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LAS VEGAS—IBM has plans to make its notebook customers feel more secure, both in terms of the well-being of their personal data and in the sanctuary of their companies WLANs. The company next year plans to launch several new applications to ease management of mobile PCs, both for the IT manager in the home office […]

LAS VEGAS—Netgear Inc. this week at the Comdex Fall 2002 show announced a line of WLAN products based on the upcoming 802.11g standard, which offers data transfer rates of up to 54M bps in the 2.4GHz radio frequency range. The Santa Clara, Calif., company announced a PC Card, access point and router, all based on […]

Microsoft Corp. has formed two new mobile hardware partnerships, one aimed at cost-conscious corporate customers and the other at cutting-edge consumers. The Redmond, Wash., company has teamed with Samsung Semiconductor Inc. to develop a design for inexpensive handheld computers based on Microsofts Pocket PC operating system, officials said last week. Devices based on the design […]

Wireless LAN technology is big, and to keep it that way, device and networking manufacturers are driving it into things small. At Comdex in Las Vegas this week, manufacturers will demonstrate 802.11b, or Wi-Fi, wireless networking technologies on a host of handheld devices. Symbol Technologies Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., for example, will each introduce handhelds […]

Research in Motion Ltd. has scored a partnership hat trick, while Microsoft Corp. has lost one of its core partners for its Smartphone 2002 platform. RIM, of Waterloo, Ontario, this month announced licensing deals with Palm Inc., Handspring Inc. and Nokia Corp. Palm and Handspring, two of RIMs competitors, are licensing the companys keyboard design, […]

Mobile phone chip manufacturer Qualcomm Inc. has plans for technology that lets small devices transfer data via a Universal Serial Bus interface without having to use a PC as a middleman. The San Diego company last week announced it has licensed USB On-The-Go technology from TransDimension Inc., a small company in Irvine, Calif. Many devices […]

LAS VEGAS—Fall Comdex isnt what it used to be. Customers hitting the show floor on Monday will have to search harder than ever for innovative new products, while vendors will have to search harder than ever for new attendees. There will be new products at the show, though, and the overriding focus is handheld and […]

LAS VEGAS—In her keynote speech here Monday, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina delivered a combination of an extended infomercial for her company and a pep talk for a wounded industry. “Now is not the easiest time for the IT industry,” she told an audience of Fall Comdex attendees. “But we believe challenges lead […]

WorldCom Inc. said today that it has hired Michael Capellas, former president of Hewlett-Packard Co., as chairman and CEO. One of Capellas main challenges will be to help the bankrupt company overcome an image of corruption engendered by its record-breaking accounting scandal revealed over the past several months. Capellas said he and his new colleagues […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. next week will add two new devices to its iPaq family of Pocket PCs. One, the iPaq Pocket PC h1910, is a lightweight device that ships for $299. The other, the iPaq Pocket PC h5450, is crammed with such features as biometric security and integrated WLAN technology and costs $699. At half-an-inch thick […]