Handsets/wireless devicesSonySony Electronics unveiled its CLIE handhePEG-T415 ld with reduced profile, featuring a slim design with aluminum case and enhanced infrared port for controlling audio and video equipment. The company also...
LAS VEGAS—Planet Halo Inc. unveiled its new personal digital assistant/mobile phone device at the Consumer Electronics Show, with plans to ship the device in June.The company said its device, which features a QWERTY keyboard, Java capability and support for GPRS, CDMA 1xRTT and Mobitex...
NEW YORK—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) held its first smart card interoperability event in mid-December at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, bringing together 35 industry experts to address three crucial areas. The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Smart Card Interoperability meeting, organized...
NEW YORK—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute held its first smart card interoperability event in mid-December at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, bringing together 35 industry experts to address three crucial areas. The Third Generation Partnership Project Smart Card Interoperability meeting, organized by ETSI's...
Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...
DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world's largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems, Borland Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The move could put further...
NEW YORK—GoAmerica Inc. made yet another major announcement, this time that it is acquiring OutBack Resource Group of San Luis Obispo in order to expand its efforts in Java technology, with an eye toward developing its Go.Web service in Java by the first quarter...
SAN DIEGO—Zucotto Wireless Inc., which works to integrate wireless connectivity with Java technology, cut its work force by 40 percent, or 39 positions, in response to the economic slowdown."Zucotto has delivered a silicon-proven Java technology-based product to the market, and must now continue to...
SHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. said it has unveiled two new handsets, the i90c and i80s, which it says users can customize with downloadable applications.The phones, which include a hands-free speakerphone, are built with Java 2 Micro Edition technology, according to the company."Users can schedule a...
TORONTO—Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has acquired Plazmic, a closely held Toronto company that makes software for wireless devices. Financial terms were not disclosed.Founded in 1996, Plazmic develops graphic programs for handhelds using the Java programming language, which has been adopted...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced two new wireless handsets for its iDEN network designed and manufactured by Motorola Inc., the i90c and i80s. Nextel noted both handsets include Java technology, expanding the carrier's Java-enabled phone line to four models.The i90c features a clam-shell design...
NORTH CHELMSFORD, Mass.—SavaJe Technologies said it has released the first operating system that allows device manufacturers, enterprises and system integrators to deliver Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition for embedded and handheld devices for both businesses and consumers."The release of SavaJe XE version 1.0 marks...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. introduced two new wireless handsets for its iDEN network designed and manufactured by Motorola Inc., the i90c and i80s. Nextel noted both handsets include Java technology, expanding the carrier's Java-enabled phone line to four models.The i90c features a clam-shell design...
MANILA, Philippines—Smart Communications has chosen SchlumbergerSema's Java subscriber identity module (SIM) smart cards as its platform for data services, SchlumbergerSema said.Smart handles about 45 million outgoing short message service (SMS) messages per day. The new SIM technology doubles the memory available to subscribers for...
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...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo plans to triple the data transmission speed (for downlinks) of i-mode service from current 9.6 kbps to 28.8 kbps in the spring of 2002, NTT DoCoMo announced on 11 September. At the same time, it will increase the memory capacity for iAppli...
SAN DIEGO—Zucotto Wireless Inc. recently announced its has licensed Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) technology for its XPRESSOcore processor family.With the license, Zucotto said it will be able to deliver its XPRESSOcore Java technology-based processors to manufacturers of mobile handsets, wireless...
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...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. said it has made a phone known as i55sr that can withstand physically demanding conditions. The handset, which is based on the Java 2 platform, Micro Edition technology, comes with pre-installed business and entertainment applications such as calculators and games.
OXFORD, United Kingdom—BT Cellnet signed a licensing deal with Research In Motion (RIM) that enables it to launch a wireless e-mail service in Europe. The company said it plans to introduce RIM Blackberry products next month in the United Kingdom, followed by the Netherlands...
Standard and Poor's has downgraded U.K. telecom equipment maker Marconi to "BBB-" from "BBB+", just on the edge of junk bond status. The credit ratings agency said it could downgrade the company further if sales and profitability did not improve.Rental car company Hertz Corp....
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...
Even though third-generation services are not yet available on mobile phones, one Belgium-based company is betting that 3G telematics services will be just as big, if not bigger.Acunia NV, Leuven, Belgium, crossed the Atlantic at the beginning of last year to set up a...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles and Nokia agreed to cooperate in developing applications for value-added services for Telefonica Moviles clients in business and consumer segments. The companies will set up a services creation center in Madrid with the latest technologies and infrastructures to test new applications.In...
