MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. today released three new personal digital assistants, and though none includes support for wide area wireless networks, the devices nonetheless acknowledge the growing influence and importance of the wireless industry.Indeed, one of the three devices includes Bluetooth technology, a short-range wireless...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y.-IBM Corp. said it has demonstrated what it describes as the world's first silicon germanium transistor that can improve performance four times and reduce power consumption five times more than what is currently available in wireless devices."As the wireless industry continues to...
Siemens AG said it has completed its first investment in the United States with V-Enable, a wireless startup that focuses on multi-modality technology. The investment was executed by Siemens Mobile Acceleration, the vendor's wireless venture capital arm.V-Enable said it has closed a $3.75 million...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-IBM has chosen to integrate SupportSoft Inc.'s Mobile Device Management Suite with its Device Management Solutions to offer wireless service providers an enhanced customer service solution. With the integrated IBM-SupportSoft solution, wireless service providers can provide automated customer self-service, self-healing functionality and...
SOMERS, N.Y.-Wireless enterprise giants IBM Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. announced they will more tightly integrate their corporate access servers, a move the companies said would give BlackBerry users expanded access options.The companies said the new development and integration efforts will be focused...
WASHINGTON-With the United States facing $4 billion in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union by month's end, telecom and high-tech firms find themselves split on competing legislation to repeal tax breaks for U.S. exporters.The export subsidy issue directly impacts Motorola Inc., the nation's top...
Wall Street was busy analyzing wireless stocks this week, resulting in adjusted ratings for several major wireless equipment vendors.Qualcomm Inc. was upgraded to "buy" by Merrill Lynch, which cited the eminent rollout of third-generation networks as motivation for the upgrade. "Although we questioned the...
"No one ever got fired for buying IBM."It's a saying that has been floating around the business world for years. It highlights both the complications technology shoppers face as well as the challenges of selling such technology. And those going up against IBM Corp....
One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor.With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and carriers all see their technologies...
In the networked home of the future, wireless likely will play a major role, connecting family members to their loved ones, music collections and even microwaves. But the long-held vision of a connected home has faced plenty of stumbling blocks along the way, and...
The hype is data, but the reality is voice.It often comes in the language of converged services or unified platforms, but the inability of data to pick up rapid revenue has led vendors to use voice as the platform to drive data services.While beating...
DENVER-Consumer-friendly pervasive telephony technologies were the focus of last week's Zelos Group's Pervasive 2003 show here. Directory assistance and speech-recognition technologies, both hot topics in the wireless industry, took center stage.Converging those themes was TeleCommunication Systems Inc., which has expertise in enhanced 911 services...
While wireless trends emphasize the movement to data, the use of voice as an enabler tends to tail off to the background in carriers' marketing schemes.But as the new announcement by IBM Corp. on real estate indicates, voice keeps forcing itself back to premier...
Beaten back by a lackluster economy and ambivalent wireless users, an assortment of veteran wireless data players has sought refuge in the company of network operators. By targeting wireless carriers, these companies are looking to find a stable customer base amid a cutthroat business...
Just as the battle to dominate the handset operating system realm intensifies, the contest for supremacy on the server side has taken a fresh dimension with a new product from Hewlett Packard Co.HP has released a new line of servers known as HP Integrity,...
WASHINGTON-A House panel Monday said its probe of a government program that subsidizes Internet connections to schools and libraries has been expanded, with lawmakers requesting additional information from IBM Corp. Chief Executive Samuel Palmisano and Alpha Telecommunications Inc. President Paul Karas. Letters to the...
The tightened economy seems to be pushing the wireless enterprise market in opposite directions. On one hand, big-name technology players are bolstering their wireless enterprise efforts, hoping to entice new business customers looking to use wireless services to cut down on operational expenses. But...
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.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung...
WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money, said the telecom and tech sectors ranked second in lobbying expenditures for the last six months of 2002. The $113.3...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson said it plans to outsource its information systems unit to IBM Corp., transferring 1,000 employees to the software giant. Ericsson sees the move as part of its plan to become profitable again.Ericsson also announced that it has introduced services that will...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson said it plans to outsource its information systems unit to IBM Corp., transferring 1,000 employees to the software giant. Ericsson sees the move as part of its plan to become profitable again.Ericsson also announced that it has introduced services that will...
WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money, said telecom and tech sectors ranked second in lobbying expenditures for the last six months of 2002. The $113.3 million...
The two main rivals in the PDA operating system business sought to bolster their offerings, each touting improved and enhanced products.Further, Microsoft Corp. announced two additional licensees for its operating system for personal digital assistants. Computer maker Gateway Inc. and consumer electronics company JVC...
NEW YORK-Palm Inc.'s operating system business PalmSource announced a range of new deals to bolster the enterprise appeal of its product, including new agreements with IBM Corp., Visto Corp., Novell and others.Under PalmSource's deal with IBM, the companies said they plan to collaborate on...
