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Microsoft Accelerates New
Economic Opportunities
for Chinese Software
Companies By Wireless News Desk Today at the Innovation
Summit in Beijing,
Microsoft has announced
the first-ever licensing
of technologies to two
Chinese software
companies, Comtech Group
and Hunan Talkweb
Information System
(Talkweb). The innovative
mobile communications
technologies were
de... Oct. 31, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 23,077 | QUALCOMM Introduces
OmniVision Mobile
Computing Platform By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM has announced
the commercial
availability of the new
OmniVision System for
Transportation, the
next-generation wireless
enterprise system for the
transportation and
logistics industry. Based
on the all-new OmniVision
mobile computing
platform, the flexibl... Oct. 31, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 27,377 | Court Enjoins Broadcom
from Use or
Misappropriation of
QUALCOMM Trade Secrets By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM has reported
that the Federal Court in
San Diego has enjoined
Broadcom from any further
solicitation, use or
dissemination of
QUALCOMM's confidential
WCDMA trade secrets,
including source code.
Broadcom's agreement to
the injunction and its
imposition by ... Oct. 31, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 5,551 | QUALCOMM Announces Open
Call for Submissions for
BREW 2007 Developer
Awards By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM has announced an
open call for submissions
for the BREW 2007
Developer Awards. BREW
publishers and developers
are invited to submit
their top BREW
applications for
consideration by
completing an online
entry form and providing
a demo of their
applicatio... Oct. 31, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 5,781 | Edith Cowan University
Selects AU$5 Million Data
Network From Nortel By Wireless News Desk Edith Cowan University in
Perth has chosen Nortel
as its preferred supplier
for a next-generation
data network to support
its academic program over
the next five years. The
new network, estimated to
be valued at over AU$5
million, is replacing the
existing data netw... Oct. 31, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 6,021 | Times Company Selects
Nortel's Integrated
Communications Solution By Wireless News Desk The Times Company has
selected Nortel's
integrated communications
solution for its new
headquarters now under
construction in Times
Square. This will include
Nortel IP phones, VoIP,
unified messaging,
contact center, data and
security solutions to be
provided thro... Oct. 31, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 6,006 | HP and Cingular Keep
Business Customers
Connected with New HP
iPAQ Handheld By Wireless News Desk HP and Cingular Wireless
have announced that
beginning Oct. 31
Cingular will be the
first carrier in the
United States to offer a
new HP iPAQ handheld
device with five wireless
communications
technologies. With the HP
iPAQ hw6920 series Mobile
Messenger, customers... Oct. 28, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 6,438 | QUALCOMM Provides
Engineering Services to
More Than 120 Third
Generation Network
Operators Worldwide By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM has announced
that the Company's
Engineering Services
Group (ESG) now works
with more than 120
network operators in more
than 60 countries, which
collectively reach nearly
90 percent of 3G wireless
subscribers worldwide.
ESG, which was begun in
2001, assi... Oct. 27, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 6,276 | Motorola Provides
Connections and "Meet Up
Lounge" at ISPCON Fall
2006 By Wireless News Desk Motorola is the Official
Corporate Host of ISPCON
Fall 2006 to be held Nov.
7 - 9, 2006, at the Santa
Clara Convention Center,
Santa Clara, Calif. As
part of its sponsorship,
Motorola will provide
attendees networking
opportunities at a 'Meet
Up Lounge' on the show ... Oct. 27, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 6,143 | NEC, Panasonic Launch
Mobile Phone Venture By Wireless News Desk NEC and Matsushita
Electric Industrial (MEI)
subsidiary Panasonic
Mobile Communications
will establish a joint
venture next month tasked
with creating a common
hardware and software
platform for mobile
handsets. The 'Esteemo'
Co. will be based in
Yokohama City, an... Oct. 27, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 6,487 | QUALCOMM Announces 200
Million Mobile Handsets
Shipped Feature gpsOne
Assisted-GPS Technology By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM, a developer and
innovator of Code
Division Multiple Access
(CDMA) and other advanced
wireless technologies,
has announced that a
total of more than 200
million mobile handsets
worldwide have shipped
featuring the Company's
gpsOne Assisted-GPS
technology.... Oct. 27, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 6,710 | QUALCOMM Recognized Among
America's Leading
Corporations for Employee
Training and Development By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM has announced
that it was honored by
both the American Society
of Training and
Development (ASTD) and
Training magazine for its
innovations in employee
development. ASTD
selected QUALCOMM as a
winner of the
organization's annual
BEST Awards in
recogniti... Oct. 27, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 6,051 | IBM, Chartered, Samsung
Produce Advanced Mobile
Technology For Qualcomm By Wireless News Desk Common Platform
technology founding
members IBM, Chartered
Semiconductor
Manufacturing and Samsung
Electronics, have
announced that they have
successfully produced
90-nanometer (nm) chips
for QUALCOMM in their
respective 300mm fabs. Oct. 27, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 5,871 | Nortel Announces
Municipal Wireless
Solution By Wireless News Desk Nortel has announced new
municipal wireless
deployments that
demonstrate the Company's
strength in helping
governments embrace
broadband wireless as a
strategic way to deliver
efficient services that
keep communities safe and
productive, as well as
economically competitive. Oct. 26, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 6,035 | Nortel Government
Solutions Attains Coveted
Process Improvement
Rating By Wireless News Desk Nortel Government
Solutions, a U.S. company
wholly owned by Nortel
has attained an elite
process improvement
rating based on
assessment of its
performance in managing
on-time delivery of
high-quality services and
products to U.S. Federal
Government agencies. Oct. 26, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 6,001 | Parco Wireless Leverages
Dataprobe's iBoot By Wireless News Desk Dataprobe, a leading
manufacturer of
innovative technology
solutions for networking,
systems and site
management, announced
that Parco Wireless, the
leading provider of
wireless radio frequency
identification systems
(RFID) and real-time
tracking technology for
... Oct. 25, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 7,839 | IBM, 3Com Deliver First
"All-in-One" Solution for
Both IP Telephony and
Business Applications By Wireless News Desk IBM and 3Com, a provider
of secure, converged
voice and data networking
solutions, have announced
that customers have begun
deploying the first-ever
scalable IP telephony
solution designed to run
on a single system along
with a customer's core
business applications. Oct. 25, 2006 03:00 AM Reads: 8,696 | O2 Airwave and Motorola
Sign World's First
Commercial Contract for
TETRA PDAs By Wireless News Desk Motorola has announced it
has signed a contract
with Airwave O2 to supply
Motorola MTC100 PDAs
(personal digital
assistants) that operate
on TETRA (TErrestrial
Trunked RAdio) networks.
The agreement is the
world's first commercial
contract for TETRA PDAs.
Motorola... Oct. 24, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 19,547 | BREW Application
Downloads In China
Surpass 43 Million By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM, China United
Telecommunications
Corporation (China
Unicom), China's major
telecom operator, and the
two parties' joint
venture Unicom-BREW
Telecommunication
Technologies Ltd., have
jointly announced that
3.4 million China Unicom
wireless subscribers have... Oct. 23, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 18,835 | Nortel Helps Neuf Deliver
TWIN Fixed/Mobile
Convergence to French
Market By Wireless News Desk Neuf Cegetel, the
alternative operator in
France, is using an
IMS-ready solution from
Nortel to deliver TWIN,
the country's first
affordable fixed/mobile
convergence service. The
GSM/WiFi TWIN service
will enable subscribers
to save between 10% and
30% on their mo... Oct. 23, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 16,793 | Wireless News:
TMTsoftware's TRANSMAN
and QUALCOMM's Fleet
Management Systems
Integrate By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM, a provider of
business-to-business
wireless enterprise
applications and
services, and
TMTsoftware, the provider
of fleet maintenance
software, have announced
the full integration of
TMT's TRANSMAN, a
best-in-class maintenance
management solution, with
... Oct. 19, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 9,637 | Wireless News: Sprint
Nextel Teams with
QUALCOMM and Lucent
Technologies By Wireless News Desk Sprint Nextel has
announced an agreement to
use QUALCOMM's QChat
solution to provide high
performance push-to-talk
services to its
customers. Sprint, which
currently offers the
industry-leading Nextel
Walkie-Talkie
push-to-talk service to
its customers on the
Ne... Oct. 19, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 6,962 | Microsoft and Sprint
Collaborate on Mobile
Search By Wireless News Desk Microsoft and Sprint,
have announced a
strategic alliance
through which the
companies will develop
and deliver a range of
innovative new service
offerings for Sprint's
business and consumer
customers. The first
consumer offering in this
collaboration enables
Spr... Oct. 16, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 52,516 | Cingular, Samsung and
Microsoft Unveil New
Blackjack Smart Device By Wireless News Desk Cingular Wireless,
Samsung
Telecommunications
America (Samsung) and
Microsoft today unveiled
the BlackJack, a robust,
slim smart device packed
with the power and
functionality desired by
business customers and
consumers alike. With the
BlackJack customers can
ge... Oct. 14, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 16,628 | Nortel MIMO Technology
Provides Up To Double The
Existing Access Network
Capacity By Wireless News Desk Nortel has conducted the
industry's first wireless
transmission using Uplink
Collaborative MIMO to
demonstrate the ability
for operators to serve up
to double the number of
mobile broadband
subscribers supported in
a cell site as current
wireless technologies
allow, says the company. Oct. 12, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 28,476 | QUALCOMM Announces
Finalists for Its
Wireless Reach BREW
Application Funding
Program By Wireless News Desk QUALCOMM has announced
the selection of
finalists for the
Company's Wireless Reach
BREW Application Funding
Program. As part of
QUALCOMM's Wireless Reach
initiative, the USD1
million fund is designed
to increase the
availability of useful
wireless applications in ... Oct. 10, 2006 03:00 AM Reads: 23,493 | Cingular Begins Offering
Its 3G Mobile Wireless
Broadband Service
throughout Memphis By Wireless News Desk Cingular begins offering
its 3G mobile wireless
broadband service
throughout Memphis.
Nearly the entire Memphis
area -- south to Nesbit
and Cockrum, west to West
Memphis, north past
Rosemark and Gallaway,
and east to Piperton --
is now a Wi-Fi hotspot. Oct. 1, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 18,266 | Heineken, IBM, Safmarine
and University of
Amsterdam Launch Wireless
"Beer Living Lab" By Wireless News Desk IBM has announced a new
intelligent wireless
project with Heineken,
international shipping
company, Safmarine, and
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam (University of
Amsterdam) in conjunction
with Dutch Customs, UK
Customs and US Customs
and Border Protection.
The new pr... Sep. 27, 2006 02:00 AM Reads: 12,727 | Sybase iAnywhere Suite
Addresses Wireless,
"Unwired" Enterprise By Wireless News Desk ?'For the past five
years, Sybase has
intently focused its
engineering and
acquisition strategy on
delivering the Unwired
Enterprise,' said John
Chen, Sybase chairman,'
CEO and president. 'With
the launch of Information
Anywhere Suite, Sybase is
the first software... Jun. 26, 2006 07:15 PM Reads: 7,313 | Sybase Announces Support
For New Wireless Device
Motorola Q By Wireless News Desk Sybase announced support
for the new Motorola Q.
The Motorola Q combined
with Sybase iAnywhere
mobile technologies gives
users greater control of
their applications and
enables companies to
effectively manage and
move critical data and
content from the data
cente... May. 22, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 12,048 Replies: 1 | Google's Search Engine To
Be Incorporated Into
KDDI's EZ Web Internet
Service By Wireless News Desk  In a move expected to
invigorate Japan's mobile
Internet market, KDDI
Corporation has announced
an agreement with Google
Inc. to incorporate
Google's search engine
into KDDI's EZ Web
Internet service for
mobile phones, beginning
in July of this year. May. 22, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 12,384 Replies: 1 | Microsoft & QUALCOMM:
QUALCOMM To Support
Windows Mobile On Its
Chips By Wireless News Desk In a concerted attempt to
help shorten the
development times of new
smartphones, Microsoft
and QUALCOMM have begun
testing and integrating
Windows Mobile on
QUALCOMM's Mobile Station
Modem (MSM) chipsets. May. 5, 2006 08:45 AM Reads: 9,160 Replies: 1 | SalesForce.com Buys
Sendia for $15M, Ushers
In Next-Gen Mobile Apps
with AppExchange Mobile By Wireless News Desk  'Our customers are eager
for ways to extend their
on-demand applications to
the mobile workforce, and
developers need a
painless way to address
this major opportunity,'
said Marc Benioff,
chairman and CEO,
salesforce.com, as he
today announced the
acquisition of S... Apr. 12, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 11,849 | Zi Corporation and
Trolltech Join Forces to
Enhance Wireless Device
With Linux Plaform By Wireless News Desk Zi Corporation announced
that its eZiText
predictive text software
will be integrated into
Trolltech's Qtopia
application platform. The
integration of the two
technologies will enhance
the power of today's
mobile user interface and
address the needs of the
rapidly... Apr. 10, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 8,237 Replies: 1 | Google to Offer Free
Wireless Service to City
of San Francisco By Wireless News Desk Google and Earthlink have
won a contract from the
City of San Francisco to
provide wireless service
to the entire city, a
task that may be
completed as soon as the
end of this year. San
Francisco Mayor Gavin
Newsom, reportedly close
friends with Google
founders Br... Apr. 6, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 12,565 Replies: 1 | Texas Instruments (TI)
Upgrades Its Wireless
Bluetooth Technology By Wireless News Desk TI has announced its next
generation BlueLink 6.0
platform, which combines
Bluetooth wireless
technology with high
fidelity FM stereo and
mono performance on a
single chip. The BlueLink
6.0 platform provides
complete hardware and
software support,
enabling ease of... Mar. 31, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 10,393 Replies: 1 | Metalink Targets HDTV
With Wireless LAN By Wireless News Desk Metalink, a provider of
wireless and wireline
broadband communication
silicon solutions,
announced, for the first
time, advanced Wi-Fi
technology was used to
demonstrate the delivery
of multiple simultaneous
high-definition
television (HDTV) streams
anywhere in th... Mar. 29, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 9,564 Replies: 1 | 2hotspot.com Announces
Funding And Launch Of
WiFi Sharing Service For
Microsoft Windows PCs By Wireless News Desk WiFi sharing receives a
boost with a new software
and service that enable
anyone to create wireless
communities and share a
broadband connection. The
software comes coupled
with a web service which
uses a web 2.0
application that enables
remote management of
multi... Mar. 29, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 9,146 Replies: 1 | Google Employees Win
Wireless Patents By Wireless News Desk The patent applications,
filed by Google employees
Wesley Chan, Shioupyn
Shen and former Google
product management
director Georges Harik,
propose lowering the cost
of wireless access by
offsetting the costs via
advertisements on the
service. Mar. 28, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 15,304 Replies: 1 | Wireless Sensor
Networking Startup,
Archrock Gets Funding
From Intel By Wireless News Desk Arch Rock, a startup
founded in mid-2005 to
provide Internet-enabled
wireless sensor network
technology,announced that
it secured a $5 million
Series A investment from
New Enterprise
Associates, Shasta
Ventures and Intel
Capital. Mar. 28, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 10,036 Replies: 1 |
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