PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-Speaking at a Goldman Sachs Technology Symposium, the head of Texas Instruments Inc.'s wireless business unit said the company expects last year's accelerated pace in the market for wireless phones to continue into this year.Gilles Delfassy, vice president and manager of TI's...
NEW YORK-In its next-generation, Internet-enabled mobile wireless devices, L.M. Ericsson will use the Open Multimedia Application Platform of Texas Instruments Inc., according to an agreement announced Jan. 10.The OMAP, based on digital signal processor technology, will enable advanced wireless Internet access, including digital audio,...
NEW YORK-I.D. Systems Inc., a newly public company, has deployed its patented wireless monitoring and tracking system to help the U.S. Postal Service keep its promise of "We deliver."The company, headquartered in New York's Silicon Alley, developed its technology, which uses the unlicensed 900...
A U.S. Court of Appeals Friday ordered the Federal Communications Commission to grant Qualcomm Inc. a pioneer's preference license, ending the seven-year battle between the commission and the cdmaOne innovator.Qualcomm had been waging a seemingly uphill battle with the FCC over its quest for...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments announced eight of the world's top 10 producers of third-generation wireless base stations said they plan to use TI's latest and fastest digital signal processor in their designs.Texas Instruments would not identify the eight companies, instead supplying Dataquest rankings of the...
As telecommunications carriers' revenues are under attack in light of increased competition, BellSouth Corp. has found a way to generate billions marketing its intellectual property to other companies."BellSouth is spending millions developing state-of-the-art technologies like Caller ID for traditional customers," said Scott M. Frank,...
DALLAS-The Texas Instruments Inc. board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 8.5 cents per share of common stock, payable Feb. 16 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 1.Texas Instruments, whose stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange, designs and manufactures...
The semiconductor industry is showing signs it could be emerging from a slump that has plagued it this year.The Asian economic crisis, coupled with a glut of semiconductor products in the market, has led the industry into one of its most sluggish years ever....
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. introduced a single-chip Personal Digital Cellular solution, called PDChip d5311E.The PDC chip's architecture is based on Texas Instruments Inc.'s TMS320C54x DSP core, which combines a DSP core and digital and analog functions on one chip. DSP said the chip offers...
The mere idea it may one day be possible to connect computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices to share voice and data transmissions without the need for cables has brought together some of the industry's heaviest hitters under the umbrella of the Bluetooth...
DALLAS-Philips Semiconductors and Texas Instruments Inc. said they reached an agreement to support a common protocol communications standard for Radio Frequency Identification smart labels.The companies submitted a common proposal to the International Standards Organization. The standard provides the first multivendor platform for vicinity card...
Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX chipset and software solution first announced a month ago is available for purchase. The company also released more details about the product.The chipset includes a ReFLEX encoder/decoder equipped with ReFLEX Stack two-way software and a complete transceiver/receiver subsystem. This marks the...
HEWLETT PACKARDA complete test solution for installing and maintaining radio-frequency infrastructure systems for Cellular Digital Packet Data and mobile data base station equipment was introduced by Hewlett-Packard Co. at the Personal Communications Showcase '98 trade show last week in Orlando, Fla. The solution is...
NEW YORK-Gearing up for next-generation wireless, Texas Instruments has developed a digital signal processor that is able to execute 2,000 millions of instructions per second."Two thousand MIPS is 10 times the performance of our nearest competitor," said Thomas Brooks, digital baseband products marketing manager...
Tom Wheeler, president and chief executive officer of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week opened the Location Technology Implementation Conference in San Francisco by calling for cooperation in the public-safety communications community in addressing E911 requirements."Our goal should be to develop a plan...
Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to jump-start third-generation mobile phone technology.Motorola's semiconductor segment and Lucent's Microelectronics Group next quarter plan to create a joint design center,...
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has introduced three second-generation decoder chips and related software drivers to support the recently announced FLEX G1.9 high-speed, one-way paging protocol upgrade.The new one-chip solution integrates digital FM demodulation functionality that previously was available only through off-chip, multiple...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. has put its money where its mouth is to support Internet content providers, whose creativity and innovation it sees as critical for sustaining and expanding the wireless telecommunications revolution."That is why is investing $100 million in a technology development...
With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with the software giant.Motorola Inc....
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it selected Texas Instruments Inc. to manufacture a custom chip based on InterDigital's broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology.InterDigital intends to use the integrated circuits in base stations and subscriber terminals for wireless local loop products, and...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif., developer of the Java software programming language, has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $1 billion in senior unsecured debt.A shelf registration allows companies up to two years from the filing...
NEW YORK-With the introduction Dec. 1 of a suite of radio-frequency integrated circuit products, Texas Instruments, Dallas, made a giant leap forward toward providing all major system blocks for digital wireless phones."Right now, we are the number one supplier of digital basebands, and we...
DALLAS-Mizar Inc. and Loughborough Sound Images Ltd., both suppliers of computing products for the real-time signal and image processing markets, signed a definitive merger agreement.According to the proposed agreement, Loughborough stockholders will gain about 60 percent of Mizar. The transaction will be accounted for...
Combining paging technology and personal organizer, PageMart Wireless Inc. announced agreements with Motorola Inc. and 3Com Corp. and with Texas Instruments Inc. to bring messaging capabilities to 3Com's PalmPilot handheld computer and TI's Advantra unit.PageMart said it plans to integrate its messaging network with...
