SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless Internet and networking infrastructure applications.Intel said the XScale microarchitecture has the flexibility to handle requirements for both ultra-low power and...
In the months before the wireless Internet wave began to take shape, Infowave Software Inc. introduced a desktop software solution called Symmetry that would forward e-mail messages to wireless devices.At the time, it was the company's centerpiece product. Since then, Infowave has evolved to...
NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association's "Xtreme Wireless" conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for high-speed fixed wireless broadband service.Keynote speaker and Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group President Tim...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association reported that Christopher Galvin, chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Inc., will be the opening keynote speaker at PCIA's GlobalXChange."As one of our longstanding industry leaders and supporters, Mr. Galvin has a unique vantage point from which...
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit to block the US$129 billion merger between WorldCom and Sprint, the second- and third-largest U.S. long-distance telecom carriers, respectively. The lawsuit, combined with European Union opposition, effectively killed the deal.ICO-Teledesic Global, a holding company controlling Craig McCaw's...
The world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., said it plans to invest billions to help ease a global shortage of flash memory chips used in mobile phones.Intel said about 45 percent of its first billion flash memory chips were sold to cellular-device makers and...
APTOS, Calif.-RangeStar Wireless raised $25 million in its mezzanine round of funding, which the company said it would use to continue development of its Invisible Antenna technology and support general product development.The round included new investments from Dell Computer Corp., Intel Capital and Summit...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. is expected to announce the formation of its Intel Wireless Competence Center in Beijing to promote wireless Internet technology in China, Reuters reported.The center will allow Chinese companies to develop technologies enabling new services for broadband Internet, with Intel assisting...
Concerns over the effectiveness of Research In Motion Ltd.'s distribution partners came to a head last week, as expectations of flat revenues in the face of increased spending forced the company's stock down 44 percent, despite positive earnings and new product and partnership announcements.The...
Add another wireless application service provider to the mix, as Everypath Inc. commercially launched a service designed to extend Web content wirelessly, at Internet World 2000 last week.The company's technology allows enterprise customers and dot-com companies to make their content available on wireless devices...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...
Aether Systems Inc. launched a $15 million national television and print advertising and branding campaign last week in support of its growing wireless data systems and services business.The "Wireless Solutions for a Portable Planet" campaign that began with print ads earlier in the year...
Leveraging its dominance in the enterprise computing market, IBM Corp. formed a string of partnerships with leading wireless industry players designed to speed the growth of wireless Internet and e-business solutions for enterprise customers.The core of the computing giant's strategy is to give its...
Phone.com Inc. unveiled a new Wireless Application Protocol-based system that can change software settings and roaming configurations on handsets after they have been purchased using over-the-air provisioning technology.The system, Mobile Management Server 1.0, was designed to provision WAP gateways, applications and handsets across multiple...
British Telecom and AT&T said they are beginning trials to test roaming services for high-speed Internet phones. The tests will involve General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology and partnerships with wireless operators SmarTone of Hong Kong and Taiwan's FarEasTone. The trials will begin in...
Research In Motion Ltd. last week received a $25 million investment from Nortel Networks and an order for more than 2,000 BlackBerry handheld devices in the next three months from Intel Corp., leading to a strong surge in the company's stock.The Nortel pact is...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The principal supporters of the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology used the U.S.-based Comdex exhibition late last year to take the message of its capabilities to a much wider and more diverse audience. But despite this first public display of the technology, many...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc.These industry powerhouses have joined founders L.M. Ericsson, IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia and Toshiba Corp. in a new group effort called...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology to DSP Communications Inc., which Intel agreed to purchase in October.Qualcomm granted DSPC a cross license for CDMA technology in...
NEW YORK-The irony inherent in the proliferation of communications devices and technologies is the difficulty of getting them to interact with home base.Therein lies a business opportunity for MobileSys Inc., a Mountain View, Calif., start-up that provides middleware. Its mission is to serve as...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. recently announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and to refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This follows NEC's 19 February announcement of its intention to restructure.As part of its reorganization, NEC said it will focus on its...
News that the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., plans to purchase mobile-phone chipset maker DSP Communications Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash left some analysts concerned last week that CDMA innovator Qualcomm Inc. may wreak havoc on the benefits.DSPC licenses Code Division Multiple...
NEW YORK-Denver-based Formus Communications Inc. hopes to raise $150 million in an initial public offering of stock to help finance its deployment of fixed wireless data, voice and Internet access services in Europe.The three-year-old company has launched commercial broadband access service in Poland. It...
