SEOUL, South Korea-Hyundai Motor Co. will begin selling vehicles with a wide range of advanced telematics features next year in South Korea, and plans to expand into other areas of the world in the future.Technology giant IBM Corp. developed the telematics offerings, which the...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. said it is suing Flash Creative Management Inc. for breach of contract, fraud and other issues.The company said the suit arises from information about Flash the company discovered in connection with a lawsuit filed against GoAmerica by Eagle Truck Lines in...
ARMONK, N.Y.-IBM Corp. and Sharp Corp. said they will work together to build a new embedded Linux handheld solution to enable businesses extend enterprise applications to their mobile workers.Sharp will use IBM's software for its Linux-based personal digital assistants."IBM and Sharp are working to...
PARIS-Location services company Webraska announced it current chief executive and company co-founder, Jean-Michel Durocher, will step down from his post and be replaced by Barry Glick, Webraska's chairman and the former chief executive officer and chairman of MapQuest. Glick led MapQuest's initial public offering...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-In an effort to drive General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) traffic, Vodafone has struck a deal with Fujitsu Siemens that will see the cell-phone operator offer a laptop, GPRS PCMCIA card and subscriber identity module (SIM) as a pre-configured bundled solution to...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.-Ciber Inc.'s Wireless Practice has been acknowledged by IBM and Palm Inc. for integrating IBM and Palm Solution Group technologies-making it the first integration partner of the two companies to deliver on the July partnership announcement to together create secure mobile access...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Technology giant IBM Corp. released an important new product the company said allows wireless device users to seamlessly roam across a variety of disparate wireless networks-including wireless local area network, cellular, private mobile radio and satellite networks-all without ever turning off the device.IBM...
NEW YORK-Major wireless players have complied with the Securities And Exchange Commission's guidelines to file their certifications confirming their financial results. Foreign-based companies, who are not required to comply, however filed with the SEC under the recently signed corporate fraud law.Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc.,...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. scored an important resale deal with technology giant IBM Corp., a partnership that bolsters Palm's position in its battle against Microsoft Corp.Under the Palm/IBM alliance, IBM will resell Palm PDAs through its massive worldwide sales force,...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Wireless enterprise company Zeosoft announced it will combine its ZeoSphere Server, an enterprise-class, Java-based application server the resides on mobile devices, with IBM Corp.'s DB2 Everyplace relational database.Zeosoft said the move will allow companies to use wireless devices to access IBM's storage technology."The...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Regardless of concerns expressed by European third-generation (3G) license holders, the German telecom regulator, RegTP, expects wireless local area networks (WLAN) networks to complement 3G services and plans to make more spectrum available for WLAN in the 5 GHz band.RegTP said it...
LONDON-Wireless platform provider Cash-U scored another major win through a new resale deal with Ericsson.Under the agreement, Ericsson will resell Cash-U's wireless application platform to its carrier customers. Cash-U's platform provides management capabilities for carriers to offer entertainment applications based on SMS, WAP, Java...
SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM and AirToolz Software announced an application that allows construction companies to wirelessly manage work schedules, inventories and back-end systems, thus speeding the time it takes to build a home.AirToolz Software, a joint venture between IBM Business Partner Unity Software Systems and Arizona-based...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Technology giants IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both continued to reinforce their wireless data offerings through new resale and licensing agreements, a strategy the two companies have been employing a great deal recently.HP licensed Pixo Inc.'s Mobile Download Server for wireless Java...
SAN FRANCISCO—Visage Mobile announced it has named David Stevens, former regional president at Sprint PCS, its new president.In Stevens' six years with Sprint PCS, he served as western region president and before that as area vice president where he launched the San Francisco Bay...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. released the line-up of sponsors, speakers and exhibitors for its upcoming BREW Developers Conference in San Diego.Qualcomm said its own Paul Jacobs, group president of the company's Wireless & Internet Group, and Stewart Alsop, experienced investor and pundit, will make keynote...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—IBM Corp. is introducing a new ThinkPad notebook, known as the T30, which combines it mobility solutions with Cisco System's network infrastructure products and solutions."The flagship ThinkPad T30 offers customers a revolutionary, programmable multipoint system that allows users to quickly and...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, announced it will launch a field trial for credit card settlement using third-generation (3G) handsets in the fourth quarter. Four leading credit card companies in Japan, including JCB Company and UC Card Company, will join the field...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesNokiaNokia introduced several new handsets that feature multimedia messaging service (MMS) capability, Java ...
LONDON—Mobile operator MmO2 said it has signed a 10-year deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars to outsource IBM Corp.'s customer care software.According to the agreement, IBM will redesign, build and run the operations in an integrated fashion, including the billing solutions.
FAIRFAX, Va.—IBM Corp. entered an alliance with Trust Digital LLC. to provide secure data on mobile devices.Using password protection, data encryption and a variety of administration control measures, Trust Digital's encryption software, PDASecure, will safeguard mobile information stored on IBM's expansion memory card, Microdrive,...
ARMONK, N.Y.-International Business Machines has announced its Websphere Everyplace Access solution, which allows employees to access data on any device on any network. This product is part of the company's Websphere software family and is applicable to personal digital assistants, mobile phones and appliances."This...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-IBM Corp. introduced the first mobile workstation known as ThinkPad A31p with high-speed graphical performance with wireless technology, security and ease of management."It offers users the freedom and flexibility to leave the workplace and create and design virtually whenever and wherever...
AMONK, N.Y.-Delphi Automotive Systems has chosen IBM's J9 virtual machine environment as a foundation technology for the development of automobile multimedia products that will allow automobiles to communicate in real time with drivers, dealers and manufacturers. With IBM's J9 Java-based technology, Delphi is planning...
