SINGAPORE-M1, a cellular and paging carrier in Singapore, has commenced a free trial through March 31 of its new SunSurf wireless broadband service, available at 60 hot spots to consumers with portable or handheld computers using a Microsoft Inc. operating system.M1 plans to increase...
MANILA, The Philippines-Smart Communications Inc. has become the second operator worldwide and the first in Asia to offer a Microsoft-powered smart phone, following Orange U.K. last year. Smart is the largest mobile operator in the Philippines.Smart said the "Smart Amazing Phone," featuring Pocket Outlook,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Application processor company NeoMagic Corp. said it will offer a reference design kit the company said will allow manufacturers to easily and quickly build a smart phone using Microsoft Corp.'s software.NeoMagic's reference design, dubbed Genesys, incorporates Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, as well...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless corporate e-mail company Seven announced it scored Orange as a new customer, and that the carrier will offer Seven's unique network-based corporate information product in the United Kingdom.Seven's service, dubbed Office Freedom by Orange, gives mobile workers wireless access to Microsoft...
CANNES, France-Emblaze Systems, which develops customized services and technologies for wireless carriers, will join Micorsoft, Nortel, LG and others to demonstrate third-generation (3G) technologies for mobile carriers at this year's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. Emblaze will demonstrate: Microsoft Internet content, including movie trailers...
MIAMI, Fla.-Wireless device maker E-Rex Inc. said it will delay the release of its ambitious wireless e-mail, Internet and printing device-dubbed Dragonfly-due to lack of available funding."Due to the continued long-term decline in the company's share price, E-Rex is unable to ensure Valcom that...
TORONTO-Canadian wireless operator Rogers AT&T Wireless reported a strategic agreement with Microsoft Canada to provide mobile access to the full suite of Microsoft Office applications from wireless devices.Under terms of the agreement the two companies will jointly provide and promote wireless offerings to the...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. has countered mobile-phone maker Sendo's claims that Microsoft purposely drove the company to the brink of bankruptcy, insisting instead that Sendo was to blame for the situation by not devoting enough resources to its planned Microsoft Smartphone and misleading Microsoft concerning...
Just months after European carrier Orange released the world's first mobile phone running on Microsoft's Smartphone operating system, the two companies are working to develop a patch for a software bug in the phone's operating system, a bug that allows users to bypass the...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. reported revenues of $8.5 billion for its second quarter, up from the $7.7 billion it scored in the same quarter last year.The company also announced its first ever annual dividend of 16 cents per share. The company's stock was down about...
LONDON-Orange is looking into possible security breaches in its new SPV smart phone, according to reports. The device is the first to use Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system.Neither Orange nor Microsoft was immediately available for comment.The security bugs were posted on a smart phone...
LAS VEGAS-Known as the two-headed monster of the personal computing industry by the nickname Wintel, the heads of Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. made special mention of the importance wireless technology will play in the future of consumer electronics during their respective keynote speeches...
LAS VEGAS-Conference-goers who managed to brave the miles of show floor at this year's annual Consumer Electronics Show were witness to a significant movement in the electronics landscape-the rise of wireless. Hundreds of wireless companies showed off their wares at the well-attended convention, and...
SEATTLE, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. said it has changed the name of its Windows Server product from .Net to Windows Server 2003, the fourth time the product has experienced a name change. It succeeds the Windows 2000 Server."The aim of the name change is to clarify...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-Apple Computer Inc. has unveiled a wide-screen laptop computer with a wireless networking technology five times faster than the available standard.The 17-inch-screen Titanium PowerBook will hit retail shelves in February, while the 12-inch screen PowerBook will hit retail shelves in two weeks.Apple...
DALLAS-JP Mobile announced its SureWave software will now ship with the Nokia 9290 Communicator.SureWave software enables secure, synchronized access to enterprise applications including Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino groupware. "This agreement allows us to provide users an enhanced solution for secure mobile access and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As Microsoft and Symbian fight for dominance in the burgeoning smart-phone operating system (OS) market, U.S.-based Montavista Software has announced it is working with NEC to develop a Linux-based OS specifically targeted for use within cell phones.According to Montavista, Symbian is the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-The Linux operating system has raised its stakes in the wireless world in a pact with MontaVista Software, which has agreed to embed the OS into a variety of handsets.The move squares Linux off against both the Palm and Symbian operating systems.Phone maker...
LAS VEGAS-Stan Sigman, the new head of Cingular Wireless, will not give a keynote speech during the Consumer Electronics Show, an appearance originally slated for Cingular's former President and CEO Stephen Carter. Sigman bows out of a keynote lineup that includes the heads of...
SEOUL, South Korea-Hanaro Telecom Inc., South Korea's second-largest broadband and fixed-line carrier, announced it would take over its rival Korea Thrunet Co., signaling a major change in the fast-evolving high-speed Internet access market.Hanaro held a board of directors' meeting early Monday and finalized the...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-British mobile-phone maker Sendo filed a lawsuit against its former business partner Microsoft Corp., a move that further illuminates the reasons behind Sendo's decision to dump Microsoft's smart phone software in favor of that from Microsoft rival Nokia Corp.According to media reports,...
WASHINGTON-It would be nice to say this policy or that technology will shape the direction of the wireless industry in 2003. But neither industry nor official Washington has that luxury. Geopolitics could come to color the wireless world to a far greater extent than...
As one of the most challenging years in telecom history winds down, the wireless sector faces a variety of threats from within and outside the industry.Which threats will prove to be mere specters and which ones turn out to be true wolves remains to...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Microsoft Corp. purchased reference design software from Intrinsyc Software Inc., a product the companies said will help original design manufacturers to create devices based on Microsoft's range of device operating systems.Intrinsyc's wireless handheld reference design, the MicroPDA (
