Semiconductor players remain the most optimistic wireless sector, even if the stock profiles do not reflect the upbeat mood.Yet according to a new study, the shares are poised to grow. Standards & Poor's Equity Research said semiconductor stocks have the potential to appreciate between...
InnerWireless Inc. will market its InnerMobile in-building wireless distribution system to wireless service providers to enable wireless communications throughout the Sears Tower in Chicago. The wireless system will cover the skyscraper's 110 floors, which encompass 3.5 million square feet of office and retail space...
SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile phones will rule the electronics and computing industries in the coming years, proclaims a new report from research and consulting firm Zelos Group."The mass adoption of full-featured handsets will be disruptive," said Seamus McAteer, senior analyst and managing partner for Zelos Group...
REDMOND, Wash.-Software giant Microsoft Corp. reported revenues of $10.15 billion for its second quarter, up 19 percent over the same quarter in the previous year. The company's net income clocked in at $1.5 billion, down slightly from the $1.9 billion in net income in...
TOKYO-Renesas Technology Corp. announced it will incorporate Microsoft Corp.'s digital audio and video codec technology and RealNetworks Inc.'s digital audio and video codec technologies into its SH-Mobile Series of application processors for next-generation mobile-phone systems.Through this partnership, the codec technologies, which are currently used...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments said it has unveiled what it calls the first complete EDGE smart-phone chipset and reference design.The product, known as TCS3500, is buoyed by the OMAP processor and supports all leading mobile operating systems, including Symbian, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Linux and Palmsource, according...
ICT Technologies Inc. and its operating company EurophoneUSA Inc. said they will partner with Korean mobile phone design company Uroa Tech to sell a range of wireless devices across the world, including an advanced GPRS device running Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system. RCR Wireless...
"We're a bunch of wireless guys that absolutely love wireless data," Russell Simatic said of his three partners, himself and their one-year-old venture, Pulse.Simatic, president and chief executive officer, and vice presidents Gordon Clark, Jeff Loltveit and Jeff Volkman left Sprint PCS in 2002...
I've owned multiple Nintendo game consoles. I beat the new "Enter the Matrix" game for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox in less than four days. I once played a Super Mario game for 15 straight hours. I consider myself a competent and informed video gamer.And I...
"We don't think (wireless) is quite mass market enough, and the business model is not quite there yet," said Trudy Muller, spokeswoman for Electronic Arts, the nation's No. 1 video-game maker, in explaining why the company has not entered the wireless market.Although many have...
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Juha Christensen dumped his plans for a wireless startup and instead will helm the wireless and mobile devices business of Internet software company Macromedia.Christensen has long been at the forefront of the wireless industry, first as a co-founder of operating...
LAS VEGAS-As usual, mobile phones formed a major part of the activity at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Audiovox Communications Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics and others showed off their line-ups of advanced mobile phones, and several phone makers...
LAS VEGAS-Bill Gates told a packed audience at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week that technology has become commonplace. Because as of this Christmas my parents have joined the world of people who use wireless phones (with a little arm twisting...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Symbian will come out the winner in the battle for mobile-phone operating systems, followed closely by Microsoft Corp. and the Linux open source OS, according to research and consulting firm Allied Business Intelligence. However, there will be plenty of market to share,...
Motorola Inc.'s long-awaited V600 camera phone will finally hit store shelves this month through AT&T Wireless Services Inc., the companies announced. The phone suffered from software glitches and had been delayed until after the holiday shopping season."Just as the ground-breaking Motorola StarTAC and Motorola...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless modem maker Novatel Wireless Inc. said it will meet its previous fourth-quarter revenue forecasts of between $9.6 and $9.8 million, news that helped push the company's stock up about 7 percent. The company also announced its chief financial officer, Melvin Flowers, is...
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Juha Christensen dumped his plans for a wireless startup and instead will helm the wireless and mobile devices business of Internet software company Macromedia.Christensen has long been at the forefront of the wireless industry, first as a co-founder of operating...
TOKYO-Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. introduced its new 900i series of third-generation FOMA mobile phones, devices that feature perhaps the most advanced services the wireless industry has ever seen.Most importantly, DoCoMo said the devices in general offer three times the battery life...
Although Research In Motion Ltd. promotes its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device as an open and extensible platform for developers, those competing against RIM in the wireless enterprise market argue its new devices will only work with RIM servers and infrastructure-thus making RIM's offering strictly...
Even with the promise of a tech recovery and emergence of new applications for wireless gadgets aimed at free-spending teenagers, information-starved road warriors and the rest of us, 2004 is apt to be no more than a sexed-up version of the year that was....
Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. introduced its new 900i series of third-generation FOMA mobile phones, devices that feature perhaps the most advanced services the wireless industry has ever seen.Most importantly, DoCoMo said the devices in general offer three times the battery life...
BEIJING-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is planning to sell a Linux-based smart phone, the CDMA i519, in the Chinese market.The phone is the latest wireless device to use a Linux operating system. The technology is continuing to gain traction in the wireless market as device...
There are plenty of contentious questions in the operating system business. Will Microsoft Corp. dominate the mobile-phone field as it has done in the desktop computer business? Will Symbian manage to escape Nokia Corp.'s shadow and entice broad support? Will PalmSource Inc. translate its...
REDMOND, Wash.-Former Microsoft Corp. pointman Juha Christensen again popped into the limelight, this time as an appointment to the board of directors for wireless technology company Action Engine Corp."We are delighted to have someone of Juha's caliber step into this role at Action Engine,"...
