Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., which dominate chip manufacturing for CDMA and GSM network and handset technologies, respectively, posted strong quarterly earnings for their latest fiscal quarters. For Qualcomm's second fiscal quarter, which ended March 26, the San Diego-based company reported net income...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. reported late yesterday that it earned $593 million in the company’s second fiscal quarter, an increase of 11 percent over the year-ago quarter, results that were in line with analysts’ expectations. The company attributed the solid growth to an increase in...
DALLAS—Texas Instruments Inc. late yesterday reported first-quarter net income of $585 million, a 42-percent increase from the $411 million profit in the year-ago quarter, and it issued a bullish forecast for the current quarter, causing its stock price to rise in after-hours trading yesterday....
Qualcomm Inc. said officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission visited its offices in Korea, as well as the offices of its chip customers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and Pantech Curitel.Qualcomm said the KFTC "declined to provide an explanation of...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission visited its offices in Korea, as well as the offices of its chip customers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Co. Ltd. and Pantech Curitel. Qualcomm said the KFTC "declined to provide an...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry veterans with access to significant financial and political resources soon intend to ask policymakers to scrap plans to auction a large swath of 700 MHz spectrum being surrendered by TV broadcasters and instead use 30 megahertz for a fourth-generation nationwide public-safety network...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. sent ripples through the mobile-device industry by raising its 2006 growth estimate for global handset sales from 10 percent to 15 percent "or more" over last year. The statement was delivered by Jorma Olilla, Nokia's outgoing chairman and chief executive officer,...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. sent ripples through the mobile device industry by raising its estimate of global handset sales for this year from 10 percent to 15 percent "or more" over last year. The statement was delivered by Jorma Olilla, Nokia’s outgoing chairman and chief...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced it filed a patent infringement suit against chipmaker Broadcom Corp., the third in a running dispute over what Qualcomm alleges is misuse of its intellectual property. The latest suit focuses on what Qualcomm charges is Broadcom’s misappropriation of trade secrets...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group picked the WiMedia Alliance multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing version of ultra-wideband for integration with Bluetooth technology, thus taking the next step in its plan to create a high-speed data rate version of version of Bluetooth capable of...
DENVER-Although monitoring and control-enhancing technology hasn't garnered many headlines in the past, ZigBee-enabled products are likely to burst into prime-time later this year with both consumer and commercial applications, predicted Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, during last week's IEEE standards meeting in...
DALLAS—Texas Instruments Inc. honed its financial estimates for the first quarter, projecting a narrower range of solid sales, from $3.22 billion to $3.35 billion, compared with its earlier projection of $3.11 billion to $3.38 billion. TI also estimated earnings per share from ongoing operations...
Call it hedging your bets. Qualcomm Inc. said it is developing chipsets based on a rival mobile television standard-Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld, or DVB-H-even while it works to complete its own MediaFlo network in the United States.Qualcomm is spending about $800 million to build its...
SAN DIEGO—Call it hedging it your bets. Qualcomm Inc. said it is developing chipsets based on a rival mobile television standard—Digital Video Broadcasting–Handheld, or DVB-H—even while it works to complete its own MediaFlo network in the United States.Qualcomm is spending about $800 million to...
REDMOND, Wash—Microsoft Corp. announced that it’s backing Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld technology as a "founding member" of the Mobile DTV Alliance. Although the group formed in January, Microsoft only today announced its membership despite its ranking as a founding member. Microsoft joins Intel Corp., Modeo...
Eager to capture a piece of an estimated $2 billion equipment market, Texas Instruments Inc. is plunging into the WiMAX infrastructure business. The company today introduced a number of components it said comprise an end-to-end solution that gives carriers and infrastructure vendors the ability...
READING, England-Software company Tao Group launched a mobile version of its intent multimedia software platform for handset vendors. Tao Group said the intent Mobile solution supports several different operating systems-including Linux and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE-and features a middleware suite and an application suite...
Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. announced they plan to form a joint venture to build CDMA phones. The move likely will have major repercussions for the global wireless industry and stands as evidence that no one company-no matter how successful-can go it...
With a new venue, La Fira Barcelona, and more than 50,000 attendees, this year's 3GSM World Congress combined old and new in a splendid way-and showed once again that the more things change, the more they stay the same.The industry picked up a few...
READING, England-Software company Tao Group launched a mobile version of its intent multimedia software platform for handset vendors. Tao Group said the intent Mobile solution supports several different operating systems-including Linux and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE-and features a middleware suite and an application suite...
DALLAS-More than a dozen major developers, publishers, handset manufacturers and technology companies are working to streamline the process for developing and delivering mobile games. Activision Inc., Digital Chocolate, Electronic Arts, Microsoft Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Texas Instruments Inc. are part of a...
LAKE FOREST, Calif.-Mobile TV chipmaker Newport Media Inc. said it added $25 million to its funding coffers during a second round of fundraising. The round, led by Oak Investment Partners, brings the company's total funding to more than $36 million. The company said it...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. scored a minor victory in its legal wrangle with chipmaker Broadcom Inc., managing to move part of the case to its home base of San Diego. The ruling also shortens Broadcom's complaint against Qualcomm with the International Trade Commission.Broadcom said it...
The IEEE'S recent decision to allow competing ultra-wideband standards in the marketplace has not deterred investors, but could spell trouble for the Bluetooth industry, which last year hooked its future to the UWB standard. The IEEE group voted unanimously at a meeting in Waikoloa,...
