NORWOOD, Mass.—Compaq Computer Corp. selected Analog Devices' Othello and Softfone GSM/GPRS chipsets for use in its wireless Pack for the iPAQ Pocket PC."The field-proven Othello and Softfone chipsets allowed the Wireless Pack to easily pass the stringent GSM full type approval, FCC and industry...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—SchlumbergerSema and Compaq Computer have unveiled a mobile services solution targeted at network operators that have acquired licenses in new and emerging markets.The "GSM in a box" solution is called the SchlumbergerSema SimphonyLite and is said to be a package that that...
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. Petersburg and Tampa.Customers in the area can choose from four devices to access the...
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 the deal."The Board thoroughly analyzed this transaction and unanimously concluded this is the very...
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.According to research firm Canalys, Nokia commands 28.3 percent of the smart phone and personal...
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 resellers worldwide.The agreement calls for Compaq to use the data synchronization and management capabilities...
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 card that can be fitted into a slot on top of the unit. The Compaq...
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 content and gaming technology to various wireless devices using the platform.Users could see mobile...
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 Compaq Computer Corp.'s iPAQ personal digital assistants on Sprint PCS' network, will help businesses identify...
WCitiesLocation-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 the service, cell-phone and PDA users can find whatever they're looking for anywhere in the...
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 and next-generation networks.The announcement comes a day after operating-system designer Symbian announced its intent...
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 and next-generation networks.The announcement comes a day after operating-system designer Symbian announced its intent...
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, view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel documents and view PowerPoint presentations.The offering is...
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 devices to access a garden variety of applications and bring them closer to next-generation technologies."Our...
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 equipment.The scourge of high inventory levels with the OEMs and operators has infected the CEMs,...
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 crowding that one of the industry's leaders is bowing out-Psion plc, Europe's largest PDA...
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, sending Palm's stock up about $1 per share. By Friday, the company's stock was selling...
Handsets/ devicesMitsubishiMitsubishi 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 to 86 kilobits-per-second data speeds. It has several features for business users. The phone allows users...
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 whether the PDA market isn't quite the gold mine many had hoped.Others, however, see...
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 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...
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 that would allow faster data rates than currently available. The move is expected to...
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 in the form of PC Cards. These cards typically fit into the Type II...
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. and others have seen how Intel Corp. has dominated the mobile computer market with its...
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, preserve TDMA and serve as an interim solution in the sojourn to the third-generation...
