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Cell phone chip maker Qualcomm Inc. on Wednesday posted encouraging results for the fiscal third quarter, with a positive net income and an increase in revenue. The San Diego company reported a net income of $192 million, compared with a loss of $14 million in the same quarter of 2002. Earnings per share were 23 […]

Rallying at the last minute, chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. on Monday posted second-quarter earnings that beat its lowered expectations from a month ago. The Dallas company posted a net income of $121 million, or seven cents a share, for the quarter. This compares with $95 million, or five cents a share, a year earlier. […]

Lucent Technologies Inc. has won a multiyear contract worth up to $1 billion to upgrade Sprint PCS Groups high-speed wireless network, company officials announced Tuesday. Lucent, of Murray Hill, N.J., will provide Sprint with the Flexent CDMA Modular Cell 4.0 base station and various other hardware and software, as well as the technical support for […]

Intel Corp. and Linksys this week announced a partnership designed to make WLAN configuration easier for small office and home office customers. Initially, Intel is simply conducting tests that ensure that notebook computers with Intels Centrino mobile chipset will work well with LinkSys access points. LinkSys products that have undergone such testing will be identified […]

Handspring Inc. is keeping its bases covered when it comes to e-mail support for its Treo 600 device, which is due in the fall. The Mountain View, Calif., company last week unveiled several remote access data options for the Treo 600, which combines a phone and PalmSource Inc.s Palm OS-based PDA with several wireless data […]

MCI and AT&T this month made headway on their public Internet access strategies. This month, MCI will start offering WLAN (wireless LAN) and broadband Internet access services to current corporate long-distance customers, said officials. Via a roaming deal with Wayport, MCI customers will be able to use WLANs to reach their corporate VPNs (virtual private […]

While camera phones and teen-focused messaging services have been the focus of summer marketing campaigns, wireless carriers are not forgetting corporate customers. Summer launches from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS Group include a corporate bent. NEC America Inc. this week launched a new wireless phone through a partnership with AT&T Wireless. The NEC […]

Blaming a lousy economy and a weak U.S. dollar, mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. reported that its second-quarter net profit fell 28 percent from last year. The Espoo, Finland, company earned 624 million Euros ($693 million) in the quarter ending June 30, compared with 862 million Euros in the second quarter of 2002. Net sales […]

Wireless hardware maker Motorola Inc. on Tuesday announced a profit for the second quarter of 2003, although sales were down from the previous year.The Schaumburg, Ill., company reported net earnings for the quarter of $119 million, or five cents a share, compared with a net loss of $2.3 billion in the same quarter last year. […]

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Tuesday reported a significant loss for the second quarter of 2003, due largely to restructuring costs. But the company also reported sales increases and forecast profits for the second half of the year. Sony Ericsson, based in London, is owned by Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. and Swedish telecom […]

Wireless LAN services are becoming the domain of wireline carriers. While the carriers expect it to be a while before Wi-Fi is a major source of revenue, both AT&T Corp. and MCI this month made headway on their public Internet access—or “hot spot”—strategies. At the end of the month, MCI will start offering hot spot […]

Good Technology Inc. and rival Research In Motion Ltd. are each readying products that include improved synchronization capabilities, support for multiple operating systems and the ability to run on multiple networks. The moves are a concerted effort by the wireless software providers to attract enterprise customers while maintaining existing ones. Good this week will introduce […]