BEIJING-Tang Ru'an, chief executive officer (CEO) of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company, told the China Daily newspaper that this year will be of crucial importance for commercializing TD-SCDMA, the third-generation (3G) standard the company co-developed with Germany's Siemens.Trial operation of experimental networks in Chongqing...
SEOUL, Korea-Samsung Electronics reported total sales for the year of about $34 billion, with total year sales in its mobile phones and network hardware division reaching $10.4 billion.The company said it expects to sell 52 million mobile phones this year worldwide, with 13 million...
LAS VEGAS-Conference-goers who managed to brave the miles of show floor at this year's annual Consumer Electronics Show were witness to a significant movement in the electronics landscape-the rise of wireless. Hundreds of wireless companies showed off their wares at the well-attended convention, and...
MONTAIN VIEW, Calf.-The Wi-Fi Alliance said that 40 additional companies have joined the body from around the world. It also announced the first phase of the Wi-Fi Zone Global Brand to promote the availability of public access services around the world.Some of the members...
LAS VEGAS-Samsung Telecommunications America released new wireless handsets at the CES show in Las Vegas this week.The SGH-v205, a clamshell-designed wireless phone, features an embedded digital camera, a color display and MMS capability. "This is a feature-packed phone that places convenience in the hands...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems announced it will supply Samsung with wireless data chipsets and software for use in the company's new generation of advanced mobile phones.The agreement, worth more than $150 million over 12 months, calls for Agere to incorporate its GPRS chipset and software...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics said it has approved a plan rumored earlier this week to spend $1.23 billion in a plant to produce dynamic random-access memory and flash memory chips.The plant-the company's 12th-is located in Hwasung, Kyungiddo, south of Seoul."We are investing to maintain...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. will invest $1.2 billion to upgrade its chip-making facilities, according to Reuters.The company plans to produce memory chips using 12-inch wafers, which can yield more than twice as many chips as the standard eight-inch wafer.
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-The International Court of Arbitration ruled that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. must pay InterDigital Communications Corp. an extra $500,000 due to a dispute over the companies' patent licensing agreement.The dispute springs from patents covering TDMA poducts Samsung licensed from InterDigital in...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS announced it will begin selling Samsung Telecommunications America's new SPH-i330 personal digital assistant/mobile phone device. The device is much like the Samsung SPH-i300, but includes support for Sprint's CDMA 1xRTT network as well as a slimmer design.The Palm OS-powered device...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS announced it will begin selling Samsung Telecommunications America's new SPH-i330 personal digital assistant/mobile phone device. The device is much like the Samsung SPH-i300, but includes support for Sprint's CDMA 1xRTT network as well as a slimmer design.The Palm OS-powered device...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS announced it will begin selling Samsung Telecommunications America's new SPH-i330 personal digital assistant/mobile phone device. The device is much like the Samsung SPH-i300, but includes support for Sprint's CDMA 1xRTT network as well as a slimmer design.The Palm OS-powered device...
America Online Inc. announced that it is launching an industrywide mobile developer program for its instant-messaging services. As flagship members, LG Electronics, Motorola Inc., Samsung Telecommunications America and Siemens AG will work to develop, test and distribute licensed AIM clients for mobile devices. The...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Nokia Corp. and Samsung Corp. came out ahead of the curve in worldwide mobile phone sales during the third quarter, according to Gartner Dataquest. However, Motorola Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications failed to take advantage of a growing market-with Sony Ericsson...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Enforcement Bureau on Friday said it wanted to evaluate test results by the Wireless Consumers Alliance that claimed that none of the 33 mobile phones tested by the group meet the government's 911 strongest-signal rules adopted in 1999."The Federal Communications Commission takes...
Wireless technology, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to GSM and CDMA, served a major role during the Comdex show, with attendees getting a peek at some of the latest initiatives in the industry.But while product releases and new announcements made up the majority of news...
Once the domain of top secret British agents with licenses to kill, wireless handsets that include cameras are now available to the common man as wireless carriers and handset manufacturers continue to slowly introduce the devices.Like most high-tech electronic equipment, these hybrids got their...
Motorola Inc. claims it is the only company that has full type approval certification for its wireless reference designs for handhelds. Texas Instruments disagrees.Pointing to its I.250 platform for GPRS as a key example, Motorola said it has moved ahead of the pack with...
BOSTON-A new handset market report shows LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics making significant strides in the mobile-phone market, while other big handset players continue to suffer in a tight worldwide economy.Indeed, Strategy Analytics said LG Electronics is gaining ground so fast it could potentially...
BEIJING-Consultants CCID, affiliated with China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and Analysys Consulting, a partner of the Gartner Group, published conflicting figures on China's handset market in the third quarter.CCID listed the rankings as Motorola (28.9 percent), Nokia (25.7 percent), Samsung (7.4 percent), TCL...
BOSTON-A new handset market report shows both LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics making significant strides in the mobile phone market, while other big handset players continue to suffer in a tight worldwide economy.Indeed, Strategy Analytics said LG Electronics is gaining ground so fast it...
WASHINGTON-None of the 33 mobile phones tested by the Wireless Consumers Alliance meet the Federal Communications Commission's 911 strongest-signal rules adopted in 1999, WCA charges in a series of lawsuits filed by the group.The first lawsuit against Sprint Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd....
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics laid out its vision for the U.S. wireless market in conjunction with the Comdex show in Las Vegas, boasting of its worldwide mobile phone sales of 11.7 million units in the third quarter and promising to sell more than 9...
BEIJING-Already the largest mobile-phone market in the world with more than 190 million subscribers at the end of September, China is gearing up to introduce third generation (3G) services on a trial basis sometime next year. But first, the government needs to make a...
