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Earnings results for the fourth quarter from wireless industry giants such as Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. indicate that selling cell phones is still no picnic, but the latest financial report from Qualcomm Corp. shows that things are booming for at least one mobile technology—CDMA. Nokia on Thursday reported that profits for the fourth quarter […]

Although Motorola Inc. expects sales to slow down in the first quarter after a relatively successful holiday season, it is expecting 2003 to be a much better year than 2002. The Schaumburg, Ill., company expects to see sales increases in its personal communications systems segment; commercial, government and industrial solutions segment; semiconductor segment; and integrated […]

Wireless middleware provider Extended Systems Inc. and corporate e-mail pager manufacturer Research in Motion Ltd. are teaming up to deliver several enterprise applications to RIMs BlackBerry handhelds. The companies have built an interface between ESIs OneBridge mobile platform and ESIs BlackBerry Enterprise Server so that customers can extend customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and […]

Handheld operating systems company PalmSource Inc. last week announced plans to improve its long-standing Graffiti handwriting recognition software with technology from Communication Intelligence Corp. Under a new agreement, PalmSource will license CICs Jot software, embed it into existing PalmSource software and rebrand it as “Graffiti 2 powered by Jot.” Graffiti 2 will be more intuitive […]

Banking on the premise that wireless LANs will become as prevalent in the enterprise as wired networks, several vendors are developing high-density wireless Ethernet switches and sophisticated management software that keep intelligence at the edge of a wireless network rather than in the access points. Silicon Valley startups Aruba Wireless Networks Inc., Black Storm Networks […]

Even in these tough economic times, Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. are churning out new platforms and devices for mobile users. In the words of one Microsoft executive, the vendors are employing “natural selection”—letting users decide the fittest form factor for mobile computing. Both companies were on hand at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las […]

Motorola Inc., Avaya Inc. and Proxim Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to collaborate on devices and supporting software and hardware that can roam between cell phone networks and wireless LANs without interruption. The idea is that business travelers could take advantage of public WLAN “hot spots” and then continue a connection on the way back […]

Stepping up efforts to compete with the Symbian operating system, Microsoft Corp. last week announced that two of its handheld platforms now support Sprint PCS Groups and Verizon Wireless Inc.s high-speed wireless networks. The Redmond, Wash., software maker said its Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphone operating systems now can run on CDMA (Code Division […]

Handheld operating systems company PalmSource Inc. on Monday announced plans to improve its long-standing Graffiti handwriting recognition software with technology from Communication Intelligence Corp. Under a new agreement, PalmSource will license CICs Jot software, embed it into existing PalmSource software and rebrand it as “Graffiti 2 powered by Jot.” Graffiti 2 will be more intuitive […]

Aiming to prove that one-trick-devices still have a place in the world of handheld computing, Intel and Microsoft are working to increase adoption of the portable video player. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft announced a new software platform called Media2Go, which is designed specifically for Intels Xscale processor-based Portable […]