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NEW ORLEANS—Wireless carriers at CTIA Wireless 2003 here are wooing customers with a mix of flashy phones and business services. Sprint PCS Group at the show joined with Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. to unveil the PCS Phone by Sanyo 8100, a camera phone that lets users add a 10 second voice message to any picture. […]

Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled two new BlackBerry models designed primarily for customers in Europe. The BlackBerry 6210 and 6220, which RIM debuted at this weeks CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, are smaller and lighter but sport more memory than previous BlackBerrys, according to officials at the Waterloo, Ontario, company. The new models each weigh […]

Symbol Technologies Inc. this week introduced two handheld computers that include support for both local area and wide area wireless networks. At the CeBIT trade show and exposition in Hannover, Germany, Symbol unveiled the PDT 8037 and 8056, which are capable of connecting to GPRS (general packet radio service) cell phone networks. The PDT 8056 […]

Acer America Corp. on Wednesday will unveil the TravelMate 800, a lightweight notebook computer that utilizes Intel Corp.s new Centrino chip set. The two-spindled notebook features a 15-inch screen and a 60-gigabyte removable hard drive as well as a hot-swappable media bay and integrated support for the Bluetooth wireless protocol. Acer officials said the TravelMate […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday launched a notebook computer for business customers that is notable in that it does not sport Intel Corp.s new Centrino chip set. The Compaq Evo N620c instead sports Intels Pentium-M processor. Formerly known as Banias, the Pentium-M is designed to conserve power and battery life in notebooks. Three versions will be […]

In a marriage of fast food and fast Internet, 10 McDonalds restaurants in the New York metropolitan area on Wednesday will begin offering an hour of free wireless Internet access with the purchase of an Extra Value Meal. By the end of the year, the fast food giant plans to extend this pilot program to […]

As WLANs gain greater acceptance in both corporate environments and public spaces, a handful of companies are busy developing products that will allow users to roam from those wireless LANs to cellular networks. Vendors including ipUnplugged AB, Padcom Inc., PCTel Inc., Intec Telecom Systems plc. and Intellinet Technologies Inc. next week will unveil technologies designed […]

When Intel Corp. unveils its Centrino mobile processor chip set this week, several of the companys licensees will use the launch as an opportunity to revamp their notebook lines. Leading the pack will be Dell Computer Corp., which will announce what company officials are calling its most significant advancement since 1997, and IBM, which is […]

Intel Corp. on Monday announced support for four wireless technology startups through its Intel Communications Fund. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said that since the beginning of the year it has funded the following companies: Vivato Inc., of San Francisco, which makes wireless LAN switches; Broadreach Networks Ltd., of London, which provides public Internet access […]

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to join with Accenture Ltd. to offer wireless LAN “hot spot” services throughout North America. By 2003 the companies hope to have launched up to 10,000 hot spots, which are public places where customers pay for wireless access to the Internet. Toshiba is providing the hardware […]

After years of working to establish the smart phone as a viable platform, Microsoft Corp. and Symbian Ltd. seem to be garnering enough support to conduct an old-fashioned operating system war in a new frontier. While some industry experts say competition in the space encourages innovation and carrier adoption, others say multiple standards in the […]

Intel Corp. is expected to garner a round of OEM endorsements for its Centrino mobile platform when it is rolled out next week. But dont look for notebook supporters to eschew alternative processing and connectivity for all their new designs just yet. While Fujitsu PC Corp. will be on hand at the Centrino launch to […]