The world's largest carrier has partnered with the world's largest handset manufacturer to simplify software in Java-enabled cell phones.Vodafone, which boasts 139 million global customers, will work with Nokia to create a standards-based mobile Java services architecture to enable application compatibility across handsets and...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has teamed with Major League Baseball to bring audio broadcasts, real-time scoring and streaming video to wireless handsets.The service, which is currently available on the Nokia 6600 and soon should be available on the Nokia 6620, features live audio broadcasts of...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has teamed with Major League Baseball to bring audio broadcasts, real-time scoring and streaming video to wireless handsets.The service, which is available today on the Nokia 6600 and soon should be available on the Nokia 6620, features live audio broadcasts of...
Last week was a good one for developers. The wireless industry has begun to give developers the attention they deserve, as evidenced by the slew of wireless-focused announcements at JavaOne and other developer forums. In fact, some wireless carriers, which generally are the players...
When Java came into wireless, it was welcomed with arms half open. Companies like Qualcomm Inc. thought the technology was too open and had to shrink its appeal. Some said it was not open enough because it savored such a wide array of supporters...
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, has spoken out against the wireless industry's attempts to create a ".mobi" mobile-specific Internet domain listing. Further, the World Wide Web Consortium's Technical Advisory Group echoed Berners-Lee's criticism's by voting to endorse his position."Dividing...
Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, published a paper criticizing the wireless industry's attempts to create ".mobi," a mobile-specific Internet domain name. The Technical Advisory Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which develops and evaluates Internet technologies, voiced...
Although Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW application download system commands a smaller market than that of rival Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java, the company continues to rack up new BREW handsets, applications and carrier customers-and Qualcomm and its partners continue to offer new innovations for the platform."The...
Operating system company Symbian Ltd. announced a new certification program to provide a single testing process for all Symbian-based applications. The move is an effort to smooth out the creation and delivery of third-party smart-phone applications, and comes on the heels of several similar...
DALLAS-Sun Microsystems Inc. this week officially opened its Dallas-based RFID Test Center and launched a new Radio Frequency Identification solution. The test center simulates a warehouse environment to test RFID equipment from Sun and its partners, which include Alien Technology Ltd., Applied Wireless Identification...
DENVER-Radio frequency identification technology is reaching maturity. Such an assertion seems almost absurd for a technology that has recently received hype rivaling that of other newfangled short-range wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.But RFID is nothing new. It was introduced during World War II...
HOUSTON-MedicTouch L.L.C., which develops wearable health devices, and Sun Microsystems Inc. launched the Pulse Meter mobile health solution for Java-enabled mobile phones.The product allows users to monitor their pulse, view the results on Java-enabled mobile phones and transmit the data to Java-compliant servers.The Pulse...
Developers: Wireless wants you.At least, that's the message coming from many of the largest players in the wireless industry. Companies from Microsoft Corp. to Nokia Corp. to Verizon Wireless are investing both cash and manpower into enticing content and application developers into the market....
Vendors are looking to deploy the Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem platform not only to differentiate themselves, but also to raise the stakes for third-generation wireless applications and services by compelling operators to upgrade their networks.Major vendors like Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless is a major theme at this year's Game Developers' Conference, with Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Mobliss and Microsoft Corp. among those making announcements at the show. The surplus of news from wireless players further shows the growing market for wireless games.Motorola...
ATLANTA-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Pronto Networks unveiled the iForce Wi-Fi Hotspot Appliance at this week's CTIA Wireless 2004 show in Atlanta. The tool enables operators to quickly and cost-effectively roll out a medium-sized public hotspot network that includes 25, 50 or 100 hotspots and...
SUSSEX, United Kingdom-Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will use games testing company Babel Media for its new Java Verified wireless application program. Babel will test Java applications to ensure they work smoothly on a variety of handsets.Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG, Sony Ericsson...
LONDON-A group of the wireless industry's largest players announced a plan to form a domain name registry company for the mobile Internet-an agency similar to the Internet's ICANN registry company-in order to simplify Internet access from mobile phones.Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp., Vodafone, 3, GSM...
As softswitch technology continues to upstage circuit-based standards, some new companies have launched forays into the space.They do not look forward to dueling the big players like Nortel Networks Ltd., Siemens AG, Alcatel Alsthom and Lucent Technologies Inc., but they want their place in...
BOSTON-Siemens AG said it will jump into the over-the-air updating game through a new deal with OTA company Red Bend.Siemens licensed Red Bend's vCurrentMobile technology for use in its handsets, a move Red Bend said will allow Siemens to send out software fixes to...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Vodafone said it is using Mobilitec Inc.'s Java technology to power the application downloading features of its Live! wireless data service.Mobilitec's mPower product is already in use in Vodafone's Australia, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand operations."This agreement with Mobilitec...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-China Unicom said it will use Java technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. to offer downloadable applications to wireless phone users. China Unicom said it will use Sun's Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI) platform to develop its UniJa environment."A complete Java-ecosystem...
LONDON-EMI Music, Downplay, In-Fusio, Omni Entertainment, MmO2, Qualcomm Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are among the newest members of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, the group announced. The organization said the caliber of its new members is further evidence of its position as the leading...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-This will be a busy year for RFID technology, according to ABI Research. As manufacturers ready for the 2005 deployments of RFID by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense, ABI expects news around developing standards, large company entrants, startup software developers...
