SEOUL, South Korea-LG Telecom offered an auto navigation service that provides information on nearby traffic, businesses and restaurants to drivers via their handsets. The global positioning system-based service, named ez Drive, will allow customers to find the fastest routes to their destinations and provide...
HOUSTON-Space Data Corp., known for its balloon-based SkySite Network, announced it plans to extend its services to the Gulf of Mexico, enabling low- to medium-data-rate wireless communications for various offshore, near-shore and onshore applications."There are thousands of isolated structures and service vessels in the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has acquired a display technology company known as Iridigm Display Corp. for $170 million in cash.The sum accounts for 86 percent of the company that Qualcomm did not already own. The wireless chipmaker said it had taken part in...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sirf Technology Holdings Inc. said it integrated its global positioning system technology with Microsoft Corp.'s first GPS hardware device.The company's GPS Locator is combined with the latest version of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005, a travel and mapping software product covering the...
It's a bird-it's a plane-it's a Stratellite high-altitude airship that enables wireless communications from the Earth's stratosphere?Sanswire Networks L.L.C.'s vision for a national wireless broadband network began as just that-a vision that wireless high-speed Internet access could be available from anywhere in the world.To...
LONDON-Gizmondo Europe Ltd. has created a "new game innovation fund" to financially support emerging developers looking to produce games for the forthcoming Gizmondo gaming device.The subsidiary of Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc. hopes to spur developers' interests in creating games specifically for the Gizmondo and...
CAMERON PARK, Calif.-Karrier Communications has launched the latest version of its popular IntelliGolf application.IntelliGolf 7.1 for Palm Powered handhelds, Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs, smart phones and Windows PCs features global positioning system baud rates to 115,200, new betting enhancements and Dual-Sync capabilities. The new...
TOKYO-Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe has announced a two-chipset solution for global positioning system/assisted-GPS receivers that generate high performance and low power in wireless handsets.It consists of a baseband chip and a radio-frequency front-end chip, according to the company. It works in any technology, such as...
Radio Frequency Identification tags-labels the size of a credit card or smaller containing a silicon chip and an antenna-are destined to replace the ubiquitous bar code, and can be attached to items large and small, from shipping crates to shoes.Businesses will be the first...
It appears that location-based service applications for finding local coffee shops, specialty stores, banks and the like have fallen short in intriguing consumers in the United States. But industry contends that a market-albeit one far more practical and far less sexy than previous expectations-for...
Verizon Wireless said it is in the midst of fixing a glitch brought to its attention by Phase II-enabled public-safety answering points that in some instances causes voice calls placed from global positioning system-enabled handsets to fade in and out during the first several...
In what amounts to a market blitz, Qualcomm Inc. unveiled a series of chipsets covering the CDMA, GSM and W-CDMA technologies.The U.S. supplier made two announcements regarding the first phase of W-CDMA technology known as High Speed Downlink Packet Access. The company rolled out...
IRVINE, Calif.-Wireless enterprise company Networks In Motion said it released its new AtlasTrack location-services product through Nextel Communications Inc. The company said the Java application allows mobile workers to track tasks and update their work status with location information gleaned through the global positioning...
New research shows the market for personal digital assistants continues to decline, with shipments dropping 33.1 percent sequentially to 2.2 million units in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC."Despite increasingly powerful handheld devices reaching market, the consumer uptake of entry-level devices available...
New research shows the market for personal digital assistants continues to decline, with shipments dropping 33.1 percent sequentially to 2.2 million units in the first quarter, according to research and consulting firm IDC."Despite increasingly powerful handheld devices reaching market, the consumer uptake of entry-level...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Wireless antenna manufacturer SkyCross has received a $1 million investment from Korea's SK Telecom.Last year, SK Telecom began implementing SkyCross' cellular, GPS and W-CDMA embedded antenna solutions in its new global positioning system-enhanced phones. With this latest investment, the two companies will continue...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. and Xora Inc. reported that the City of Chicago has deployed Xora GPS TimeTrack on Nextel's GPS-enabled handsets in an attempt to enhance field-to-office communications for the city's Department of Buildings.The service allows the city's 175 inspectors to record time-...
FRANKFURT, Germany-As the mobile-phone sales increase, the world's chipmakers continue to look to take advantage of the market opportunity.For example, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe released its new Mobile Media Processors, which the company said incorporate MPEG-4 and JPEG hardware encoding and decoding functionality. The chips...
Sierra Wireless introduced the AirCard 775 PC Card and the MP 775 GPS modem for EDGE networks at the CTIA show in Atlanta. Both products are slated for commercial availability in the second half of this year. The AirCard 775 offers data rates up...
ATLANTA-Sierra Wireless this week introduced the AirCard 775 PC Card and the MP 775 GPS modem for EDGE networks. Both products are slated for commercial availability in the second half of this year.The AirCard 775 offers data rates up to three times faster than...
SEOUL, Korea-Thinkware Systems Corp. announced it provides various location-based services including Friend Find applications, precise location services, traffic information providing services and A-GPS.According to Thinkware, its I-Navi navigation tool is capable of location in a wireless device, GPS receiver, barcode scanner and vehicle control...
Polaris hopes to take the stress out of E911."We are a location-technology company," said Bob Dressler, Polaris' vice president of technology. "We are a software-based solution."The E911 mandate hangs like a cloud over the U.S. wireless industry. The Federal Communications Commission requires that the...
CHICAGO-Developer of Bluetooth handsfree solution Parrot will present a new line of car kits at CTIA Wireless 2004, taking place in Atlanta March 22-24. The company will introduce the CK3100 Advanced Car Kit, the CD3300 GPS Car Kit and the CK3500 Professional Car Kit....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced support for location-based applications through its BREW application download service. Using Qualcomm's new QPoint technology, BREW carriers and application developers can add location information to their offerings."Qualcomm's QPoint solution leverages proven technologies to provide a highly precise, flexible solution for...
