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...
WALTHAM, Mass.-IONA, provider of Rapid Integration software, said its Mobile Orchestrator will support Intel's Centrino technology to provide uses with an "occasionally connected computing" solution.Mobile Orchestrator allows clients to work with enterprise applications and data regardless of connection status. All work is saved and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it does not anticipate an economic recovery, adding that it expects first-quarter revenues between $6.6 billion and $6.8 billion, compared with its forecast of between $6.5 billion and $7 billion."I don't look at what we see here and see...
LONDON-LLG subsidiary Inspired Broadcast Networks has contracted with L.M. Ericsson to equip its coin-operated entertainment terminals at 3,000 locations in the United Kingdom with Wi-Fi access and related digital subscriber line backhaul.IBN, Ericsson, British Telecommunications plc and Intel Corp. also plan to develop a...
SURABAYA, Indonesia—Singapore mobile operator StarHub joined 5G and Bluengine to form Singapore’s first marketing partnership initiative for wireless broadband. This Wi-Fi initiative aims to develop a convenient and uniform roaming service, which allows any of the three companies' customers to use any hot spots...
SINGAPORE-The telecom regulator in Singapore announced a collaboration with chip maker Intel Corp. on a Wi-Fi initiative that the Infocomm Development Authority said would help achieve "seamless connectivity in the wireless world for Singapore and Asia."The total investment by the two groups is $2.25...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Iospan Wireless, a provider of fixed wireless broadband antenna technology, has ceased operations and its assets have been acquired by Intel Corp. and PrimeWave Communications, according to several reports.Iospan specialized in multiple input-multiple output, non-line-of-site technology that it offered under the brand...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. launched its Manitoba PXA800F chipset for GSM/GPRS devices that the company claimed provides "wireless-Internet-on-a-chip" functionality and was the first to combine key components for cellular phones and handheld computers into a single piece of silicon.Intel said the 0.13-micron Xscale-based cellular...
PARAMUS, N.J.-Penton Media Inc. said Intel Corp.'s Gadi Singer and Philips Electronics' Paul Marino will give the keynote addresses at the 2003 Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo later this month in San Jose, Calif. Singer is vice president of the wireless communications and...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Intel Corp. has sold the software assets and intellectual property rights of subsidiary Trillium Digital Systems Inc. to Continuous Computing Corp."The asset purchase includes the Trillium protocol stacks for the IP telephony, wireless, broadband and signaling markets utilizing industry-leading Trillium Advanced Portable...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. announced an upbeat fourth-quarter result with a net income of $1 billion, or 16 cents per share, beating an optimistic market forecast. Last year the company posted $504 million or 7 cents per share net income.Its revenue jumped to $7.2 billion...
LAS VEGAS-Known as the two-headed monster of the personal computing industry by the nickname Wintel, the heads of Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. made special mention of the importance wireless technology will play in the future of consumer electronics during their respective keynote speeches...
