Devices

Intel Corp.’s stock rode a roller coaster early last week with its price falling sharply Monday on analyst concerns about depressed microprocessor prices, followed by a surge on Wednesday after …

Using its experience as a provider of mobile information management solutions allowing users to access, collect, synchronize and print information on demand, Boise, Idaho-based Extended Systems Inc. unveiled XTNDConnect View, …

Aether Systems Inc. added to its growing portfolio of investments through a strategic partnership with MicroStrategy Inc., parent company of Strategy.com. Under the deal, Aether and MicroStrategy will develop a …

The wireless industry is hoping to mirror the wireline industry in one aspect: the money-making potential of Internet advertising. But big questions remain. How will consumers react to advertising on …

The prospect of playing video games on wireless devices is becoming a factor in the entertainment content being developed for the wireless Internet movement. Ignition Corp., founded by several former …

After months of relative silence, Ignition Corp. has begun making noise again, providing its mentoring and funding proficiencies to two more companies. The most recent is Avogadro, launched this week …

The life of a start-up company is as unpredictable as the weather, and sometimes the plotted course turns out to be the wrong path to success. Such was the case …

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gravitate Inc., a new mobile location services software provider, launched its Gravitate Platform and closed a $3.7 million round of funding, the company announced. “The Gravitate Platform …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having sold its cell-phone business to Bosch three years ago, the U.K.-based consumer electronics manufacturer Amstrad said it is preparing to re-enter the market with a low-priced handset. …

CHICAGO-When Bridget Glavaz touched down in Los Angeles recently, she pulled out her handheld computer, a Palm VII, and started addressing two critical issues. She needed directions to her appointment …

CAIRO, Egypt-Africast introduced a free wireless Internet access and messaging service. Mobile users can access Africast Mobile by creating a profile on the Africast.com site, allowing the latest news headlines …

LONDON-Sema Group and the United Kingdom’s Association of Train Operating Companies have agreed on a new contract to replace and maintain ATOC’s paper reference books with Windows powered Pocket PCs. …

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.-David Bell has quite a resume. He founded his own company in 1997 in his basement. He helped evolve the company from a mostly hardware-focused business into …

ROME, N.Y.-Adding eight companies to its membership roster in the past month, the Software Defined Radio Forum announced it has surpassed its 100-member milestone mark. “Reaching the 100-member company mark …

With the home rapidly becoming an extension of the workplace, consumers increasingly are turning to wireless home networking equipment as a way to keep connected. According to an IDC report, …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court, confronted with four appeals challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s mobile-phone radiation standard and congressional intervention, last week granted the government’s request for more time to respond to …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Voice Mobility International signed an agreement with Taiwan’s Logtech Info-Net to jointly provide Voice Mobility’s Unified Communications software suite to telephone, Internet and cellular phone users in …

A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first debate between GOP and Democratic presidential …

NEW YORK-Holding a cell phone while driving got the boot Oct. 3 in Suffolk County, a large and populous jurisdiction on Long Island, part of New York state. The county …

OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. launched WebMagic, a wireless Internet product that allows its cellular phone customers to access the Internet and receive e-mail messages. Dobson said the service will be …

NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on new importance. Presence is shorthand for …

TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial, which manufactures cell phones under the Panasonic brand name, is discussing an alliance on third-generation mobile phones with European mobile carriers, according to a report in the …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Voice Mobility International Inc. signed an agreement with Taiwan’s Logtech Info-Net Inc. to jointly provide Voice Mobility’s Unified Communications software suite to telephone, Internet and cellular phone users …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this session has before it three mobile-phone health cases, a sign of things to come in a Digital Age where technology outpaces the law and raises novel …

CHICAGO-United Airlines moved to dramatically increase the accessibility and ease with which its customers will be able to use wireless devices such as personal digital assistants and wireless-enabled laptop computers, …