Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., with the goal of turning a profit in its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge most of their semiconductor operations April 1 into a new company, Renesas Technology Corp., whose goal is to turn on profit its first fiscal year on sales of at least $7.5 billion.The Tokyo-based companies said they...
NEW YORK-CKW Wireless Pty. Ltd., the Australian subsidiary of ArrayComm Inc., San Jose, Calif., has obtained a $14 million capital infusion from two new strategic partners, Mitsubishi Corp. and e-millennium Asia L.P.CKW, which owns Australian spectrum licenses, has begun a pre-commercial, first-phase deployment of...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Union has given its nod to the semiconductor joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp, making the world's second largest chipmaker.According to the JV, which will be known as Renesas Technology Corp., Hitachi will own 55 percent while Mitsubishi...
TOKYO-Japan's four mobile-phone operators announced plans to conduct a joint study on the possible biological effects of exposure to radio waves from mobile-phone systems.The four companies-NTT DoCoMo Inc., KDDI Corp., J-Phone Co. Ltd., and Tu-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc.-said they would analyze and evaluate the...
TOKYO-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a deal to supply Mitsubishi Electric Information Network Corp. (MIND) with its wireless access solution for mobile professionals.The solution, known as Contivity Secure IP Services Gateway, will allow MIND to provide access to about 35,000 users across...
Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said they have decided to bring their semiconductor units together to form a new company called Renesas Technology Corp. The new company, which should begin operations in April, is intended to combine the system Large Scale Integration (LSI)...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have come together in a strategic alliance to develop camera chips for mobile applications for cellular phones, personal digital assistants and mobile PCs.Under the terms of the deal, Samsung will design and manufacture a...
TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric announced it developed Internet Protocol (IP) mobile technology for wireless local area network (WLAN) and PHS data communications. The firm is aimed at launching commercial service via its subsidiary by March 2004.Users of the service can make a call from a mobile...
TOKYO-Shipments of mobile phones with cameras surged from 6 million units in 2001 to 23 million units in 2003 in Japan, according to a survey conducted by a research institute.Mobile phones with cameras have become popular in Japan after J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company,...
NEW YORK-The Open Source Development Lab, Beaverton, Ore., a vendor-neutral non-profit organization dedicated to enabling Linux and Linux-based programming for enterprise and carrier-class functionality worldwide, has posted materials for open source developer community feedback on its Web site at www.developer.osdl.orgIn its June 28 announcement,...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesNokiaNokia introduced several new handsets that feature multimedia messaging service (MMS) capability, Java ...
CAMBRIDGE, England—Mitsubishi Electric says it has agreed to license the ARM926EJ-S core processor to run wireless applications on mobile phones and personal digital assistants."The ARM926EJ-S core contains ARM Jazelle technology that accelerates Java execution by up to eight times compared to a fully software-based...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, two leading electronic manufacturers in Japan, partnered for third-generation (3G) handsets and will begin collaborating next month on the development of a new platform for multimedia-enabled, dual-mode mobile phones, both firms announced. Based on the agreement, both firms will jointly...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The GSM Association has warned third-generation (3G) cell-phone operators that they need to reshape their organizations to provide security similar to that offered by Internet service providers (ISPs). The association claims that online hackers will target wireless Internet providers and has called...
AMAGASAKI, Japan-Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it has developed a browser that will enable mobile phones, car navigation systems and other mobile terminals to handle a multi-markup language known as xHTML Basic*1/CSS 2.0 MP*2.It can work with the markup languages used by NTT DoCoMo's i-mode...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric may scale back its French cell-phone subsidiary to offset losses and slowing demand, a company official said.In addition, Japan's daily business newspaper, The Nihon Keizai, said Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe will cut its payroll by 70 percent by eliminating 1,000 workers and...
TOKYO-Mitsubishi Electric Corp. may scale back its French cell phone subsidiary to offset losses and slowing demand, a company official said.In addition, Japan's daily business newspaper, The Nihon Keizai, said Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe SA will cut its payroll by 70 percent by eliminating...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics announced they have standardized specifications for random access memory modules (RAMs) for use in mobile devices to provide higher density, smaller packaging and lower prices.The companies have decided on two specifications for RAMS (which Mitsubishi refers to as "Mobile...
A new study by marketing research firm BWCS claimed that more than 90 percent of U.K. business travelers with laptops are interested in using wireless local area network (WLAN) services at airports, while 40 percent of those surveyed said they have no interest in...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, on 1 October launched the world's first third-generation (3G) mobile service in the Tokyo metropolitan area, receiving mixed reviews from market analysts. The visual phone, one of three 3G terminals, with a small camera and a...
NEW YORK-Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe, the sixth-largest handset maker, this month will introduce its new Trium series of mobile phones, incorporating into two models with voice-activated dialing software developed by Advanced Recognition Technologies (ART).The agreement calls for integration of smARTspeak and smARTspeak CS speech...
TOKYO—NEC won the largest market share of 29.4 percent, exceeding its rival Matsushita Communication Industrial, in the Japanese mobile handset market in the first half of fiscal year 2001 from April to September, according to Multimedia Research Institute, a leading marketing firm in Japan....
NEW YORK-Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe, the sixth largest handset maker, this month will introduce its new Trium series of mobile phones, incorporating into two models the voice-activated dialing software of Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc., Atlanta.The agreement calls for integration of smARTspeak and smARTspeak CS...
