Bluetooth

RALEIGH, N.C.-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s T39 and T68 GSM/GPRS phones, and …

SAN DIEGO-Microsoft Corp. selected Silicon Wave Inc. to provide Bluetooth solutions for its Windows CE .NET operating system. Silicon Wave said its solution will allow original equipment manufacturers to produce …

RALEIGH, North Carolina, United States—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s handsets with MobileAria’s …

RALEIGH, N.C.—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s handsets with MobileAria’s True Hands Free …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Entel PCS of Chile commercially launched its Mobile Wide Band service, using General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) over the 1900 MHz band, on 25 October, becoming the first …

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. reported the Bluetooth Special Interest Group qualified the Bluetooth implementation in Windows CE .NET, the software giant’s next version of its Windows CE operating system, as compliant …

Audiovox Communications Audiovox 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 …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International, agreed to form a forum to develop a …

NEW YORK—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Inc.’s Car Working Group released a definition for how Bluetooth wireless technology will enable hands-free use of mobile phones in automobiles as part of …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has developed the first Bluetooth version 1.1-compliant cdma2000 1x commercial chipset with baseband Link Manager Protocol, Logic Link Control and Adaptation Protocol, Serial Port Profile, …

BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems said its Bluetooth software development kit for embedded devices, XTNDAccess Blue SDK, now supports the Hands-Free module of the Bluetooth Personal Area Network profile. The Hands-Free feature, …

HELSINKI, Finland—Akumiitti Telematics said it is partnering with CellPoint Unwire, a developer and manufacturer of wireless application servers, platforms and telematics terminals. Under terms of the agreement, CellPoint Unwire and …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. reported it demonstrated video streaming through a cdma2000 1x/Bluetooth connection at the recently held Cellular Telecommunication & Internet Association I.T. show. Using a 1x handset with the …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. is launching its wireless notebooks Portege 4000 and Tecra 9000 models , which will offer 802.11b and Bluetooth technologies. Toshiba hopes to differentiate itself from competitors like Dell …

HELSINKI—Akumiitti Telematics said it is partnering with CellPoint Unwire AB, a developer and manufacturer of wireless application servers, platforms and telematics terminals. Under terms of the agreement, CellPoint Unwire and …

WCities Location-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users’ cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the company’s chief executive officer, with …

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. released details of its forthcoming Pocket PC operating system upgrade—which the company is marketing squarely at the business market—a move that ratchets up the OS battle with …

LA JOLLA, Calif.—Sensoria Corp. launched the Sensoria Telematics Environment, a standards-based telematics platform that allows drivers to share music wirelessly between their PC and their car, obtain current weather information, …

LONDON-Wireless technology battles for the potentially lucrative home broadband market are heating up. Broadband in the home will dramatically change online consumption patterns and expectations of Internet access. With high-speed …

SANTA CRUZ, California, United States—Software developers plan to expand investments in wireless application development, despite uncertainties in today’s economy and future technologies, according to a recent Evans Data study.“Even though …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) reported 440 engineers from 89 companies in 20 countries attended the sixth Bluetooth UnPlugFest in France. ETSI noted nearly half of the …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute reported 440 engineers from 89 companies in 20 countries attended the sixth Bluetooth UnPlugFest in France. ETSI noted nearly half of the attendees …

By The wireless application developer community is suffering, according to WirelessDeveloper.com President Konny Zsigo. “Fifty percent of the content developers have either left the space or gone out of business,” …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of proposed rule making to ICO Global Communications regarding its request that mobile satellite service operators in the 2 GHz band be allowed …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell phone operators will see Bluetooth-enabled devices generate revenues of US$2 billion by 2006, claims a new market study conducted by Pyramid Research. The short-range wireless technology …