HILLSBORO, Ore.-TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement relating to the proposed offering of approximately 3.8 million shares of its common stock. Three million shares are to be sold by the company and 863,314 are to be sold by Lucent Technologies Inc. as the selling stockholder. TriQuint said it [...]

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. next month will launch SmartWave DSL, a high-speed data service that will combine the advantages of digital subscriber line copper technology inside a building with Teligent’s digital SmartWave fixed-wireless networks outside the building. Teligent said it will offer SmartWave DSL service with four bandwidth options ranging from 150 kilobits per second up [...]

WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it will split its businesses into two separate, publicly traded companies-a measurement business division and a color printing and imaging division. Additionally, the company announced it intends to sell or find a strategic alliance for its video and networking division, excluding the VideoTele.com business unit. Jerry Meyer, chairman and chief executive [...]

Have you seen the bit Jay Leno does where he is out on the street asking people if they know basic historical facts, such as who invented the light bulb or which president helped free the slaves? The segment is fairly funny and very frightening at the same time. Most people Jay quizzes are clueless [...]

WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Corp. continues to study ways to take its wireless business public, said Dennis F. Strigl, chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic Global Wireless. Strigl also was a featured speaker at the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. conference. Strigl said a spinoff of Bell Atlantic’s wireless business in the form of an initial [...]

WASHINGTON-Based on votes by the American public, the U.S. Postal Service declared the cellular phone the most popular 1990s memory, and will depict the cellular phone on a stamp scheduled to be issued in April 2000, said the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. New stamps representing the 1990s are part of the Postal Service’s “Celebrate the [...]

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. completed a master purchase agreement for Samsung’s open interface Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment, said Samsung. AirTouch plans to install Samsung’s pico base transceiver station and base station controller. The CDMA system is designed to support cdmaOne, Interim Standard-634/TSB 80.0 and CDG IOS version 2 standards, [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it entered into a development agreement with Ericsson Mobile Communications AB to design specific solutions for Ericsson’s third-generation terminal platforms.

ATLANTA-Nortel Networks and BellSouth Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a long-term global supply agreement that makes Nortel Networks’ communications equipment, software and services available to BellSouth at competitive prices, said the companies. “By being able to bring to the market wireless Internet, Internet telephony and optical Internet and intranet services, BellSouth can enhance [...]

DALLAS-To increase its prominence in the wireless industry, BearCom Group Inc. said it acquired Net Wireless, a San Ramon, Calif.-based dealer of Nextel Communications Inc., BellSouth Corp., MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint PCS Group products. Price and terms were not disclosed.