Motorola Inc. and Motorola Japan Ltd. will work with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to develop a handset for business users on the Japanese carrier's high-speed third-generation FOMA network. The GSM/GPRS handset will be the first FOMA model that will work outside Japan. It is scheduled...
LONDON-U.K. third-generation operator 3 added a new NEC handset to its portfolio with the e228, the Japanese company's sixth 3G device to launch in the United Kingdom.The bar-format handset features two high-resolution cameras, which both enable video telephony and capture still and video images....
KAWASAKI, Japan-NEC Electronics Corp. and its NEC Electronics GmbH European subsidiary released new software for microcontrollers that they said can detect counterfeit battery products in mobile phones and digital cameras. The new software also offers performance benefits by using technology from NEC that operates...
WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission official today defended a $2.5 billion government program that subsidizes Internet connections for schools and libraries, but conceded there is room for improvement."There has been some bad actors involved in the program," William Maher, chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it will score an upfront payment of $27 million thanks to an expanded licensing deal with handset maker Sanyo Electric Co. InterDigital's stock was up slightly after the news to about $17.25 per share.Sanyo, which previously licensed...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it scored its ninth i-mode carrier partner as Greek operator Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications SA announced it will launch the wireless Internet service on its GPRS network. The announcement coincides with the launch of Cosmote's third-generation network, which the carrier said...
BEIJING-With flagging sales in Japan, NEC Corp. said it is setting up a new company in China to develop the third-generation mobile market in that country.It is working with a number of vendors and operators in field trials. The new company, which will be...
Camera phones are the most rapidly accepted consumer electronics device in history. Yet it appears that wireless carriers-a group many assumed would reap the rewards of a camera-phone revolution-are sitting on the sidelines of this mass adoption, watching and waiting.Annual sales of camera phones...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice Thursday announced the biggest guilty plea yet in a two-year investigation of fraud and abuse of the E-rate program, which uses telephone taxes to connect schools and libraries to the Internet.NEC Business Network Solutions agreed to pay $20.6 million in...
HONG KONG-Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which operates several third-generation networks around the world, has signed 1.73 million 3G users globally, according to press reports, which signals strong recent uptake of its next-generation services after a sluggish start. The carrier said it had 1.04 million 3G...
German handset maker Siemens AG and Chinese vendor Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd. announced a new strategic partnership to build and sell mobile phones in Chinese and international markets, moves that could expand both companies' sales opportunities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Under...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it will be the sole supplier for a GSM and third-generation network in Norway for NetCom under a six-year $241 million contract.Under the agreement, Siemens will upgrade NetCom's GSM infrastructure with UMTS technology. After first implementing the GSM network and...
MILAN, Italy-Third-generation wireless carrier Hutchison said it will add LG Electronics Inc. phones to its 3G handset line-up, with a global agreement for 3 million LG video phones before the end of the year.With the agreement, LG Electronics joins Motorola Inc. and NEC Corp....
German handset maker Siemens AG and Chinese vendor Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd. announced a new strategic partnership to build and sell mobile phones in Chinese and international markets, moves that could expand both companies' sales opportunities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Under...
Alcatel's new handset deal with Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL Corp. is part of a notable and growing trend toward joint ventures and acquisitions, and analysts expect the pace to accelerate."There's going to be some consolidation," said John Jackson, a wireless and mobile technology analyst...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its first-quarter earnings would be ahead of expectations, news that sent the technology vendor's stock up 20 percent to $18.90 per share.InterDigital said NEC Corp.'s third-generation handset sales, along with strong sales from the rest of the...
Quietly operating in the background of the industry, InterDigital Communications Corp. describes itself as a wireless think tank. And though few recognize the name or understand the business, over the course of its 30-year history InterDigital has managed to inject its innovations into the...
Last month, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo said it sold more than 160,000 faulty mobile phones. The carrier said its new FOMA N900i handset, built by NEC Corp., suffered from a software glitch that would cause the phone to reboot if a user tried to...
TOKYO-Following its plans for an initial public offering, Seven Networks Inc. announced its mobile e-mail software will be installed on NEC Corp.'s BREW-based handsets for Japanese carrier KDDI Corp. The company's software offers real-time access to Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP4 and POP3 e-mail,...
Neither edgy nor solitary, Nokia Corp. has all the hallmarks of a conservative company. As a leading player in both the handset and infrastructure businesses, the Finnish vendor always has worked with industry associations and marquee players to push products and enhance its markets...
TOKYO-NEC Electronics Corp. said it has licensed the semiconductor products of Transmeta Corp for low-power technology and to manage transistor leakage.Transmeta's product, known as LongRun2, will be in the 90, 65 and 45 nanometer packages.NEC also announced it is purchasing "a small percentage" of...
The future market for mobile-phone memory will total almost $6 billion, according to some in the industry, and could surpass the potential of the massive desktop computer industry in just three years. Indeed, the amount of storage available in next year's high-end mobile phones...
HANOVER, Germany-Megapixel camera phones were the name of the game at the CeBIT trade show, with Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Siemens and NEC Corp. among those releasing new advanced products.First, Nokia released its first megapixel camera phone, the 7610, which the company...
TOKYO, Japan-NEC Corp. said it has launched its 3GPP-compliant Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem, which integrates voice and data services together on one platform, using the session initiation protocol."With NEC's SIP gateways, mobile operators can deploy IMS services much more broadly across a combination of...
