Intel Corp. this week announced plans to build a $375 million assembly and test plant in western China's Sichuan province and a research and development center for digital home and wireless communications in South Korea.The company said the plant will create 675 jobs, expected...
REDMOND, Wash.-MSNBC.com announced the launch of its wireless service known as the MSNBC Wireless Traveler to allow users of mobile laptops to access news, including top national and international coverage, business, sports and entertainment updates, using Wi-Fi technology.The information will be available at hot...
REDMOND, Wash.-MSNBC.com announced the launch of its wireless service known as the MSNBC Wireless Traveler to allow users of mobile laptops to access news, including top national and international coverage, business, sports and entertainment updates, using Wi-Fi technology.The information will be available at hot...
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...
No WinTel animosity is intended. MIPI is just another warm and fuzzy alliance.Never the friendliest of allies, Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. were quick to rebut the wide speculation that the formation of the Mobile Industry Processor Interface alliance created to focus...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-A class-action lawsuit filed against chip maker Intel Corp. has been dismissed on grounds of insufficient proof.U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said the plaintiffs could not demonstrate that the company misled investors about Intel products or revenues in the third quarter of...
In what industry experts see as a counterpunch to WinTel, a Microsoft-Intel partnership, some major industry players have a formed a new alliance that focuses on peripherals, microprocessors and software interfaces for mobile devices.Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., STMicroelectronics and ARM said they have...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-In a drive to improve wireless broadband experience in homes and small offices, Intel Corp. and Cisco's Linksys have pooled together their technology and marketing programs.Linksys will combine its routers and access points with Intel's Centrino mobile technology in wireless notebooks.Intel said...
Joint ventures and alliances continue to tie ideas and initiatives together across various tiers of the wireless industry from infrastructure to Wi-Fi to semiconductors. Asian companies play crucial roles in the cooperation.Royal Philips Electronics NV announced a joint venture with Accton Technology Corp. to...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Intel Corp. unveiled a distribution program in which Intel will promote and sell AT&T Wireless GPRS- and Wi-Fi-based data solutions through more than 200 Intel Product Dealer Channel members. The two companies also said they are working together...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it plans to develop silicon products based on the 802.16a standard, which covers wireless metropolitan networks. The company has signed an agreement with Israel-based Alvarion Ltd. to produce the products."Products based on 802.16a can provide wireless broadband connectivity to...
Fast food giant McDonald's Corp. is expected to expand its Wi-Fi initiative into the San Francisco Bay Area this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.The report noted the company planned to roll out its Wi-Fi service in 75 restaurants this week and has...
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...
The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
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...
Battle won, even before the first shot is fired.Early in the life of the technology, industry analysts and players already regard Cisco Systems Inc. as the big tree in the wireless local area network jungle.Leveraging its channels and products in the wired market, Cisco...
Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector.The new initiative, known as the Common Public Radio Interface, also includes Siemens AG, Huawei...
Interest in the wireless enterprise market continues as Siemens, Colligo Networks, Aligo, Salesnet and Orsus Solutions announced new deals and products in the arena.First, Siemens Business Services Inc. announced the creation of its Mobile Enterprise Services Alliance, which the company said is a portfolio...
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a new partnership with chip maker Intel Corp. as well as new plans to sell wireless application services to businesses, all parts of an effort to continue the expansion of the company's Java 2 Micro Edition technology in wireless.The...
ATLANTA-Intel Corp. and Hewlett Packard Co. have agreed to work together to develop standards-based solutions to enable wireless equipment manufacturers to reduce development costs and speed time to market."These products and solutions are designed to enable telecom equipment manufacturers to effectively consolidate their platform...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-Psion Teklogix introduced a Windows CE .NET-based rugged handheld computer to the North American market. The 7537 is suited for traditional supply chain and logistics markets as well as other "outside the warehouse" implementations, the company said.Technologies including 802.11, Intel Xscale, Bluetooth and...
Wireless browser company Access Co. Ltd. said it will include Macromedia's Flash technology in its NetFront browser."Macromedia Flash is the obvious choice for our NetFront browser because of its ability to effectively deliver rich content in a compact format," said Toru Arakawa, Access' president...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-Psion Teklogix introduced a Windows CE .NET-based rugged handheld computer to the North American market. The 7537 is suited for traditional supply chain and logistics markets as well as other "outside the warehouse" implementations, the company said. Technologies including 802.11, Intel Xscale, Bluetooth...
