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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chipmakers continue to stake claims in anticipation of an assured industry upswing.Bellwethers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. offered optimistic second-quarter projections, reinforcing a view that the sector has seen its worst days. In separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, both companies...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it is pulling out of its slump even as its chief executive officer defended the company's decision to offer stock options of up to 14 percent of its outstanding shares.With a 23-percent sales growth between the first quarters of...
WASHINGTON-Intel Corp. has reaffirmed its second-quarter revenue outlook of between $6.4 billion and $7 billion with a gross margin projection of 50 percent, according to its report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The company, however, expects its second-quarter revenue outlook to be less...
Software-defined radios may be the answer to today's interoperability issues, but carriers and handset makers do not seem overly enthused about adopting the technology because the technological advances gained from SDR may hurt their business models.Why? Because SDR gives "too much flexibility to the...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-Several companies have announced support for the new Wi-Fi Alliance security standard known as Wi-Fi Protected Access, which replaces Wired Equivalent Privacy.WPA is the alliance's third product certification and part of its security roadmap.The following companies have announced their 802.11b...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it has introduced three new processors for mobile PCs, which include the mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor M at 2.50 GHz and the mobile Intel Celeron processor at 2.20 and 1.26 GHz.The Intel Pentium 4 processor allows users "to...
TOKYO, Japan-Intel Corp. said it has unveiled ultra-thin flash memory products for lower power consumption, optimal space savings and better memory capacity in cell phones."By combining our highly dense Intel StrataFlash Wireless Memory in an ultra-thin stacked-CSP, our wireless customers receive the flash density...
TOKYO-Silicon Wave Inc. and Taiwan-based Ambit Microsystems Corp. reported the availability of a Bluetooth module for Intel corp.'s Wireless Coexistence System, which is part of Intel's Centrino mobile technology for notebook computers.Silicon Wave said Intel's WCS is designed to enhance performance of Wi-Fi and...
SAN FRANCISCO-With a heavy emphasis on development and manufacturing from Asia, the high-tech industry is experiencing repercussions from the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus that is sweeping through southeast Asia.A number of companies have announced SARS-related changes to their operations including Intel Corp.,...
SAN FRANCISCO-Gary Weis, formerly senior vice president of global services at AT&T Corp., has become president, chief executive officer and a director of Cometa Networks Inc.Larry Brilliant, co-founder and interim CEO of Cometa, will remain as vice chairman of the board and chairman of...
NEW YORK-LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark airports, all operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will have public and private wireless local area network access by year-end.Concourse Communications, Springfield, Mass., has begun deployment of the neutral host network at...
REDMOND, Wash.-Action Engine, whose customers include Orange SA and MmO2, has closed a $15.5 million Series C round of venture financing, led by Baker Capital and including Cascadia Capital LLC, Intel Communications Fund, OVP Venture Partners, Northwest Venture Associates and Spangler Ventures.The new financing,...
HANNOVER, Germany-Intel Corp. finally launched its much-publicized set of wireless chips known as Centrino to enable end users to access the Internet through their notebooks."We are unwiring the computer world," said Mike Splinter, Intel head of sales and marketing at the annual CeBIT electronics...
