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TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, two leading electronic manufacturers in Japan, partnered for third-generation (3G) handsets and will begin collaborating next month on the development of a new platform for multimedia-enabled, …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. launched what it describes as feature-rich CMX 2.1 multimedia software, which offers enhanced audio, animation, speech and sound effects for wireless devices. The company said handset makers …

TOKYO—Japanese mobile carriers are emphasizing location services to combat increasing competition within the market. The mobile-phone market in Japan has been expanding rapidly during the past several years. However, the …

LINUXWORLD—Open source Development Lab has allied with industry leaders like Alcatel, Cisco, MontaVista Software, Nokia and Toshiba to create working groups to develop feature roadmaps for Linux in the enterprise …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having suffered more than its rivals in 2001, Siemens is claiming that 2002 will see a change in the cell-phone business that will enable it to regain market …

TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba, two leading Japanese consumer electronics and electrical appliances companies, announced that both firms will on 1 April set up a joint venture to develop and …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. says it has licensed the ARM926EJ-S core processor for wireless applications such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants. ARM, which provides embedded RISC microprocessor, said the technology …

Nokia Corp. continued its massive open mobile architecture standards push last week by signing up some of the world’s largest infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA Systems Inc., Borland …

DALLAS, United States—Nokia continued its massive push for its open mobile architecture initiative by signing some of the world’s largest information and technology infrastructure and application server vendors, including BEA …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. announced it is selling its Virginia-based chip manufacturing plant to Micron Technology, thus exiting the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip manufacturing business. Toshiba expects the sale of …

OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—An agreement made last year between Siemens and Toshiba to co-develop a wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) handset has been “deferred.” Siemens, which claimed the project had never been …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. and Siemens AG have quashed a deal to jointly develop third-generation handsets.Analysts expect both companies may fish for new partners.

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite the sluggish European phone market, Toshiba announced it plans to market Taiwanese-made handsets in Europe to boost sales beyond Japan and the United States. The company, which …

BEIJING—Japan’s Toshiba is setting up a CDMA handset joint venture in China, together with the Nanjing Postel Telecommunication Company and Hong Kong’s Wong’s International (Holdings). The venture is to be …

TORONTO-As the handset manufacturing business gets tougher because of declining demand, more phone makers are looking at joint ventures as their economic salvation and perhaps their best strategy to catch …

TOKYO-Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial announced a joint venture for liquid crystal display (LCD) and next-generation display businesses for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other appliances. Both companies will develop, …

TOKYO—Toshiba and KDDI will jointly launch a field test for communications between digital consumer electronics and mobile handsets next March. About 500 households in Tokyo and Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. have announced a joint venture for liquid crystal display and next-generation display businesses for personal digital assistants and other appliances.Both companies will …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—While downplaying speculation about a merger or joint venture with Motorola, executives within Siemens’ mobile-phone division confirmed that it is looking at a number of alliance options as …

TOKYO—Japanese chip maker Toshiba Corp. says it will roll out a mobile Internet phone in Europe next year. The phone is expected to be GPRS-enabled, according to the company.

IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba Corp. said it has introduced a family of chips it calls Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for cellular phones and other wireless devices with wideband CDMA and wireless …

IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba America Electronic Components said it has developed a family of 64 megabit Pseudo Static Random Access Memories for higher-density memory in the next generation of wireless devices.The company …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. is launching its wireless notebooks Portege 4000 and Tecra 9000 models , which will offer 802.11b and Bluetooth technologies. Toshiba hopes to differentiate itself from competitors like Dell …

SEOUL, South Korea—Chip maker Toshiba Corp. wants to sell its dynamic random access memory chips to Samsung Electronics, a reflection of the Korean company’s struggles.The company is also speculated to …

As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced …