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...
NEW YORK—IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and a few other companies are coming together to form an alliance known as the Web Services Interoperability Organizations to form standards for business transactions over the Web.Other companies expected to join the group are BEA Systems, Intel and...
NEW YORK—International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and a few other companies are coming together to form an alliance known as the Web Services Interoperability Organizations to form standards for business transactions over the Web.Other companies expected to join the group...
WASHINGTON—A new report calls on the U.S. government to make an additional 200 megahertz of spectrum available to the marketplace by 2010 to foster the development of high-speed, wireless broadband services. The report, prepared by the Computer Systems Policy Project, was released in conjunction...
WASHINGTON—A leading public-safety organization today told the Federal Communications Commission it has serious concerns about potential interference from ultra-wideband transmissions to radio systems used by police, firefighters and emergency medical workers and to GPS-based technologies used to locate emergency callers.The Association of Public-Safety Communications...
The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the wireless industry.The handheld computing industry has suffered through the past year along with the...
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. said it expects its fourth-quarter sales this year to beat its previous estimate of between $6.2 billion and $6.8 billion. It says its forecast ranges from $6.7 billion to $6.9 billion."Demand for Intel microprocessors has been better than expected, trending in...
Audiovox CommunicationsAudiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of Flash Rom and an Intel Strong ARM 206 MHz processor. It also includes built-in CFR...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems Inc., Comverse Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International Inc., have agreed to form a forum to develop a platform-free standard for multi-modal and telephony-enabled access to information, applications...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said its price war with Intel Corp. will make its third-quarter loss before charges greater than anticipated, expecting between $90 million and $110 million loss, or 26 cents to 31 cents per share.The company's shares slumped 49...
BADEN, Germany—Intel Corp. introduced the Intel Telematics Design Center, a program that provides Web-based development and technical support for designing navigation, multimedia, hands-free and other in-car Internet products and applications using the Intel StrongArm and the upcoming Intel XScale-based processors.The center includes hardware designs...
WCitiesLocation-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users' cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the company's chief executive officer, with the service, cell-phone and PDA users can find whatever they're looking for anywhere in the...
