SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Pharmaceutical company Bayer Yakuhin Ltd., the Japanese-based subsidiary of Bayer, has deployed Everypath's mobile task automation products for use by 600 mobile professionals. Everypath's solution will allow medical representatives to access and interact with their Siebel ePharma application over Toshiba Pocket PC...
TOKYO-Two Japanese operators announced additions to their multimedia messaging handset portfolios. KDDI said it released the A1304T manufactured by Toshiba Corp. and the A1401K from Kyocera Corp. for its 1x service.Both handsets support MovieMail, which enables users to capture and send video. The two...
TOKYO-Two Japanese operators announced additions to their multimedia messaging handset portfolios. KDDI said it released the A1304T manufactured by Toshiba Corp. and the A1401K from Kyocera Corp. for its 1x service.Both handsets support MovieMail, which enables users to capture and send video. The two...
IRVINE, Calif.-Toshiba Computer Systems Group released the 802.11b-capable Magnia SG30 Wireless Mobility Server, which enables wireless file sharing, printer networking and access to the Internet in small and medium-sized businesses.The secure server is the size of a Toshiba notebook computer and is simple to...
Eight of the world's largest consumer electronics companies-including the world's No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile phones.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung...
IRVINE, Calif.-Toshiba's Computer Systems Group said it has rolled out a line of wireless servers known as Magnia Mobile Productivity Solutions with software for small and large businesses.The company said it is pre-loaded with industry-specific software."Toshiba's all-in-one business solutions include all of the hardware...
IRVINE, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group named Toshiba Corp.'s Portege 4010 Series notebook computer a Designated Profile Interoperability Tester platform for testing and verifying interoperability between Bluetooth-enabled devices.Toshiba said the notebook will be available to Bluetooth product developers and accredited Bluetooth Qualification Test Facilities...
NEW ORLEANS, United States-The second day of keynote speeches at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans had a similar theme to last year's event with wireless local area network (WLAN) technology dominating much of the conversation as well as...
NEW ORLEANS--The second day of keynote speeches at this year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show in New Orleans had a similar theme to last year's event with wireless local area network technology dominating much of the conversation as well as repeat appearances by...
NEW ORLEANS-PCTel Inc., an Internet access products and wireless mobility software provider, announced its Segue Roaming Client for PocketPC. With this release, PocketPC users can now realize the same Wi-Fi roaming benefits that the Segue Roaming Client laptop users now have, said the company.The...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Cambridge Silicon Radio said Toshiba Corp. was using its BlueCore2 Bluetooth technology in its Portege 3500 tablet personal computer.
TOKYO-Toshiba, via its local joint venture business in China, will launch a mobile video messaging handset in China in early March, Toshiba announced Thursday. The T618X handset will let users take both still pictures and up to 15 seconds of video with a built-in...
BOSTON-Research firm Strategy Analytics said 18 million mobile phones were sold last year with integrated digital cameras, with Nokia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. taking the lead in the market.The firm said 13 million camera phones were sold in Japan last year, with...
TOKYO-Under an agreement announced Feb. 13, M-Systems and Toshiba America Electronics Components are jointly developing and marketing the Mobile DiskOnChip G3, which they said, "breaks the world record for capacity and size."Engineering samples of the 512 Mbit version of G3 flash disk will be...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-IBM Corp., NEC and Toshiba Corp. have begun shipping laptop computers incorporating Atheros Communications' multimode 802.11 a/b chipsets, and Hewlett-Packard Co. will soon ship laptops with built-in 802.11 a/b/g chipsets from the Sunnyvale, Calif., company."We are the first and, as of right now,...
TOKYO-Toshiba Corp. posted a net loss of $58 million for the third quarter compared with a loss of $718 million during the same time last year, although the company expects a net profit of $194 million for the year."The market environment is still severe,...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Alltel Corp. now offers Forbes.com Wireless Powered by SmartServ content for its recently introduced BREW service. The content will be available through its "BREW Shop" option for download onto the Toshiba CDM9500 handset.
CAMBERLEY, United Kingdom-Toshiba launched its first European mobile phone-the TS21i-in the Netherlands through KPN Mobile. The phone will offer one-touch access to KPN Mobile's i-mode service."Since we announced our intention to produce mobile phones for the European market, we have been working hard to...
IRVINE, Calif.-Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. launched a Bluetooth SDIO card designed to bring wireless capabilities to mobile and digital consumer products equipped with a Secure Digital Card slot.Toshiba said mass production of the card is scheduled for late October.
NEW YORK-Telcordia Technologies Inc. and Toshiba America Research Inc., both members of the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum, completed a successful proof-of-concept demonstration September 17 of a mobile Internet based on an Internet-style core network infrastructure.The test used an all Internet Protocol wireless and wireline...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Toshiba's computer Systems Group said it has agreed to integrate its 802.11-based technology into iPass Global Broadband roaming service."Ipass will work with Toshiba to ensure that their Wi-Fi hot-spot locations are ready for enterprise usage, and are interoperable with virtual private network...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS said it would begin offering its next-generation PCS Vision service through its retail stores and business channels nationwide beginning next week. Initial applications for the service will allow customers to take and receive pictures, check personal and corporate e-mail, play...
MUNICH, Germany-Five companies have agreed to work together to develop mobile commerce security standards for Flash memory cards. Hitachi Ltd., Ingentix GmbH &Co., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., ScanDisk Corp. and Toshiba Corp. believe the new set of security features called Mobile Commerce Extension...
NEW YORK-The Open Source Development Lab, Beaverton, Ore., a vendor-neutral non-profit organization dedicated to enabling Linux and Linux-based programming for enterprise and carrier-class functionality worldwide, has posted materials for open source developer community feedback on its Web site at www.developer.osdl.orgIn its June 28 announcement,...
