With its volatile appetite, the bear market showed little respect last week, not even for the sweet Blackberry.The Blackberry, a popular handheld device created by Research In Motion Ltd., was not only the mainstay of its company's fabled fortunes in the past year, it...
At its annual PalmSource conference for developers, Palm Inc. further embraced the ongoing wireless enablement of its devices by incorporating a broad array of wireless-related hardware and software innovations designed for its products.Palm Chief Executive Officer Carl Yankowski illustrated his vision for the company,...
NEW YORK-W-Technologies Inc., a three-year-old wireless application framework provider, expanded its reach into banking with two agreements announced last week.Metavante Corp., Milwaukee, will offer w-Technologies' software products to all of its 3,300 customers, which include the 20 largest banks in the United States.A wholly...
NEW YORK-A multifaceted revolution is under way that will soon provide a tremendous boost to the battery life and processing capacity of wireless devices. The first phase of the handheld revolution will begin with extended battery life."Keep an eye on Transmeta, which is going...
Used to be if you wanted to enter the world of cloaks and daggers, you would try to be recruited by the CIA, or join the FBI, Interpol or another agency involved in espionage.Now if you want to play James Bond, simply get a...
TORONTO-Embedded Linux system software developer Lineo Inc. said it will combine its Embedix Linux software with Hitachi Semiconductor Inc.'s SuperH RISC processor, enabling manufacturers to develop devices and technologies for wireless handhelds and car information systems.Lineo and Hitachi said the collaboration will jointly help...
NEW YORK-Streaming multimedia via portable devices may be down the road a bit, but the image of a handheld computer or cellular phone as a photograph viewer already is moving sharply into focus.With a newly announced Secure Digital plug-in "people can take digital pictures,...
Palm Inc. introduced a wireless solution for its full line of personal digital assistants at PC Expo last week called the Mobile Internet Kit.The kit consists of a software upgrade that adds Palm's Web Clipping technology to the devices, allowing them to interact with...
SOMERSET, N.J.-Scantron Services Group said it will use Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc.'s MobileDispatch and wireless technology to help it reduce the response time of technicians by as much as 75 percent.The companies announced the successful completion of a field service enhancement project involving...
JP Systems Inc. announced it will transfer its experience in connectivity solutions for wireless devices to expand into a wireless application service provider model.As a mobile ASP, JP Systems said it can offer complete wireless data solutions for carriers, enterprise customers and wirelessly enabled...
NEW ORLEANS-Palm Inc., a 3Com company, said it plans to develop a solution with iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, part of the Sun-Netscape Alliance, to provide wireless access to enterprise applications using Palm operating system handsets.The agreement calls for iPlanet to add support for Palm's Web...
When Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. announced its intention to create a service linking wireless devices to information based behind corporate firewalls, regardless of airlink standards, analysts had only one comment-"show me."But it seems the company is unable to meet that request just yet. In January,...
AvantGo Inc. released a new solution designed to extend enterprise and Web-based applications to handheld computers, allowing companies to deploy corporate applications to mobile devices that are compatible with their existing network and technology infrastructures.The solution, called AvantGo 2.0, consists of the AvantGo Server,...
WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy Corp.According to the commission, the service will provide an "affordable and convenient means" for...
