In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group.The report said UMTS equipment revenue jumped fourfold to about $800 million in the third quarter of this...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to drive General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic, Vodafone has struck a deal with Fujitsu Siemens that will see the cell-phone operator offer a laptop, GPRS PCMCIA card and subscriber identity module (SIM) as a pre-configured bundled solution to...
TOKYO-Fujitsu Research Institute, a research arm of Fujitsu Limited, has developed a home-use robot controlled by a mobile phone, the company announced.According to the firm, users of the robot can not only see and check conditions of their houses by operating the robot with...
ORLANDO-XcelleNet Inc. said that over the past month its mobile infrastructure solution, Afaria, has been chosen by Intel, Verizon IT, Computer Associates and Fujitsu PC Corp. for use in various mobile solutions."Through these partnerships, XcelleNet continues to power enterprises that want to capitalize on...
TOKYO, Japan-Fujitsu Ltd. said it has begun providing base transceiver station equipment for NTT DoCoMo's IMT-2000 third-generation mobile networks since July."The new base station equipment uses a high-speed channel signal processor and a high-efficiency transmitter amplifier built with new distortion-compensation technology developed by Fujitsu...
TOKYO-Fujitsu, a leading telecommunications vendor in Japan, is going to restructure its overseas telecommunications business. To promote the restructuring in its telecommunications business, as well as other sectors, Fujitsu will allocate a 60 billion yen (US$502.8 million) expense in fiscal year 2002, ending in...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu Corp. and Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. say they plan to collaborate to cross-license patents, settle outstanding litigation and work toward developing next-generation non-volatile memory technology."By combining our long-standing expertise in Flash memory with Saifun's capabilities and intellectual pproperty we will...
TOKYO-Shipments of mobile phones with cameras surged from 6 million units in 2001 to 23 million units in 2003 in Japan, according to a survey conducted by a research institute.Mobile phones with cameras have become popular in Japan after J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company,...
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is planning to launch a mobile carrier business renting PHS networks owned by DDI Pocket. The vender is planning to launch the service targeting corporate users in July at the earliest. The firm is also considering launching...
TOKYO—Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu is considering offer a wireless data service to corporate customers in Japan through a deal with Japanese carrier KDDI, according to media reports.The Nihon Keizai Shimbun first reported Fujitsu's plans and said the service could be up and running by...
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Applied Innovation Inc. announced Jack Petro will serve as its vice president of engineering."Jack will be a great leader for our engineering and R&D efforts and a very valuable addition to our management team," said Robert L. Smialek, Applied Innovation's president and chief...
EDISON, N.J.—North American telecom companies are pushing new customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives to benefit business in several ways, according to a recent study by Fujitsu Consulting."Three forces have been driving communications companies to aggressively pursue CRM: soaring costs of marketing and sales, increasing...
TOKYO—Fujitsu announced this week PCs with Bluetooth technology and television tuners. With the new PCs, users can store and replay music or watch television programs. Users of the PC, called Airjuke, can transmit data from the PC to their audio-visual device and replay the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Advanced Micro Devices said its microprocessors have been chosen by Fujitsu Corp for its LifeBook A Series commercial notebook for the North American market."Fujitsu has included significant options such as multiple connectivity choices and a lightweight, direct-connecting port replicator that will appeal to...
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Sagem, the second-largest telecom vender in France, signed a third-generation mobile handset agreement, both firms announced 20 February. Based on the business agreement, both firms plan to develop dual-mode (W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS) smart phones by the...
TOKYO—Fujitsu signed a licensing agreement with Symbian that will see all Fujitsu third-generation (3G) phones based on the Symbian operating system (OS), adding to Symbian's long list of licensees.Other Japanese manufacturers that have licensed the Symbian OS include Kenwood, Panasonic, Sanyo and Sony."Symbian OS...
PARIS—Alcatel and Fujitsu Ltd. said they successfully carried out voice and high-speed data and video communications using a live third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunication System network. The demonstration was held in Beijing.The demonstration included Web browsing, access to online information, image transfer, video streaming and...
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading communications vender in Japan, announced it is expecting to have a 310 billion yen (US$2.5 billion) net loss for fiscal year (FY) 2001, ending March 2002, due to reduced sales in its communications and semiconductor businesses. To cope with the critical...
TOKYO—@Nifty, the Internet access business unit of Fujitsu and the largest Internet service provider (ISP) in Japan, launched 384 kilobits per second (kbps) packet communications services for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA service users. Now @Nifty users can access the Internet using their FOMA terminals once...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Consumers continue to shun mobile e-commerce because of a lack of confidence in their cell-phone operator to manage secure transactions, claimed a survey by a European security software developer. However, the company reported that users said they would feel more comfortable with...
As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo released a new Java-enabled handset, which is manufactured by NEC. The handset will be put into the market on 3 March. The NEC handset will be the third handset for NTT DoCoMo's Java-based services called iAppli.NTT DoCoMo launched Java-based services on 26...
NEW YORK-The battle over customer ownership in the emerging mobile-commerce market will evolve, by necessity, into a model of "coopetition," said Philip Yen, executive vice president of e-Visa International.Banks, credit-card companies, middleware providers, telecommunications operators and equipment manufacturers must and will join forces, each...
