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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 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has decided to acquire the remaining 19 percent of its joint venture EHPT from Hewlett-Packard in order to enhance its third-generation (3G) billing and business support systems. EHPT’s activities will be incorporated into Ericsson’s operations as …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—L.M. Ericsson said it has decided to acquire the remaining 19 percent of its joint venture EHPT from Hewlett-Packard Co. in order to enhance its third-generation billing and business support systems. EHPT’s activities will be incorporated into Ericsson’s operations …

Oracle Corp. has made one more stride into the wireless space. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software vendor announced what it called its e-Business Suite, which will allow users of handheld devices to access a garden variety of applications and bring …

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 …

Popularity is not without problems. Approximately 3.5 million of the cellular phones manufactured every year end up in landfills across the country, according to industry estimates. The Environmental Protection Agency believes that only a federal law will stop cell-phone users …

NEW YORK-OmniSky Corp., a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider, has taken a series of steps recently to expand the number and kinds of devices with which it can communicate. This month, the company began offering support for the Hewlett-Packard …

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 …

SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom and Hewlett-Packard Co. have set up a $10 million joint-venture fund to invest in wireless Internet companies. Each company committed $5 million to the venture, which will help companies develop core technologies and explore wireless Internet …

Monopoly claims on Microsoft Corp. might go out the window in the wireless space as major vendors, developers and operators expect to leverage both the software giant’s .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition platforms for third-generation Web services, according to …

As the nation’s two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war blazing, some in the industry wonder whether the PDA market isn’t quite the gold mine many …

SAN FRANCISCO-OmniSky Corp.’s first-quarter results reflected an increase in revenue as well as net loss, though the loss was not as extreme as some analysts earlier predicted. Revenues were up to $5.5 million, more than 300 percent greater than last …

NEW YORK -Ten Square, San Jose, Calif., plans to expand its provision of wireless e-commerce services to 2,800 service stations and convenience stores in various cities by year-end. The privately held company, whose lead investor is Marconi Ventures, delivers interactive …

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Lutris Technologies Inc., an open source software and services company, said Hewlett-Packard Co. will endorse and recommend Lutris’ Enhydra 3.5 wireless application server to its HP Netserver customers running Windows 2000 or the open source-developed Linux operating system. …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said Hewlett-Packard Co. has integrated the MicroChaiVM, an embedded software for running applications developed for the Java platform, onto BREW handsets. The software was installed in four BREW-enabled Kyocera phones, including prototype color-display handsets manufactured by …

WASHINGTON-Under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. said they would stop an advertising campaign that could lead consumers to believe HP’s personal digital assistants-which are not sold with a wireless modem-come Internet ready. …

GroupServe GroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup’s first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company’s business development, strategic …

NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc. is serving up advanced computing power for wireless network elements and operations support systems, according to separate announcements the company issued last week. With its new series of Sun Fire Midframe servers now available in quantity, …

NEW YORK-China Mobile Hong Kong does not need 3G to take advantage of opportunities in a populous country with rising per capita income and low penetration by personal computers and second-generation wireless, said Wang Xiaochu, chairman and chief executive officer …

AWR Applied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including Agilent Technologies, Verticom Inc. and Hewlett Packard. As VP of …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-The Fantastic Corp., a software solutions provider in Switzerland, and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a reseller agreement that allows HP to offer Fantastic software for content delivery as part of its overall broadband service offering to network and telecommunication …

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. “is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes,” Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Internet Software and Content Group, said in a keynote address at the recent …

The fact that the telecom sector, including the mobile industry, is shivering in the cold right now after months of basking in the sun of favor from the financial community is certainly not breaking news. It seems no category-broadband wireless, …

Telcom Global Chris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.’s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company’s global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience …

TheRightSize TheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers search for their favorite brand and style of clothes. The …