AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have partnered to offer Windows Mobile Start Service to AT&T Wireless customers with Motorola MPx200 phones. The Microsoft Web service allows AT&T Wireless customers to access an AT&T Wireless Web site to configure their phones for personal...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Synchronization company Pumatech Inc. today released its new Intellisync: goAnywhere software, which the company is selling through its Web site and retail partners for $100 per year.Pumatech said the software gives personal digital assistant and mobile-phone users remote access to Microsoft Outlook...
Jon Tetzchner wants to kill WAP. And he's not alone."It makes no sense to have two systems," said Tetzchner, chief executive officer of Internet browsing company Opera Software ASA.Tetzchner is hoping to kill WAP by making it obsolete. He's got company-Nokia Corp., Sony Ericsson...
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. are missing from the membership list of Khronos Group, an open standards alliance that is pursuing open application programming interfaces for dynamic media in the wireless space.In spite of stellar members like Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc. and Motorola...
Mobile-phone operating system company Symbian Ltd. offered a positive outlook on its third-quarter results, showing more than 1 million Symbian phones shipping in the quarter and total revenues of about $16 million."Symbian has continued to make good progress in Q3 2003," said David Levin,...
Less than a month after Nokia Corp. introduced its first foray into the video gaming realm, hackers have managed to break the security settings on the company's N-Gage mobile phone/video game device and are making pirated copies of N-Gage games available on the Internet.The...
Did de Tocqueville consider globalization?The keen French observer of America in the 1830s undoubtedly was correct in realizing we are different, unique as things go and egalitarian in emphasis. De Tocqueville called it "American Exceptionalism." Indeed, there was not one event or influence...
Failure to arrive at an industry standard has caught ultra-wideband technology players between bowing to standards pressures and customer demand.The Institute of Electrical and Electronics working group's meeting, which ended Nov. 14, closed like the one held two months earlier-without the 75 percent votes...
Microsoft Corp. scored another major distribution deal for its mobile-phone software with Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, announcing the availability of the Samsung SCH-i600 with Microsoft's Smartphone operating system.Verizon will sell the high-powered clamshell phone for $400 with a two-year service agreement...
The head of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile devices division, Juha Christensen, will leave the software giant to start his own company, which will focus on creating Web services for advanced wireless devices."We're sorry to see him go, but are thrilled that he will be working...
REDMOND, Wash.-The head of Microsoft Corp.'s mobile devices division, Juha Christensen, will leave the software giant to start his own company, one focused on creating Web services for smart devices."We're sorry to see him go, but are thrilled that he will be working with...
LOS ANGELES-Following on promises to release additional information on their plan, Microsoft Corp. and Vodafone Group plc offered further insight into their Web services plan. Specifically, the companies released their Web services white paper at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference."To jump-start standardized mobile Web...
Following on promises to release additional information on their plan, Microsoft Corp. and Vodafone Group plc offered further insight into their Web services plan. Specifically, the companies released their Web services white paper at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference."To jump-start standardized mobile Web services,...
As the guinea pig of technologies, enterprise has enjoyed some play in the wireless industry of late. Whether in terms of alliances or new enabling solutions, carriers and enterprise players are paying more attention. Sprint PCS manifested this interest in a suite of announcements...
SEATTLE-Miniature wireless camera company X10 Wireless Technology, known for its pop-up Internet advertisements, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week. The bankruptcy filing comes two weeks after a jury ordered X10 to pay $4.3 million in damages to three brothers who said X10 stole...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Sendo has released its multimedia smart phone, the Sendo X, featuring video, audio, camera, connectivity and Internet functionality. The release comes amid the company's legal battle with Microsoft Corp. after Sendo dumped the Microsoft operating system earlier this year and filed a...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless and Motorola, Inc. announced nationwide availability of the Motorola MPx200, a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based smart phone for the North American market.The phone is available for $299.99 with any compatible AT&T Wireless service plan. AT&T Wireless said that when combined with its...
WASHINGTON-A think tank funded by the wireless industry and other tech sectors today warned in a new study that U.S. cellular subscribers could pay over $16 billion a year-or about $10 per month extra-to pay for taxes and regulations imposed on the wireless industry....
Longtime wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a significant new business direction with the unveiling of its Voq phone-a device that marks the arrival of a new smart-phone player and another Microsoft Corp. backer.Investors seemed cheered by the bold move, sending Sierra's stock up...
Longtime wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a significant new business direction with the unveiling of its Voq phone-a device that marks the entrance of a new smart-phone player and another Microsoft Corp. backer.Investors seemed cheered by the bold move, sending Sierra's stock up...
Psion Teklogix released its new Netbook Pro portable computer, a device that uses Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE.NET operating system.The move is notable as Psion Teklogix is a division of Psion plc, which is a major stakeholder in operating system company Symbian. Symbian and Microsoft...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless announced it will offer a BREW application that will allow users to wirelessly link to their desktop calendar applications.The iDatebook application, from Xpherix Corp., allows users to access calendar content held in existing Microsoft Outlook or Palm OS software applications from...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Mobile phone startup Sendo said its case against Microsoft Corp. will go ahead in a Texas courtroom instead of moving to Washington. Microsoft had filed a request for the case to be moved to its home state.Further, Sendo said the court will...
Motorola Inc. has largely laid out its mobile-phone strategy to the industry-it plans to take advantage of key growth markets like China, while diversifying its phones with software from the likes of Microsoft Corp. and Symbian-but industry watchers see the execution of the scheme...
