SANTA CLARA, California, United States—Palm announced it will create a wholly owned subsidiary for its operating system business, a move marking a more formal separation between the company's device and operating system (OS) operations.The company said the new subsidiary, which will separate by the...
Palm Inc. last week announced a deal with some of the country's biggest chip makers to design a pre-packaged chip architecture for Palm OS-based personal digital assistants, a move Palm said will speed up the design and development time for the company's licensees and...
Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is now announcing the release of the third version of its already successful Mobile Internet Platform."In fact, we're doing quite well,"...
The market for personal digital assistants, once thought to be a gold mine for anyone and everyone looking to make a profit, is now swimming in such bitter competition and crowding that one of the industry's leaders is bowing out-Psion plc, Europe's largest PDA...
NEW YORK-Volantis Systems Ltd., Guildford, England, has crossed the pond and established U.S. offices on both coasts to market its new Mariner software, which is designed to improve the speed, display and usability of data delivered over any wireless or wireline device on today's...
NEW YORK-Even without next-generation wireless networks, Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley are at work on myriad ways to improve delivery and presentation of Internet content to end users, as demonstrated at last week's Flashforward2001 conference.San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc. convened the meeting here to update...
NEW YORK-Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Xircom Inc., Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., will begin selling in August two new wireless local area network products, a base station for home and small offices and a module for the Palm m500 series handheld computers.The Intel...
OTC WirelessOTC Wireless unveiled its AirEZY-Access Management Unit, a product designed to make managing LAN and MAN networks easier. "Our new AirEZY AMU allows for massive scalability coupled with many desired management capabilities," said Kim Gough director of sales and marketing for OTC Wireless....
NEW YORK-OmniSky Corp., a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider, has taken a series of steps recently to expand the number and kinds of devices with which it can communicate.This month, the company began offering support for the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion notebook personal computer and...
Personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. released its much-anticipated earnings report last week, showing better-than-expected revenues and a positive outlook for the coming year.Wall Street jumped at the news, sending Palm's stock up about $1 per share. By Friday, the company's stock was selling...
NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces.PC-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. today announced two distribution deals, one with a major personal digital assistant company and another with a wireless data carrier.Brightpoint's agreement with Palm Inc. involves distributing Palm's handheld devices, focusing on wireless carriers and related retailers. Brightpoint's second deal involves Motient Corp.,...
NEW YORK-Breakaway Solutions Inc. and Analine Technologies have teamed up to use the Palm operating system and Palm VII devices to improve the safety of hazardous waste management through real-time wireless communications.Breakaway, Conshohocken, Pa., is a systems integrator that provides implementation and application hosting...
Executives for personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week discussed the possibility of splitting the company's operating system business and its device manufacturing segment into two separate companies, an idea that has fueled a hefty amount of discussions during the past few months.Palm...
Police officers bicycling through Lake County, Fla., used to pester dispatch in order to run a suspicious license plate. And-even worse-everyone within earshot of the officers could listen in to their radio conversation and could, if needed, quietly duck out.Now, with a new wireless...
Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Columbitech said it demonstrated secure network roaming between a public GSM wireless network and a Bluetooth local wireless hotspot with a handheld device.The demonstration, held at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, featured Columbitech's wireless connection based on strong encryption, client and server...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Palm Inc. has made further headway in the Asia-Pacific region through an announcement with Acer Inc., under which Acer licensed the Palm Operating System through 2005.Under the agreement, Acer and Palm will work together to develop traditional and simplified Chinese language versions of...
"Come on in, there's room for everybody!"That's apparently the call a variety of companies hear when it comes to the personal digital assistant market. And even though PDA giants Palm and Handspring have recently announced severely sluggish sales, that hasn't stopped a flood of...
Deutsche Telekom's recent acquisition of U.S.-based GSM operator VoiceStream Wireless Corp. again showed the ever-shrinking nature of the wireless industry. Including United Kingdom-based Vodafone Group plc's partial ownership stake in Verizon Wireless and Japan's NTT DoCoMo's interest in AT&T Wireless Services Inc., international telecommunications...
Mobile security company Certicom today released its movianCrypt, which the company touted as the industry's most efficient, transparent data encryptor for Palm Inc.'s handhelds.The encryption technology automatically safeguards personal or corporate information, protecting Palm users if their device is lost or stolen. Certicom said...
If the debate over third-generation mobile-phone spectrum depended solely on financial lobbying clout, the well-heeled cellular industry would be awash in radio frequencies by now. Case closed. Complete, total victory. But the mobile-phone industry is up against interest groups with the kind of politically...
As the nation's two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war blazing, some in the industry wonder whether the PDA market isn't quite the gold mine many had hoped.Others, however, see...
While many Bluetooth companies have made small-stake announcements at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, computing heavyweight Palm Inc. stepped up to the high-rollers tables to introduce its Palm Bluetooth Card, enabling Palm users to Bluetooth-enable the company's personal digital assistants."People are waiting for...
