SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. has renamed its upcoming mobile computing technology that will extend wireless capabilities to notebook computers using 802.11 technology. Centrino mobile technology, formerly called Banias, is slated to debut in the first half of this year. "The Centrino brand signifies a...
LAS VEGAS-Stan Sigman, the new head of Cingular Wireless, will not give a keynote speech during the Consumer Electronics Show, an appearance originally slated for Cingular's former President and CEO Stephen Carter. Sigman bows out of a keynote lineup that includes the heads of...
As one of the most challenging years in telecom history winds down, the wireless sector faces a variety of threats from within and outside the industry.Which threats will prove to be mere specters and which ones turn out to be true wolves remains to...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. continued its march to help grow the nascent market for Wi-Fi technology, announcing two new investments in companies operating in the space. The Intel Communications Fund announced funding for STSN, a visitor-based network access company, and TeleSym, an IP telephony...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. continued its march to help grow the nascent market for Wi-Fi technology, announcing two new investments in companies operating in the space. The Intel Communications Fund announced funding for STSN, a visitor-based network access company, and TeleSym, an IP telephony...
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2002 in...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. continued its march to help grow the nascent market for Wi-Fi technology, announcing two new investments in companies operating in the space. The Intel Communications Fund announced funding for STSN, a visitor-based network access company, and TeleSym, an IP telephony...
NEW YORK-J.P. Morgan has downgraded three top semiconductor vendors, including Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments, owing to slow uptake of wireless products.In the eyes of the brokerage firm, Intel and AMD ratings dropped to "underweight," while Intel fell to "neutral."...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Reflecting the prevailing mood in the wireless industry, Probe Research has demonstrated that marquee telecom as well as information/Internet Protocol vendors will groan from pain in the near future.But the research firm singles out Sun Microsystems Inc. as a company with little...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. announced it is working with Intel Corp. to integrate CPS's location technology-enhanced observed time difference technology-into a variety of Intel products geared toward the wireless and handheld markets.The companies plan to integrate E-OTD into mobile devices running Intel's...
NEW YORK-Leading industry players have teamed together to form a new company called Cometa Networks to provide wireless Internet access nationwide to telecom companies, Internet service providers, cable operators and wireless carriers using Wi-Fi technology, or 802.11.Floated earlier this year as Project Rainbow, the...
CARY, N.C.-Wireless software platform provider Pinpoint Networks Inc. announced it closed new venture funding with Intel Capital, which brings the company's total funding to $20 million since its founding in 1999."Our greatest accomplishment over the past 12 months has been a laser-like focus on...
GALWAY, Ireland-Am-Beo has received a $12.5 million second round of venture-capital financing led by Intel Capital in conjunction with Advent Venture Partners and ACT Venture Capital. To date, the company has raised a total of $20 million.The software developer provides the capability for third-generation...
LONDON-Intec Telecom Systems said it acquired L.M. Ericsson's Settler interconnect billing product unit for a cash amount of $5.1 million.The deal also allows Intel to develop and market the Settler product range, according to a press release."By acquiring this product unit, we not only...
Even though accessing wireless data using wireless local area networks is a questionable revenue driver for wireless carriers, any operator without a clear 802.11b-based business model is seen by many in the industry as being behind the times. The buzz surrounding WLAN technology based...
LONDON-Intec Telecom Systems said it acquired Ericsson's Settler interconnect billing product unit for a cash amount of US$5.1 million.The deal also allows Intel to develop and market the Settler product range, according to a press release."By acquiring this product unit, we not only bring...
LONDON-Intec Telecom Systems said it acquired L.M. Ericsson's Settler interconnect billing product unit for a cash amount of $5.1 million.The deal also allows Intel to develop and market the Settler product range, according to a press release."By acquiring this product unit, we not only...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel corp. said it has opened a $2 billion expanded chip plant, called Fab 11X, in New Mexico to build microprocessors on 12-inch silicon wafers."As computing and communications devices converge, the need for increasingly complex components with more capabilities will grow," Intel...
LONDON-The GSM Association said it will continue its annual awards program into 2003 and officially called for entries. The association also said Intel will be the headline sponsor for the awards and Motorola will sponsor the applications and services categories. Other categories include technology...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Wireless Communications Association announced an Intel Corp. executive, Sriram Viswanathan, managing director of strategic investments for Intel Capital, will deliver an afternoon address to open its Ninth Annual Technical Symposium & Business Expo on January 13 in San Jose, Calif.Viswanathan, who has...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Corp. said it has unveiled a number of products to bring personal computer applications to wireless and handheld products using its Personal Internet Client Architecture building blocks.They include the Intel Wireless MMX technology, Intel Persistent Storage...
SAN FRANCISCO-Intel Corp. has revised its third-quarter revenue in line with market expectation, and analysts anticipate the chipmaker to meet its forecast of between $6.3 billion and $6.7 billion.The company, which is gearing up to host its annual Intel Developer Forum, said its revenue...
SEOUL, South Korea-With an eye to competing with Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics said it plans to spend $3.6 billion on chips, focusing on large-scale integration for mobile phones, home appliances and other devices.The company hopes to pursue this goal by partnering...
BEIJING-China's largest personal computer vendor Legend Group has teamed with Intel and China Mobile to offer mobile wireless Internet services in 138 cities in China and broadband mobile Internet in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.Legend has developed a General Packet...
