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Samsung Electronics Co. this week became the latest shareholder in the cell phone operating consortium Symbian Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will acquire a five percent stake in the London-based consortium for $27 million. Symbian, established as a private independent company in June 1998, is owned by Ericsson AB, Nokia Corp., Matsushita […]

IBM on Tuesday announced several products and partnerships designed to port applications to wireless devices across a range of networks. The new solutions, unveiled at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, include a new framework as well as partnerships with several companies, including Nokia Corp., Sony Ericsson Inc. and Wavecom S.A. The Somers, N.Y., company […]

Wireless device makers are jockeying for position with new products featuring support for updated operating systems such as Linux. But theres a growing consensus among users that Java support trumps the choice of operating system. Motorola Inc. this year will ship the first of several planned phones that will run the Java application platform on […]

A network interruption caused wireless e-mail customers across the country to experience service interruptions on their BlackBerry devices on Thursday. Several customers experienced long delays in receiving e-mail on their devices, and several others found that the e-mail they sent from their pagers was returned to them. Research in Motion Ltd., in Waterloo, Ontario, makes […]

Motorola Inc. later this year will start selling what the company says will be the first of many phones based on the Linux operating system. The phone, called the A760, marks the companys plan to make Linux its primary operating system for smart phones. It also includes support for Java, meaning users can download Java […]

As expected, Intel Corp. on Thursday introduced the PXA800F, a high-end processor designed for midrange cell phones. Previously known by its code name, Manitoba, the PXA800F combines a GSM/GPRS (global system for mobile communications/general packet radio service) baseband with an Xscale processor, synchronous DRAM and on-chip Flash memory. It supports multiple bands of GPRS, meaning […]

Nokia Corp. on Tuesday announced three devices designed to bring high-end capabilities to a mass-market audience. For starters, the device division of the Espoo, Finland, wireless company introduced the 3595, a dual-band phone (GSM/GPRS 850/1900 bands) with a 4,096-color display. The 3595 supports Java, which lets users download applications to the phone, as well as […]

As U.S. wireless users continue their slow but steady march toward 3G wireless acceptance, several companies are working on making such services easier to deploy in terms of billing and applications. Companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., Openwave Systems Inc., IPWireless Inc. and Emblaze Semiconductor Ltd. are trying to take advantage of third-generation network expansion, which […]

Officials at several U.S. agencies and wireless industry companies last week agreed on how to allocate spectrum in the hotly contested 5GHz band in a deal that gives wireless LANs more space but less priority over other signals. The agreement among the Department of Defense, NASA, the Federal Communications Commission and others benefits the wireless […]

Swedish wireless telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson AB last week named Carl-Henric Svanberg its new CEO and president. Svanberg, 50, will take the helm on April 8, said officials at the Stockholm company. Svanberg will replace Kurt Hellstrom, who announced that he will retire as he approaches age 60. “[Svanberg] will continue Kurt Hellströms successful work […]