HELSINKI, Finland-In a move the companies hope will lead to wide usage of mobile services, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Nokia Corp. announced an agreement to develop solutions built on an Internet-based platform.For their first application, the companies plan to enable a Nokia phone user to...
CHICAGO-When Bridget Glavaz touched down in Los Angeles recently, she pulled out her handheld computer, a Palm VII, and started addressing two critical issues. She needed directions to her appointment downtown, so she logged onto Mapquest.com. Equally important, she wanted a hot hazelnut mocha,...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
Just less than a year after bursting onto the wireless Internet scene with a wireless solution for the Palm V, OmniSky Corp. this week is introducing a similar solution for the Handspring VisorPhone.The company also is unveiling version 2.0 of its service, which is...
NEW YORK-Solid Information Technology, known for network synchronization software, has received $50 million in second-round private equity investment.Robertson Stephens Inc. served as placement agent for the transaction, which is a precursor to taking the company public, said Pekka Roine, Solid's chairman and chief executive...
E2open has opened its doors.The new electronics marketplace sports 10 high-powered founders, including IBM Corp., Hitachi and Nortel Networks. With this backing, e2open aspires to be nothing less than "one of the largest enterprises of the 21st century," said John Mumford, partner at Crosspoint...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-In the wireless data weltanschauung of Lucent Technologies Inc., operators will remain the linchpin for an increasingly complex assembly of players. Lucent's role, from its world view, is to anticipate and facilitate solutions for each part, large and small, of this expanding...
NEW YORK-Within the next few months, Hewlett-Packard Co. expects to open its first United States-based "Mobile Bazaar," a facility that provides free space, technical expertise and computer hardware to wireless applications developers.Since last year, HP has opened similar sites in Finland, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan...
Companies looking to wirelessly enable their back-office systems are getting more help these days.Existing system integrators are adding wireless support to their business and new integrators are emerging to focus specifically on wireless solutions.Angelbeat Inc. is a system integrator and design firm that does...
NEW YORK-Manufacturers increasingly are planning to outsource production as more companies transition to the virtual manufacturing model, according to a recent Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. study.A substantial number of electronics manufacturers plan to outsource a collective average of 72 percent of production, a...
TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...
WASHINGTON-The skyrocketing consumer consumption and subsequent disposal of computers, pagers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other electronic devices has created new environmental challenges in the Digital Age, which Europe is addressing far more aggressively than the United States.The environmental challenges are playing out...
WASHINGTON-Customer care, billing and order management solutions provider Amdocs and Hewlett-Packard Co. reported plans to provide a real-time, prepaid billing solution capable of running on public switched telephone and Internet Protocol networks.Amdocs said the solution will integrate HP's OpenCall platform and Amdocs' prepaid offering...
LONDON-Sonera Zed Ltd. has agreed with Unilever and Hewlett-Packard Co. to test new mobile marketing solutions beginning in Finland this summer."Mobile marketing is one of the areas in which Zed wants to be a forerunner and develop new, advanced solutions," explained Juha Varelius, president...
NEW YORK-Developers of devices and applications for wireless communications strutted their stuff, offering new, nearly new and soon-to-debut products and services at this year's MobileFocus.Giving more gumption to handheld computers is the design of at least five of the companies at this bite-sized trade...
GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology services firm with more than 9,000 corporate clients, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Inc."The consumer...
Aether Systems Inc. introduced an integrated wireless solution for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE-based Pocket PC products, sold by a variety of handheld computer manufacturers.Targeted specifically at large-volume corporate customer accounts, Aether's wireless Enterprise ISP solution includes the Pocket PC device, Sierra Wireless Inc. AirCard...
PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co. to integrate Nortel's wireless data technology into HP's wireless hardware.Nortel is looking to capitalize on the...
ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward.The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet another indication the wireless Internet...
Solectron Corp. completed its acquisition of Americom Wireless Services, a privately held company specializing in wireless handset repair and refurbishment and outsourced technical customer-support services. Solectron, a supply-chain facilitator of customized electronics technology, manufacturing and service solutions, received specialized repair and testing equipment and...
Microsoft Corp. released its Pocket PC platform for handheld personal computers powered by its Windows CE operating system.Microsoft hardware partners Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symbol Technologies Inc. each introduced devices using the platform. Prices for the new devices...
Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary to build wireless portals for carriers and others.Inktomi provides Internet backbone technology like traffic...
NEW YORK-Last May, 25 technology companies established the ASP Industry Consortium, Wakefield, Mass., to accomplish a delicate but important mission. Bring some order to the burgeoning and somewhat chaotic application service provider sector, but avoid actual standards setting.By definition, ASPs house, host and manage...
