Major companies are getting involved in the #ILookLikeanEngineer Twitter campaign aimed at breaking gender stereotypes in science and engineering.
Ericsson, Caterpillar, Microsoft and Xerox are just a few of the companies showing their support for gender diversity in technology fields.
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Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.As many long-term Reality Check and Sunday Brief readers know, Google Inc. (GOOG) is one of the...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.This week we have a bevy of changes occurring in Silicon Valley to deal with.First, Steve Jobs...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The VisionMobile broadband is the network connectivity environment, where networks of different shapes and sizes collaborate to provide users unfettered access to the information they seek, the content they want to engage in, connect people in new and exciting ways, where time and distance...
The mobile handset has become something of a looking glass in Wonderland. And mPortal Inc. was founded in 2000 to help clients-network operators, mobile virtual network operators, content providers and enterprises-offer consumers and employees a means to step through that looking glass into the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Palm Inc. said it will pay Xerox Corp. $22.5 million to settle a 9-year-old patent infringement lawsuit over handwriting-recognition technology. Xerox filed the lawsuit in 1997, claiming Palm’s "Graffiti" software infringed on Xerox’s "Unistrokes" patent, which covers one-stroke symbols. Xerox won an initial...
Just when I'm convinced that consumer groups are unnecessarily worried that wireless digital technologies will track our every move, something comes along to cause me to look over my shoulder. Maybe I'm just paranoid.But an article-which originally appeared last year in PC World magazine...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced two new executive appointments Tuesday. The company has appointed Jan M.K. Jaferian as its new intellectual property business president and John DeBono as its new investor relations vice president.Jaferian, who comes from Xerox Corp. where she was most...
Alan Dick & Co. has acquired telecommunications infrastructure service company EXi Ltd., making Alan Dick & Co. a single-source supplier for the telecommunications industry. "Acquiring the resources and expertise that have driven EXi rapidly forward since its creation in 1995 will allow us to...
Wireless enterprise company Visto Corp. announced another financial transaction, this time the acquisition of the intellectual property and technology assets of wireless e-mail company Jarna Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.Visto said it will gain Jarna's Mobile...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Legal issues persist for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. as it now looks to be working through a patent dispute with Xerox Corp.RIM filed a motion in the U.S. District Court of Hartford, Conn., urging the judge to issue a declaratory judgement...
MILPITAS, Calif.-A U.S. Appeals Court affirmed a New York District Court's ruling that Palm Inc. infringed on a Xerox Corp. patent for handwriting recognition, but the court also sent the case back to the District Court to examine the validity of the patent in...
VIENNA, Va.-mPortal Inc. announced it will provide Xerox Corp. with a wireless field service solution to allow Xerox customer service engineers to wirelessly access and update customer information, including work orders, while on the road. The companies have completed a pilot program and plan...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Palm Inc. said the U.S. District Court in Rochester, N.Y. rejected a motion made by Xerox Corp. pertaining to Xerox' 1997 claim of patent infringement that alleged Palm's Graffiti handwriting symbols violate Xerox' computerized handwriting recognition patent.The court refused to stop the...
The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the wireless industry.The handheld computing industry has suffered through the past year along with the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Palm Inc., facing a potentially damaging court ruling, said it would appeal a U.S. district court's decision that Palm's widely used Graffiti handwriting-recognition technology infringes on a patent held by Xerox Corp. "Palm will defend itself vigorously and does not intend for...
NEW ORLEANS-WebLink Wireless Inc. said it will offer Xerox Corp.'s MobileDoc remote document access solution, available on PageWriter 2000X two-way devices from Motorola Inc.
NEW YORK-Wireless devices and the services they deliver in the Internet age represent an opportunity so large it is nearly unfathomable and dwarfs any second-place possibilities, according to Bill Joy, chief scientist of Sun Microsystems Inc.Nevertheless, the United States, which pioneered the Internet, enters...
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 this year.Jini, pronounced "genie," is an enhancement of Sun's Java programming language, which permits...
Communication Solutions Inc. awarded Conductus Inc. a subcontract, valued at about $1 million, to build a multichannel wireless receiver front-end enhanced by superconductors. The Baltimore-based company plans to integrate the front end into a high-performance system earmarked for a number of government communications applications,...
Corsair Communications Inc. appointed Dr. Donald R. Oestreicher vice president of engineering. Oestreicher will direct Corsair's efforts in product engineering, research and development. Oestreicher's background includes engineering management with Dow Jones & Co., Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Valid Logic Systems and Xerox Corp....
WASHINGTON-At night, when most people are asleep, Dan Akerson thinks about Rubik's Cubes. Relating the colors and squares on the device to possible marketing strategies, he toys with going beyond the colored surfaces and into the deeper relationships that connect the pieces.The new chairman...
