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Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services. Involved in …

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 …

Microsoft Corp.’s competitors are calling the attention of anti-trust authorities to the company’s new initiative .NET as the software player’s latest strategy to extend its monopoly. Analysts think that, in …

Motorola Inc. marked its Smart Networks Developers Forum in New Orleans last week with partnerships and new product initiatives. Far away in Oman, the company signed a $5.2 million contract …

LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular’s Wireless Alliances and Vision Exchange conference here last …

LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety …

Going mobile isn’t easy. If it were, there would probably be a lot more companies doing it. And differing standards, multitudinous offerings and the simple cost of wireless applications and …

WASHINGTON-Congress, watching dazzling new technological and marketing advances driven by the Internet and its uncertain migration to wireless devices, has been dragged into high-stakes controversy over whether business methods patents …

SAN FRANCISCO-Brience Inc., a provider of mobile infrastructure software, said Sun Microsystems Inc. integrated Brience’s Framework 2.0 into its existing IT infrastructure, which will enable Sun to offer its customers …

A new company out of Andover, Mass., hopes to make the Palm personal digital assistant feel even more like a personal computer than ever before. Kada Systems Inc. launched Monday …

For the love of Java, three companies with two handsets have come together. Using Sun Microsystems’ Java software in Motorola Inc.’s phones over Nextel Communications Inc.’s networks, the three companies …

NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect. Opportunity is …

SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp.’s wireless media software server, PVServer, is now available on Sun Microsystems Netra family of carrier-grade servers running Sun Solaris UNIX. Sun Microsystems also placed an equity investment …

SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. received $35 million in its second round of financing, which was led by Shelter Capital Partners L.L.C. and Baker Capital Corp. “We are extremely excited about …

After months of struggling financially and falling behind technologically, Motorola Inc. stands to make its mark as the first handset manufacturer to provide Java-enabled mobile phones. The company entered an …

NEW YORK-When NTT DoCoMo began planning for what would become its wildly successful i-mode service, Japan’s largest telecommunications company turned to a journalist with an undergraduate degree in French literature. …

Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to develop new ways to combat this …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. will port Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java 2 Platform Micro Edition onto its Open Multimedia Application Platform in an attempt to expand the adoption of TI’s OMAP architecture …

In this time of money-hungry megacorporations, there still exists at least one philosophy that ultimately benefits the little guy-Open Source. Since January of last year, Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Lutris Technologies …

Korea-based LG TeleCom Co. Ltd. moved one step closer to Java-enabled handsets last week, announcing a collaboration with AppStream Inc. to use AppStream’s Java software technology solution in its next …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-In the wireless data weltanschauung of Lucent Technologies Inc., operators will remain the linchpin for an increasingly complex assembly of players. Lucent’s role, from its world view, is …

Looking to make a play in the wireless e-business enablement space, Brience Inc. was formed six months ago by former executives of KPMG Consulting who found existing wireless enablement solutions …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Networks Systems and Sun Microsystems Inc. signed a multi-year, multimillion dollar agreement that calls for Comverse to integrate Sun’s Netra 1400 servers and Sun StorEdge disk arrays as …

Certicom, an encryption technology company specializing in solutions for the mobile computing and wireless data markets, has introduced a virtual private network software solution for handheld mobile devices. The Certicom …

ATLANTA-Wireless infrastructure vendors made their wireless Internet plans a major priority at SuperComm here last week, introducing network solutions portfolios that, while different in makeup, have the same goal-to help …