REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. and Samsung Semiconductor Inc. announced they teamed to create a concept design for devices using Microsoft's Pocket PC personal digital assistant operating system, a move the companies said will dramatically lower costs and reduce product development time for device manufacturers licensing...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Having failed to attract European third-generation (3G) license holders to use its alternative cdma2000 technology, Qualcomm now appears to have revised its strategy and is looking to tempt Far Eastern GSM operators away from General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) to Qualcomm's GSM...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Cambridge Silicon Radio signed a volume price agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co, Ltd. to purchase 1 million BlueCore2 Bluetooth chips from CSR next year. SEMCO is expected to use the chips in modules to provide Bluetooth capability to a range of end products...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Although carriers continue to lower the price of new mobile phones in an effort to attract more customers, wireless subscribers are waiting longer to replace their current mobile phones, according to a new study from J.D. Power and Associates.In the firm's "U.S....
NEW YORK-A surge in wireless handset sales helped Samsung Electronics Co. close its third quarter with net income of $1.37 billion, compared with $333 million a year ago. The company did not break out net income per share for either quarter.The South Korean electronics...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics announced they will use the new MSM6200 Mobile Station Modem chipset and system software for dual-mode third-generation handsets.The companies said the new chipset supports the Frequency Division Duplex mode of W-CDMA as well as GSM and GPRS.lution that...
TOKYO-Microsoft Corp. said it is in talks with a number of Japanese wireless operators to introduce its smart phone into the Japanese market, according to Dow Jones Business News."We're talking with J-Phone, KDDI and others," said Hidenori Kuraishi, senior manager of the Japan Mobility...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. have come together in a strategic alliance to develop camera chips for mobile applications for cellular phones, personal digital assistants and mobile PCs.Under the terms of the deal, Samsung will design and manufacture a...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Ratelindo, Indonesia's pioneer fixed wireless operator, confirmed it will defer the delivery of CDMA-based services from the third quarter this year into in the beginning of next year.Virano Nasution, chief executive officer (CEO) of Ratelindo, said that Samsung and Nortel Networks, acting as...
BEIJING-Sony Ericsson is considering applying for a CDMA handset manufacturing license in China. If a new license is unavailable, the company may team with one of the 19 handset makers that hold CDMA licenses. Among the 19, Motorola is the only foreign company.Staffan Soderqvist,...
DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America and RadioShack Corp. announced they will launch a joint marketing campaign based on the Indy Racing League team Treadway Racing to promote Samsung's newest SPH-a500 and SPH-n400 wireless phones.Through Sept. 14, consumers who purchase a Samsung phone at RadioShack or make...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS and LightSurf Technologies Inc. launched a digital camera allowing Sprint PCS Vision customers to shoot, view and send pictures from their mobile handset.The $70 camera can hold up to 15 pictures and is compatible with Samsung Corp.'s A500 and N400...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will license its Series 60 software platform, which Nokia licenses as a source code product to other handset manufacturers, for its next generation of smart phones.The deal quiets any rumors that Microsoft Corp. was on the...
SEOUL, South Korea-With an eye to competing with Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics said it plans to spend $3.6 billion on chips, focusing on large-scale integration for mobile phones, home appliances and other devices.The company hopes to pursue this goal by partnering...
NEW DELHI, India-Thai Mobile, the joint venture between the Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT) and the Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) formed to operate a 1900 MHz mobile-phone system, has signed Samart E-trading and International Engineering Company (IEC) for marketing, billing and customer services.The...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and SanDisk Corp. announced they have signed cross license and supply agreements on flash memory technology, and in turn have dismissed lawsuits previously filed against each other in California and Texas.The new agreements, signed after a previous patent cross-licensing...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Emblaze Systems Inc. said Aug. 12 it has completed successfully a series of interoperability tests of its rich media delivery system over live GPRS networks to three advanced mobile phones, the Nokia 7650, the Sendo Z100 Multimedia Smartphone and the Sony-Ericsson P800.The...
TOKYO-Hitachi, a leading telecom vendor in Japan, is going to provide cdma2000 1x EV-DO base stations to KDDI, Hitachi announced on Thursday. KDDI is planning to launch experimental 1x EV-DO services in April and commercial services in the fourth quarter of 2003 in Japan.According...
SEOUL, South Korea and Tokyo, Japan-Samsung Electronics Company Ltd and Hitachi Ltd. said they have won mobile infrastructure contracts with KDDI Corp. worth more than $100 million."We will supply base station equipment to KDDI worth more than $100 million this year for its 3G...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it would begin offering its next-generation PCS Vision service through its retail stores and business channels nationwide beginning next week. Initial applications for the service will allow customers to take and receive pictures, check personal and corporate e-mail, play...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS is expected to finally launch its highly anticipated cdma2000 1x-based network services Aug. 8.Raymond James & Associates Inc. analyst Ric Prentiss said in a report that based on a national retailer's ad scheduled for August 11 the network service will...
DALLAS-Britney Spears this week joined Samsung Telecommunications America to launch the "Samsung Superstar Karaoke Tour" tour, a 24-city promotional tour offering tomorrow's pop stars an opportunity to perform karaoke for a chance at their big break.In addition to vying for the national grand prize-a...
Ever heard of EMS, or Enhanced Messaging Service?If not, don't worry-few people have.It was created as an extension to the short message service messaging technology that has taken the worldwide wireless industry by storm. The idea was to "enhance" SMS messages with more space...
Send press releases of new products for consideration for future "Products" updates to Global Wireless Products Handsets/devicesSony EricssonSony Ericsson Mobile Communications introduced several new handsets, including the T61d, T600, ...
