A day after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a citywide initiative to close the gap between San Francisco's wireless broadband haves and have-nots by providing free or low-cost Wi-Fi access to all San Francisco residents, Intel Corp. announced a worldwide multi-corporation initiative to...
Sprint Corp. today formally launched a consultation service the carrier said can help businesses develop a long-term wireless strategy and roadmap. "They get a better handle on how they should use mobility," explained Kenny Wyatt, Sprint's vice president of integrated solutions.Sprint's new Mobile Business...
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology is 10 years old this year, a milestone the company is using to highlight Java's widespread influence throughout the electronics and computer industries. When Sun introduced the technology, the company promoted Java as the "write once, run anywhere" platform...
Red Bend SoftwareUdi Dagan joined Red Bend Software as chief financial officer. Dagan joined the company from IBM where he was business consulting services country manager in Israel. Before that he was CFO of IBM Israel, vice president of operations for IBM Global Services...
SEATTLE-Irish m-commerce provider Valista will team with IBM to offer content management and transaction services to wireless carriers.Valista said the partnership will integrate its software with IBM's Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE), a platform designed to allow businesses to trim development times for new...
Nokia Corp. introduced a new Internet-browsing device that represents a new market for the world's largest handset vendor as well as an entirely new software strategy. Nokia's new personal digital assistant-sized 770 Internet Tablet supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and features an 800 by...
The Unlicensed Mobile Access group is shuttering its doors after getting its specifications included in the Third Generation Partnership Project's Release 6. "It has always been the intent of the UMA participating companies to transition our efforts into a formal, global standards organization," wrote...
Nortel Networks Ltd. and IBM Corp. announced they will pool their resources to develop new products, collaborate on research and development and design new carrier servers."It's a tremendous opportunity for collaboration," said Pat Toole, IBM's vice president of business transformation.The companies said they would...
Nortel Networks Corp. and IBM Corp. announced they will pool their resources to develop new products, collaborate on research and development, and design new carrier servers. "It's a tremendous opportunity for collaboration," said Pat Toole, IBM's vice president of business transformation.The companies said they...
Motorola Inc. appears to be in the midst of reordering its phone design and manufacturing strategy, moves that could yield either boon or doom for those along its supply chain. Motorola's exercises also highlight the complex, cutthroat nature of electronics manufacturing. Specifically, Motorola last...
TORONTO-Rogers Wireless Inc. together with Visto Corp. launched MyMail, a wireless service that provides instant two-way push-email, calendar and contacts to a customer's wireless device.Users who have a valid data service plan with Rogers can download the application over the air. Account activation and...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Flash memory technology vendor Silicon Storage Technology Inc. announced it purchased privately held Actrans Systems Inc. for around $20 million in stock and cash. Actrans designs flash memory and EEPROM. SST said it will add Actrans' split-gate NAND flash technology into its portfolio...
IBM Corp. said it built a wireless data network in Fresno, Calif., for the police department that will allow officers to transmit text, images and videos via in-vehicle computers and personal digital assistants. The microwave transmission network works in the 900 MHz frequency band."To...
CANNES, France-VeriSign Inc. teamed with IBM and Gemplus International S.A. to demonstrate a Subscriber Identity Module-based identity offering for wireless carriers at the 3GSM World Congress Tuesday.The product combines over-the-air activation service from Gemplus with VeriSign's password authentication service and IBM's Federated Identity Manager,...
CANNES, France-Nortel Networks Ltd. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have intensified the momentum for Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems.Lucent said it has integrated six Bell Labs-developed software technologies into its IMS solution. Nortel said it is partnering with a group of technology players anchored by IBM...
WASHINGTON-IBM Corp. topped the list of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's top 10 private-sector patent recipients. For the 12th consecutive year, IBM received more patents than any other private-sector organization."American innovation and discoveries are the foundation of our technological strength worldwide," said Jon...
Siemens AG has acquired Chantry Networks, a step that will extend its enterprise offerings and Voice over Internet Protocol into the wireless local area network space. The deal climaxes both companies' relationship during the past few years, which involved Siemens' efforts to step up...
Siemens AG has acquired Chantry Networks, a step that will extend its enterprise offerings and Voice over Internet Protocol into the wireless local area network space. The deal climaxes both companies' relationship during the past few years, which involved Siemens' efforts to step up...
L.M. Ericsson said it has won a $370 million contract extension with third-generation wireless carrier 3 to supply core, radio and transmission equipment and related services. The contract covers Sweden, Denmark, Norway and optionally Finland, according to Ericsson. PalmOne Inc. said it opened a...
WALTHAM, Mass.-InterNoded, an application enablement company specializing in BlackBerry and IBM technologies, said it has successfully deployed its On-Demand BlackBerry Enterprise Server solution for Lotus Notes. The solution simplifies an enterprise's ability to offer enterprise-wide BlackBerry capabilities with a low-cost hosted solution that provides...
Nokia Corp. said deals with Visto Corp. and Good Technology Inc. to expand the messaging options on its handsets. Nokia has a similar agreement with Visto and Good rival Research In Motion Ltd.Nokia signed a deal to extend Visto's e-mail push solution into two...
WASHINGTON-While new industry figures show top Republicans casting pro-technology votes more often than their counterparts in Congress, a review of fresh campaign finance data reveals top high-tech firms are hedging their bets on Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Without question, the outcome of this...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc., Intel Corp., and IBM Corp. said they have come together to develop a new security specification for such advanced online mobile commerce services as electronic tickets and e-wallets.Known as "Trusted Mobile Platform," it will fend off viruses and other software attacks...
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...
