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MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. said it had revenues of $242.5 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2004, which ended Feb. 27. The revenues represented an increase of 22.6 percent from the $197.9 million reported during the same time last year.Net loss for the quarter...

MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. said it had revenues of $242.5 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2004, which ended Feb. 27. The revenues represented an increase of 22.6 percent from the $197.9 million reported during the same time last year.Net loss for the quarter...

DENVER-Sporting goods retailer The Sports Authority added wireless local area network IP infrastructure, point-of-sale terminals and mobile computing solutions to stores from Alaska to the East Coast through a new deal with wireless infrastructure company AccuCode Inc."AccuCode has been a significant contributor to the...

ALBERTA, Canada-Some scientists have reported that wireless handhelds can use water batteries rather than the technology currently available.According to research by the Institute of Physics Journal, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, a team of scientists at the University of Alberta have created a new...

Motorola Inc. has unveiled an architecture that will enable original equipment manufacturer developers to bring many features into smart handhelds at limited cost, within a small space and more rapidly than currently possible.Known as the Mobile Extreme Convergence architecture, the company describes it as...

ALBERTA, Canada-Some scientists have reported that wireless handhelds can use water batteries rather than the technology currently available.According to research by the Institute of Physics Journal, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, a team of scientists at the University of Alberta have created a new...

Longtime wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless announced a significant new business direction with the unveiling of its Voq phone-a device that marks the arrival of a new smart-phone player and another Microsoft Corp. backer.Investors seemed cheered by the bold move, sending Sierra's stock up...

Intel Corp. wants the world to know that it is not about cell phones, or personal digital assistants or wireless notebooks. It is about all of them.Working its vision under what it describes as adaptive communication technologies, the chipmaker plans to roll out cohesive...

Personal digital assistant pioneer Palm Inc. reported relatively solid earnings, with revenues up 3 percent compared with the same quarter a year ago, but the news didn't seem to please investors, who sent the company's stock down about 3 percent in trading after the...

SOMERS, N.Y.-Wireless enterprise giants IBM Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. announced they will more tightly integrate their corporate access servers, a move the companies said would give BlackBerry users expanded access options.The companies said the new development and integration efforts will be focused...

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itronix, which specializes in ruggedized mobile computing systems, announced it has been awarded new project contracts worth $14 million.The company is involved in the Dismounted Intelligence Situation Mapboard (DISM) program and the Direct Liquid Ethanol Delivery System, both part of the Department of...

MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. reported a relatively solid quarter of earnings, news that prompted the company to pronounce the end of the decline in the personal digital assistant industry and investors to rally around Palm shares.Palm's stock was up about 7 percent following the news...

MILPITAS, Calif.-Palm Inc. reported a relatively solid quarter of earnings, news that prompted the company to pronounce the end of the decline in the personal digital assistant industry and investors to rally around Palm shares.Palm's stock was up about 7 percent following the news...

The 2003 JavaOne Developer Conference witnessed a collision of giants as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. pushed their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid segmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...

SAN FRANCISCO-Research In Motion has introduced a development environment for Java 2 Micro Edition to allow all developers to integrate BlackBerry e-mail and personal information applications. This announcement makes the Blackberry platform open for push-based, wireless connectivity."The BlackBerry platform has been designed to support...

The promise of the converged wireless device is a reality, although exactly what it will look like is still being debated.Those in the industry have long preached the inevitable marriage of computers and mobile phones, and the current selection of high-end devices seems to...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Sierra Wireless said its AirCard 555 will be available from Thailand's Hutchison CAT Wireless Multimedia, a cdma2000 1x operator. The AirCard 55 is a wide area PC card that wirelessly enables laptops and handhelds for data services.

HANNOVER, Germany-Research In Motion Ltd. released two new BlackBerry devices, the 6210 and the 6220, for users in Europe."We continue to lead the industry with a growing choice of wireless handhelds that satisfy the demanding requirements of both large corporate customers and individual business...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Several of Sierra Wireless' wireless data products will be included in the "20 Years of Wireless Commemorative Display" at CTIA Wireless 2003, which will highlight companies and products that have significantly impacted wireless voice and data communications during the past 20 years.In...

LAS VEGAS-Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled two data and voice-enabled BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds on the opening day of CTIA's Wireless I.T. & Internet in Las Vegas.The Java-based BlackBerry 6710 and BlackBerry 6720, which each include an integrated speaker and microphone, offer e-mail, phone, SMS,...

TORONTO-Canadian company Diversinet said Hong Kong's 16 brokerage firms have seen improved productivity of 80 percent since launching an m-commerce brokerage solution in April. The service allows investors to place orders via their Palm handhelds using secure technology from Diversinet.

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Troy Wireless unveiled its Wireless WindConnect Bluetooth print adapter software for use with select Palm handheld computers.The printer software allows Palm handhelds with a Bluetooth Card to transmit information to Bluetooth compatible printers.

RESTON, Va.—Motient Corp. announced WhereToLive.com, which offers a Web-based productivity platform to the real estate industry, will resell wireless handhelds fortified with Motient's eLink service.Through the collaboration, realtors will be able to wirelessly retrieve e-mail from their company's web site and personal e-mail accounts...

HANOVER, Germany—Electric Pocket announced its Mailer POP3 e-mail application for Palm OS handhelds this week at the CeBIT show in Germany."In designing Mailer we took a fresh look at the real needs of mobile email users," explained Iain Barclay, Electric Pocket's co-founder and chief...