Bluetooth

RALEIGH, North Carolina, United States—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s handsets with MobileAria’s True Hands Free service, which is expected to launch at …

RALEIGH, N.C.—Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s handsets with MobileAria’s True Hands Free service, which is expected to launch at the end of …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Entel PCS of Chile commercially launched its Mobile Wide Band service, using General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) over the 1900 MHz band, on 25 October, becoming the first carrier to operate a 2.5-generation (2.5G) network in South America. …

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. reported the Bluetooth Special Interest Group qualified the Bluetooth implementation in Windows CE .NET, the software giant’s next version of its Windows CE operating system, as compliant with the Bluetooth specification. Microsoft is working with a number …

Audiovox Communications Audiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of Flash Rom and an Intel Strong ARM 206 MHz processor. …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Comverse, Intel, Microsoft, Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International, agreed to form a forum to develop a platform-free standard for multimodal and telephony-enabled access to information, applications …

NEW YORK—The Bluetooth Special Interest Group Inc.’s Car Working Group released a definition for how Bluetooth wireless technology will enable hands-free use of mobile phones in automobiles as part of its Hands-Free Profile, which are expected to be adopted by …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has developed the first Bluetooth version 1.1-compliant cdma2000 1x commercial chipset with baseband Link Manager Protocol, Logic Link Control and Adaptation Protocol, Serial Port Profile, Service Discovery Protocol and Generic Access Profile. “Our MSM5100 chipset …

BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems said its Bluetooth software development kit for embedded devices, XTNDAccess Blue SDK, now supports the Hands-Free module of the Bluetooth Personal Area Network profile. The Hands-Free feature, a voice connection over Bluetooth, is expected to be used …

HELSINKI, Finland—Akumiitti Telematics said it is partnering with CellPoint Unwire, a developer and manufacturer of wireless application servers, platforms and telematics terminals. Under terms of the agreement, CellPoint Unwire and Akumiitti will focus on furthering the use of machine-to-machine communication …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. reported it demonstrated video streaming through a cdma2000 1x/Bluetooth connection at the recently held Cellular Telecommunication & Internet Association I.T. show. Using a 1x handset with the company’s MSM5100 Mobile Station Modem chipset and system software connected …

TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. is launching its wireless notebooks Portege 4000 and Tecra 9000 models , which will offer 802.11b and Bluetooth technologies. Toshiba hopes to differentiate itself from competitors like Dell and IBM with these products.

HELSINKI—Akumiitti Telematics said it is partnering with CellPoint Unwire AB, a developer and manufacturer of wireless application servers, platforms and telematics terminals. Under terms of the agreement, CellPoint Unwire and Akumiitti will focus on furthering the utilization of machine-to-machine communication …

WCities Location-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users’ cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the company’s chief executive officer, with the service, cell-phone and PDA users can find whatever they’re …

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. released details of its forthcoming Pocket PC operating system upgrade—which the company is marketing squarely at the business market—a move that ratchets up the OS battle with personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. Microsoft made its announcement …

LA JOLLA, Calif.—Sensoria Corp. launched the Sensoria Telematics Environment, a standards-based telematics platform that allows drivers to share music wirelessly between their PC and their car, obtain current weather information, find specific restaurant and business locations and access driving directions. …

LONDON-Wireless technology battles for the potentially lucrative home broadband market are heating up. Broadband in the home will dramatically change online consumption patterns and expectations of Internet access. With high-speed access and flat-rate pricing, always-on bandwidth becomes a domestic resource …

SANTA CRUZ, California, United States—Software developers plan to expand investments in wireless application development, despite uncertainties in today’s economy and future technologies, according to a recent Evans Data study.“Even though the public has adopted wireless data devices more slowly than …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) reported 440 engineers from 89 companies in 20 countries attended the sixth Bluetooth UnPlugFest in France. ETSI noted nearly half of the attendees came from Europe, with 30 percent from North America …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute reported 440 engineers from 89 companies in 20 countries attended the sixth Bluetooth UnPlugFest in France. ETSI noted nearly half of the attendees came from Europe, with 30 percent from North America and …

By The wireless application developer community is suffering, according to WirelessDeveloper.com President Konny Zsigo. “Fifty percent of the content developers have either left the space or gone out of business,” he said. “You’re going to have to be smarter now …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of proposed rule making to ICO Global Communications regarding its request that mobile satellite service operators in the 2 GHz band be allowed to re-use their assigned frequencies for ancillary terrestrial services. ICO …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—European cell phone operators will see Bluetooth-enabled devices generate revenues of US$2 billion by 2006, claims a new market study conducted by Pyramid Research. The short-range wireless technology is, according to the company, only months away from making …

ZURICH, Switzerland-L.M. Ericsson has signed a Bluetooth agreement to integrate its radio and baseband Internet protocol products into personal digital assistants, handsets and mobile phones manufactured by Arima, Taiwanese original design manufacturer. “Our goal is to integrate our Bluetooth solutions …

NEW YORK-Oki Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, Calif., will make commercially available in September its new module, compatible with version 1.1 of the Bluetooth standard for short-range wireless applications. The Bluetooth module, which measures 18-by-38 millimeters, incorporates a Bluetooth RF and baseband controller, …