Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories during the past 12 months. While our list does not include the...
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories during the past 12 months. While our list does not include the...
Japanese industrial firm Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., which makes phones under the Panasonic brand name, announced a sweeping reorganization that will see the company shut down its GSM and GPRS phone-making business-as well as its Symbian OS efforts-to refocus exclusively on building 3G...
OSAKA, Japan-Japanese industrial firm Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., which makes phones under the Panasonic brand name, announced a sweeping reorganization that will see the company shut down its GSM and GPRS phone-making business-as well as its Symbian OS efforts-to refocus exclusively on building...
The legal tussle over Qualcomm Inc.'s licensing practices turned into a full-scale war last week as Qualcomm took aim at longtime rival Nokia Corp. with a patent-infringement lawsuit. The charges come just a few short weeks after Nokia joined five other wireless heavyweights in...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-Wireless heavyweights L.M. Ericsson, NEC Corp., Nokia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc. and Panasonic Mobile Communications joined chipmaker Broadcom Corp. in filing formal complaints against Qualcomm Inc.'s licensing tactics. The move stands as the first coordinated attack on Qualcomm over antitrust issues, and could...
Laptop maker Dell Inc. said that starting next year it would sell computers that feature built-in support for Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s forthcoming UMTS/HSDPA network. The announcement represents a strike against Verizon Wireless, which earlier this week said Dell, Lenovo Group Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co....
The race to bring the much-hyped wireless home to market continued to heat up last week as two major wireless mesh-networking chipmakers gained traction in the nascent market. Zensys A/S, a Denmark-based company, added two new backers for its proprietary Z-Wave technology. Monster Cable...
In just a year, Nokia Corp. has managed to steal the W-CDMA show. In the second quarter of last year, the handset vendor was fifth in terms of W-CDMA handset shipments, behind the likes of NEC Corp., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Motorola Inc. and...
SECAUCUS, N.J.-As part of its "Technician of the Future" initiative, SBC Communications Inc. said it plans to deploy 21,000 Panasonic Computer Solutions Co. Toughbook 29 notebook personal computers designed to connect to Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s nationwide EDGE network to its field technicians. SBC owns...
SECAUCUS, N.J.-As part of its "Technician of the Future" initiative, SBC Communications Inc. said it plans to deploy 21,000 Panasonic Computer Solutions Co. Toughbook 29 notebook personal computers designed to connect to Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s nationwide EDGE network to its field technicians. SBC owns...
LONDON-Symbian Ltd. said 6.75 million Symbian-OS-enabled phones shipped during the first quarter, more than 180 percent more than the 2.4 million shipped during the first quarter of 2004.Symbian said nine new phones based on Symbian OS-from Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and Nokia-started shipping during the...
SECAUCUS, N.J.-Panasonic Corp. of North America, the North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., announced it shut down its U.S. mobile-phone operations. The news comes as little surprise, however-the company had previously failed to find carrier partners to sell its phones and...
Panasonic Corp. of North America, the North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., announced it shut down its U.S. mobile-phone operations. The news comes as little surprise, however-the company had previously failed to find carrier partners to sell its phones and had...
ATLANTA-Industry is awash in high-end phone news, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile in Germany showed off new smart phones, and as Panasonic gears up to release a new device running Nokia Corp.'s Symbian-based Series 60 operating system. First, Cingular announced it will sell...
ATLANTA-Industry is awash in high-end phone news, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile in Germany showed off new smart phones, and as Panasonic gears up to release a new device running Nokia Corp.'s Symbian-based Series 60 operating system.First, Cingular announced it will sell PalmOne...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless announced plans for a new embedded module for CDMA 1x-EV-DO networks that will be delivered in the second quarter.The Sierra Wireless EM5625 will be the company's first product to incorporate Qualcomm Inc.'s MSM6500 Mobile Station Modem chipset, and it has...
DRAPER, Utah-Senforce Technologies Inc. said the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has chosen its Enterprise Mobile Security Manager to provide secure wireless communications for air crews as they travel around. The product will work together with the Panasonic Toughbook rugged laptops with Intel...
Although the market for W-CDMA mobile phones is still in its infancy, now is the time for most players to get a foot in the door or risk being left out in the cold. According to Strategy Analytics, the market for W-CDMA phones will...
IRVING, Texas-Since it was unable to score a distribution deal with Cingular Wireless and other GSM carriers, NEC America Inc. plans to sell its new GSM/EDGE clamshell-style 232E mobile phone through its Web site. NEC made a splash last year when it re-entered the...
SECAUCUS, N.J.-Matsushita Electric Corp. of America, the North American headquarters of Osaka, Japan-based Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., announced it will drop its Japanese name in favor of its better known Panasonic brand. Starting next year the company will be known as Panasonic Corp....
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian operator Telstra Corp. said it launched i-mode services based on technology from Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc.The content service offers Telstra customers access to a wide range of Internet services such as shopping, entertainment, banking and e-mail, Telstra said. The service includes...
AirGate Technologies, a subsidiary of The X-Change Corp., said it has completed a radio-frequency identification (RFID) prototype for car child safety seats. The prototype uses the company's "Smart Buckle" technology incorporated into a standard child seat. Miniature RF transmitters send a low-power signal to...
TOKYO-Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., which develops products under the Panasonic name, announced a multimedia processor-based platform that can be used with mobile phones and other digital appliances.The platform can accelerate speed to market by five times the current rate, develop higher sound and...
