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Alcatel Corp. said it has joined with Royal Philips Electronics to showcase EDGE technology in an interoperability test. The companies said the tests achieved an uninterrupted download of 30 Megabytes at 220 kilobits per second. Alcatel offered its radio access …

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Alcatel Corp said it has joined with Royal Philips Electronics to showcase EDGE technology in an interoperability test. The companies said the tests achieved an uninterrupted download of 30 Megabytes at 220 kilobits per second. Alcatel offered …

DRACHTEN, Holland-Philips Electronics said it plans to cut 180 jobs next year owing to a challenging market atmosphere, tight competition and an unfavorable exchange rate between the euro and U.S. dollar. The company, however, hopes to turn a profit by …

With the SARS epidemic now out of sap, the land of wonton soup and TD-SCDMA technology is regaining its place on the front burner of wireless business. Infected with a new elan for investment, vendors have announced a series of …

BERLIN, Germany-Philips Consumer Electronics and T-Com, Deutsche Telekom AG’s fixed-networks division, will cooperate to develop the market for broadband wireless home networks, connected devices and value-added broadband-connected entertainment and communications service in Germany. The companies said the partnership will focus …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Nvidia Corp., a visual processing solutions provider, completed its acquisition of MediaQ Inc., which provides graphics and multimedia technology for wireless devices. MediaQ was founded in 1997 to enable the development of feature-rich mobile consumer devices by providing …

In the networked home of the future, wireless likely will play a major role, connecting family members to their loved ones, music collections and even microwaves. But the long-held vision of a connected home has faced plenty of stumbling blocks …

One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor. With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and …

Joint ventures and alliances continue to tie ideas and initiatives together across various tiers of the wireless industry from infrastructure to Wi-Fi to semiconductors. Asian companies play crucial roles in the cooperation. Royal Philips Electronics NV announced a joint venture …

Eight of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies-including the world’s No. 3 mobile-phone maker-said they will team together to promote and standardize Linux technology for electronic devices, including mobile phones. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Sony Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC …

Following an industry trend toward the consolidation or combination of standards groups, PayCircle and Parlay Group announced they together created an application programming interface to promote interoperable payment services over third-generation wireless networks. The move comes shortly after the Parlay …

PARIS-Webraska Mobile Technologies has received an additional investment of $5.26 million from its current investors. The company said the capital will be used to fund growth opportunities in Webraska’s core LBS, telematics and automotive markets and in the growing mobile …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Royal Philips Electronics announced several new mobile-phone products, including three new handsets based on technology from Cellon International. Targeting the Asian and European market, the phones feature increased talk time, built-in games and color screens. The new models, …

PARIS-Webraska Mobile Technologies has received an additional investment of $5.26 million from its current investors. The company said the capital will be used to fund growth opportunities in Webraska’s core LBS, telematics and automotive markets and in the growing mobile …

IRVINE, Calif.-Disposable phone maker Hop-On announced it appointed Samuel Demissie as its interim president. Demissie joined Hop-On in February 2003 as president of its Handset Development Group. The company is still looking for an interim chief executive. The company’s former …

Those in the industry agree digital rights management is a key issue for wireless, and as a result there are several companies and a range of peripheral players looking to cash in on solutions to the problem. However, the complicated …

TOKYO-LG Philips LCD said it plans to begin production of liquid crystal display screens for cell phones, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices in the second half of this year. LG Philips is a 50-50 joint venture between LG …

China’s homegrown technology, TD-SCDMA, may not enjoy the kind of traction its proprietors dream. Datang Mobile Communications Equipment, one of TD-SCDMA’s major supporters, fears the technology will not be chosen by the country’s biggest carrier, China Mobile Communications. “As the …

NEW ORLEANS-Royal Philips Electronics and LogicaCMG announced an agreement to jointly supply multimedia messaging technology to mobile operators. The original equipment manufacturer umbrella agreement calls for the integration of Philips’ Platform 4 Media Adapter transcoding engine into Logica’s Multimedia Messaging …

CROLLES, France-Three semiconductor companies STMicroelectronics, Philips and Motorola Inc. opened a research and development center to pioneer CMOS technology from 90 nanometer processes to 32 nanometer processes over the next five years. The center, known as Crolles2 Alliance facility, will …

PARAMUS, N.J.-Penton Media Inc. said Intel Corp.’s Gadi Singer and Philips Electronics’ Paul Marino will give the keynote addresses at the 2003 Wireless Systems Design Conference and Expo later this month in San Jose, Calif. Singer is vice president of …

China’s homegrown technology known as TD-SCDMA is creeping up from the industry’s subconscious as it attracts more resources and quiet maneuvers from major players. The Chinese government recently allocated the 2.3 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands to Time Division Duplex, …

SAN DIEGO-In One Voice Technologies Inc.’s recent comments on its corporate outlook for 2003, Dean Weber, chairman and chief executive officer, acknowledged the economic downturn of late, but he optimistically said, “To be perfectly clear, I have never seen greater …

BEIJING-Tang Ru’an, chief executive officer (CEO) of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company, told the China Daily newspaper that this year will be of crucial importance for commercializing TD-SCDMA, the third-generation (3G) standard the company co-developed with Germany’s Siemens. Trial operation …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics announced it will acquire Systemonic, which makes silicon products for wireless local area networks, a move Philips said will help the company add wireless audio/video streaming capabilities to its quest to create pervasive …