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MIAMI—AT&T Wireless launched GSM/GPRS service in several markets in Florida covering more than 11 million potential customers from Daytona Beach through South Dade County and in areas surrounding Orlando, St. …

PALO ALTO, Calif.—The board members of Hewlett-Packard Co. say they will enthusiastically support the company’s merger with Compaq, in spite of the objections of family members of Walter Hewlett to …

READING, United Kingdom—Nokia Corp. has taken the lead in the European handheld device market, beating out such big names as Palm Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp, a new survey shows. …

BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems signed an agreement with Compaq Global Services allowing Compaq to resell Extended’s XTNDConnect Server software as part of its mobile solutions offering to iPAQ corporate customers and …

OSLO, Norway—Tandberg, a video conferencing solution provider, introduced the Tandberg 1000, a video conferencing system capable of running on a wireless local area network. The Tandberg 1000 requires a PCMCIA …

TOKYO—Qualcomm Inc.’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless application platform received a boost through the company’s deal with video game giant Sega Corp., which announced it will release its video game …

DALLAS-Digital infrastructure solutions provider CompuCom Systems Inc. released a new wireless evaluation program aimed at helping businesses understand the value of wireless. The company said its evaluation program, working on …

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 …

SANTA CLARA, California, United States—In another vote of support for Intel’s Personal Internet Client Architecture initiative, Compaq Computer said it will work with Intel on PCA-based devices running on current …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—In another vote of support for Intel Corp.’s Personal Internet Client Architecture initiative, Compaq Computer Corp. said it will work with Intel on PCA-based devices running on current …

Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which will allow users of handheld …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week took a stab at operating system rival Microsoft Corp. in an announcement that Palm users will be able to create, …

Even the last bastion has been hit. The heat of the economic slowdown is choking contract electronics manufacturers that help the major original equipment manufacturers make their phones and infrastructure …

The market for personal digital assistants, once thought to be a gold mine for anyone and everyone looking to make a profit, is now swimming in such bitter competition and …

Personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. released its much-anticipated earnings report last week, showing better-than-expected revenues and a positive outlook for the coming year. Wall Street jumped at the news, …

Handsets/ devices Mitsubishi Mitsubishi released three new handsets. The Eclipse is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with a color display. The dual-band phone offers 256 colors and up …

Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant’s .NET and Java …

As the nation’s two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war blazing, some in the industry wonder …

Wireless networking recently received a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which said it was proposing new rules regarding frequency hopping spread spectrum systems operating in the 2.4 GHz band …

While Bluetooth chipsets are expected to be commonplace in wireless handsets in the next few years, Bluetooth’s current push in the market is being spearheaded by the mobile computer industry …

Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. …

Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, …

SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp.’s wireless service is commercially available for the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC via the Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 wireless modem. OmniSky’s solution includes features like the Pocket Internet …

While carriers’ network upgrade plans have garnered the majority of attention from the wireless industry, there is another equally important area that many wireless companies are now focusing on: the …

In addition to the variety of toppings available for your morning latte, Starbucks Coffee Co. soon will be offering its customers high-speed wireless Internet access. The Seattle-based coffee giant last …