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...
BEIJING-During the first five months of the year, output of mobile phones jumped 108 percent in Shanghai. Exports of information technology products by foreign-invested companies in Shanghai showed the fastest growth rate.For the first time, overseas-invested enterprises in Shanghai were the city's dominant exporters,...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) announced Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of Intel Corp. will deliver a keynote address on the opening day of the 2003 show in Las Vegas. The show, International CES-Your Source for Workstyle and Lifestyle Technology-which is sponsored,...
NEW YORK—Merrill Lynch downgraded Intel Corp. to "neutral" from "strong buy" as the company prepared for its mid-quarter conference call.Analyst Joe Osha said he downgraded the chipmaker because of "a lack of visibility into personal computer end market, particularly on the corporate side."
KIRKLAND, Wash.—Intelligent faceplate manufacturer Wildseed Ltd. announced its handset design will use Intel Corp. StrongArm SA-1110 application processors and upcoming processors based on the Intel XScale technology to power Wildseed's Smart Skin-capable wireless phones.Smart Skins can package ring tones, games, screensavers and Web links...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Wireless module and terminal designer Cellon International announced it has received funding form the Intel Communications Fund, Softband China Venture Capital, SUNeVision Venture and UTStarcom, completing the company's Series C round of venture financing."The investment capital will be used to fund the...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—Hop-On said it has signed a contract to allow Intel Corp. to provide chipsets for its disposable cell phones.The cell phone, which will provide an hour of prepaid calling minutes, will use TDMA air interface technology.
LONDON—ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. announced it will port its speech and natural handwriting recognition solutions to the new Intel PXA250 and Intel PXA210 applications processors."Recognition technologies like those from ART are important in driving the next generation of user interfaces for wireless devices,"...
TOKYO—Intel Corp. unveiled its 1.8 Volt wireless flash memory for cell pones, describing it as up to four times faster than existing flash solutions. It is built on Intel's 0.13-micron process technology."As more data-intensive Internet applications, power flash memory are required, and Intel is...
BEIJING—Datang Telecom launched China's first manufacturing company for third-generation (3G) mobile-phone equipment on 8 March.Datang invested 150 million yuan (US$18.14 million) in its new Beijing-based subsidiary Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company. Datang President Zhou Huan told the China Daily newspaper he expects the Chinese...
SAN FRANCISCO-In an another tie-up, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to combine Intel's Xscale microarchitecture's PX250 and PXA210 and Windows CE .NET to enable hardware and software developers to create browsing, multimedia and other wireless applications for mobile devices.Both companies said a...
CANNES, France—Sasken announced this week at the 3GSM World Congress that its wideband CDMA protocol stack software has been optimized to work on Intel Corp.'s semiconductor platform."Working with Intel is an important step toward meeting our goal in becoming the world's leading independent vendor...
CANNES, France—The GSM Association continued to move forward with its wide-ranging M-Services Initiative, announcing the second phase of the program, broad support from the supplier community, and a series of task forces to help develop the wireless data market.The association said its phase two...
CANNES, France—Intel Wireless Competence Center and Appear Networks will demonstrate wireless local area network (WLAN) location-based services at the 3GSM World Congress.The demonstration uses application provisioning technology by Appear Networks, along with Intel Pro/Wireless LAN 802.11b networks and Intel StrongARM-based devices. Users will be...
