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Just days before Geoworks Corp. is expected to introduce dramatic changes to the licensing program supporting its patent claim on aspects of Wireless Application Protocol technology, the company escalated its …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced Toshiba Corp. has licensed its Premion Server+ technology to allow Toshiba’s i-Value Creation Company to develop custom mobile content and commerce applications for businesses in Japan. …

NEW YORK-SkyBridge L.P. is building a network and a business model designed to sidestep the negatives associated with other land and space alternatives for local loop broadband communications delivery. The …

Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks’ claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company. Geoworks claims its patent concerning a …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to announce as early as next month a dramatic improvement to global positioning system accuracy, a move with enormous public safety and commercial implications for …

IRVINE, Calif.-Toshiba Corp. has developed a complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor that incorporates an analog-to-digital converter and achieves the industry’s lowest power consumption in this class of device, according …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc. These industry powerhouses have joined founders L.M. …

NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip …

NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control suburban sprawl on Earth and provide …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Matsushita Electric/Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba Corp. introduced a secure digital memory card that can support numerous new consumer products and enable mass distribution of copyrighted content as well …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group-Ericsson Inc., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Toshiba Corp.-announced the release of the Bluetooth 1.0 specification. The …

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-To move device interconnectivity from enticing theory to practical reality, the new Wireless Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley has formed a bi-coastal collaboration with …

Capping a string of negative developments leading up to its first-quarter earnings report that showed a net loss of US$505 million, Iridium announced Edward Staiano-the company’s vice chairman, chief executive …

Germany InterDigital Communications Corp., through its subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corp., entered a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH of Germany. According to the …

United Kingdom L.M. Ericsson and U.K. operator One 2 One signed a $320 million contract under which Ericsson will supply radio base stations and base station controller equipment to expand …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Toshiba Corp. purchased newly issued shares of Audiovox Communications Corp. common stock for $5 million, giving Toshiba 5 percent of the shares outstanding, said ACC’s parent company, Audiovox Corp. …

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it licensed its Spyglass Device Mosaic thin browser and the Spyglass MicroServer to Toshiba Engineering Co.

NEW YORK-Nearly 40 electronics manufacturers have joined forces with Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop new devices that run Jini programming language, some of which could come to market by late …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Japan-based Toshiba Corp. has reached an agreement to resell in Asian and other markets the wireless broadband implementation equipment of Stanford Wireless Broadband Inc., a Stanford Telecommunications Inc. subsidiary. …

Geoworks Corp. announced the latest stage in its continuing transformation last week with the introduction of a consulting division called the Professional Services group. The business unit was created to …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. announced Toshiba Corp. will use its Premion Server+ technology to deliver news and information services to client portable devices. The agreement makes Toshiba the first company to …

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 …

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 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Toshiba Corp. have merged Ericsson Toshiba Telecommunications Systems K.K. with Nippon Ericsson K.K. in Japan. Ericsson Toshiba Telecommunications was a joint venture between Ericsson and Toshiba. …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have …