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LONDON—Smart-phone operating-system maker Symbian could run out of money as soon as next year, according to the company’s largest stakeholder Psion plc.Psion issued the drastic news as part of its earnings release for the six months ended June 30. According …

SANTA CLARA, California, United States—In another vote of support for Intel’s Personal Internet Client Architecture initiative, Compaq Computer said it will work with Intel on PCA-based devices running on current and next-generation networks.The announcement comes a day after operating-system designer …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—In another vote of support for Intel Corp.’s Personal Internet Client Architecture initiative, Compaq Computer Corp. said it will work with Intel on PCA-based devices running on current and next-generation networks.The announcement comes a day after operating-system designer …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Intel Corp. and Symbian today announced they will team to accelerate software application development for wireless devices based on the Intel’s Personal Internet Client Architecture and the Symbian operating system.Symbian also announced its support for Intel PCA, Intel’s …

In the short lifespan of the still nascent wireless Internet, the owners of the operating systems have already learned that best is not always enough. Palm, Windows CE and Symbian are the three OSs trying to slug it out with …

Portugal Oni Way, a Portuguese mobile operator that recently won a UMTS 3G license, has selected Accenture as the primary systems integrator for its integrated billing solution. The solution includes the Amdocs 3G billing platform. The Accenture/Amdocs solution provides Oni …

Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services. Involved in marriages and talks of marriages are Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies …

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 …

Heinz Corp. Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz’s projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a …

Symbian received an important lift after Nokia Corp. said that half its third-generation mobile phones will use the company’s platform by 2004. The move ends speculation on whether Symbian’s stakeholders, including Nokia, L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc., will actually use …

LONDON-Psion plc has teamed with One-Ed Dot Com, a Malaysia-based joint venture between the Kedah State Development Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Widuri Canggih Sdn Bhd and Virtual Applications Technology Sdn Bhd, on an “e-school” project that may make traditional hard-copy textbooks …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. today released its OMAP product, a multimedia extension that can be used with Symbian’s software development kits. TI said the new product will allow developers designing real-time applications, such as multimedia messaging, video and Internet audio, to …

Mobile devices Alcatel Alcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are …

Several recent announcements have cast an unfavorable light on Symbian Ltd., a maker of operating systems for a number of wireless devices. But even with the added illumination, it’s still unclear whether the company is in for rough times or …

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 …

LAS VEGAS-Symbian, a provider of software platforms for next-generation mobile phones, made several announcements at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association’s Wireless 2001 show last week in Las Vegas and at CeBIT in Germany. Symbian unveiled its 2.5G platform, Symbian …

Of the 387 people who work for Parthus Technologies plc, more than 300 are engineers. This, company executives say, is one of the main reasons Parthus is able to offer such a diverse range of products and technologies, and eventually …

Mobile computing company Psion plc shook the European wireless market-and sent its stocks rocketing to a new 27-month low-with news that it is dropping out of the running in the smart-phone industry, cutting its workforce and now plans to focus …

Microsoft Corp. threw its rather large hat in the wireless arena at last week’s 3GSM World Congress, announcing plans to launch software aimed at multimedia-enabled phones that leverage its Windows-based software. Microsoft said the smart phone platform, code named “Stinger,” …

Motorola Inc.’s recent financial problems reverberated through the wireless industry and across the Atlantic, sending shares of Europe’s biggest personal digital assistant maker plummeting after Motorola pulled out of a development deal with the company. Shares of European handheld computer …

PRINCETON, N.J.-Wireless infrastructure provider Broadbeam Corp. said it is developing a joint marketing initiative with Psion plc, a provider of Symbian-based devices, and that it added support for the Symbian/EPOC 32 operating system for mobile devices. “Supporting Symbian is consistent …

Brightpod integrated AvantGo’s Enterprise product suite into its applications service provider platform. The companies said they will co-market the Brightpod offering through joint promotional activities. “We try to make `going mobile’ easier for enterprises by identifying and securing proven technologies …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Symbian Ltd. are teaming up to develop a color-screen mobile phone and personal organizer ahead of Microsoft Corp., according to the Wall Street Journal. Nokia plans to launch the product, the 9210 Communicator phone, with Symbian’s …

Microsoft and Ericsson announced a joint venture to develop and market mobile Internet products. In addition, Microsoft introduced its dual-mode microbrowser, called Mobile Internet Explorer, which Ericsson will adopt into with WAP stack on certain phones. Ericsson will hold the …

PDA technology Blue Impact Blue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint’s location platform and services, allowing the Visor to access …