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...
The popularity of wireless may be contributing to an industrywide shortage of some components used in mobile devices, although device manufacturers may not be feeling the effects just yet.After suffering through a slump during the last several years that was characterized by an oversupply...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and said it will refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This follows NEC's Feb. 19 announcement of its intention to restructure.As part of its reorganization, NEC said it will focus on...
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short time, RIM has transformed itself into a market leader in technically advanced interactive pagers...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it invested in Formus Communications in an effort to build out Formus' networks, which will provide improved broadband Internet access to small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as finance business development activities in Europe.Denver-based Formus is deploying last-mile broadband...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group-Ericsson Inc., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Toshiba Corp.-announced the release of the Bluetooth 1.0 specification.The Bluetooth 1.0 specification consists of two documents-the Foundation Core, which provides design specifications, and the...
NEW YORK-GTE Corp., Intel Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sprint Corp. are among companies participating in a study, launched in mid-July, to probe successful practices involved in post-merger and acquisition integration.Best Practices L.L.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., is conducting the evaluation, entitled "Post-Merger and Acquisition...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-A start-up company called @Motion Inc. announced plans to create an Internet voice portal server to link wireless networks with Internet portals.The company said its voice portal server infrastructure will allow any wireless carrier or portal provider to offer Internet-based services-like unified...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sharp Corp. agreed to standardize specifications for stacked chip scale packages, a multiple memory module for mobile communications and handheld computing applications.Specifications of S-CSP with flash memory and SRAM chips include compatibility of pin assign, unification...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. and Dialogic Corp. announced they entered into an agreement under which Intel will acquire Dialogic for $44 per share in an all-cash transfer offer valued at approximately $780 million.The acquisition is aimed at expanding Intel's standard-high-volume server business, said the...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-To move device interconnectivity from enticing theory to practical reality, the new Wireless Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley has formed a bi-coastal collaboration with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University in New Jersey."We started the Wireless...
Sirius CommunicationsSirius Communications NV introduced the DataSat Code Division Multiple Access development system. It offers an alternative to today's very small aperture terminal systems. It works with all existing satellite bands, and TV satellite receiver antennas may be used to receive the signals. The...
