As the nation's two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war blazing, some in the industry wonder whether the PDA market isn't quite the gold mine many had hoped.Others, however, see...
Microsoft Corp.'s competitors are calling the attention of anti-trust authorities to the company's new initiative .NET as the software player's latest strategy to extend its monopoly.Analysts think that, in spite of the antitrust lawsuit still pending in the U.S. appeals court against Microsoft, the...
Wireless e-mail company Etrieve Inc. scored two major deals with two major carriers in separate announcements today, moves that will make its services much more widely available to businesses across the country.In its agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., the carrier will sell Etrieve's e-mail,...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
SnapTrack Inc. will provide its SnapTrack SnapSmart Hybrid Wireless Assisted GPS location server software to Seoul-based wireless infrastructure developer, Neolink Technologies Inc. Neolink will incorporate SnapTrack's software into its Position Location Service System carrier-class mobile positioning server, thus adding location-based services to wireless handsets.Meridian...
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...
While seven-digit numbers are usually reserved for a company's bottom line or telephone number, the seven digits in 6,219,694are of extra importance to Canadian-based wireless messaging company Research In Motion Ltd. Those seven numbers represents the patent issued to the company last week from...
Citing the slowdown in the U.S. economy and market conditions, personal digital assistant stalwart Palm Inc. and Extended Systems Inc., which provides mobile information management solutions, ended their proposed merger agreement."While this turn of events is disappointing, Palm and Extended Systems agree that this...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The battle between Handspring Inc. and Palm Inc. rose to a new fevered pitch this week as Handspring announced a spate of new services and applications for its personal digital assistants, a move that comes just one week after both companies announced...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected twist pitting billionaire Craig McCaw against a mobile-phone industry he once towered over, sources say the Federal Communications Commission may propose making some mobile satellite service spectrum-including that held by McCaw's New ICO and other struggling satellite firms-available for third-generation wireless...
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...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS introduced its Wireless Web for Business starter kits for its customers, including Internet-ready phones, service plans, corporate data access software, connectivity devices and customer support for 10 employees at a flat-rate for a three-month period.Sprint PCS said it leverages its...
SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp.'s wireless service is commercially available for the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC via the Sierra Wireless AirCard 300 wireless modem.OmniSky's solution includes features like the Pocket Internet Explorer browser, the Os OneTap feature, which allows users to save Web information into the...
In addition to the variety of toppings available for your morning latte, Starbucks Coffee Co. soon will be offering its customers high-speed wireless Internet access.The Seattle-based coffee giant last week announced a five-year strategic relationship with Compaq Computer Corp. to provide its retail stores...
Mobile devicesAlcatelAlcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are small, Alcatel said. The phone also...
Three industry heavyweights announced plans to create universal standards for mobile instant messaging and presence services, a move that further validates a small but growing segment of the wireless industry.L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. established last week the Wireless Village, which the...
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian's EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week.A simulation using content from Emblaze's content partners and Symbian-based smart phones will be available on Symbian's...
WASHINGTON-Congress, watching dazzling new technological and marketing advances driven by the Internet and its uncertain migration to wireless devices, has been dragged into high-stakes controversy over whether business methods patents are stifling innovation in the New Economy. The nasty and highly publicized legal fight...
While most wireless companies are targeting either the consumer or the business market with their technology, a select few are targeting a new and rather unlikely area for wireless services and devices-the classroom.The vision these companies have consists of students keeping up with new...
Several recent announcements have cast an unfavorable light on Symbian Ltd., a maker of operating systems for a number of wireless devices. But even with the added illumination, it's still unclear whether the company is in for rough times or smooth sailing.Last month, the...
Hoping to soothe the Bluetooth community's fears over last month's announcement from Microsoft Corp. that it would not support the wireless technology in its upcoming Windows XP platform, Widcomm Inc. said it would provide a software upgrade to computer manufacturers allowing them to add...
WAP has found itself in a similar situation to mighty Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. A lot of people complain about it, but nearly everyone uses it.WAP came along at a time when the wireless Internet industry was beginning to take off and needed...
WASHINGTON-Under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. said they would stop an advertising campaign that could lead consumers to believe HP's personal digital assistants-which are not sold with a wireless modem-come Internet ready.The FTC said the ads,...
