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LONDON-Graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia will announce its latest offering at Mobile Content World in London this week. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company will unveil its GoForce 3D 4500, which features …

MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc.’s first-quarter fiscal-year 2005 earnings showed the company’s revenue grew to $273.1 million, reflecting a 62-percent increase from the year-ago quarter. Net income was $19.6 million, or 38 …

Research In Motion and Vodafone have released the BlackBerry 7100v, available exclusively for Vodafone’s subscribers.Like the 7100t launched earlier this month with T-Mobile USA Inc., the 7100v features a phone …

AirGate Technologies, a subsidiary of The X-Change Corp., said it has completed a radio-frequency identification (RFID) prototype for car child safety seats. The prototype uses the company’s “Smart Buckle” technology …

A number of semiconductor companies have come together to define the standard interface for storage in wireless handhelds and other portable devices. The companies hope this will make handhelds like …

Internet Service Provider EarthLink has added wireless voice provider to its resume with the release of the all-in-one color BlackBerry 7750 Wireless Handheld with wireless voice and e-mail service. The …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Building on its original VideoCore solution, Alphamosaic has launched the VC02 Mobile Multimedia Processor chip. The solution is designed to display video on 3.5-inch color displays and to …

WASHINGTON-The lawyer for a Mississippi car dealer accused in a $15 million suit alleging cell-phone use contributed to a fatal driving accident in March said his client is innocent, and …

BOULDER, Colo.-The National Institute of Standards and Technology demonstrated a minuscule atomic clock that could one day be incorporated into wireless devices. NIST said it believes its clock is 100 …

COLLEGE PARK, Md.-The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business said it will provide Nextel Communications Inc.’s Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry 7510 handheld devices to its 400 …

Wi-Fi access provider iPass Inc. has tightened its grip on the business traveler market with a newly announced partnership with Connexion by Boeing that will give iPass enterprise customers access …

MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. introduced a Wi-Fi card for use with its Zire 72 and Tungsten T3 handhelds to enhance the integrated Bluetooth technology solution already featured on the devices. “With …

MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc.’s Palm.Net service is ceasing operations, effective Aug. 31, meaning Palm.Net handhelds, including the VII, VIIx and i705 devices, will no longer perform wireless functions. The company told …

PalmOne Inc.’s Palm.Net service is ceasing operations, effective Aug. 31, meaning Palm.Net handhelds, including the VII, VIIx and i705 devices, will no longer perform wireless functions. The company told customers …

Wireless e-mail stalwart Research In Motion Ltd. should brace for intense competition as converged devices with BlackBerry-esque e-mail functionality and cell-phone features, including voice capabilities, enter the enterprise. So goes …

HURST, Texas-Handango released an update to its mobile download provisioning technology, Handango AMPP, the company announced Friday. The new technology allows users of Handango AMPP to simplify content discovery for …

Wireless company Bsquare Corp. announced it has stopped manufacturing its Power Handheld hardware device and restructured its Power Handheld business unit to focus solely on selling the enabling software that …

MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Communications Inc. and finger-based biometric identification and wireless public-safety solutions provider BIO-key International Inc. said they received a contract to build a regional mobile data network on Massachusetts’ Cape …

After years of development, certain specifications now provide basic guidelines for wireless security at both the commercial and more stringent enterprise levels, but it remains up to wireless users to …

The launch of converged mobile devices, capable of communicating over both Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, suggests Wi-Fi, long hailed by start-up companies and tech-savvy consumers, may be gaining credibility among …

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed that an upcoming government study will say hands-free headsets do not make driver use of cell phones safe and that Transportation Secretary Norman …

The standards deadlock over ultra-wideband technology between the Multiband OFDM Alliance and the Direct Sequence UWB Forum continued at the IEEE conference last week. This time, however, it had an …

WASHINGTON-A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a North Carolina firm and a former driver, who-while reaching for a fallen cell phone-rammed his tractor trailer into the back …

NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it is developing the N900iL, a dual-network handset that runs on the third-generation FOMA network and internal corporate wireless local area networks. The solution targets corporate …

New Jersey motorists should think twice before they reach for their cell phones while driving as a state law took effect July 1 banning the use of handheld phones and …