Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services based on Qualcomm’s BREW technology. In addition, KTF technologies of Korea signed an MoU to port the BREW platform to its wireless handsets.
Motorola Inc. will port Emblaze Systems Ltd.’s MPEG4 multimedia player into its DragonBall MX1 microprocessor, which is one of the major processors used by personal digital assistant makers and mobile-phone manufacturers.
Sunday Communications Ltd. said it will use the SmartServQ wireless short message service system from wireless applications and services provider SmartServ Online. Sunday, which develops and provides wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong, will offer financial SMS quotes, alerts and news to its customers starting early next year.
PMC-Sierra released its PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a reference platform for third-generation wireless base station designs. PMC-Sierra said the new design kit allows developers to design efficient and low-cost digital multi-carrier base station designs.
Three technology companies teamed up to announce the U.S. release of a wireless payment acceptance software they said will help merchants capture sales information and streamline their back-end systems. The Skypay system will initially be available through Hypercom Corp.’s ICE 4000 handheld touch screen-based card payment terminal, but later offerings will be available on a variety of devices, including Web-enabled mobile phones and personal digital assistants. The companies behind the offering are electronic transaction processor provider Universal Payment Processing, information technology company CGI and software technology provider Soft Tracks Enterprises.
