Philips

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Royal Philips Electronics launched its new fisio 825 and 625 mobile phones, which use technology from Cellon International. “Our partnership with Philips represents a case study for the value that companies can capture through outsourcing of design and …

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 …

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 …

EINDHOVEN, United Kingdom-Royal Philips Electronics and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a successful commercial network field trial of single antenna interference cancellation chips for GSM/GPRS mobile phones. The companies said the semiconductor technology improves voice quality, decreases download times for data …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Royal Philips Electronics will dissolve the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Philips Components division and restructure the business in its other divisions to reduce costs and simplify its organization. Philips plans to combine its telecom speaker activity with Mobile Display Systems …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Royal Philips Electronics will dissolve the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Philips Components division and restructure the business in its other divisions to reduce costs and simplify its organization. Philips plans to combine its telecom speaker activity with Mobile Display Systems …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Royal Philips Electronics and Sony will jointly develop a new near-field radio-frequency technology called Near Field Communication, which will enable short-range communication between mobile phones, digital cameras, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops and game consoles, the companies announced. …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Royal Philips Electronics and Ericsson Mobile Platforms signed an agreement under which Philips will source semiconductor devices for Ericsson reference designs. This will give Ericsson access to Philips’ semiconductor and product portfolio, the companies said.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Royal Philips Electronics released its new ProntoLite personal remote-control software for devices using Palm Inc.’s operating system, which allows users to control up to 10 devices, such as TVs, VCRs, CD players, DVD players or set-top boxes, using their …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Furthering an alliance announced in April, STMicroelectronics, Motorola and Philips said they have rolled out a design platform for chips. “This platform allows designers to start next-generation system-on-chip product development for low-power, wireless, networking, consumer and high-speed applications,” …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Scott McGregor, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Philips Semiconductor, has added to the mounting tide of third-generation (3G) criticism by claiming the company is not convinced about the predicted success of services based on the technology. According …

DUBLIN, Ireland—A new report from U.K.-based analysts Strategy Analytics suggests that a number of handset vendors could be prime targets for larger rivals. The report, “Western Europe Operators’ Handset Vendor Strategies,” indicates that while Alcatel, Philips and Sagem handsets are …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The decrease in cellular users in Argentina has generated a new strategy for operators, consisting of the sale of used terminals with lower costs than new ones. During the last four months, the value of new terminals has …

PARIS—Three semiconductor companies announced they would forge a US$1.4 billion alliance to develop new chips with a view to cutting costs and defining standards for the industry. The companies, Motorola of the United States, STMicroelectronics of France and Philips of …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.—Following the massive interest in cross-carrier text messaging in the United States, Motorola Inc. released its own interoperability product. Motorola’s new Short Messaging Service Gateway, which is an extension of the company’s SMS center product, routes messages from …

ATLANTA—Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will integrate Philips Speech Processing’s SpeechPearl speech recognition engine into its Versera Voice Services suite. Glenayre’s Versera suite offers users voice-driven navigation of voice mail, e-mail and fax messages, dial by voice, and a voice …

LONDON—Symbian announced six semiconductor companies have joined its Semiconductor Partner Programme, showing support for Symbian OS and ARM core-based chipsets. The six new partners—Agilent Technologies; Epson; Parthus; Philips Semiconductors; Samsung and STMicroelectronics—join existing partners ARM; Intel; Motorola SPS; Qualcomm CDMA …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—With the first signs that European cell-phone operators are generating better revenues than expected, the major handset developers are gearing themselves up for better days after many months of cutbacks and financial gloom. Most notable among the manufacturers …

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for delivering multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless’ Express Network data service as a test platform. The company said the trial …

MOSCOW—German vendor Siemens overtook Finland’s Nokia, the worldwide mobile-phone sales leader, in handset sales in Russia in 2001, according to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider of technology forecasts. IDC estimated the total Russian handset market …

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for the delivery of multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless’ Express Network data service as a test platform. The company said …

TORONTO-As the handset manufacturing business gets tougher because of declining demand, more phone makers are looking at joint ventures as their economic salvation and perhaps their best strategy to catch number-one handset supplier Nokia. In October, after much fanfare, Ericsson …

A new study by marketing research firm BWCS claimed that more than 90 percent of U.K. business travelers with laptops are interested in using wireless local area network (WLAN) services at airports, while 40 percent of those surveyed said they …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The grand plans by Royal Philips Electronics to become a worldwide player in the cell-phone market have all but disappeared with the announcement that China Electronics Corporation (CEC) will take over the majority of Philips’ cell-phone manufacturing and …

BEIJING-The U.S. subsidiary of China’s largest electric meter producer, the Holley Group based in the eastern province of Zhejiang, has acquired the design operations for CDMA mobile phones from Philips Semiconductors, a division of Holland’s Philips Electronics. Holley Communications USA …