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NEW ORLEANS—Boingo Wireless Inc. and T-Mobile U.S.A. Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to combine wireless LAN and 2.5G network services, as industry leaders discussed the future of both. At the CTIA Wireless show here, Boingo CEO Sky Dayton said that his company and T-Mobile are developing software that will make it easier for users to […]

Users face bountiful choices in the coming year as wireless hardware vendors ready new devices with an array of feature combinations and platform support. Customers this year will see new offerings from Kyocera International Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Panasonic Digital Communications and Security Co., BenQ Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. […]

NEW ORLEANS—Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday announced several licensing agreements with companies that have traditionally been competitors of the corporate wireless data technology company. At the CTIA Wireless 2003 show here, RIM revealed plans to cooperate with operating systems from Symbian Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. RIM and Symbian announced plans to bring push-based corporate […]

NEW ORLEANS—Nokia Inc. on Monday introduced several new handsets that run on CDMA (code division multiple access) networks, which have not traditionally been a focus for the Finnish phone giant. “Weve been in a scenario where we havent really scaled our efforts right with CDMA, but thats changing,” said Soren Petersen, senior vice president and […]

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 […]