Worldwide mobile device shipments in the third quarter were up 83 percent from a year ago, with Nokia Corp. leading the charge, according to recent research from Canalys.The firm defines the mobile device market as feature phones, smart phones, handhelds and wireless handhelds.Nokia grabbed...
As infrastructure vendors strive to simplify their products for carriers, companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. are positioning themselves to provide network equipment vendors with core infrastructure platforms.HP made such a move last week with a new program to...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Hewlett Packard Co. said it has signed a five-year, $100 million agreement with Nokia Corp. to continue to provide global information technology outsourcing services for Nokia's 51,000 employees around the world.Both companies have been working together on the project since 2001."HP will...
Skype's new mobile voice over Internet Protocol offering is receiving decidedly mixed reviews.Released less than a week ago, Skype for Pocket PC 1.0 allows users of Wi-Fi-enabled personal digital assistants to make calls from any Wi-Fi hot spot. The software expands on Skype's popular...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration and the high-tech sector oppose Japan's proposal to add a user fee to unlicensed wireless devices, arguing it would undercut consumer demand and stifle development of wireless technologies in the world's second largest economy. The U.S., which expressed its views in...
Sprint Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. announced they have entered a reciprocal Wi-Fi roaming agreement. Through the partnerships, the carriers' customers will be able to access each other's public Wi-Fi networks using existing user IDs and passwords, and will be charged according to their...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Worldwide sales of local area network switches declined 2 percent during the second quarter, following 13-percent growth during the first quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide LAN Switch QView.Despite the decline, the LAN switch market remains up 23 percent year-over-year. Port shipments were down...
TruePosition Inc. announced an agreement to provide its Finder system to Iowa wireless carrier I Wireless. The Finder system will allow the carrier to meet Phase II E911 requirements, said TruePosition.Motorola Inc. said it plans to incorporate Hewlett-Packard Inc. technologies into its CDMA and...
LONDON-Symbian Ltd. said its operating results for the first half of 2004 show global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones nearly doubled to 5 million, as compared to the first half of 2003 when 2.7 million units were shipped.Six months into this year, six Symbian...
The wireless industry enjoyed a flood of investment news last week. Among the announcements:c Wireless broadband provider TeraGo Networks Inc. garnered $6.4 million in financing, bringing total investments in it to $34.8 million in the past four years.c Redline Communications Inc. announced it has...
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 the big names in wireless.The launch of such integrated devices could also put investor...
It's already been a hectic week for investment in the wireless arena, with several companies scoring millions of dollars in venture-capital funding. Some of the more significant announcements since Monday: Wireless local area network switch start-up Aruba Wireless Networks secured $27 million in financing...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Motient Corp. closed a sale of 3.5 million shares of common stock to several institutional investors in a private placement that raised approximately $30 million in gross proceeds. The company said it plans to use proceeds from the sale to repay certain existing...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will begin offering a bundled device and services package allowing business customers to use Bluetooth-enabled Hewlett-Packard iPAQ Pocket PC devices and Nokia Corp.'s 6820 handset to access the carrier's EDGE network.The carrier said that customers who already own...
SAN FRANCISCO-Hewlett-Packard Co. has entered an agreement to sell wireless local area network equipment from Aruba Networks.HP will leverage the equipment in sales and services to its clients in North America in the first instance, and later, around the world, according to David Callisch,...
It appears Hewlett-Packard Co. is gearing up to enter the smart-phone market with a new iPAQ personal digital assistant that features a quad-band GSM/GPRS radio. According to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the new high-end iPAQ Pocket PC h6300 device also supports...
WASHINGTON-The Export-Import Bank of the United States approved a $15 million long-term loan guarantee to support the sale by U.S. suppliers of cellular equipment, software and services to Colombia Movil, a wireless carrier in Colombia.Suppliers of the contract include Hewlett-Packard Co., Portal Software Inc.,...
New research shows the worldwide smart-phone market continues to grow, while sales of handheld computers decline, but that regional differences make for a jumbled marketplace."These regional differences can have quite profound effects on future global market progression," said Chris Jones, director and senior analyst...
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, has spoken out against the wireless industry's attempts to create a ".mobi" mobile-specific Internet domain listing. Further, the World Wide Web Consortium's Technical Advisory Group echoed Berners-Lee's criticism's by voting to endorse his position."Dividing...
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, published a paper criticizing the wireless industry's attempts to create ".mobi," a mobile-specific Internet domain name. The Technical Advisory Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which develops and evaluates Internet technologies, voiced...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) said it has raised $9 million from existing investors to drive adoption of its Matrix location technology.The technology provides accuracy within 100 meters and costs less than $1 per handset to deploy, according to CPS. Currently, 10 mobile...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...
While Wal-Mart Stores Inc. joins the high-tech industry in celebrating its recently launched supply-chain management Radio Frequency Identification pilot program, consumer privacy groups are shaking their collective heads, concerned about the implications RFID tagging has on consumer privacy rights.Wal-Mart launched its trial with eight...
MUNICH, Germany-Hewlett-Packard and BMW joined forces this week at HP's ENSA@work event in Munich to unveil a car equipped with its own 802.11-based wireless local area network, according to reports from there.The car is aimed at high-powered executives likely to do business while being...
