READING, United Kingdom-Market research firm Canalys said shipments of mobile phones with integrated cameras in the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions are quickly increasing, rising 166 percent in quarter two compared with quarter-one sales.Total shipments of imaging-phone devices totaled 3.8 million units in...
TOKYO-Sharp Electronics has developed a 128-megabyte flash memory, which offers a maximum access time of 60 nanoseconds, which the company calls the industry's fastest.It is aimed at mobile phones and other wireless devices."These new high-speed memory devices mark a dramatic step toward satisfying these...
DENVER-The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among recent news:c Wireless gaming...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Nvidia Corp., a visual processing solutions provider, completed its acquisition of MediaQ Inc., which provides graphics and multimedia technology for wireless devices.MediaQ was founded in 1997 to enable the development of feature-rich mobile consumer devices by providing ultra-low power visual processing solutions,...
The wireless content and gaming industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds, as new startups launch, new applications become available and new partnerships are formed. Indeed, such intense activity offers evidence the market is gearing up for significant growth.Among the recent news:Wireless gaming...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Wireless technology company InterDigital Communications Corp. reported increasing revenues and a rising net income, news that helped send the company's stock up almost 8 percent to about $16.17 per share.InterDigital attributed its solid second quarter to new or renewed patent license...
Wireless technology company InterDigital Communications Corp. reported increasing revenues and a rising net income, news that helped send the company's stock up almost 8 percent to about $16.17 per share.InterDigital attributed its solid second quarter to new or renewed patent license agreements with Sharp...
One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor.With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and carriers all see their technologies...
TOKYO-Mobile-phone maker Sharp Corp. said net income was up about 13 percent to $117 million, and sales of its camera phones helped spur sales in a down worldwide economy.Sharp said net sales of its audio-visual equipment, which includes camera phones, color TVs and other...
Joint ventures and alliances continue to tie ideas and initiatives together across various tiers of the wireless industry from infrastructure to Wi-Fi to semiconductors. Asian companies play crucial roles in the cooperation.Royal Philips Electronics NV announced a joint venture with Accton Technology Corp. to...
TOKYO-Sharp Corp. said it will collaborate with SAP AG to provide solutions for corporate workers on the fly using handheld devices.According to the deal, Sharp will offer its personal digital assistants equipped with liquid crystal displays and running on the Linux operating system.In what...
Eight of the world's largest consumer electronics companies-including the world's No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile phones.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corp. has extended its 1998 patent license agreement with Sharp Corp. of Japan covering sales of terminal devices compliant with TDMA-based PDC and PHS standards.Sharp will make a "multi-million dollar" payment to ITC...
TOKYO-Sharp Corp., through an agreement with Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd., will supply the Chinese market with camera-equipped GSM mobile phones.The device, which marks Sharp's entry into the Chinese mobile phone market, will be a version of the phones Sharp has developed for other...
TOKYO-Sharp, a leading mobile handset manufacturer in Japan, announced it will provide mobile handsets with built-in tiny cameras to China Mobile. Sharp has been providing mobile handsets with cameras to carriers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.Under its bilateral contract with Datang Telephone, a leading...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Despite the hype surrounding the success of multimedia messaging service (MMS), the Swedish cell-phone operator Comviq has joined Vodafone and Telia by extending its free trial of the service until June. The company had planned to halt its free trial service at...
BOSTON-Research firm Strategy Analytics said 18 million mobile phones were sold last year with integrated digital cameras, with Nokia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. taking the lead in the market.The firm said 13 million camera phones were sold in Japan last year, with...
CANNES, France-The 2003 GSM Association Awards were presented this week in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress being held in Cannes, France. In the technology innovation category, Sharp Corp. won for the Sharp GX10 handheld and Telos Technology and Globecomm Systems Inc. won for...
CANNES, France-The GSM Association announced its new board members and said it will now position itself as a global trade organization for the mobile industry, focused on a high-profile series of commercial and strategic wireless industry initiatives.The new board includes 23 executives from companies...
OSLO, Norway-IBM Corp. said it will use software from Trolltech to offer a reference design for building Linux-based mobile devices."With an increasingly mobile work force, corporations are looking into deploying enterprise applications on devices across multiple platforms-including Java/Linux," said Michael Karasick, director of embedded...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless vendor L.M. Ericsson said it will lay off 1,200 workers in its information technology units.The sharp reduction in total staff from 107, 000 to 64,000 necessitated the cut because fewer people will need to support computer networks, according the company.About 700 of...
OSLO, Norway-Sales of handheld computing devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, rose 3.5 percent in the final quarter of 2002 in Sweden, reversing a slide that began in 2001. Swedish consultancy IT Research credited the swing to innovative multipurpose phones like...
WASHINGTON-White House adviser Richard Clarke, according to published reports, will step down next month after completing a final report on a cybersecurity plan that is bound to attract sharp criticism when it is released because of expected heavy reliance on voluntary industry efforts to...
