FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-LG Electronics has replaced Sony Ericsson Communications Inc. in the No. 5 spot for worldwide handset sales in the first quarter of the year, according to data released by IDC. Worldwide handset shipments were up 16.6 percent year on year in the first...
MILPITAS, Calif.-The operating system business of Palm Inc. said it boosted memory for the Palm OS by a factor of seven, using a memory technology to expand random-access memory from the current 16 MB to 128 MB."The range of potential next-generation hardware and software...
The promise of the converged wireless device is a reality, although exactly what it will look like is still being debated.Those in the industry have long preached the inevitable marriage of computers and mobile phones, and the current selection of high-end devices seems to...
CANNES, France-Wireless device maker Handspring Inc. said it will integrate Action Engine's software management tools into its line of Treo mobile phone/personal digital assistants."Providing simplified device management that ensures a highly satisfying customer experience is critical for operators launching services wrapped around smart phones...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Symbian Ltd. will provide Taiwanese vendor BenQ Corp. with access to Symbian's operating system source code, allowing BenQ to develop Symbian OS phones, according to a recently signed agreement.Subject to further agreement, BenQ also plans to manufacture and market Symbian OS smart phones...
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...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As more smart phones appear on the market and reach the hands of end users, European cell-phone operators could lose more than 10 billion euro (US$10.7 billion) if they do not protect their networks from malicious virus attacks. This claim, from a...
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Wireless Networks Inc. has signed an agreement with Marketlink Technologies L.L.C. to market and sell its entire product line to distributors, value-added resellers and end users."Marketlink has a proven track record of developing and driving sales of networking and wireless products through...
BEIJING-PalmSource Inc., the operating system subsidiary of Palm Inc., announced it is expanding into the Chinese market for personal digital assistants and smart phones through a new Hong Kong office and several new licensing deals.Palm said it will work with several Chinese companies to...
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...
LAS VEGAS-Along with continuing to combine various industry standards groups, the Open Mobile Alliance said it will initiate a new interoperability testing program to cover a variety of wireless data technologies, ranging from multimedia messaging services to digital rights management.Under the OMA's new release...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Palm Inc.'s operating system subsidiary, PalmSource Inc., announced it will join the Open Mobile Alliance standards group."The efforts of the Open Mobile Alliance are in line with PalmSource's strategy to enable interoperability between handhelds, wireless data devices and smart phones through open standards,"...
DALLAS-Research and consulting firm Alexander Resources said the future of wireless data rests on mobile decision support applications, a term the company defines as services and applications that help wireless users make decisions about destination, transit, shopping and entertainment using smart phones or wireless...
REDMOND, Washington, United States-AT&T Wireless Services and Microsoft said they will develop and distribute end-to-end solutions for Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PCs, smart phones and laptops designed to provide wireless access to e-mail, information and applications behind corporate firewalls.In addition, AT&T Wireless plans to...
TOKYO—Fujitsu, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Sagem, the second-largest telecom vender in France, signed a third-generation mobile handset agreement, both firms announced 20 February. Based on the business agreement, both firms plan to develop dual-mode (W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS) smart phones by the...
CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. will offer mobile handset manufacturers and application developers a complete open and standards-based reference platform, combining Nokia's Series 60 software and development kit, TI's OMAP processor-based reference platforms and development kit, and the Symbian operating system, the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Cell-phone operator BT Viag, the German subsidiary of BT's MmO2 mobile division, said it plans to launch Microsoft's combined Pocket PC and mobile device in early 2002. The device, which will be branded as O2 xda, will be based on Microsoft's new...
LONDON—Smart-phone operating-system maker Symbian could run out of money as soon as next year, according to the company's largest stakeholder Psion plc.Psion issued the drastic news as part of its earnings release for the six months ended June 30. According to Psion, Symbian's supervisory...
Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which will allow users of handheld devices to access a garden variety of applications and bring them closer to next-generation technologies."Our...
In the short lifespan of the still nascent wireless Internet, the owners of the operating systems have already learned that best is not always enough. Palm, Windows CE and Symbian are the three OSs trying to slug it out with marketing strategies, technical appeals...
Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant's .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to industry watchers."The evolution to...
Smart-phone company NeoPoint Inc. quietly closed its doors late last month, apparently exiting the industry it lit up only a few short years ago with its advanced phone/personal digital assistant offering.While the company hadn't yet filed as of Friday in the bankruptcy court that...
NEW YORK-Through manufacturing outsourcing and layoffs designed to return Ericsson Inc. to profitability, the company's Consumer Products Division will wind up this year with about 5,000 employees. That compares with 13,000 on staff at the end of 2000, Jan Wareby executive vice president of...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
