Bluetooth

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Philips Semiconductors announced it signed a cooperation and development agreement with Ericsson Mobile Communications to develop and manufacture future Bluetooth applications and products. The agreement calls for Philips Semiconductors to use the Ericsson Bluetooth core.

GENEVA-STMicroelectronics said it entered into an agreement with L.M. Ericsson to develop a range of devices based on the Bluetooth core architecture. The companies also are working together to approach the market with optimized Bluetooth solutions, said STMicroelectronics. The first …

NEWARK, Calif.-Socket Communications Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a collaborative effort to support Bluetooth technology for Windows CE solutions. The partnership was created to ensure Socket’s upcoming line of Bluetooth-enabled CompactFlash CR plug-in cards are compatible with HP’s Jornada family …

SINGAPORE -Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and L.M. Ericsson announced they jointly plan to develop advanced wireless communications technologies. The technologies, radio frequency CMOS and BiCMOS, will support a range of wireless products, including Bluetooth applications. Both technologies developed will be based …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced several new company members, including 3Com Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc. These industry powerhouses have joined founders L.M. Ericsson, IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia and Toshiba Corp. in …

LONDON-ICL, a United Kingdom-based wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Corp., announced a $161.7 million electronic business expansion initiative, including a focus on wireless services. ICL will market and distribute Nokia Corp. Wireless Application Protocol server products as part of the …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Visa International signed an agreement last week to develop secure wireless e-commerce solutions. The partnership is designed to develop mobile e-commerce and drive open standards for payment transactions over wireless networks. The companies plan to cooperate …

LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson announced its first consumer product incorporating Bluetooth technology at Comdex/Fall ’99. The cellular phone headset connects to a mobile phone by a radio link instead of a cable. The product will be commercially available in mid-2000, said …

SINGAPORE-Mobile data is quickly taking off in many parts of Asia, with growth rates in the region comparing favorably to take-up rates in Europe and the United States, say analysts. Although overall percentages of Asian wireless subscribers that use data …

Motorola Inc.’s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+ portfolio for wireless systems. The processor incorporates a DSP core and an M-Core microcontroller. It supports …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology Inc. said Intel Corp. will integrate its Intellisync synchronization software with its Bluetooth software and module.

GENEVA-Finnish personal communications services carrier Sonera said it bought the business activities of ByeDesk from TeamWare Group of San Jose, Calif., for an undisclosed sum. TeamWare is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Software Corp. and operates the ByeDesk service in collaboration …

The Edge Consultants, an affiliate of agency.com, released a Wireless Application Protocol browser for handheld computers running either Palm Computing or Windows CE operating systems, called WAPman. Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed the first call on a prototype wideband …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Most cellular operators now recognize that to ensure their businesses continue to experience breakneck growth, they must compete more directly with fixed operators. According to industry analysts, this battle for the telephone user will take place over the …

TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing up to develop equipment for wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA). NTT DoCoMo in April selected a total of 11 …

NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld Dyna TAC mobile phone, a clunky device that weighed nearly 0.9 kilograms and measured 0.09 cubic meters (35 cubic inches). To be sure, …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The phrase on everyone’s lips within the cellular industry at Telecom ’99 will be value-added services, a world apart from the talk at the 1995 exhibition. This simple dictate is being touted as the only way for operators …

While Motorola’s Woody Ritchey admitted that, at the time of Telecom ’95, the company did have cellular infrastructure architecture that included Internet Protocol (IP), it was only at the drawing board stage. “We were not talking publicly about IP at …

SAN DIEGO-Widcomm Inc. announced it has secured more than $5 million in first-round financing led by Enterprise Partners. The company said the funding will allow it to expand its wireless data communications product development based on Bluetooth technology.

PageMart Wireless Inc. has begun marketing its products and services through BizBuyer.com, a Web site accessed by small and mid-sized businesses nationwide. BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced an online demonstration of its Interactive Paging Service. “Our research shows that the …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Someone is just settling into a film or play, conversing intimately in a restaurant or addressing the ball at the first hole-and a mobile phone ring interrupts. While usually a fine tool for keeping in touch, the mobile phone …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Someone is just settling into a film or play, conversing intimately in a restaurant or addressing the ball at the first hole-and a mobile phone ring interrupts. While usually a fine tool for keeping in touch, the mobile phone …

Wireless industry members agree smart phones will become a critical differentiating factor for handset vendors and mobile-phone operators within the next two years, but the proliferation of these devices remains relatively unknown. For handset providers, smart phones represent an opportunity …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group-Ericsson Inc., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Toshiba Corp.-announced the release of the Bluetooth 1.0 specification. The Bluetooth 1.0 specification consists of two documents-the Foundation Core, which …

ELite Logistic Services Elite Logistic Services Inc. introduced its PageTrack control module, a wireless automotive security, control and monitoring solution. The system uses SkyTel Communications Inc.’s two-way ReFLEX network, the ReFLEX CreataLink 2 XT two-way data transceiver from Motorola Inc. …