PALO ALTO, Calif.-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile said it created a new operations support system for its wireless carrier customers, a move the company said gives operators a single point of contact to implement infrastructure products from companies including Hewlett-Packard Co., Micromuse, PSI, Steria,...
Though staged at the White House, Commerce Secretary Don Evan's launch of the Digital Freedom Initiative on March 4 did not attract much press attention. Perhaps deservedly so. The White House tends to host such photo ops all the time. The DFI-combining efforts of...
SAN FRANCISCO-Messaging company Critical Path Inc. announced it expects to report earnings below expectations when it releases its quarterly revenues later this month. The company expects to report first quarter revenues of $18 million and cash operating expenses of $26 million."Revenue was lower than...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed a memorandum of understanding to outsource its information technology infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard as part of its plans to cut costs and move to profitability.The decision, which will take effect at the end of the second quarter of...
SAN FRANCISCO-With a heavy emphasis on development and manufacturing from Asia, the high-tech industry is experiencing repercussions from the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus that is sweeping through southeast Asia.A number of companies have announced SARS-related changes to their operations including Intel Corp.,...
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...
NEW ORLEANS, United States-John Koo and his top executive team crowd a small, air-conditioned room perched atop LG Electronics' sprawling booth at the CTIA trade show here. Relaxed, smiling, Koo has shed the suit coat he wore during his keynote appearance to reveal a...
HANNOVER, Germany-SAP, Hewlett-Packard and Vodafone Group said they have signed a letter of intent for collaboration to bring to market, "a suite of mobile capabilities designed to increase the work force productivity of large enterprises, initially in Europe, the Middle East and Africa."
HANNOVER, Germany-SAP AG, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Vodafone Group plc said they have signed a letter of intent for collaboration to bring to market, "a suite of mobile capabilities designed to increase the work force productivity of large enterprises, initially in Europe, the Middle East...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Computing giant Hewlett-Packard Co. reported first-quarter revenues of $17.9 billion, down from the $18 billion it scored in the prior quarter. The company's operating profit totaled $1.1 billion."HP is making good headway and continues to execute well," said Carly Fiorina, HP's chairman...
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Don Evans today announced major technology reorganization, a shift that would combine the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Technology Administration and the International Trade Administration into one organization and effectively make Under Secretary for Technology Phil Bond the administration's high-tech czar."Convergence...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-IBM Corp., NEC and Toshiba Corp. have begun shipping laptop computers incorporating Atheros Communications' multimode 802.11 a/b chipsets, and Hewlett-Packard Co. will soon ship laptops with built-in 802.11 a/b/g chipsets from the Sunnyvale, Calif., company."We are the first and, as of right now,...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Reflecting the prevailing mood in the wireless industry, Probe Research has demonstrated that marquee telecom as well as information/Internet Protocol vendors will groan from pain in the near future.But the research firm singles out Sun Microsystems Inc. as a company with little...
LONDON-Operating system company Symbian said ARM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Motorola SPS, RealNetworks and Texas Instruments joined the company's Platinum Partner program. The company also said it will work with ARM and TI to closely integrate and optimize its operating system with the technologies from ARM...
Companies bleeding with leviathan losses and flush with embarrassment from weak sales, mismanagement and corruption (the usual stuff in telecom and high-tech sectors these days) are increasingly turning to the tool of last resort-the open letter. The letter begrudgingly acknowledges, in a roundabout...
Wireless technology, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to GSM and CDMA, served a major role during the Comdex show, with attendees getting a peek at some of the latest initiatives in the industry.But while product releases and new announcements made up the majority of news...
NEW YORK-The Liberty Alliance Project has released for public review on its Web site at www.projectliberty.org a draft of specifications for an open, interoperable standard for federated network identity for the Internet, designed to enable a single sign-on for individual businesses and consumers."In a...
NEW YORK-Struggling WorldCom Inc. announced it appointed Michael Capellas as the company's new chairman and chief executive officer. Capellas is the former president of Hewlett-Packard Co."I took this job because I am convinced that WorldCom has the assets, the customers and the people to...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Motorola Inc. has expanded its agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to help simplify the fault, performance and configuration management in the operations support system for carriers.The solution for operators' UMTS networks."Motorola's use of HP OpenView TeMIP as the basis of its common management...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to cut 1,800 more jobs in addition to the 15,000 people it laid off in the aftermath of its merger with Compaq.In an internal memo to the staff, the company's executives wrote that the decision was an adjustment to...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported it would begin marketing its FOMA T2101V 3G mobile phone designed for the carrier's i-motion video-clip transmission service Sept. 27.DoCoMo said the handset can save up to four 15-second or two 30-second video messages from incoming calls, and a remote...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Wi-Fi services are burgeoning in Australia with two companies announcing the launch of commercial services this week. One of the operators, Xone, which launched an Internet zone in a Sydney retail space, has signed Hewlett-Packard as its first corporate user and is looking...
STAMFORD, Conn.-SmartServ Online Inc. announced the completion of a $3.5 million round of financing that includes private placement of common stock and warrants.In addition, SmartServ has restructured $7 million in vendor financing debt with the Hewlett-Packard Co. in which HP will forgive all outstanding...
While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path as their worldly brothers when it came to deploying third-generation (3G) networks. Those models...
