China is a land of enormous opportunity for wireless infrastructure makers and the like, no doubt about it. A land with more than 1 billion people can yield a lot of cell-phone users. Motorola Inc. recently scored a $1 billion contract in China, and...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. jumped to record earnings in its fourth-quarter results with $2.17 billion, or 33 cents a share, a contrast to its $1.05 billion, or 16 cents a share in the same period last year.The company also introduced a product that enables 802.11b...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. today signed deals totaling $1.1 billion with China's top mobile-phone carriers, and other U.S. wireless firms picked up multimillion contracts in the world's largest wireless market. The transactions come at a time of rising trade tensions between the two countries.In all, $2.3...
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the activity at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Audiovox Communications Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone makers...
In the eyes of market research firm IDC, wireless chips are on a roll. And semiconductor companies want to match this zeal with solutions and initiatives.In its report released last week, which was an optimistic revision of its earlier forecast, IDC said it expects...
Intel Corp. at this week's Consumer Electronics Show said it will invest $200 million in companies developing technologies to drive the convergence of personal computer and consumer electronics devices on a wireless home network via The Intel Digital Home Fund. The Intel Capital-managed fund...
Motorola Inc.'s long-awaited V600 camera phone will finally hit store shelves this month through AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the companies announced. The phone suffered from software glitches and had been delayed until after the holiday shopping season."Just as the ground-breaking Motorola StarTAC and Motorola...
In the search for killer applications and other services that rake in revenue, independent software vendors are the new brides of wireless.With software expanding, the value of the hardware space will continue to shrink in the wireless space. ISVs therefore are working with major...
Motorola Inc. bowed to investor clamor for an outsider with the appointment of former Sun Microsystems Inc. president Edward Zander as the new helmsman, officially ending the reign of the Galvin family. Zander, most recently of private equity company Silver Lake Partners, edged out...
In what might be the first stamp of Edward Zander, new chief executive officer, Motorola Inc. said it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a $2 billion initial public offering for its proposed chip unit spinoff.The new company, which bears the temporary...
While Intel Corp. was reorganizing its operations to adjust for disappointments in its chip business, Texas Instruments Inc. was presenting an upbeat picture for the fourth quarter last week.Looking forward, though, both companies say business is not bad. That is the metaphor for the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it has brought its wireless operations under a larger group known as the Intel Communications Group.With this announcement, the Wireless Communications and Computing Group will be incorporated into the ICG. The WCCG covered wireless client space like processors based...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Investors decried Intel Corp.'s revised fourth-quarter outlook, sending the company's stock down almost 3 percent in trading to $32.64 per share.Intel said it expects revenues of between $8.5 billion and $8.7 billion, as compared with the previous range of $8.1 billion to...
LOS ANGELES-Wireless entertainment company Jamdat Mobile Inc. scored $11 million in its latest round of venture funding. Benchmark Capital, Apax Partners, Qualcomm Inc., Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. participated in the round."The worldwide market for wireless entertainment hit an inflection point in 2003,...
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. are missing from the membership list of Khronos Group, an open standards alliance that is pursuing open application programming interfaces for dynamic media in the wireless space.In spite of stellar members like Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc. and Motorola...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Operator reluctance and general market confusion represent significant barriers to the success of WiMAX, according to a new report from Pyramid. Pyramid believes fixed wireless operators, which have been disappointed by over-hyped technologies in the past, lack enthusiasm for WiMAX and will...
Suddenly, wireless firms have found their appetite for acquiring other companies.In the past few months, industry has witnessed a rash of acquisitions, negating the trend of a few years ago when they shed units they described as inconsistent with their core competencies."The long-term trend...
WASHINGTON-As wireless and mobility become more pervasive, cybersecurity is necessary to create a "hassle-free" experience, believes the Computing Research Association."Security is like adding brakes to cars. The purpose of brakes is not to stop you; it's to enable you to go fast! Brakes help...
As businesses eye the beauty of wireless services on a massive scale, hardware and software vendors have stepped up their activities.Despite a continued sluggish economy, the frenzy began about a year ago, according to major players."I have seen more uptake in the last nine...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. has recorded a negative first as it has dropped from the first place in flash memory sales to fourth place, according to market research firm iSuppli.The ranking is for the third quarter of 2003.The company, however, retains its premier position as...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Operator reluctance and general market confusion represent significant barriers to the success of WiMAX, according to a new report from Pyramid. Pyramid believes fixed wireless operators, which have been disappointed by over-hyped technologies in the past, lack enthusiasm for WiMAX and will...
Failure to arrive at an industry standard has caught ultra-wideband technology players between bowing to standards pressures and customer demand.The Institute of Electrical and Electronics working group's meeting, which ended Nov. 14, closed like the one held two months earlier-without the 75 percent votes...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it has introduced its wireless local area network chipset, which adds higher-speed 802.11a capability to its Centrino mobile technology for notebooks.The product combines a and b capabilities to the technology."The addition of 802.11a to Intel Centrino mobile technology provides...
DENVER-Mobile phones are used for talking, texting, gaming, photographing and documenting. They link to the public Internet and private, corporate Intranets. They store important names, numbers and calendars. In the not-so-distant future, wireless devices may be used for identification purposes and as payment devices,...
