SANTA CLARA, California, United States—In another vote of support for Intel's Personal Internet Client Architecture initiative, Compaq Computer said it will work with Intel on PCA-based devices running on current and next-generation networks.The announcement comes a day after operating-system designer Symbian announced its intent...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—In another vote of support for Intel Corp.'s Personal Internet Client Architecture initiative, Compaq Computer Corp. said it will work with Intel on PCA-based devices running on current and next-generation networks.The announcement comes a day after operating-system designer Symbian announced its intent...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intel Corp. and Symbian today announced they will team to accelerate software application development for wireless devices based on the Intel's Personal Internet Client Architecture and the Symbian operating system.Symbian also announced its support for Intel PCA, Intel's open design for building...
Two of the world's leading chip makers last week announced deals they said would lead to the creation of faster and more efficient processors for 2.5- and third-generation mobile devices.Texas Instruments Inc. and Intel Corp. separately said they would license microprocessing technology from ARM...
Palm Inc. last week announced a deal with some of the country's biggest chip makers to design a pre-packaged chip architecture for Palm OS-based personal digital assistants, a move Palm said will speed up the design and development time for the company's licensees and...
As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The slump in the chip business was reflected in Intel Corp.'s second-quarter report as both sales and earnings dropped and little expected to cheer in the company's anticipated third quarter results.Sales in the second quarter fell 24 percent to $6.33 billion from...
NEW YORK-Even without next-generation wireless networks, Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley are at work on myriad ways to improve delivery and presentation of Internet content to end users, as demonstrated at last week's Flashforward2001 conference.San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc. convened the meeting here to update...
NEW YORK-Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Xircom Inc., Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., will begin selling in August two new wireless local area network products, a base station for home and small offices and a module for the Palm m500 series handheld computers.The Intel...
As wireless local area networks continue to permeate the enterprise market, corporate IT managers are faced with having to learn how to integrate the new technology into a working environment. Recent reports have noted enterprises implementing wireless LANs onto their networks not only allow...
Having signed a $1.35 trillion tax-cut into law and organized a tee ball game on the South Lawn, President Bush has now turned his attention to 2004. Not that the first six months of his presidency were totally divorced from 2004, but with the...
Wireless networking recently received a boost from the Federal Communications Commission, which said it was proposing new rules regarding frequency hopping spread spectrum systems operating in the 2.4 GHz band that would allow faster data rates than currently available. The move is expected to...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
NEW YORK-For the price of additional transceiver cards and its Zone Manager product, mDiversity, San Jose, Calif., promises it can double second-generation GSM network capacity without additional base stations or handset modifications."We believe there is a real opportunity in improving today's 2G voice system,...
Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others have seen how Intel Corp. has dominated the mobile computer market with its...
Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, preserve TDMA and serve as an interim solution in the sojourn to the third-generation...
In addition to the variety of toppings available for your morning latte, Starbucks Coffee Co. soon will be offering its customers high-speed wireless Internet access.The Seattle-based coffee giant last week announced a five-year strategic relationship with Compaq Computer Corp. to provide its retail stores...
NEW YORK-Investors looking for successful Bluetooth market plays will have to wait till late this year, but the outlook for the technology will grow brighter during the next several years, said Johan Strandberg, senior wireless equipment analyst for Stockholm-based Deutsche Bank-Scandinavia."There are significant Bluetooth...
Intel Corp. embedded itself further into the wireless space last week as it demonstrated its Micro Signal Architecture, a fast digital signal processor for wireless handheld devices the company developed with Analog Devices Inc.The product, which is capable of operating at speeds of up...
Chips are falling through the cracks of the slowing economy.Just like phone makers, solutions providers and operators, chip makers are buckling in what analysts describe as their worst time ever.Big names like Texas Instruments, Intel Inc. and Conexant Systems Inc. have reflected the sour...
GroupServeGroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup's first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
LAS VEGAS-Computer and Internet royalty gathered in Las Vegas for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Wireless 2001 show, offering up opinions and advice about the comparatively new wireless industry that is becoming an integral part of the desktop, laptop and wired Web world.Jerry...
AWRApplied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of marketing, Patston will lead AWR's...
