TOKYO—Kyocera, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Hanaro Telecom, a leading carrier in Korea, reached an agreement regarding the next-generation high-speed mobile data business, Kyocera announced on 22 January. Based on the agreement, Hanaro plans to launch a high-speed mobile Internet service in...
DALLAS—Nortel Networks has filed a lawsuit accusing Kyocera Corp. of infringing on four patents covering ways wireless communications are transmitted.The lawsuit, filed Jan. 4 in the U.S. District Court in Dallas, seeks damages as well as the recall and destruction of Kyocera products that...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless introduced its Mobile Web Plus service, a wireless e-mail and Internet access service for use on the Kyocera QCP6035 smartphone.The service provides access to up to six e-mail accounts; attachment previews supporting Microsoft Word and Excel, Corel, WordPerfect and PDF files;...
BEIJING—The Japanese electronics company Kyocera and China Zhenhua (Group) Technologies signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to produce mobile-phone handsets in China's southwestern Guizhou province.Registered capital will be US$14.89 million, of which Kyocera holds 70 percent. The company plans to manufacture...
SAN DIEGO—Phone maker Kyocera Corp. has appointed Howard W. Speaks Jr. as its president and chief operating officer. He was the chief executive officer of Triton Network Systems before his new position."Skip brings a proven track record of working with a number of the...
TOKYO—Kyocera Corp., a leading mobile handset manufacturer, plans to cut 10,000 jobs by the end of December 2001 in its overseas operations, Yasuo Nishiguchi, president of Kyocera said on 30 August. In its domestic operation, the firm will eliminate all of the contract employees,...
TOKYO—Kyocera Corp. said it plans to cut 10,000 jobs at is branches overseas, representing 20 percent of its 51,000 work force worldwide.The company said the decision was a reaction to the market slowdown and a strategy to revamp itself.
Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which will allow users of handheld devices to access a garden variety of applications and bring them closer to next-generation technologies."Our...
In the short lifespan of the still nascent wireless Internet, the owners of the operating systems have already learned that best is not always enough. Palm, Windows CE and Symbian are the three OSs trying to slug it out with marketing strategies, technical appeals...
While Nokia Corp. is the hands-down leader for mobile handsets shipped in the United States, the handset giant only holds a 7-percent market share for CDMA phones sold in the country last year, according to the recently released Gartner-Dataquest Full Year 2000 report.Nokia holds...
TOKYO-Barely two weeks after it recalled 560,000 Sony mobile phones, Japanese carrier KDDI Corp. announced another recall of 52,100 cell phones because of software glitches. The phones were made by Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Kyocera Corp., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Sony....
Cellport Systems and Ford Motor Co. have teamed to offer the Cellport 3000 with Voice Command hands-free docking station and adapter in select 2002-model Ford vehicles late this summer, Cellport said.The Cellport 3000 with Voice Command was created to allow mobile-phone users to use...
NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces.PC-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
DENVER-Qwest Wireless last week filed to change its Enhanced 911 Phase II solution from a network-based solution to an assisted Global Positioning Satellite-or hybrid-solution.Qwest in November was one of the 14 carriers to file with the Federal Communications Commission for a network-based solution. Fifteen...
Motient adds IBM customersRESTON, Va.-Motient Corp. said it added 1,400 new customers through its lucrative deal with IBM Corp.IBM will deploy Research In Motion Ltd.'s 857s to its customer service engineers, which marks an extension of the eight-year relationship between Motient and IBM."During the...
HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge Inc. and Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced they are partnering to offer mobile applications for businesses using the Kyocera QCP 6036 smart phone."With our custom applications and shrink-wrapped software products, Wireless Knowledge is committed to supporting Kyocera's CDMA handsets by enabling users...
MELBOURNE-Telstra has made Wireless Application Protocol available on its CDMA digital mobile-phone network.According to director of CDMA at Telstra OnAir, Tim Buckley, Telstra's CDMA customers will enjoy faster CDMA data speeds on more than 80 WAP applications including online shopping, airline flight schedules, e-mail,...
NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...
Since technology is almost meaningless without the phones, it also can be lonely to be a phone maker in a market where securing a cutting edge is the only pathway to success.Recently, Sony Corp. and L.M. Ericsson teamed up to produce the Sony Ericsson...
Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company's platform by 2004.The move ends speculation on whether Symbian's stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use the company's operating platform. A...
Iridium Satellite L.L.C. appointed Gino Picasso president and chief executive officer. Picasso previously was president and chief operating officer of Ace*Comm Corp., a provider of operations support systems software. Dan Colussy, who headed up the team of investors that purchased and reorganized Iridium, will...
The once questionable smart-phone market received additional validation last week as Sprint PCS announced it would market Kyocera Corp.'s QCP-6035 handset beginning later this month. The news follows the carrier's plan to introduce Samsung's SPH-I300 smart phone later this summer, and the lead of...
