Motorola Inc. announced its first-quarter results to market enthusiasm, generating its best stock momentum in three years.Its shares rose $3.11 to $19.33, representing a 20-percent leap.The vendor reported net earnings of $609 million, or 25 cents per share, in contrast with the same period...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Research In Motion Ltd. renewed its license for Intellisync Corp.'s synchronization software, which RIM uses exclusively in the desktop computer component of its BlackBerry wireless e-mail product. Intellisync's technology ensures that e-mails and information entered into a BlackBerry are also synchronized with...
WATERLOO, Ontario-BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. announced another gangbuster quarter, showing increasing revenues, a rising net income and an even better outlook ahead."Innovation and execution continued to drive RIM's business in the fourth quarter. We surpassed the pivotal 1 million subscribers mark, and...
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. announced another gangbuster quarter, showing increasing revenues, a rising net income and an even better outlook for the future."Innovation and execution continued to drive RIM's business in the fourth quarter. We surpassed the pivotal 1 million subscribers mark,...
Siemens said it will become the latest company to license BlackBerry technology from wireless e-mail company Research In Motion Ltd. The news lends further credibility to industry watchers who argue RIM eventually may drop its device business to focus solely on its licensing and...
Siemens said it will become the latest company to license BlackBerry technology from wireless e-mail company Research In Motion Ltd. The news lends further credibility to industry watchers who argue RIM may eventually drop its device business to focus solely on its licensing and...
ATLANTA-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Pronto Networks unveiled the iForce Wi-Fi Hotspot Appliance at last week's CTIA Wireless 2004 show in Atlanta. The tool enables operators to quickly and cost-effectively roll out a medium-sized public hot-spot network that includes 25, 50 or 100 hotspots and...
ATLANTA-Research In Motion introduced its color BlackBerry 7750 wireless handheld at the CTIA Wireless show. The Java-based device is scheduled to be available from Verizon Wireless in April.Features of the 7750 include:a large, high-resolution color screen that supports more than 65,000 colors,support for 800/1900...
South AfricaElectronic services company Molapo Technology said it has extended its services-level $130 million agreement with service provider TelKom South Africa. The contract will last till 2008, said Molapo. "As the economy grows and diversifies, so too has the role of TelKom," said Essa...
TYLER, Texas-Teletouch Communications Inc. launched its latest generation of wireless mobile asset tracking products, which includes start/stop motion detection.The product includes traditional location reporting features as well as a new feature that notifies fleet managers when a trailer is in motion and when it...
SLOUGH, United Kingdom-European carrier MmO2 announced it will add BlackBerry capabilities to its new Xda II mobile phone/personal digital assistant later this year.The carrier's Xda II is based on Microsoft Corp.'s operating system and features a built-in tri-band mobile phone, games, an integrated digital...
Although wireless by and large caters to the consumer market, many of the industry's major mobile-phone makers zeroed in on the high-margin business user during the 3GSM show in Cannes, France.Nokia, the world's No. 1 handset manufacturer, used the show as a platform to...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced it will sell two new BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices for its GSM/GPRS network, devices that bolster Cingular's longtime support of Research In Motion Ltd.'s products.Cingular said it would sell the monochrome BlackBerry 6280 for $250 and the color-screen BlackBerry 7280...
SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless enterprise company Good Technology Inc. called 2004 the "year of the mobile enterprise," and looking to take advantage of the potential of the market, the company announced a new version of its wireless server product as well as new support for Pocket...
TORONTO-Mobile Diagnostix Inc., which provides a smart-phone customer-care system, said it is introducing its Mobile Care Framework to Saskatchewan wireless carrier SaskTel Mobility. The carrier's customer-care team will use the product to support its smart-phone customers.The Mobile Care Framework automates smart-phone hardware and software...
NEW YORK-Wireless enterprise company Onset Technology announced it acquired InfoClarus Inc.'s METAmessage wireless application, as well as its 1,000 METAmessage customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Onset said more than 150 law firms across the country use METAmessage to remotely access billing records,...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Two new studies show the market for personal digital assistants continues to shrink as more and more users are enticed by smart phones."Through the end of 2004, smart phones will generally have a negative impact on the low end of the PDA market,...
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. faces a range of obstacles, both major and minor. But one challenge overshadows the rest, according to Mike Lazaridis, the company's president and co-chief executive officer."RIM's biggest competitor is ignorance," Lazaridis said. "Our challenge continues to be and has...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Two new studies show the market for personal digital assistants continues to shrink as more and more users are enticed by smart phones."Through the end of 2004, smart phones will generally have a negative impact on the low end of the PDA market,...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it signed an agreement with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. to add BlackBerry capability to its mobile phones.Samsung is the latest in a line of major licensing deals for RIM. Nokia Corp., Sony Ericsson and others...
WATERLOO, Ontario-BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said it scored $907 million in its recent public offering, with shares selling at $78.25 per share.Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. ran the offering, and Goldman Sachs & Co., UBS Investment Bank, Banc of...
WATERLOO, Ontario-BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said it scored $907 million in its recent public offering, with shares selling at $78.25 per share.Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. ran the offering, and Goldman Sachs & Co., UBS Investment Bank, Banc of...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is cutting jobs in its Mobitex business, although the carrier declined to provide specifics.Cingular said it is cutting a minimal number of jobs in its Cingular Interactive division, which runs its slower-speed Mobitex data-only network. Cingular said the job...
Cingular Wireless is cutting jobs in its Mobitex business, although the carrier declined to provide specifics.Cingular said it is cutting a "minimal" number of jobs in its Cingular Interactive division, which runs its slower-speed Mobitex data-only network. Cingular said the job cuts will be...
