High Tech Computer Corp. announced it will use a mobile-phone design platform from Ericsson to develop devices for EDGE and W-CDMA networks."HTC is a world-leading ODM company that provides smart handheld product design and manufacturing service to our customers," said H.T. Cho, HTC Corp.'s...
CHICAGO-United Airlines said it will begin offering two-way e-mail capability on its domestic flights using Verizon Communications Inc. subsidiary Verizon Airfone's JetConnect service.The in-flight service, which includes e-mail, instant messaging and text-messaging services, costs $16 per flight plus 10 cents per kilobyte of data...
SAN FRANCISCO-It's a numbers game.Three million developers. Three million downloads of the J2ME software development kit last year. Five hundred fifty million desktops running Java. Fifty-three wireless carriers deploying Java services to 100 million subscribers. One hundred million Java-enabled handsets in the world. Three...
LONDON-Siemens AG said it has collaborated with Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time communications technology called OpenScape for enterprise.The application converges voice and data and combines instant messaging, presence information, a range of multimedia collaboration tools, e-mail and the Outlook calendar for office communication."I...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. released details of MSN Direct, the service plan it will offer for the smart watches that Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, described earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show.Subscribers to MSN Direct will be able to access...
The founders of personal digital assistant pioneer Palm Inc. have returned to the fold as the company announced an all-stock, $169 million plan to acquire rival Handspring Inc.Industry luminaries Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky founded Palm in 1992, but they left the company in...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is infringing on one of Sendo's patents.Sendo said it has initiated legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London...
The long, hard road of Wireless Knowledge seems to have finally come to an end.Starting Monday, Wireless Knowledge will fold into Qualcomm Inc.'s Wireless Business Solutions division.Qualcomm Inc. helped launch the company as a joint venture with Microsoft Corp. in 1998 and later took...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. released details of MSN Direct, the service plan it will offer for the smart watches that Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, described earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show.Subscribers to MSN Direct will be able to access...
Mobile-phone upstart Sendo lashed out with another lawsuit over its canceled Microsoft Corp. smart phone, this time claiming European carrier Orange is infringing on one of Sendo's patents.Sendo said it has initiated legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Orange...
As open standards and alliance building become the Holy Grail of the wireless industry, some industry watchers see them as oxymoron and schemes to capture market share."Standard groups are paper tigers," remarked Isaac Ro, senior analyst, mobile and wireless technologies with the Aberdeen group...
Palm Inc. announced a new expanded partnership with European carrier Orange France, a move that further highlights the growing device market and the importance of carrier relationships.Palm and Orange France said they will team to create the Orange bureau service, which the companies said...
DENVER-Instant messaging technology provider Jabber Inc. said it will introduce a range of products and services aimed at the wireless industry, including a gateway the company said will allow mobile-phone users to send IM messages to desktop computer users.Separately, Jabber said it extended its...
Microsoft Corp. announced two new sales agreements for devices using its Smartphone operating system and reiterated commitments from T-Mobile in the United Kingdom and Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in the United States to sell Smartphone devices.Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera said it...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless security software developer Columbitech announced its Columbitech Wireless Suite now offers support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows CE .NET."We see great momentum in the market for Microsoft's mobility products," said Pontus Bergdahl, chief executive officer at Columbitech. "With the...
Finnish company Comptel Corp. said it won a global contract with Telefonica Moviles for Comptel's mediation and provisioning software. Under the agreement, Comptel's technology will be available to all companies in the Telefonica group. The value of the contract was not disclosed. The contract...
Wireless browser company Access Co. Ltd. said it will include Macromedia's Flash technology in its NetFront browser."Macromedia Flash is the obvious choice for our NetFront browser because of its ability to effectively deliver rich content in a compact format," said Toru Arakawa, Access' president...
CALGARY-Sonic Mobility said Microsoft Inc. has chosen its Sonicadmin software to power the new Windows Server 2003 Mobile Admin Pack. The solution, which will be available in June to U.S. Microsoft customers, includes a Pocket PC equipped with tools that allow users to access...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee today appeared poised to approve the nomination of R. Hewitt Pate to be chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division, a key Bush administration post that is expected to be challenged with consolidation in the wireless industry and other high-tech...
European carrier Orange SA said it will expand its relationship with Microsoft Corp. to offer text-messaging-based access to Microsoft's instant messaging and e-mail programs to all of Orange's 35 million customers.Under the deal, Orange customers will be able to conduct real-time MSN Messenger instant-messaging...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said it will begin offering its Sigmarion III handheld PC May 28. The device, which uses the Microsoft Windows CE .NET operating system, is compatible with NTT DoCoMo's FOMA network and its second-generation networks.The Japanese carrier said the handheld is ideal for...
The wireless industry inched closer to the third dimension with two new major announcements on the 3D front.First, technology company HI Corp. said it launched its Mascot Capsule Micro3D Engine extension for Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW application download service, which means BREW content developers will...
T-Mobile International AG and Microsoft Corp. sought to clarify media reports concerning possible delays of the release of a T-Mobile phone using Microsoft software in Europe, but T-Mobile wouldn't give a specific release date.Media reports surfaced last week that T-Mobile had delayed the release...
Chipmakers continue to stake claims in anticipation of an assured industry upswing.Bellwethers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. offered optimistic second-quarter projections, reinforcing a view that the sector has seen its worst days. In separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, both companies...
