OTTAWA, Canada-Atsana Semiconductor Corp. said it has licensed ARM core for multimedia applications in mobile phones, personal digital assistants and network digital cameras."By licensing the ARM922T core, we are ensuring our ability to deliver a high-performance, low-power processor, which will encourage growth in the...
CAMBRIDGE, England-Agere Systems said it has licensed three high-performance ARM cores, which include the ARM1026EJ-S core, the ARM920T core and the ARM926EJ-S core for system-on-chip solutions for mobile devices and equipment."Tomorrow's complex communications networking applications require solutions, which this latest generation of ARM technology...
BEIJING—The Hong Kong-listed arm of China Unicom posted first-quarter revenue of 8.35 billion yuan (US$1 billion), while China Mobile reported 23.35 billion yuan (US$2.82 billion).Revenue from China Unicom's mobile business was 6.65 billion yuan (US$804 million) for the first three months of the year,...
CAMBRIDGE, England—ARM Ltd. has delivered a port of the Symbian operating system for ARM-powered 2.5 and third-generation smart phone devices to Motorola Inc."The port, which has been created ahead of silicon implementation, makes use of the advanced system emulation methodologies from ARM and incorporates...
WASHINGTON—Lawyers for Christopher Newman in an US$800 million brain-cancer lawsuit against the mobile-phone industry have notified the U.S. federal judge overseeing the case that an unpublished study attacked by defendants has been accepted for publication, a potentially major development that could change the course...
WASHINGTON—Lawyers for Christopher Newman in an $800 million brain-cancer lawsuit against the mobile-phone industry have notified the federal judge overseeing the case that an unpublished study attacked by defendants has been accepted for publication, a potentially major development that could change the course of...
WASHINGTON—Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association President Thomas Wheeler today urged Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to free up spectrum held by the Pentagon and other federal agencies for third-generation wireless systems."Failure to move expeditiously to deliver 120 megahertz of internationally harmonized wireless spectrum beginning in...
CAMBRIDGE, England—Mitsubishi Electric says it has agreed to license the ARM926EJ-S core processor to run wireless applications on mobile phones and personal digital assistants."The ARM926EJ-S core contains ARM Jazelle technology that accelerates Java execution by up to eight times compared to a fully software-based...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having sold two third-generation (3G) licenses for 619 million euros (US$538.8 million) each last year, the French government looks unlikely to attract more than one interested party for the two additional licenses it plans to sell by the end of September 2002....
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Zimbabwe is a country on the threshold of total anarchy and economic collapse. With the recent elections, the world is collectively holding its breath to see if the beleaguered country will ever recover from the decades of abuse. Yet within this political,...
LONDON—Symbian announced six semiconductor companies have joined its Semiconductor Partner Programme, showing support for Symbian OS and ARM core-based chipsets.The six new partners—Agilent Technologies; Epson; Parthus; Philips Semiconductors; Samsung and STMicroelectronics—join existing partners ARM; Intel; Motorola SPS; Qualcomm CDMA Technologies and Texas Instruments. Symbian...
NEW YORK—Under the terms of a service bureau agreement announced Feb. 7, Convergys' Geneva Active Revenue Management software is providing billing and customer care support for Compaq Computer Corp. iPAQ and iPAQ BlackBerry devices.The Geneva ARM software provides real-time, transaction-based rating and billing, and...
LONDON—Logica announced a deal with T-Motion, the mobile online services arm of T-Mobile International, to create a portal to market billable value-added services to customers across Europe.The system uses Logica's integrated and customized real-time billing system, which is based on Portal Software's Intranet billing...
LONDON—Logica announced a deal with T-Motion, the mobile online services arm of T-Mobile International, to create a portal to market billable value-added services to customers across Europe.The system uses Logica's integrated and customized real-time billing system, which is based on Portal Software Inc.'s Intranet...
LAS VEGAS, United States—In his keynote at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates detailed his company's new wireless strategies, which include introducing a new tablet device for home computing, a new technology platform for home...
BEIJING—China's Minister of Information Industry Wu Jichuan announced that China will set up four integrated telecom operators that will provide fixed-line, mobile, data and basic telecom services. In addition to China Mobile and China Unicom, two other operators will receive a mobile license within...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.-Disposable-phone maker Hop-On announced another customer, evidence that its prepaid, easy-to-use and fully recyclable mobile phone product may be catching on.Wakefern Food Corp., the merchandising and distribution arm of cooperative ShopRite Supermarkets, purchased 50,000 mobile phones for about $1.5 million. Hop-On's announcement...
CINCINNATI—Convergys Corp. and e-Payment technology provider iPIN have joined to offer a new solution covering rating, billing and e-payments.Convergys' Geneva ARM software will be integrated with the iPIN e-Payment platform and the two companies will join for marketing and sales activities. In addition, iPIN...
HELSINKI, Finland—PTS, Sweden's telecom regulatory organization, has warned telecom companies that secured third-generation (3G) network licenses that they risk losing these licenses in the event that they stall development plans any further. Twelve months after PTL allocated four 3G licenses, licensees have only applied...
BEIJING—China Unicom, which will launch commercial operations of its CDMA network early next year, hopes average revenue per user (ARPU) will be more than the 92 yuan (US$11.11) generated on its existing GSM network. ARPU dropped 25.5 percent in the first six months of...
BEIJING—China Unicom is expected to announce in the coming days that it will start CDMA services in January. The listed arm of the China Unicom Group is expected to lease provincial networks from its parent company.
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The much troubled German e-commerce developer Brokat Technologies has agreed to sell its mobile business unit to EOne Global, a U.S. company specializing in payment solutions via the Internet, for a reduced price of e28.25 million (US$24.8 million). Brokat said in August...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Three Spanish mobile operators are expected to make an appeal before Spain's National Court over a government-imposed fee for using cell-phone spectrum. The three firms, Vodafone's Spanish unit Amena, Xfera and Telef
Audiovox CommunicationsAudiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of Flash Rom and an Intel Strong ARM 206 MHz processor. It also includes built-in CFR...
