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NEW YORK–Research in Motion Ltd. this week at the TechXNY trade show here promised new hardware, software and services for the companys BlackBerry platform for wireless corporate e-mail access, which will roll out throughout the year. Building on its line of pagers with voice support, the Waterloo, Ontario, company displayed a world band version of […]

Two years ago, U.S. public safety agencies began having trouble with mobile communications transmissions. The source of the problem, for the most part, was Nextel Communications Corp., which operates radio sites in the same frequencies as the safety agencies, the 800MHz band. For a while, the 800MHz problem was just one of the spectrum issues […]

Plans by several mobile computing vendors to deploy pay-per-use and subscription-based WLANs in public spaces across the country are spurring development of software and hardware for service providers, as well as new devices for users. Hewlett-Packard Co. this week in New York will launch a public wireless LAN initiative that includes new equipment, implementation and […]

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.s Computer Systems Group is readying new technologies and services to support its effort to make WLAN access in public spaces ubiquitous through 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 […]

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 […]