Mobile-phone maker Siemens announced a unique new sliding phone it will sell through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. The company said it created the phone in conjunction with its longtime design partner Designafairs, a European creative firm. Siemens' move comes after...
No WinTel animosity is intended. MIPI is just another warm and fuzzy alliance.Never the friendliest of allies, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. were quick to rebut the wide speculation that the formation of the Mobile Industry Processor Interface alliance created to focus...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-ARM Ltd. said it has added a new member to its foundry program, and it is the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., which has also licensed the ARM7TDMI microprocessor core."It significantly strengthens our support for customers in China who now have access to...
In what industry experts see as a counterpunch to WinTel, a Microsoft-Intel partnership, some major industry players have a formed a new alliance that focuses on peripherals, microprocessors and software interfaces for mobile devices.Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., STMicroelectronics and ARM said they have...
DALLAS-An upswing in the wireless semiconductor sector has helped Texas Instruments beat expectations in its second-quarter results with earnings of $121 million, or 7 cents per share.The earnings amount to an increase from $95 million, or 5 cents a share, a year earlier."We did...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens' funding arm continued its investment spree, this time announcing an investment in Israeli mobile content company Ki-Bi Mobile Technologies Ltd. Financial details were not disclosed.Ki-Bi Mobile offers a memory-based card similar to a phone card, which allows mobile-phone users to dial a...
WASHINGTON-Congress returns to work this week to a brewing controversy over funding for first responders and what to do when states raid wireless enhanced 911 funds like North Carolina did on June 30.The action by North Carolina comes as the Senate Commerce Committee is...
Handspring Inc. followed up on promises to update its Treo mobile phone/personal digital assistant device with the release of its new Treo 600, which breaks from the PDA form factor to look more like a mobile phone.The slimmed down Treo still features a full...
IDT Corp. has formed a spectrum-leasing unit within IDT Solutions to focus on leasing spectrum to telecommunication and wireless service providers. The move follows the Federal Communications Commission ruling that allows spectrum licensees to enter leasing arrangements with other companies.IDT Solutions is the marketing...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-ARM released TrustZone technology, a new security extension to ARM architecture that provides security for systems running open operating systems like Linux, Palm OS, Symbian OS and Windows CE and complements secure application environments like Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology.The technology will help...
WASHINGTON-The Bush Administration was berated Thursday by a powerful lawmaker for cutting and eliminating funding for telecommunications grants that could be used by Native Americans to improve teledensity in Indian Country."In the last century and the current century, Indian Country has sent to war...
As the wireless industry comes of age, upgrades are necessary to keep existing, legacy infrastructure in working order and compatible with emerging wireless communications technologies. Those upgrades and enhancements start with the very foundation of wireless communication, wireless tower sites.Physical tower upgrades occur mainly...
Chipmakers continue to stake claims in anticipation of an assured industry upswing.Bellwethers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. offered optimistic second-quarter projections, reinforcing a view that the sector has seen its worst days. In separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, both companies...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it received approval from the Ministry of Information and Communication to merge SK Telecom and SK IMT, the W-CDMA arm of the Korean mobile operator. However, under the conditions for the merger approval, SK Telecom must provide W-CDMA-based service...
CAMBRIDGE, England-SavaJe Technologies Inc. said it has licensed ARM i3D graphics client in collaboration with Superscape plc for 2.5G and third-generation wireless devices."Through our close cooperation with Superscape, we have been able to develop the ARM Swerve i3D Graphics Client, providing Partners like SavaJe...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it received approval from the Ministry of Information and Communication to merge SK Telecom and SK IMT, the W-CDMA arm of the Korean mobile operator. However, under the conditions for the merger approval, SK Telecom must provide W-CDMA-based service...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it received approval from the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to merge SK Telecom and SK IMT, the W-CDMA arm of the Korean mobile operator. However, under the conditions for the merger approval, SK Telecom must provide W-CDMA-based...
SAN FRANCISCO-ARM Ltd. made a series of announcements at the Embedded Systems Conference, including separate deals with LSI Logic and ParthusCeva, HelloSoft and Aptix, and Canon Research and Be4.ARM said it will work with LSI Logic and ParthusCeva to develop a standard digital signal...
NEW ORLEANS, United States-John Koo and his top executive team crowd a small, air-conditioned room perched atop LG Electronics' sprawling booth at the CTIA trade show here. Relaxed, smiling, Koo has shed the suit coat he wore during his keynote appearance to reveal a...
BEIJING-China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed arm of mobile carrier China Mobile Communications is to pay its first dividend since listing on the Hong Kong stock market in October 1997. The company's earnings rose 17 percent last year to 32.74 billion yuan (US$3.96 million)....
WASHINGTON-The wireless data arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said it plans to expand its focus to include the rapidly growing content creation community, and that content companies Jippii USA, Kargo, Mobliss, m-Qube, Moviso, News Corp. and Pinnacor have joined the group.CTIA's...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc confirmed that it is in discussions regarding Japan Telecom, its Japanese subsidiary that offers fixed-line service. Vodafone acquired Japan Telecom in stages to gain control of mobile arm J-Phone last year.Vodafone said the talks "may or may not lead to an...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The Zimbabwean Ministry of Transport and Communications has ruled out the possibility of licensing a fourth mobile network operator in the near future.Dr. Witness Mangwende, the minister of transport and communications, said flatly: "There will be no fourth mobile operator."The minister failed...
