the next major step for the industry, and are greatly expanding the definition of "wireless device" in their efforts."How do you take a phone and have is disappear into...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Apple Computer Inc. has unveiled a wide-screen laptop computer with a wireless networking technology five times faster than the available standard.The 17-inch-screen Titanium PowerBook will hit retail shelves in February, while the 12-inch screen PowerBook will hit retail shelves in two weeks.Apple...
NEW YORK-The nation's second-largest wireless operator finally launched service in the nation's largest market as Cingular Wireless flipped the switch on its New York City network. The carrier also introduced market-specific marketing and pricing plans, including a "Preferred Network" calling plan offering service within...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—With Bluetooth chipset manufacturers forecasting shipments of more than 90 million devices this year, the technology looks, eventually, like it is coming of age. The announcement last week by Apple to support the short-range wireless technology brings fresh impetus to Bluetooth after...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless streaming media company PacketVideo Corp. said it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in order to realign itself with the sluggish economy.Fernando Corona, the company's senior vice president of marketing, said PacketVideo had 225 employees before the layoffs, but he wouldn't...
TEL AVIV, Israel—Wireless streaming media company Emblaze Systems Ltd. released its financial results for last year, showing net losses of $29 million and no relief in sight for at least the next year."2001 will be remembered as a year of significant global economic downturn...
