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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 […]

Palm Inc. subsidiary PalmSource Inc. on Monday announced that it is shipping the final version of its new operating system, Palm OS5, to developers. OS5 bests its predecessors with support for ARM-compliant processors from Intel Corp., Motorola Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., all of whom plan to provide chips to the various hardware licensees of […]

WorldCom Inc. on Wednesday announced it plans to exit the wireless reseller business. WorldCom doesnt have its own wireless network or network equipment, but the company is the largest wireless reseller in the United States, reselling from the top wireless carriers in each market in the United States to almost 2 million customers. “After carefully […]

At a time when even the best small companies have trouble staying in business, the wireless industry was encouraged last week by Extended Systems Inc.s announcement to buy ViaFone Inc. The purchase better ensures that ViaFones software will survive and help Extended Systems to improve its ability to integrate its products into existing infrastructures, experts […]

Industry adoption of the fastest WLAN standard has been slow. While the overall wireless LAN market is growing, various factors are hampering adoption of 802.11a, the wireless standard that transmits data five times faster than its predecessor, the entrenched 802.11b. Among the obstacles is client support. While wireless networks are about mobility, 802.11a does not […]