The number of global wireless users will increase 49 percent during the next four years to total 1.72 billion by 2007, according to the Yankee Group. Analysts further predict subscriber revenues will reach $584 billion in 2007, compared with $387 billion in 2002, making...
ROUND ROCK, Texas-Dell Computer Corp. signed a deal with T-Mobile USA Inc. providing Dell notebook computer customers with 2,000 free minutes of access to T-Mobile USA's HotSpot service within the first 30 days after activation when they sign up for a new qualifying Hotspot...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its VoiceDial voice-activated dialing service onto its GSM network allowing customers to store up to four numbers for up to 2,000 contacts, make multiple calls without redialing #121 and customize the service with personal greetings for $4 per month.John...
SAN FRANCISCO-It's a numbers game.Three million developers. Three million downloads of the J2ME software development kit last year. Five hundred fifty million desktops running Java. Fifty-three wireless carriers deploying Java services to 100 million subscribers. One hundred million Java-enabled handsets in the world. Three...
The founders of personal digital assistant pioneer Palm Inc. have returned to the fold as the company announced an all-stock, $169 million plan to acquire rival Handspring Inc.Industry luminaries Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky founded Palm in 1992, but they left the company in...
ROUND ROCK, Texas-Dell Computer Corp. and Good Technology Inc. released some details of their previously reported partnership, including plans to develop reference designs for advanced wireless devices and services. RCR Wireless News previewed the news on page 1 of the April 28 issue."Partnering with...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Wireless e-mail company Good Technology Inc. scored a strategic partnership with computer giant Dell Computer Corp., but neither company is releasing details of the deal.The companies plan to make a formal announcement and provide details of the partnership Tuesday. Good promised that the...
NEW ORLEANS-PCTel Inc., an Internet access products and wireless mobility software provider, announced its Segue Roaming Client for PocketPC. With this release, PocketPC users can now realize the same Wi-Fi roaming benefits that the Segue Roaming Client laptop users now have, said the company.The...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-Wireless data solutions provider GoAmerica Inc. has named Dan Luis chief executive officer, replacing Aaron Dobrinsky, GoAmerica's founder, who will remain with the company as executive chairman of the board of directors.GoAmerica has also appointed wireless industry veteran King Lee to its board...
Wireless technology, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to GSM and CDMA, served a major role during the Comdex show, with attendees getting a peek at some of the latest initiatives in the industry.But while product releases and new announcements made up the majority of news...
NEW YORK-Centurion Wireless Technologies Inc., Lincoln, Neb., has signed an agreement to acquire Allgon Mobile Communications, a designer and manufacturer of antennas for mobile communications devices, for an undisclosed sum."Centurion and Allgon Mobile Communications have complementary antenna product lines, engineering vision and operating philosophies,"...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Michael Dell, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Dell Computer Corp., has agreed to deliver the first International CES Industry Insider presentation, a one-hour discussion on current trends in the consumer electronics industry.The speech is scheduled for January 9, 2003,...
SAN DIEGO-The first International Wireless Symposium, scheduled to be held October 2-4, 2002, in San Diego, will be attended by wireless experts specializing in third-generation technologies, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, according to the symposium's organizers.Among several others, confirmed speakers at the show include: Adam Gould,...
NEW YORK-The Open Source Development Lab, Beaverton, Ore., a vendor-neutral non-profit organization dedicated to enabling Linux and Linux-based programming for enterprise and carrier-class functionality worldwide, has posted materials for open source developer community feedback on its Web site at www.developer.osdl.orgIn its June 28 announcement,...
WASHINGTON—A new report calls on the U.S. government to make an additional 200 megahertz of spectrum available to the marketplace by 2010 to foster the development of high-speed, wireless broadband services. The report, prepared by the Computer Systems Policy Project, was released in conjunction...
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.
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 akin to electricity or water....
Even the last bastion has been hit.The heat of the economic slowdown is choking contract electronics manufacturers that help the major original equipment manufacturers make their phones and infrastructure equipment.The scourge of high inventory levels with the OEMs and operators has infected the CEMs,...
The market for personal digital assistants, once thought to be a gold mine for anyone and everyone looking to make a profit, is now swimming in such bitter competition and crowding that one of the industry's leaders is bowing out-Psion plc, Europe's largest PDA...
CellStar Corp. said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has informed it that the investigation into its compliance with federal securities laws has been terminated. "We are pleased to put this matter behind us and have believed from the beginning that the company complied...
By outsourcing their handset and network equipment production, major vendors may be unwittingly yielding enormous influence to contract electronics manufacturers that could acquire enough expertise and experience to develop their own brands and technologies.Two reports, one by market research firm Bear Stearns and the...
Wireless e-mail company Etrieve Inc. scored two major deals with two major carriers in separate announcements today, moves that will make its services much more widely available to businesses across the country.In its agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., the carrier will sell Etrieve's e-mail,...
In addition to the variety of toppings available for your morning latte, Starbucks Coffee Co. soon will be offering its customers high-speed wireless Internet access.The Seattle-based coffee giant last week announced a five-year strategic relationship with Compaq Computer Corp. to provide its retail stores...
PORTLAND, Ore.-Mobilian Corp., which designs and develops integrated circuits and software, has completed a round of private funding totaling $35 million, bringing the total amount it has received in funding to more than $60 million.JAPFCO America Ventures and Dell Ventures led the funding, with...
