Hollywood, meet wireless.Several new products from the world's biggest consumer electronics companies could allow mobile-phone users in the near future to tune into their favorite TV shows, from soap operas to the latest Broncos game.Most recently, Sony Corp. introduced a new video recorder accessory...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it has introduced a new SGSN and GGSN product platform to enhance large-volume Internet Protocol packet transmission applications, such as video streaming and global positioning system services.The vendor said it will soon deliver the new product to Japanese mobile carrier NTT...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Micro fuel cells face a number of hurdles before wide-scale use and acceptance is possible, according to research from ABI. The firm emphasized that regulatory approvals must be granted for final product designs and a distribution network must be established for those...
TOKYO-Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia, a mobile operator in Thailand, and Japan's KDDI entered an agreement to construct a global positioning system service in Thailand based on the gpsOne system KDDI offers in Japan in cooperation with NEC Corp.The contract is valued at $8.6 million.KDDI...
IRVINE, Calif.-NEC Corp. said it has granted Hop-On a worldwide license to make, have made, use, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of wireless devices under its GSM and GPRS patent portfolio.Hop-On already has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission for CDMA handsets in...
One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor.With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and carriers all see their technologies...
The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...
IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc. and Motorola Inc. have come together for wireless voice and data by converging their wireless local area networks, voice over Internet Protocol and cellular communication solutions based on 802.11 technologies.The convergence will work on enterprise networks, public cellular networks and...
TOKYO-Handset maker NEC Corp. further expanded its outsourcing agreement with electronics manufacturing company Solectron Corp., under which Solectron will provide manufacturing and after-sales services for NEC's advanced Internet-enabled handsets.Solectron will manufacture NEC's third-generation handsets for markets outside Japan and will produce more than 1...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. may not be the only company looking to sell a mobile phone using Microsoft Corp.'s software in the United States; it appears Taiwanese manufacturer Chi Mei Communication Systems Inc. is also planning to release a Microsoft Smartphone device here.Pictures and...
Handset maker NEC Corp. further expanded its outsourcing agreement with electronics manufacturing company Solectron Corp., under which Solectron will provide manufacturing and after-sales services for NEC's advanced Internet-enabled handsets.Solectron will manufacture NEC's third-generation handsets for markets outside Japan and will produce more than 1...
NEC to re-enter U.S. phone marketNEC Corp. plans to re-enter the U.S. mobile phone market through an exclusive phone deal with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The carrier will begin offering NEC's high-end 515 phone starting July 28.As RCR Wireless News reported in May,...
TOKYO AND DALLAS-Underlining industry optimism about a rebound in the chip sector, companies are staking out their product positions with a view to differentiating themselves.Intersil Corp. introduced three 1.4 GHz current feedback amplifiers for high-speed video, test and instrumentation and other high-frequency applications."When combined...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless e-mail company Seven announced it scored a major deal with Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc., which will package and resell Seven's wireless e-mail technology under its Binwan brand."Binwan pairs the world's most respected mobile data network and subscriber base...
TOKYO-The Japanese wireless industry continues to see massive innovation in the mobile-phone area, with technology giants NTT DoCoMo Inc. and NEC Corp. releasing notable new phone advances.First, NEC showed off a new prototype phone that can tune in to TV signals, allowing mobile-phone owners...
LONDON-U.K. third-generation operator Hutchison 3G U.K. Ltd. has added a fourth handset to its phone line-up with a new NEC model. The operator, which offers service under the brand name 3, now offers one Motorola Inc. phone and three NEC Corp. handsets.The handset is...
Motorola Inc. has said that Baltic States wireless operator Omnitel in Lithuania is the first to commercially deploy its new-generation base station, the Horizon 11 base transceiver station for GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks. The initial deployment of the Horizon II is on Omnitel's 1800 MHz network...
Eight of the world's largest consumer electronics companies-including the world's No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile phones.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said that the mova N505i handset from NEC Corp. it plans to begin marketing July 4 will offer a dual-speaker system with surround-sound capability, a screen-splitting feature that will allow users to type a reply while viewing a received message, and...
Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector.The new initiative, known as the Common Public Radio Interface, also includes Siemens AG, Huawei...
Some major vendors have come together to form a new industry cooperation known as the Common Public Radio Interface to allow members to make base station subsystems that can work with each other.The vendors involved include L.M. Ericsson, Huawei Technologies Inc., NEC Corp., Nortel...
For those who serenade wideband CDMA as the authentic third-generation protocol, Qualcomm Inc.-inspired cdma2000 is no more than a counterfeit David dueling the shadow of the giant to come. When the giant comes, in all its messianic glories of data and voice, cdma2000 will...
After moving out of the U.S. market and making a name for itself in the high-end phone business in Europe and Asia, electronics giant NEC Corp. is reopening its U.S. mobile-phone operation.NEC America Inc. will begin selling its advanced 515 GSM phone this summer...
