As the nation's two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war blazing, some in the industry wonder whether the PDA market isn't quite the gold mine many had hoped.Others, however, see...
SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp.'s first-quarter results reflected an increase in revenue as well as net loss, though the loss was not as extreme as some analysts earlier predicted.Revenues were up to $5.5 million, more than 300 percent greater than last year. But the company's loss...
NEW YORK -Ten Square, San Jose, Calif., plans to expand its provision of wireless e-commerce services to 2,800 service stations and convenience stores in various cities by year-end.The privately held company, whose lead investor is Marconi Ventures, delivers interactive content to consumers during the...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Lutris Technologies Inc., an open source software and services company, said Hewlett-Packard Co. will endorse and recommend Lutris' Enhydra 3.5 wireless application server to its HP Netserver customers running Windows 2000 or the open source-developed Linux operating system.Enhydra runs the HP MPE/iX...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said Hewlett-Packard Co. has integrated the MicroChaiVM, an embedded software for running applications developed for the Java platform, onto BREW handsets.The software was installed in four BREW-enabled Kyocera phones, including prototype color-display handsets manufactured by Samsung and Denso Corp."By porting...
WASHINGTON-Under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. said they would stop an advertising campaign that could lead consumers to believe HP's personal digital assistants-which are not sold with a wireless modem-come Internet ready.The FTC said the ads,...
GroupServeGroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup's first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc. is serving up advanced computing power for wireless network elements and operations support systems, according to separate announcements the company issued last week.With its new series of Sun Fire Midframe servers now available in quantity, the Palo Alto, Calif., company...
NEW YORK-China Mobile Hong Kong does not need 3G to take advantage of opportunities in a populous country with rising per capita income and low penetration by personal computers and second-generation wireless, said Wang Xiaochu, chairman and chief executive officer of the company.At the...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-The Fantastic Corp., a software solutions provider in Switzerland, and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a reseller agreement that allows HP to offer Fantastic software for content delivery as part of its overall broadband service offering to network and telecommunication companies.HP said it will...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. "is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company's Internet Software and Content Group, said in a keynote address at the recent Internet World Wireless 2001...
The fact that the telecom sector, including the mobile industry, is shivering in the cold right now after months of basking in the sun of favor from the financial community is certainly not breaking news. It seems no category-broadband wireless, mobile Internet, manufacturers, carriers,...
Telcom GlobalChris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.'s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company's global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience in wireless network design and...
TheRightSizeTheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers search for their favorite brand and style of clothes. The service also can find sizes...
After close to five years of working quietly away as a software development company, Marbles Inc. executives decided it is time for the company to make its entrance into the wireless industry-and they plan to light their way with the company's unique SkyFire wireless-computing...
MMTAAnne-Rivers Forcke was appointed chairman of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association's Media Relations Committee. Forcke is a relationship marketing strategist for the Global Small Business group at IBM Corp., where she is responsible for managing the marketing program worldwide. Forcke has more than 15 years...
Notwithstanding all the fireworks on Capitol Hill surrounding Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft and other controversial nominees, President Bush is on the way to putting a new administration in place.And then what?Well, there's the 10-year, $1.3 trillion tax-cut that is the centerpiece of the Bush...
Microsoft and Ericsson announced a joint venture to develop and market mobile Internet products. In addition, Microsoft introduced its dual-mode microbrowser, called Mobile Internet Explorer, which Ericsson will adopt into with WAP stack on certain phones. Ericsson will hold the majority stake in the...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a joint research effort aimed at improving multimedia delivery and network applications over fourth-generation wireless broadband networks. The companies are calling their 4G multimedia architecture Moto-Media.The technology is expected to enable high-performance streaming of multimedia content to...
NEW YORK-Before mobile commerce can reach the goal of providing a value-added revenue stream for wireless carriers, it must fulfill its potential as a value-added service for their customers."Today m-commerce is a subset of e-commerce, and it's having problems. It's not taking off. You've...
Premier telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc.'s woes continued last week as it revised its first-quarter earnings downward while announcing an overhaul plan that will involve $1 billion in cost cuts and job layoffs.The company said it expects to report a pro forma loss...
Extolling them as "wings of light," Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter growth, the Internet and communications company identifies the four-pronged blitz as optical infrastructure, wireless access, Internet Protocol services to create...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. said its Go.Web service is now available on Hewlett-Packard Jornada 540 Pocket PC devices.The solution includes the Minstrel 540 wireless modem from Novatel Wireless Inc.Wireless access, combined with GoAmerica's software, allows the Jornada devices to access corporate date, browse Internet sites...
