WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money, said the telecom and tech sectors ranked second in lobbying expenditures for the last six months of 2002. The $113.3...
WASHINGTON-Despite poor market conditions, telecom and high-tech industries continue to spend money on lobbying at record levels.PoliticalMoneyLine, a Web-based service that tracks political money, said telecom and tech sectors ranked second in lobbying expenditures for the last six months of 2002. The $113.3 million...
The 2003 JavaOne Developer Conference witnessed a collision of giants as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. pushed their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid segmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
The 2003 JavaOne Conference is witnessing a collision of giants, as Sun Microsystems and IBM Corp. are pushing their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid fragmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Location services company Autodesk Inc. said it has been recognized by the Open GIS Consortium as a co-author of the proposed OpenGIS Location Services Implementation Specification.The Open GIS Consortium is working to define an XML-based standard for location service interfaces and help...
TOKYO-Oracle Japan and NTT DoCoMo have jointly developed a new system that lets corporate users distribute in-company information to personal digital assistants (PDAs) in real time, the firms jointly announced.Using the system, companies will be able to develop their own mobile networks within three...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Reflecting the prevailing mood in the wireless industry, Probe Research has demonstrated that marquee telecom as well as information/Internet Protocol vendors will groan from pain in the near future.But the research firm singles out Sun Microsystems Inc. as a company with little...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and Oracle announced the firms jointly developed an interactive intranet information system that lets personal digital assistant (PDA) users access their company's systems for exchanging information.Both companies are planning to start selling the platform, called Enterprises...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. and Oracle have joined to offer enterprise customers a solution for testing and analyzing wireless application performance.According to their agreement, Telephia will provide its Wireless Data and Network Application (Wireless DNA Performance), a performance testing solution, to Oracle customers that have...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Database technology provider Oracle Corp. released a new tool kit for developers to integrate wireless voice and data services into its application server, as well as new tools for Java developers through a deal with Ericsson.Oracle's new Wireless and Voice Integration Kit for...
SAN DIEGO—Software giant Oracle Corp. said it will work with Qualcomm Inc. to extend its 9i Lite database to BREW-based wireless devices.Oracle is one of several large technology companies to announce support for Qualcomm's platform.Separately, Sony Online Entertainment announced it will develop games for...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and marketing to promote mobile communications products and services to existing customers and explore new market opportunities worldwide.In particular, the companies...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—The market for wireless enterprise services continues to heat up today, with several companies positioning themselves to give mobile workers access to corporate information.The most notable announcement came from software giant Oracle Corp. and Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo. The two companies...
NEW YORK—International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and a few other companies are coming together to form an alliance known as the Web Services Interoperability Organizations to form standards for business transactions over the Web.Other companies expected to join the group...
Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world's largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle and Sun Microsystems Inc.The move underscores Nokia's...
Representatives from the wireless industry are being asked to testify against Microsoft Corp. in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against the computer software giant, each with new insight into how Microsoft is allegedly muscling into new markets and resisting cooperating with competitors.A witness list released...
DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world's largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems, Borland Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. The move could put further...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. has posted lowered, albeit in-line, earnings in financial results for its fiscal second quarter. The company's net income for the quarter was $549.5 million, or 10 cents per share, down from year-ago earnings of $622.8 million, or $1.21 per share....
SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. introduced the wireless and voice features for its Oracle application server release 2, which include enhanced support for voice access to Internet applications, wireless messaging, wireless security, mobile e-mail, location-based services and support for 2.5 G and third-generation networks."Businesses that use...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. announced its Oracle 9i Application Server, along with the company's Oracle9i Lite for wireless devices, now allows users to centrally manage both online and offline mobile applications."Oracle has been helping leading companies successfully deploy and manage offline mobile applications for...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.—Oracle Corp. released its earnings report on schedule Thursday but without comment. The company said it is missing seven employees in the World Trade Center in New York and that one employee, sales account manager Todd Beamer, 32, was killed when hijacked...
Avesair Inc. may be just shy of its first birthday, but its proven technology has years behind it and its executives are industry veterans.In fact, the expertise and experience behind the company and its founders are exactly what led to $16 million in venture...
Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which will allow users of handheld devices to access a garden variety of applications and bring them closer to next-generation technologies."Our...
Even though third-generation services are not yet available on mobile phones, one Belgium-based company is betting that 3G telematics services will be just as big, if not bigger.Acunia NV, Leuven, Belgium, crossed the Atlantic at the beginning of last year to set up a...
