Red Bend SoftwareUdi Dagan joined Red Bend Software as chief financial officer. Dagan joined the company from IBM where he was business consulting services country manager in Israel. Before that he was CFO of IBM Israel, vice president of operations for IBM Global Services...
If this keeps up, the wireless e-mail market may not be untapped for long. The flurry of activity in the wireless e-mail space looks to continue as carriers and software developers expand their offerings to attract users from all walks of life. Cingular Wireless...
DALLAS-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is using Texas Instruments' OMAP multimedia processor chip in its mobile TV phones. Samsung is currently selling phones in South Korea that work on the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting mobile TV technology."Samsung is committed to digital innovation, including delivering mobile digital...
DURHAM, N.C.-Semiconductor company Cree Inc. said its Japanese distributor, Sumitomo Corp., has agreed to purchase $200 million of Cree's light emitting diode products.The purchase, which is subject to end-customer demand and other conditions, was added to an existing distributorship agreement between the companies. The...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The worldwide wireless local area network semiconductor market is expected to grow to 487 million units by 2009, according to new studies from IDC.WLAN semiconductor revenues will reach $3 billion during the same timeframe, from $1.2 billion last year, said IDC.The growth will...
IRVINE, Calif.-Broadcom Corp. unleashed a major patent suit against CDMA pioneer Qualcomm Inc., alleging the company's chip offerings violate 10 of its patents. The move is notable as Qualcomm has typically been the instigator in a number of patent battles. "We believe that Qualcomm's...
Less than 10 years ago, dot-com was the technology phrase de jour. Business plans, companies and even an economic boom (and bust) were built upon one little dot. Today, at least in the wireless world, `dot' has taken on a new meaning.Dot unites 802...
Phone component suppliers now have a new set of customers: wireless carriers. Recent shifts in the worldwide wireless industry have largely favored network operators. Wireless users-especially those in the United States-know the brands of their carriers, not necessarily the brands of the phones they...
LONDON-Navicore Personal launched its next-generation navigation system for handsets. The product uses a proprietary routing algorithm to respond to directions taken by users. Reportedly, calculating routes of hundreds of miles takes only a few seconds.Navicore Personal is sold as a complete retail package including...
Broadcom Corp. unleashed a major patent suit against CDMA pioneer Qualcomm Inc., alleging the company's chip offerings violate 10 of its patents. The move is notable as Qualcomm has typically been the instigator in a number of patent battles. "We believe that Qualcomm's current...
DALLAS-I can see Homer Simpson peering out of the phone in Martyn Gregory's hand. The animated "Simpsons" TV star is trying desperately to jump off a burning oil tower and into a hovering helicopter. I see Homer's wife Marge waving him on. But I've...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced several new chip offerings, including a Linux-based product, along with new technology the company said will increase network capacity by up to 40 percent.First up, Qualcomm released its first single-chip offerings for CDMA 1xRTT networks. The three new chips combine...
NEW YORK-No. 2 mobile-phone maker Motorola may rely more heavily on RF Micro Devices Inc. for its mobile phone chips as the company works to trim its supply chain. Investment banking firm Piper Jaffray pointed to RF Micro Devices' increased operating expenses in the...
NORWOOD, Mass.-Chipmaker Analog Devices Inc. announced a teaming with Chinese vendor Datang Mobile to offer a phone reference design for the TD-SCDMA wireless standard. The move furthers the possibility the technology will see the light of day in China."We believe our reference design answers...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Days after Intel Corp. made waves with its new WiMAX chip, rival Fujitsu announced its own WiMAX offering. The company said its new MB87M3400 chip works on the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard and is available for both base stations and WiMAX terminals."This new WiMAX-compliant...
Signal ReachNational Cellular and Signal Reach introduced a new antenna coupler the companies said can attach to any mobile phone and improve the phone's signal reception. The coupler attaches to the phone with Velcro and then can be plugged into an external antenna or...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced its chipset for CDMA 1x EV-DO Revision A networks is available for sampling. The news comes shortly after Qualcomm said it will suspend the development of its EV-DV chips due to industry interest in EV-DO Rev. A. "Qualcomm is proud...
TEMPE, Ariz.-New research shows that in wireless, it's out with the old and in with the new.According to a study from research and consulting firm Forward Concepts, handsets running older wireless technologies like TDMA and even GSM are scheduled for a decline this year,...
Qualcomm Inc. announced its chipset for CDMA 1x EV-DO Revision A networks is now available for sampling. The news comes shortly after Qualcomm said it will suspend the development of its EV-DV chips due to industry interest in EV-DO Rev. A."Qualcomm is proud to...
SpectraSite Inc. filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer 250,000 shares of its common stock to adjust to a market price obligation. This will fulfill a stock buyback agreement with Goldman, Sachs & Co., and the market price adjustment is...
As a tower operator, Crown Castle International Inc. is venturing into a less familiar environment as an enabler of what may grow into a major application in the wireless industry: mobile television. By a stroke of good fortune, the company acquired a spectrum license...
YAKUM, Israel-Metalink Ltd. announced executive management changes even as it said it will lower its earlier guidance for the first quarter of 2005. The company, which makes chip solutions for wireless and wireline business, said it cannot release a definitive figure for the market...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-The memory business did not fail chip companies last year, according to an annual semiconductor ranking from iSuppli Corp. The ranking showed that memory chip companies outperformed companies that concentrated on other products, said iSuppli.The sales revenue of companies such as Samsung...
ATLANTA-Wavesat said it has reached the final development stage of its mobility chip solution, which includes voice over WiMAX and backward compatibility with existing DM256 fixed service chips.The solution is part of the Evolutive WiMAX series. The chip will be available in multiple packaging...
