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Macromedia Inc. is delving further into micromedia with product, service and acquisition plans for Flash content on cell phones. The company is making a “big bet” on rich Internet applications, said Juha Christensen, president of Macromedias Mobile and Devices division. This week, the company will introduce a new version of its Flash media player for […]

Microsoft Corp. will release the next version of its Windows CE operating system to device manufacturers on July 9, company officials announced this week. Windows CE 5.0 will include expanded source licensing, said officials at the Redmond, Wash., software giant. This means that for the first time, licensees will be able to ship commercial products […]

Canadian broadband wireless technology provider Wi-LAN is suing industry giant Cisco Systems for patent infringement, Wi-LAN officials announced Thursday. And if the lawsuit goes well, the company may keep on suing. All of the patents in question relate to OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), the modulation technique that enables high-speed data transfers for both the […]

MTI MicroFuel Cells on Monday announced new technology designed to extend the life of a handheld computer two to ten times as long as a conventional battery pack. Mobion is based on direct methanol fuel cell technology, a long-studied method of power that promises longer life than the lithium-ion batteries that have been standard in […]

Sprint Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to spend $1 billion upgrading its wireless network to support 3G technology. Promising average data speeds of 300K bps to 500K bps and bursts of up to 2.4M bps, Code Division Multiple Access Ev-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) will allow for high-speed multimedia data transfers, said officials at Sprint in Overland […]

Intel Corp. and Proxim Inc. are lending further credence to WiMax with significant co-development plans for the emerging wireless broadband standard. The two companies are co-developing base station and subscriber unit architectures that support WiMax, which is based on the IEEE 802.16 protocol and promises speeds approaching those of Fast Ethernet. Intel is licensing Proxim […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday introduced a card that adds IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g WLAN (Wi-Fi) support to its 3200 Series routers. “This solution set [targets] outdoor wireless broadband for the public sector,” said Ann Sun, senior manager for Wireless and Mobility at Cisco, in San Jose, Calif. The routers now can support wireless LAN […]

Symbol Technologies on Thursday announced its acquisition of Trio Security, a private software company based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Trio Security Inc. specializes in handheld security software, including product called Trio Vault that boasts a “three-factor” authentication system. The product consists of a software key, a password […]

Even without an official IEEE blessing, faster multisignal WLAN technology is on tap from one Silicon Valley developer, while several large chip makers test the waters. Airgo Networks Inc.s True MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) technology will appear this week for the first time in wireless LAN access points and CardBus cards from SOHOware Inc. and […]

IBM and Intel this week will introduce a mobile workstation pilot aimed at electronic design engineers who need to go mobile. The pilot includes IBMs ThinkPad notebooks running on Intels highest-speed Pentium M processors. The pilot uses software from Cadence Design Systems that runs on Linux. Some potential customers said such a solution is more […]

CSR Plc. is readying the fourth generation of its Bluetooth silicon, which is based on the new Enhanced Data Rate specification, approved by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group last week in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bluetooth EDR offers a maximum local wireless data transfer rate of 2.1M bps, compared with the maximum of 721K bps offered by […]

Nokia has entered into a patent licensing agreement with holding company NTP that includes the five patents currently under litigation between Research In Motion and NTP, officials said today. Nokia Corp. needed to take that step to go forward with U.S. sales of a version of its 6820 phone that can connect to Research In […]