Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
A Texas jury decided to fine Google Inc. (GOOG) $5 million for infringing on Linux technology patents owned by Bedrock Computer Technologies.Google's Android operating system uses the Linux kernel code, and the verdict from the Eastern District of Texas could also result in...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Some may have been surprised to see Oracle Corp. presenting at the LTE Latin America conference in Rio De Janeiro on Tuesday, but Leonard Sheahan, a senior director at the firm's communications division, explained that his company is looking...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- To get a sense of how important the Java language is to mobility, here's a smattering of stats presented at Oracle Corp.'s OpenWorld conference this week: Java is running on 5 billion SIM cards, 3 billion mobile handsets and countless embedded...
The Palestinian telecom sector is growing. Exports in IT, software and mobile are finding customers in regional markets. Access to capital is improving with new VC firms dedicated exclusively to the Palestinian IT sector. At the macro level, the Telecommunication Regulation Commission (TRC)...
Motorola Inc. has named a new chief financial officer from outside the company.Paul Liska, a former Sears, Roebuck and Co. CFO, will take over March 1 for Tom Meredith, a Motorola board member who was named interim CFO last March.Liska, who most recently was...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Oracle pulled off...
Sun Microsystems Inc. raised eyebrows and garnered splashy headlines when it announced plans to acquire MySQL Inc. for $1 billion. But what the deal means in mobile - or just about anywhere else, for that matter - is far from clear.A Swedish outfit with...
Like Daryl Hannah in "Blade Runner," Google Inc. last week showcased an attention-grabbing Android. But while the Internet giant garnered headlines and wowed fanboys with its latest move in wireless, some developers reacted with a big yawn.Google ended weeks of speculation about its mobile...
Sun Microsystems has tapped Synchronica plc to provide synchronization and device-management software.Sun will license components of Synchronica's mobile gateway for wireless synchronization of contacts, calendars, tasks and other enterprise-related data for its Java System Communications Suite and Java System Application Platform Suite. Synchronica, a...
Sun Microsystems Inc. previewed a simplified way to write Java applications for mobile phones, DVD players and Internet browsers at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.The developer unveiled JavaFX Script, a "radically simple" scripting language designed to expand the company's Java technology onto more...
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it acquired SavaJe Technologies, which sold a Java-based operating system for cellphones. Sun provided no information on the deal, including the purchase price, and instead said that "additional information regarding the acquisition of these assets will be unveiled at the...
DanielsDavid Parker has been promoted to managing director at Daniels & Associates. Parker is a member of the firm's Telecommunications Group and is responsible for advising communications service providers and telecom infrastructure companies on mergers & acquisitions and corporate financing. He has been with...
Digital payment technology company Valista Ltd. named a new CEO, promoting former Vice President of International Sales Arlene Adams.The Dublin, Ireland-based firm said founder and current CEO Raomal Perera will become executive chairman and continue to play an "active, day-to-day role" at Valista. Adams,...
Executives come and go as corporate fortunes rise and fall, as surely as the sun rises and sets. It is rare, however, that that mobility is as seamless or as wickedly cool as Ron Garriques' departure from Motorola Inc. earlier this month. Even as...
HONG KONG-Sun Microsystems Inc. used the ITU Telecom World 2006 trade show in Hong Kong to launch a new industry association that says its aim is to simplify technology integration by developing and pushing requirements for standardized products among network equipment providers. Nokia Corp....
Revenue assurance company Subex Azure Ltd. has added to its product portfolio with features designed to help operators better judge their risk of losing revenue on a customer, and an integrated platform that is designed to give chief financial officers the same visibility into...
LOS ANGELES--Motorola Inc. is putting the pedal to the metal on getting ideas more rapidly transformed into services with its "Fast Track" program, part of its MotoDev effort to spur innovative services--and, of course, take over the world. "We want to facilitate getting ideas...
The big issue for some players in the wireless community regarding Java ME revolves around its owner, Sun Microsystems Inc., which announced at its May JavaOne conference that it was mulling how to go open source with the industry's dominant programming language. This move...
Sun Microsystems Inc. is hoping to boost sagging revenues by making its Java programming language available as free open-source software. Jonathan Schwartz, who took over as Sun's chief executive officer three weeks ago, told developers at last week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco that...
SAN FRANCISCO—The world’s two largest phone manufacturers are hoping to give Java developers a push with separate initiatives. Motorola Inc. is embracing open-sourcing with the launch of an Internet site offering code contributions, open-source projects and other information for developers. The site, www.opensource.motorola.com, is...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. hopes to simplify application developers’ access to the company’s resources with a new network dubbed Motodev, the company announced. The program will combine Motorola’s current developer efforts—including Motocoder, iDen and Horizon—into a single Web resource, to be rolled out in phases...
In the wake of reports that a mobile trojan dubbed Redbrowser.A had been encountered in Russia, the major security firms working in the mobile space issued cautious alerts to their clients and made restrained public statements. The muted response seemed to reflect the stance...
