NEW YORK-Peak Technologies, Symbol Technologies and Syclo have entered an alliance to integrate with MRO Software's MAXIMO, which they said is the leading strategic asset management system on the market."This alliance joins the best-of-breed providers in every area of the mobile asset management market,"...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Mobile computing company Symbol Technologies Inc. reported declining revenues and net losses for its second quarter compared with the same quarter last year, but company executives offered a positive outlook."We believe the business strengthening we started to see in the second quarter will...
TORONTO—Rogers AT&T Wireless has inked a deal to provide wireless data services for Purolator Courier, Canada's largest courier company.Under the deal, Purolator will use Rogers AT&T Wireless technology and its network to allow dispatch, field and delivery workers, along with supervisors, to synchronize and...
TORONTO—Rogers AT&T Wireless signed an agreement with Canadian delivery company Purolator Courier Ltd. to use the carrier's GSM/GPRS network to provide an end-to-end wireless data solution enabling access to shipping information for Purolator customers across Canada.Purolator said it has deployed more than 6,000 Symbol...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.—Wireless and mobile computer maker Symbol Technologies Inc. reported lower revenues compared with the same quarter last year, and it lowered its expectations for full-year revenues.Symbol earned $301 million for the first quarter, compared with $450 million in the same quarter last year....
SAN FRANCISCO-In an another tie-up, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have agreed to combine Intel's Xscale microarchitecture's PX250 and PXA210 and Windows CE .NET to enable hardware and software developers to create browsing, multimedia and other wireless applications for mobile devices.Both companies said a...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.—Stocks for mobile data device maker Symbol Technologies Inc. took a dive after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings and announced its president and chief executive officer resigned.Jerome Swartz, Symbol's chairman and founder, will replace Tomo Razmilovic, the company's former president CEO. Swartz...
PARK CITY, Utah—Independent movie enthusiasts at the Sundance Film Festival, running Jan. 10-20, will be treated to a variety of cutting-edge wireless technologies, including wireless access to movie showtimes, customizable itineraries, calendar updates, film shorts, Flash animations and film trailers.FluxNetwork Inc., teaming with Hewlett-Packard...
SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. released details of its forthcoming Pocket PC operating system upgrade—which the company is marketing squarely at the business market—a move that ratchets up the OS battle with personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc.Microsoft made its announcement during the DEMOmobile 2001 conference...
TORONTO-In an effort to offer solutions for mobile work forces in markets such as field service, general merchandising and health care, Mobile Computing Corp. and Symbol Technologies Inc. announced a partnership to combine MCC's m-LINX wireless data products with Symbol's mobile computing devices.
Voice portal company iNetNow Inc. reported a co-branding agreement with Arelco Inc., an independent licensee of National Car Rental, allowing customers at select Arelco-owned National Car Rental stores to receive a complimentary iNetNow Platinum Card entitling them to 30 free days of iNetNow service....
Aether Systems Inc. announced it will buy Cerulean Technology Inc., a provider of public safety software and solutions, for $150 million, adding the public safety vertical market to its growing list of interests.Cerulean's PacketCluster line of mobile applications targets the dispatch, remote data access...
SCHAMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc., Symbol Technologies Inc., Connect Things Inc. and AirClic Inc. announced a plan to form a new e-commerce company based on scanning bar codes.They have collectively invested $500 million in the effort. The company intends to create a registry of Web codes,...
SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. has agreed to deliver 75,000 Merlin Cellular Digital Packet Data modem modules to Symbol Technologies Inc.Symbol said it plans to incorporate the modems into its Palm and Windows CE-powered handheld computers.
ATLANTA-XcelleNet Inc., a mobile enterprise management solutions firm, announced strategic technology alliances and partnerships with Microsoft Corp., Research In Motion Ltd., the Symbian initiative and Symbol Technologies Inc. in an effort to develop standards-based solutions for managing smart mobile devices.The company also joined Palm...
Microsoft Corp. released its Pocket PC platform for handheld personal computers powered by its Windows CE operating system.Microsoft hardware partners Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symbol Technologies Inc. each introduced devices using the platform. Prices for the new devices...
VIENNA, Va.-Aether Systems Inc. has launched a nine-week tour of seminars examining the benefits mobile and wireless computing has on businesses and enterprise applications called "Powering Your Mobile Enterprise."The sessions include presentations by Palm Inc., Symbol Technologies Inc. and various customers and integrators. They...
SAN DIEGO-Peregrine Semiconductor and Symbol Technologies said they plan to jointly develop solutions for the Bluetooth wireless personal area networking market.The deal combines Peregrine's Ultra-Thin Silicon Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor technology and radio-frequency integrated circuit development prowess with Symbol's baseband processing, software and systems...
CHICAGO, Ill.-Telcordia Technologies Inc. said its AirBoss middleware server will be deployed as part of an integrated hardware, software and services solution developed by Symbol Technologies for Giant Food Inc.The solution integrates global positioning system technology, Cellular Digital Packet Data public networks and Giant...
NEW YORK-Telxon Corp., an Akron, Ohio, designer and manufacturer of wireless mobile information systems for vertical markets, announced Feb. 1 it has sued its primary competitor, Symbol Technologies Inc., for allegedly engaging in unfair business practices.Symbol, based in Holtsville, N.Y., develops and manufactures bar...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Sybase Inc. and Symbol Technologies announced they jointly plan to develop a mobile enterprise platform, intended to create a new class of mobile business applications for the retail, manufacturing, warehouse distribution and health-care markets.The platform will combine Sybase's SQL Anywhere Studio and UltraLite...
AvantGo Inc. released a new solution designed to extend enterprise and Web-based applications to handheld computers, allowing companies to deploy corporate applications to mobile devices that are compatible with their existing network and technology infrastructures.The solution, called AvantGo 2.0, consists of the AvantGo Server,...
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Symbol Technologies Inc., which designs, manufactures and installs wireless local area network systems, bar-code systems and short-range wireless-connectivity products, today announced its support for and full participation in the development of the Bluetooth specification. Symbol is a member of the Bluetooth Special Interest...
