The promise of the converged wireless device is a reality, although exactly what it will look like is still being debated.Those in the industry have long preached the inevitable marriage of computers and mobile phones, and the current selection of high-end devices seems to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Everypath announced its Everypath Mobile Task Automation (MTA) solution is now available.The solution, designed for use by sales, service and order management-related mobile workers, enables subsets of existing applications to be mobilized for use on almost any handheld device. "Everypath MTA delivers...
NEW YORK-Declining real estate values in Silicon Valley, restructuring associated with layoffs and decreases in units shipped caused Palm Inc., the leading vendor of handheld computers, to report a drop in revenues and profits late March 20.The Milpitas, Calif., company, which had warned earlier...
NEW ORLEANS-Etenna Corp. unveiled its new FlexWave internal antenna product line. The company also said Mobicom Corp., which designs and manufactures GSM phones, is the first FlexWave customer.The antennas are designed to be embedded in any handheld wireless device, ranging from mobile phones to...
NEW ORLEANS-GlobalDining will demonstrate its location-aware dining reservation service to attendees at CTIA Wireless 2003.GlobalDining's DinaSure service, which uses Nokia and TCS technology over Palm handheld devices, will be on display at kiosks in the Nokia and TCS booths. Show attendees will be able...
HANNOVER, Germany-The march of new, advanced devices continued in conjunction with the CeBIT trade show, with Samsung, Siemens, NEC and Symbol all making announcements.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made perhaps the most interesting announcement with plans to sell a new style of wireless devices based...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. said it cut 19 percent of its total work force. The news, combined with a downgrading from JP Morgan, sent the company's stock down over 10 percent to about $12 per share.Palm spokeswoman Marlene Somsak said the cuts came from across...
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) is expected to soon add color to a new line of low-cost BlackBerry handheld computers, according to analysts that follow the Canadian company.Last week, at a trade show in Cannes, France, RIM displayed a new model of the BlackBerry, the...
CANNES, France-The 2003 GSM Association Awards were presented this week in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress being held in Cannes, France. In the technology innovation category, Sharp Corp. won for the Sharp GX10 handheld and Telos Technology and Globecomm Systems Inc. won for...
SINGAPORE-M1, a cellular and paging carrier in Singapore, has commenced a free trial through March 31 of its new SunSurf wireless broadband service, available at 60 hot spots to consumers with portable or handheld computers using a Microsoft Inc. operating system.M1 plans to increase...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. launched its Manitoba PXA800F chipset for GSM/GPRS devices that the company claimed provides "wireless-Internet-on-a-chip" functionality and was the first to combine key components for cellular phones and handheld computers into a single piece of silicon.Intel said the 0.13-micron Xscale-based cellular...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Mobility Electronics Inc. and Snapperfish Ltd. have teamed up to offer Quickoffice/SnapperMail, which lets users of handheld computers running on the Palm operating system receive, view and edit e-mail attachments in a personal computer format."Traditionally, in order to receive and view complex office...
CANNES, France-Emblaze Systems, which develops customized services and technologies for wireless carriers, will join Micorsoft, Nortel, LG and others to demonstrate third-generation (3G) technologies for mobile carriers at this year's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. Emblaze will demonstrate: Microsoft Internet content, including movie trailers...
EMERYVILLE, California, United States-Geoworks said it will sell its U.K. business to Teleca for US$500,000 to minimize its liabilities and to satisfy its outstanding obligations.Geoworks offers software design and engineering services to the mobile and handheld device industry.
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. said it will shut down its United Kingdom business in order to minimize its liabilities and to satisfy its outstanding obligations, and will sell the business to Teleca Ltd. for $500,000.Geoworks offers software design and engineering services to the mobile and...
OSLO, Norway-Sales of handheld computing devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, rose 3.5 percent in the final quarter of 2002 in Sweden, reversing a slide that began in 2001. Swedish consultancy IT Research credited the swing to innovative multipurpose phones like...
Just months after European carrier Orange released the world's first mobile phone running on Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, the two companies are working to develop a patch for a software bug in the phone's operating system, a bug that allows users to bypass the...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The World Wide Web Consortium, which sets many of the technology standards for the Internet, released new specifications for graphics for handheld computers and mobile phones.The group released its new Scalable Vector Graphics version 1.1, which includes subsets for personal digital assistants and...
LAS VEGAS-Pocket PC Films, which distributes multimedia content for handheld devices, announced Brian Shuster, chairman, president and chief executive officer of United Internet Technologies, will serve as chairman of its board of directors. In addition, Yoshitaro Kumagai, former Vivitar CEO and chairman, will joint...
LAS VEGAS-Samsung Telecommunications America released new wireless handsets at the CES show in Las Vegas this week.The SGH-v205, a clamshell-designed wireless phone, features an embedded digital camera, a color display and MMS capability. "This is a feature-packed phone that places convenience in the hands...
LAS VEGAS-Sony introduced a new CLIE handheld, the PEG-NZ90, at this week's CES show in Las Vegas.The new PDA has both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless capabilities, a built-in camera with flash, zoom and auto-focus features, and a flip-and-swivel design that reveals an oversized, high-resolution...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Kenneth Jaeggi, the senior vice president and chief financial officer for Symbol Technologies Inc., resigned from the company. William Nuti, the company's president and chief operating officer, will take over the spot until the company completes its search for a new CFO.Symbol makes...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Kenneth Jaeggi, the senior vice president and chief financial officer for Symbol Technologies Inc., resigned from the company. William Nuti, the company's president and chief operating officer, will take over the spot until the company completes its search for a new CFO.Symbol makes...
