TOKYO—In response to the economic slump, NEC has slashed its workforce by 4,000 jobs, which amount to 2.5 percent of its entire staff.Its cost-cutting measures include slicing in half its output capacity in its Scottish plant, removing 600 of the 1,600 jobs there and...
TOKYO—Hong Kong-based operator Hutchison Whampoa signed an agreement to allow NEC to supply its third-generation (3G) handsets.NEC will start delivery in the third quarter of this year to carriers in Italy, Australia, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
LONDON—Manx Telecom, the British Telecommunications subsidiary that postponed its third-generation (3G) network launch from May until later this year, said it completed the Isle of Man's first data call over the 3G network. The call allowed online browsing of HTML pages.The call was made...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading high-tech enterprise in Japan, and Cybird, a mobile content provider, partnered for a content business in Korea. Under the deal, NEC acquired 15.4 percent of Cybird Korea, a business unit of Cybird in Korea. SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in...
As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it could cut jobs at a semiconductor plant in Scotland and put off an increase in chip output at a Chinese joint venture as part of its restructuring efforts. NEC had said in April that the Scottish plant, which employs 1,570...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems says NEC Corp. will begin using its chips for two Internet-enabled GSM cellular phones by the end of this year."GPRS, a 2.5-generation wireless technology and a bridge to third-generation wireless technology, offers data transmission speeds that are approximately five times faster...
Wireless giants CMG, Comverse, Ericsson, Logica, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens are partnering to raise awareness of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and to promote the technology's development in an open global market. MMS combines audio and video clips, photographs and images with text messaging. The...
NTT DoCoMo applies for stock listings, calls back handsetsNTT DoCoMo Inc. has applied for listings this fall on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, according to various sources.Japan's largest mobile wireless operator went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in...
Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant's .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...
Glitches are becoming to phones what muscle spasms are to track athletes-confirmation that travel to the next generation of technologies will experience limps along with leaps.Most of the big name phone makers including Sony Corp., Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, NEC Corp. and Matsushita Industrial...
LONDON-In yet another setback for third-generation technology, Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of British Telecommunications plc, has postponed its mid-May launch of 3G services on the tiny Isle of Man. The delay was blamed on software problems in handsets, according to international press reports.The 3G...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, plans to launch only experimental third-generation (3G) services on 30 May, rather than full commercial services as originally planned. NTT DoCoMo had repeatedly said it would launch commercial 3G services in May, but in late April,...
The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player in the mobile- phone market. But similar alliances in the past have been failures.After...
Sony of Japan is holding talks with Sweden's L.M. Ericsson on merging their handset divisions, hinting at what some analysts perceive as a possible trend in the industry.Both companies recoiled from revealing details on the talks, a deal from which would promise to leverage...
Wideband CDMA and cdma2000 are not only migrating to the future, but also to the battleground.Both technologies will hoist their banners as they deploy their strengths and shield their weaknesses, especially in the two main places where they hope to flex muscles for market...
WASHINGTON-The law firm of Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, which earlier this year took control of an $800 million mobile phone-brain cancer lawsuit, has joined forces with attorneys in a New Orleans class-action case against the wireless industry seeking to force equipment manufacturers to...
NEW YORK-With NEC Corp. and Sony Corp. serving as "trend setters" among their in-country peers, Japanese electronics equipment companies are poised to follow the lead of their American and European competitors toward contract manufacturing, said Peter McGowan, managing director of the Lehman Brothers Inc....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-NEC, the Japanese manufacturer, inaugurated a software development center in Argentina, and it plans to invest $100 million over three to five years. Hajime Sasaki, director of NEC, took part in the event and spoke of the experience of the popular i-mode...
Adicom WirelessAdicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo released a new Java-enabled handset, which is manufactured by NEC. The handset will be put into the market on 3 March. The NEC handset will be the third handset for NTT DoCoMo's Java-based services called iAppli.NTT DoCoMo launched Java-based services on 26...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. will supply third-generation equipment to Telecom Italia Mobile, according to international press reports. The value of the contract, which is the first win for a Japanese manufacturer in Europe, was not disclosed.Under the order, NEC will supply cell-phone communications stations and will...
TOKYO-The millennium bug was squashed in most industries around the world, with one exception in wireless.Due to a Y2K glitch, short message service (SMS) messages on some types of terminals used by Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo's customers were eliminated. About 400 complaints about...
SINGAPORE-Four years after it was first introduced in Japan, PHS technology finally has made some headway in the international telecommunications arena. Taiwanese paging operator First International Telecom (Fitel) recently was awarded a license to operate PHS service in Taiwan.Ching-Chich Lin, director of the radiowave...
