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Palm Inc. on Monday stepped closer to splitting into separate hardware and software companies by appointing a founding board of directors for PalmSource Inc., the companys software subsidiary. Eric Benhamou, chairman of the board of PalmSource, Inc. and interim chairman and chief executive officer of Palm, Inc., and David Nagel, PalmSource president and chief executive […]

Research In Motion Ltd. has filed a patent infringement suit against upstart competitor Good Technology Inc. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleges that Good Technologys products and services infringe on four RIM patents; these range from patents for a method to control gateway functions in a wireless […]

Access next week will announce a multi-year deal with Palm Inc. subsidiary PalmSource Inc. to make Access NetFront 3.0 the core Web browser technology for the Palm OS5 handheld operating system, according to sources close to Access Systems America in Fremont, Calif.” Access Systems America is the American subsidiary of Access Co., Ltd. of Tokyo. […]

Toshiba Inc.s Computer Systems Group is prepping new technologies and services to support its effort to make wireless LAN access in public spaces ubiquitous through so-called hot spot access points. “If you want to make it simple for people you have to have a lot more spaces,” said Oscar Koenders, vice president of worldwide global […]

Proxim Corp. on Monday announced plans to acquire the 802.11 wireless LAN equipment business of Lucent Technologies Inc. spinoff Agere Systems Inc., including the Orinoco product line, for $65 million in cash. Under the terms of the agreement, Proxim, of Sunnyvale, Calif., will acquire Ageres access point business. Agere, of Allentown, Pa., will retain its […]

Verizon Wireless on Monday will make nationally available the first in a line of downloadable applications based on Qualcomm Inc.s BREW platform. BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) competes with such technologies as Java2 Micro Edition that enable customers to download applications wirelessly to their mobile phones. Initial applications include Magic Date Ball from Mattel […]

Swedish wireless equipment manufacturer LM Ericsson on Wednesday announced plans to sell its microelectronics division to Infineon Technologies AG, a Munich-based semiconductor company. The deal, which includes Ericsson Microelectronics AB of Stockholm and related global activities, is worth the equivalent of $379 million in stock, officials said. The deal is expected to close this summer. […]

Motorola Inc. will meet and possibly beat its second-quarter guidance, company officials said Wednesday. The company, which has posted losses for five consecutive quarters, said it is on target with April preditctions that it will post a second quarter loss of four cents a share and a revenue of at least $6.4 billion. The Schaumberg, […]

Updating plans announced at Fall Comdex, Nokia Corp. and several other wireless industry companies announced an alliance to bridge existing industry groups and standardize application development for wireless phones. The Open Mobile Alliance blends the Open Mobile Architecture, which Nokia announced in November, with the WAP Forum, whose Wireless Application Protocol is used on many […]

Blaming low demand, cell phone giant Nokia Corp. on Tuesday warned that second quarter 2002 sales will be worse than expected, but maintained that earnings will stay in line with previous estimates. Sales of Nokia phones in the second quarter are expected to grow zero percent to 4 percent year on year instead of the […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to use Transmeta Corp.s 1GHz Crusoe TM5800 processors to give the forthcoming Compaq Evo Tablet PC better battery performance, HP officials said. Transmeta, of Santa Clara, Calif., has chips in ultralight notebooks from manufacturers based in Japan such as Sony Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd. and NEC Corp. but has had less […]

The Bluetooth industry is hoping to find opportunity in failure. Supporters of the short-range wireless technology have been searching for a sweet spot since Ericsson AB introduced it more than three years ago as a way for cell phones to communicate with headsets, PDAs, laptops and other nearby devices. Since then, industry players have been […]