Gadgets beget more gadgets, leading to fun, safety and productivity for consumers and profit for all. What's not to love about that? New figures for the accessory market place its ascendance in context and underscore how handset vendors and network operators have...
SanDisk Corp. and Sony Corp. introduced the industry's third major removable memory card format specifically designed for space-conscious mobile phones. The companies unveiled their new Memory Stick Micro product, a removable memory card that will go up against the MMCmicro and MicroSD specifications. "The...
Memory company SanDisk Corp. announced a major new initiative the company said will allow companies to sell music, movies and other content through removable memory cards. Such cards are becoming commonplace in mobile phones; research firm IDC forecasts 164 million phones shipping this year...
The following information includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.
Memory Stick-Developed by Sony Corp. and used in a range of Sony products like the PSP. Memory Stick Duo is the small version, which measures 31 x 20 x 1.6 mm. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. supports Memory Stick Duo. Secure Digital Memory Card-Created...
Apparently it's the mini, not the meek, that shall inherit the Earth. Everything is going small and portable, from video-game machines to music players to mobile phones. The latest to fall into this Lilliputian way of thinking is the removable memory card industry, which...
The following wireless companies received ratings changes or guidance this week from financial services and investment firms. MetroPCS, Nortel, Motorola, Sprint, Alltel, U.S. Cellular and Telus mentioned.Standard & Poor's Ratings Service withdrew its CCC/Negative/- corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on MetroPCS Inc....
NEW ORLEANS-SanDisk Corp. and NDS, which provides digital pay TV technology, announced a long-range partnership that calls for NDS to provide an end-to-end solution for delivering video and mobile content into SanDisk's new generation of secure flash storage cards for mobile devices.SanDisk plans to...
Device news continued at a flushed pace with Motorola Inc. releasing details on its iTunes phone, Hop-on announcing a $36 handset, Sanyo Corp. offering an innovative new messaging product, and U.S. mobile virtual network operator Boost Mobile going "old school" with a vintage telephone...
Provigent Inc., which makes system-on-chip solutions for broadband wireless, said its PVG310 single-chip modem is now generally available. The company said the modem uses cross-polarization interface cancellation technology to increase wireless channel capacity. The XPIC technology supports the co-channel dual-polarization operation, which allows simultaneous...
SEOUL-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. released a tiny new memory card for mobile phones, which the company said can store up to 128 megabytes. The company said the card, which is even smaller than the stamp-sized cards available in some current high-end mobile phones, will...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the first round of certified products for converged Wi-Fi and cellular communications. The company also has initiated a Wi-Fi/Cellular Convergence task force to identify and meet the requirements for certifying such products. The product categories certified include Wi-Fi-capable...
The future market for mobile-phone memory will total almost $6 billion, according to some in the industry, and could surpass the potential of the massive desktop computer industry in just three years. Indeed, the amount of storage available in next year's high-end mobile phones...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Memory card company SanDisk Corp. announced its new T-Flash removable storage format, a technology the company said will even further expand the capabilities of advanced mobile phones. And as evidence of its claim, the company announced Motorola Inc. is using the T-Flash technology...
SAN DIEGO-CDMA giant Qualcomm Inc. announced it will add support for removable miniSD and SD cards in its line of Mobile Station Modem chipsets. The move is a nod to the growing power of mobile phones and the resulting need for additional storage capabilities.Such...
CDMA giant Qualcomm Inc. announced it will add support for removable miniSD and SD cards in its line of Mobile Station Modem chipsets. The move is a nod to the growing power of mobile phones and the resulting need for additional storage capabilities.Such advances...
In the early days of wireless, users could expect their phones to store, perhaps, 100 names and phone numbers. Today, users in some cases can expect their phones to hold an entire half-hour TV show, complete with audio and video.Such advances in storage create...
HANNOVER, Germany-SanDisk Corp. introduced at CeBIT two new flash memory cards geared for the new generation of multimedia mobile phones.The 128 Megabyte MultiMediaCard for audio players and multi-function cell phones will provide more storage capacity so consumers can fully use features like digital cameras,...
LAS VEGAS-SanDisk will use SyChip Inc.'s WLAN6060SD NIC accessory card design, based on the Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) standard, in its new SanDisk Connect SD wireless products, the companies announced at a press conference at the CES show in Las Vegas this week....
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...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-LG Information and Communications introduced the CyON MP3, an integrated cellular and MP3 Internet music player that uses SanDisk Corp.'s flash memory MultiMediaCard to store audio and data.Users can interchangeably use their MultiMediaCards from their MP3 players with the CyON and either play...
MANASSAS, Va.-Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. signed an agreement to create a new semiconductor company, FlashVision L.L.C., to produce advanced flash memory using fabrication space at Dominion Semiconductor in Manassas, Va.Under the strategic joint venture, the companies plan to spend approximately $700 million to...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-SanDisk Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif., developer of flash memory storage products, sold a 4.5 million-share secondary common stock offering Nov. 3. It raised net proceeds of about $291.3 million in the sale, which Morgan Stanley Dean Witter lead-managed.Part of the proceeds will fund...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Matsushita Electric/Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba Corp. introduced a secure digital memory card that can support numerous new consumer products and enable mass distribution of copyrighted content as well as e-commerce in a variety of multimedia and wireless and Internet applications.The stamp-sized card...
