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OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it will roll out Hitachi’s Windows-based mobile phone known as the SH1000, the first Pocket PC to integrate a rotating camera, built-in keyboard and wireless …

Eight of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies-including the world’s No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile phones. …

Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector. …

Shareholders seemed to cheer Sierra Wireless Inc.’s $20 million all-stock acquisition of rival modem maker AirPrime Inc., sending the company’s stock up almost 9 percent after the news to about …

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., with the goal of turning a profit in …

TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., whose goal is to turn on profit its …

BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Union has given its nod to the semiconductor joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp, making the world’s second largest chipmaker. According to the JV, …

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said they have decided to bring their semiconductor units together to form a new company called Renesas Technology Corp. The new company, which should …

CARY, N.C.-UbiNetics said it has signed a development and licensing agreement to allow Hitachi to sell its 3G/GSM radio-frequency chip. “The 3G market represents an enormous growth opportunity for Hitachi,” …

TOKYO-Hitachi, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is going to provide cdma2000 1x EV-DO base stations to KDDI, Hitachi announced on Thursday. KDDI is planning to launch experimental 1x EV-DO …

SEOUL, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan-Samsung Electronics Company Ltd and Hitachi Ltd. said they have won mobile infrastructure contracts with KDDI Corp. worth more than $100 million. “We will supply …

SAN FRANCISCO-In an another tie-up, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to combine Intel’s Xscale microarchitecture’s PX250 and PXA210 and Windows CE .NET to enable hardware and software developers …

TOKYO—Some 20 leading Japanese companies led by NTT DoCoMo, Hitachi and Toyota Motor Company, set up a forum aimed at launching highly accurate satellite communications services for mobile equipment in …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said some top device manufacturers, a game developer and a Canadian carrier have signed memoranda of understanding to join its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless Platform. The …

BEIJING—Japan’s Hitachi is negotiating with China’s Hisense Group to set up a mobile handset manufacturing joint venture in China in the second half of the year. In September last year, …

As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced …

Cambridge Silicon Radio introduced its MicroSira and CompactSira development tools for integrating Bluetooth functionality into a range of personal computer and personal digital assistant applications. Both products contain CSR’s single …

WASHINGTON-While the wireless industry steadfastly maintains the safety of cell phones, top mobile-phone manufacturers during the past decade have quietly sought-and received-patents to reduce the kind of radiation absorbed by …

Glitches are becoming to phones what muscle spasms are to track athletes-confirmation that travel to the next generation of technologies will experience limps along with leaps. Most of the big …

AWR Applied 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 …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading carrier in Japan, is going to recall more than 100,000 cellular terminals that may have some defects in software, the firm announced. The recall will cover …

TOKYO-KDDI, the second-largest carrier in Japan, has decided to launch its third-generation (3G) services based on High Data Rate (HDR) technology. KDDI will launch its HDR services initially using the …

TOKYO-Japanese vendors are in the final stages of developing third-generation (3G) terminals. Japanese 3G services are scheduled to be launched earlier than any other country in May 2001 by NTT …

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 …

NEW YORK-Arbinet-thexchange Inc. has completed a year-long process of implementing what it calls the first carrier-grade bandwidth trading solution, company officials said at last week’s Telecom Business Conference and Expo …