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Microsoft Corp. today will introduce the next version of its Pocket PC operating system, with enhancements focusing largely on phone features, as well as wireless LAN and WAN support. Many licensees, however, say they are shying away from integrating phones into their PDAs, at least for now. Hewlett-Packard Co., Gateway Inc., Toshiba Computer Systems Group […]

NEW YORK—Hoping to keep a foothold in the corporate market, Palm Inc. software subsidiary PalmSource Inc. is planning software that focuses specifically on the needs of the enterprise. “Wireless is here, creating new opportunities—and new problems,” said David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource, in a keynote at the here. Chief among these concerns are […]

NEW YORK—Handspring Inc. this fall will introduce a new smartphone, shortly before finalizing the companys merger with handheld computer maker Palm Inc. To be announced this week at the CeBIT America show here, Handsprings Treo 600 looks more like a modern cell phone than any of the companys previous products. The new device is slightly […]

NEW YORK—3Com Corp. on Tuesday announced a new family of wireless LAN devices that support the recently ratified IEEE 802.11g standard, with plans to announce multi-band products later in the summer. The products, on display at CeBit here, are geared toward small businesses and home offices, said officials at 3Com in Santa Clara, Calif. The […]

A Boston area startup last week introduced software designed to control the spectral milieu of a WLAN without much need for human intervention. Officials at Propagate Networks Inc. said their AutoCell software automatically controls the radio frequency environment of a companys wireless LAN. “Its like the Dolby noise reduction of wireless LANs,” said Paul Callahan, […]

The new 802.11g standard will get another vote of confidence this week when Gateway Inc. rolls out notebooks ready for the wireless LAN protocol. The move comes as several vendors prepare new gear enabled for wireless platforms in conjunction with the first CeBIT America show, in New York. Gateway will join with Broadcom Corp. to […]

Qualcomm Inc. is shuttering its Wireless Knowledge subsidiary. Officials at the San Diego-based company confirmed last week that they are discontinuing the Wireless Knowledge product line, which includes wireless middleware that provides remote access to enterprise applications. “As we got more involved in enterprise applications at Qualcomm, we started to see redundancies between Wireless Knowledge […]

The new 802.11g standard will get another vote of confidence this week when Gateway Inc. rolls out notebooks ready for the wireless LAN protocol. The move comes as several vendors prepare new gear enabled for a variety of wireless platforms in conjunction with the first CeBit America show in New York. Gateway will join Broadcom […]

The merger of Palm Inc. and Handspring Inc. may appease wireless service operators, but industry experts and handheld customers say the combined company will lack a critical offering: enterprise applications. Palm last week announced plans to acquire rival Handspring in a stock deal worth about $169 million, citing Handsprings line of Treo smart phones and […]

Proxim last week unveiled several products that support the 802.11g wireless LAN protocol, including trimode client devices that support 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. The lineup includes the Orinoco AP-2000b/g Dual Slot Access Point, which has slots for two radios; the Orinoco AP-600b/g, which supports a single radio; and several client cards for desktops and notebooks […]