Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
NEW YORK-The Multi-Service Networks Division of Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, is poised to deliver on the promise of convergence by enabling Internet service providers, cable TV operators and local exchange carriers to offer seamless connectivity to mobile communications.The technologies are designed to provide wireless...
Adicom WirelessAdicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said its Bipolar-CMOS radio frequency transceiver, TRF6001, achieved Bluetooth certification from 7 Layers AG, a Bluetooth qualification body."We are pleased to have been granted certification, as it adds further credibility for our field-proven Bluetooth chipsets," said Ari Rauch, general manager for...
AudiovoxAudiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal communications services frequencies. The new...
Of the 387 people who work for Parthus Technologies plc, more than 300 are engineers. This, company executives say, is one of the main reasons Parthus is able to offer such a diverse range of products and technologies, and eventually will position the company...
NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect.Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications services. Beyond that deployment, smart-card...
HandsetsSendoEuropean mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light phone include a variety of colors, short message service (SMS) picture messaging, ring-tone sharing and games....
Qualcomm Inc. has rolled out a CDMA mobile station modem integrated circuits and system software to facilitate global roaming.The product, which belongs to what Qualcomm calls the MSM6xxx family, supports multimode, multiband second- and third-generation technologies."It is the first wireless handset family to leverage...
NEW YORK - Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation for its eventual surge, said Jason Tsai, wireless services and data analyst for C.E....
SAN JOSE, Calif.-RangeStar Wireless unveiled its latest 802.11 embedded antenna for original equipment manufacturers, designed for integration into compact flash memory and wireless modem cards.The company noted the dual-antenna, single-piece design, named PN100932, provides both a higher performing and lower cost alternative to current...
As Bluetooth-enabled products continue their slow introduction into the marketplace, a new study by Frost & Sullivan forecasts global shipments of Bluetooth products to reach more than 11 million units by the end of 2001, equaling $2.5 billion in revenues."Although the delays in the...
Bluetooth's wireless networking prospects received a shot in the arm last week with the introduction of Widcomm Inc.'s shoebox-sized BlueGate 1000, a standalone Bluetooth wireless access point for original equipment manufacturers to purchase and customize.Widcomm is touting the BlueGate network access point as the...
Texas Instruments Inc., ever seeking a new berth for itself in the chip business, has developed a new device to enable handset manufacturers to build smaller systems with fewer components and at lesser costs.The product, TRF6150, is compliant to both 2.5 and third-generation technologies...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Germany's Lesswire AG will use NetSilicon Inc.'s complete connectivity solution in its LocalNavigator Bluetooth base station. The base station is designed to deliver remote wireless connectivity of Ethernet-attached devices using the Bluetooth protocol.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson signed an agreement with Sigma for sales and support of the trial version of Ericsson's R520 handset, the company's first GPRS telephones based on Bluetooth technology.Endtext
NEW YORK-Armstrong World Industries Inc., Lancaster, Pa., has produced conventional looking, pop-out ceiling tiles that hide radio-frequency antennas in their upward facing sides."Providing in-building coverage for voice and data communications is a new frontier for the wireless and ceiling industries. Ceilings can eliminate the...
BOISE, Idaho-Mobile data management and wireless connectivity solutions provider Extended Systems licensed its XTNDAccessBlue SDK Bluetooth software development kit for embedded devices to Computer Access Technology Corp.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-PicoTurbo Inc., NewLogic Technologies and Chip Express Corp. announced a partnership integrating the NewLogic Boost IP core with the picoTurbo pT-100 microprocessor IP core creating a Bluetooth baseband processor solution including the hardware and software required for Bluetooth wireless products.The solution is...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Crossbow Technology Inc., a developer of Bluetooth sensor network architecture, and Cyrano Sciences Inc., a supplier of array based chemical sensor technology, signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a wireless leak detection system prototype.The initial prototype will integrate Cyrano's current...
President Bush's compassionate conservatism-a GOP version of centrist Democratic Third Way politics that former President Clinton practiced for eight years-has given the new Oval Office occupant a political framework to reach across the aisle in promoting his agenda.Indeed, the White House has been a...
Mounting brick walls between businesses remain obstacles in an economy that integrates by the day. But XMLSolutions Global aims to turn barriers into networks by bringing its expertise into the flawed territory of WAP.Extensible Markup Language, often exalted as the meta-language for third-generation m-commerce,...
LAS VEGAS-Whether we like it or not, most of us are plugged in, turned on or otherwise connected to everyone else on this planet. But in spite of these universal ties, there is growing interest in maintaining individuality, or so it seemed at the...
SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. received $35 million in its second round of financing, which was led by Shelter Capital Partners L.L.C. and Baker Capital Corp."We are extremely excited about Zucotto's prospects as the industry leader in semiconductor Java and Bluetooth solutions for the wireless...
