REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it added the Sony Ericsson T68 and the Nokia 8390 handsets to its portfolio of GSM/GPRS devices.The T68 has a color screen and Bluetooth capability. It operates on 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM networks and...
CANNES, France-Colligo Networks Inc. announced Palm Inc. has licensed two of its Portable Collaborative Networking (PCN) applications to offer a new Bluetooth short-range wireless solution to business professionals.Colligo's BlueChat private messaging and chat application and BlueBoard portable whiteboard that allows users share images, will...
NEW DELHI, India—The Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies has announced a partnership with Graz, Austria-based Austriamicrosystems to jointly produce and market chipsets for the emerging Bluetooth wireless market.The alliance will make Wipro a complete solutions provider for the Bluetooth market, while Austriamicrosystems will be able to...
CANNES, France—Colligo Networks Inc. announced Palm Inc. has licensed two of its Portable Collaborative Networking (PCN) applications to offer a new Bluetooth short-range wireless solution to business professionals.Colligo's BlueChat private messaging and chat application and BlueBoard portable whiteboard that allows users share images, will...
WEXHAM SPRINGS, U.K.—Red-M will demonstrate its wireless Portable Office Solution, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based system aimed at the mobile workgroup market.The portable office offers connectivity back to corporate local area networks (LANs) and the Internet via GPRS support, while 802.11 wireless LAN...
SAN JOSE, California, United States—As expected, Palm released a trial version of its new operating system (OS), the Palm OS 5, which the company said will support wide area networks, Bluetooth connections and 802.11 standards, as well as a host of other new features.The...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario—Technology consultancy Plextec Ltd. unveiled a dual-band GSM900/DCS1800 GPRS/Bluetooth multimode PC card.The card, which comprises an always-online GPRS system combined with Bluetooth technology, enables wireless Internet access and wireless connectivity to local devices. The company said samples of the card will be available...
BEIJING—Ericsson has set up Dalian Ericsson Short-Range Wireless Connection Technology in China's northeastern province of Liaoning to provide products and services based on Bluetooth technology, the short-range wireless protocol for connecting electronic devices.Ericsson China holds a 51-percent stake in the new joint venture, while...
SAN JOSE—Mentor Graphics Corp. and NewLogic are making Bluetooth integration easier through a marketing agreement that lets system-on-chip designers license Bluetooth silicon intellectual property from the Mentor Graphics Inventra Intellectual property division. According to the agreement, NewLogic's Bluetooth BOOST IP family can be easily...
Handsets/wireless devicesSonySony Electronics unveiled its CLIE handhePEG-T415 ld with reduced profile, featuring a slim design with aluminum case and enhanced infrared port for controlling audio and video equipment. The company also...
TOKYO—Sharp, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer in Japan, announced that it will launch a personal digital assistant (PDA) for FOMA, the third-generation (3G) service provided by NTT DoCoMo in Japan, during the second quarter of this year.Sharp has been successfully selling PDA terminals under...
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...
LAS VEGAS—Palm Inc. said it will use Broadcom Corp.'s line of Bluetooth transceivers as a building block for developing Bluetooth personal area network capabilities for upcoming Palm handheld devices."Broadcom's Bluetooth products are a best-value solution meeting our cost, size, performance and power requirements, while...
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced two new wireless notebooks, offering embedded 802.11b or Bluetooth connectivity and digital home networking features.HP's Pavilion zt1000 notebook comes embedded with 802.11b connectivity and optional integrated Bluetooth capabilities, while the company's ze1110 notebook starts at just over $1,000. HP...
The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the wireless industry.The handheld computing industry has suffered through the past year along with the...
WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won't be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness persisting here and abroad, the industry is not totally in control of its future....
As the year winds down (and aren't we all ready to put this year behind us and start fresh in January?) RCR Wireless News recaps the top 20 stories of the year (featured on Page 6). The big stories of the year revolved around...
SAN FRANCISO, United States—Having failed to include a Bluetooth capability within its new Windows XP operating system, Microsoft announced at the annual Developers Conference in San Francisco that it would offer support for the wireless technology sometime in the second half of 2002. However,...
SAN FRANCISCO—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group's Human Input Devices Working Group released a definition for how input devices such as keyboards will use Bluetooth technology for communicating with other wireless capable products.Prototypes using this specification are expected by the middle of next year.
SAN FRANCISCO—TDK Systems Inc. launched its Go Blue Wireless Development Toolkit to support Bluetooth software developers creating and testing applications for the Palm operating system.The kit includes two TDK Systems USB adapters, one USB 4way hub, a CD with all software including install, Router...
KISTA, Sweden—Spirea AB unveiled its BlueTrac RF transceiver chip and BlueAmp power amplifier designed to extend the range of Bluetooth radios.The company said the BlueTrac chip does not require any external passive components, allowing it to run with a low rate of power consumption,...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, launched a Bluetooth-enabled PHS handset. It is the first Bluetooth-enabled handset offered by NTT DoCoMo.Users of the PHS handset equipped with Bluetooth version 1.1 can connect the handset with a PC or a digital camera. The...
AUSTIN, Texas—Broadband technology company Bandspeed Inc. and Bluetooth protocol stack provider Open Interface North America announced a new product that combines Bandspeed's AFH HubMaster with Open Interface's BlueMagic AFH protocol stack. According to the companies, the new product leverages Adaptive Frequency Hopping technology to...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin marketing Personal Handyphone System handsets compatible with Bluetooth technology beginning Dec. 3. The wireless carrier said the browser-enabled phone, dubbed Paldio 633S, will be capable of performing wireless functions with other Bluetooth 1.1-compatible devices, including 64 kilobit...
