SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Smart phone users, a small but growing segment of the mobile public, are now dealing with what may become a standard part of the wireless experience: software upgrades. For instance, owners of Palm Inc.’s Treo 650 were just notified that updater 1.05a is...
Under pressure to assure the market that it can expand its traditional, enterprise customer base, Palm Inc. made a high-profile announcement last week in New York at the DigitalLife 2006 conference that it would launch a Treo 680 model for consumers in the United...
NEW YORK—Palm Inc. launched its quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE Treo 680 smart phone running on the Palm OS platform. The slim phone features e-mail, Web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar and contacts capabilities and includes a full keyboard and a color screen. The company said it is...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Palm Inc. shares were up more than 3 percent on the heels of the company’s first-quarter earnings report, a grab-bag of news on the company’s fortunes. The report included an uptick in revenue, depressed profit and a near-term strategy of foregoing profit in...
LOS ANGELES--Palm Inc. said it launched its Palm Developer Network, which provides resources to hardware and software developers building products based on Palm OS and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile Pocket PC. The program, which replaces Palm's existing developer program PluggedIn, provides technical, business and...
LOS ANGELES--Motorola Inc. is putting the pedal to the metal on getting ideas more rapidly transformed into services with its "Fast Track" program, part of its MotoDev effort to spur innovative services--and, of course, take over the world. "We want to facilitate getting ideas...
LOS ANGELES--Two forces are creating a market for speaker-independent voice services on the handset, according to one player that believes it is poised to dominate that market. The convergence of voice, multimedia and Web browsing on handsets has brought renewed emphasis to the keypad...
Two forces are creating a market for speaker-independent voice services on the handset, according to a player that believes it is poised to dominate the market. RCR @ CTIAClick here for complete coverage of the CTIA Wireless I.T. show. Click here for the latest...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Palm Inc. said it expects revenues to fall short of its previous guidance for the first quarter of next year due to slower sales of its Treo device with carriers. The company now expects revenues for the quarter, which ended Sept. 1, to...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Palm Inc. said it expects revenues to fall short of its previous guidance for the first quarter of next year due to slower sales of its Treo device in carrier retail channels. The company now expects revenues for the quarter, which ended Sept....
Motorola Inc. is quietly offering users of its Moto Q smart phone a free software upgrade intended to strengthen the device's e-mail and security functions, increase its appeal to business and productivity-oriented users and bring the device up to speed with the competition. The...
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.-American consumers spent about $4.4 billion on 67 million mobile phones in the first half of the year, according to The NPD Group. Motorola Inc. captured 32-percent market share, or nearly one-third of those sales, double the market share of its nearest...
Belgian car fanatics can now download a free ringtone that features the revving engine of a Porsche Cayman S. The ringtone is an interactive "mupy" promotion offered by communication agency DDB, urban furniture company JCDecaux and wireless marketing firm Alterwave. People passing within 10...
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.—American consumers spent about $4.4 billion on 67 million mobile phones in the first half of the year, according to The NPD Group. Motorola Inc. captured 32 percent market share, or nearly one-third of those sales, double the market share of its...
Device-based security, which despite competing notions of stored data vs. data-in-motion, has its role. In that case, according to the Tower Group's Bob Egan, keep in mind that the drivers-both legal and "reputational," if you will-are powerful and the market is small. Smart phones...
ROSEMONT, Ill.-The answer to industry's and investors' lingering question-what the heck is Motorola Inc. going to do to follow up its monster handset hit, the Razr?-came last week in this Chicago suburb as the company unveiled new phones and boasted about its operations and...
Consolidation in the mobile content space remains white-hot, with Motricity Inc. the most recent player to tap the booming off-deck market with the acquisition of GoldPocket Wireless Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Motricity has gained substantial traction with its Fuel software, which...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. expanded the availability of Good Technology Inc.’s Mobile Messaging for its business customers. Cingular customers now can get Good Mobile Messaging for IBM Lotus Domino; the carrier has been offering the mobile e-mail platform for Microsoft Corp. Exchange since last year....
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—In a move apparently designed to assuage investors’ concerns, Palm Inc. announced that it would bring its Treo smart phone sporting Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile operating system to Vodafone Group plc by the end of the year. Palm currently offers its Windows-powered Treo...
The deadline for compliance with the European Union's laws on hazardous substances in consumer goods came and went on July 1 without much fanfare and little news on whether major handset vendors struggled to meet the requirements. Two tidbits surfaced, however, that shed some...
Now that the dust has settled on news that Marvell Technology Group Ltd. will purchase Intel Corp.'s communications and application processor businesses for $600 million, many observers would love to know how Marvell plans to garner growth-never mind a simple return-on-investment-from the transaction. Sehat...
As smart-phone sales go, so go the fortunes of the operating systems that make the hybrid phone/computing devices run for prosumers and enterprise customers. Recent research by Compete Inc., which measures online consumer interest in the United States, however, shows that shoppers familiar with...
WATERLOO, Ontario—Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday reported fiscal first-quarter 2007 revenue of $613 million, a 35-percent jump from the year-ago quarter, but profits for the quarter of $129.8 million were down slightly from the $132.5 million profit in the year-ago quarter. The company said...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Palm Inc. said it will pay Xerox Corp. $22.5 million to settle a 9-year-old patent infringement lawsuit over handwriting-recognition technology. Xerox filed the lawsuit in 1997, claiming Palm’s "Graffiti" software infringed on Xerox’s "Unistrokes" patent, which covers one-stroke symbols. Xerox won an initial...
