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HITACHI-OWNED FIRM SETTLES IN SAN DIEGO TO BUILD TDMA PHONES

Southern California's emergence as a burgeoning wireless hub was reinforced when yet another new telecom company, Kokusai Communications Systems Inc., opened its world headquarters last month in San Diego.Kokusai Communications is the newest subsidiary of Kokusai Electric Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based manufacturer of wireless...

MOTOROLA’S LLOYD PREDICTS THAT PAGING WILL SEND A GLOBAL MARKET MESSAGE

After three years in Motorola Inc.'s Information Systems Group and 23 years with the company, Frank Lloyd has returned to paging, his mind set on growing international markets and advancing voice paging and two-way messaging.Lloyd is senior vice president and general manager of Motorola's...

MOTOROLA INC. EXECUTIVES REARRANGE TOP POSITIONS

An executive shuffle is taking place at Motorola Inc.In the company's annual report for 1996, Hector Ruiz is titled executive vice president of Motorola Inc., and president of the Semiconductor Products Sector, located in Mesa, Ariz.Ruiz currently is executive vice president and general manager...

MOTOROLA EARNINGS ARE REPORTED DOWN SLIGHTLY FROM LAST YEAR

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. reported first-quarter earnings of $325 million, a level below the same quarter a year ago but ahead of analysts estimates.The announcement was made public April 7 just before the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Motorola stock closed...

CALENDAR

APRIL7-11 Infocom '97, by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Kobe, Japan. (714) 856-5474.8-9 Wireless Interconnection '97, by Bellcore. Hotel Royal Plaza, Orlando, Fla. (800) 832-2463.8-9 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Data on Air Inc. Research Triangle Park, N.C. (407)...

VENDORS EMBRACE CONTACTLESS SMART CARD

Contactless smart cards are becoming hot business.Motorola Inc. announced last month its plans to be a leader in the business of contactless smart cards. Meanwhile, the France-based Gemplus Group claims to have already achieved "world leadership in the area of contactless products," according to...

LUCENT PROVIDING CHIPS TO MOTOROLA

BERKELY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced it will provide semiconductor chips for several Motorola Inc. two-way messaging units, in development.The chip's marked features include low-power consumption and the integration of more functionality, said Lucent. The new mixed signal processor is a further...

MOTOROLA PREPARES PURSUIT OF 21ST CENTURY SMART CARD VISION

After contemplating the matter for years, Motorola Inc. has decided to jump feet first into the global smart card business.The Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer has created a new business unit to take advantage of the enormous potential it sees for plastic cards embedded with microprocessors.Technical...

MOTOROLA SHIPPING 68175 FLEX CHIP

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector said it is volume shipping its 68175 FLEX chip paging protocol IC worldwide.The FLEX chip IC processes information that has been received and demodulated from a FLEX radio paging channel, selects messages addressed to the paging device...

GTE LAUNCHES PCS IN CINCINNATI MTA

CINCINNATI-GTE Wireless launched its personal communications services network in the Cincinnati major trading area, which covers greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The network uses Code Division Multiple Access technology.GTE won the PCS license for Cincinnati during the Federal Communications Commission's A- and B-Block auctions...

1996 SEMICONDUCTOR SALES OFF, BUT GROWTH PREDICTED FOR ’97

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Semiconductor sales increased by less than 1 percent in North and South America and in Asia-Pacific markets in December, while sales declined 2 percent in Europe and Japan, according to research conducted by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization. The results of...

PEOPLE

Aerial Communications Inc. appointed John Foster and Thomas Wilson Jr. to its board of directors. Foster and Wilson both will serve on Aerial's audit committee and on its stock option compensation committee. Foster is president and founder of Vedra International Associates. Before founding Vedra,...

ROCKWELL AGREES TO ACQUIRE ASSETS

SEAL BEACH, Calif.-Rockwell International Corp. signed an agreement to acquire the assets of the Wireless Semiconductor Products group of Pacific Communications Sciences Inc. from parent company, Cirrus Logic Inc.Rockwell will pay $18.1 million for the group, which will become part of the wireless communications...

HARRIS ACQUIRES DRT TO PURSUE AIR-TO-GROUND COMMUNICATIONS

The latest radio acquisition by Harris Corp. puts the company in the position to compete for a multimillion dollar government contract upgrading airport radio systems.Harris is buying the Digital Radio Technology Inc. unit of California Microwave Inc. The Digital Radio unit was created in...

NEC CORP., LUCENT COOPERATING ON ICS

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and NEC Corp. have teamed up to develop a core process for manufacturing integrated circuits with features as small as 0.18 microns. The current standard in the semiconductor industry is 0.5-micron features.The smaller features will allow integrated circuits to...

LOWER EARNINGS CONFIRM MOTOROLA’S 3Q WARNINGS

NEW YORK-As expected from its advance warning last month, Motorola Inc. last week reported lower sales and earnings for the third quarter of 1996 when compared with the same period last year.Motorola said its sales for the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, declined 5...

PHILIPS INKS LICENSING CONTRACT TO MANUFACTURE FLEX PRODUCTS

SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies, including the FLEX one-way, ReFLEX two-way and InFLEXion voice messaging protocols.In addition, Philips Semiconductor Division, a worldwide supplier of paging...

CHIPSET FIRM GAINS ACCESS TO NPCS UNDER FLEX LICENSING PACT

Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the company. "You build better equipment by having better silicon and you have better silicon...

GLENAYRE ISSUES WARNING THIRD-QUARTER INCOME COULD BE DOWN

NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. recently issued an advance warning that it expects its third-quarter net income to be "significantly below" results posted in the same period last year.According to unaudited financial statements available on Glenayre's World Wide Web site, the company earned net income...

GEOTEK SIGNS HYUNDAI AGREEMENT TO STRENGTHEN KOREAN POSITION

The equipment arm of Geotek Communications Inc. has signed a supply contract with Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. designed to strengthen the New Jersey-based company's position in Korea.Hyundai will build infrastructure equipment based on Geotek's proprietary Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology. The agreement is...

MOTOROLA STOCK PLUNGES ON LOWER PROFITS WARNING

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc.'s unusual advance warning last week of poor third-quarter expectations raised eyebrows and at least two questions.Is Motorola still the bellwether company, giving early notice of stormy weather ahead for the entire industry? Or are its problems largely attributed to external factors...

PRODUCTS

Allen Telecom Group's Telecom Systems Division introduced NanoLite, a fiber optic microcell system the company said allows service providers to select locations for optimum cell site coverage while reducing site-related costs. The NanoLite remote unit can be mounted on utility poles, billboards, buildings and...

STRZELECKI NAMED MOTOROLA ECID VP

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Group has appointed Paul Strzelecki vice president and general manager of Motorola's European Cellular Infrastructure Division.Strzelecki will be responsible for ECID's overall business development in the digital and analog cellular communications systems and infrastructure market throughout Europe....

U.S., ASIA WANT TO ELIMINATE WIRELESS EQUIPMENT TARIFFS BY 2000

WASHINGTON-The United States and Asia-Pacific nations are progressing toward an accord to eliminate tariffs on wireless telecommunications equipment and information technology products by 2000.U.S. trade officials met with their counterparts from 17 other member nations of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Aug. 21-23,...