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Palm Inc. Monday added two new handhelds to its line of color-screen devices. The m130 is essentially a color version of the m125 and, at $279, is one of the least expensive color-screen handhelds on the market. It includes 8MB of integrated memory as well as a secure digital expansion slot. The m515 is an […]

The long-awaited launch of startup Danger Inc.s Hiptop device, originally planned for the end of last year, has now slipped to late spring. But officials said the device should appear in carrier trials within the month. “In order for us to hit a date, all of the partners have to align,” said Renee Niemi, vice […]

Third-party players remain bullish about providing wireless access to enterprise data, despite Microsoft Corp.s decision to discontinue its Mobile Internet Server. To prove it, companies such as Everypath Inc., Extended Systems Inc. and Neomar Inc. are readying alliances and wireless server products and doing so at a time of growing demand for enterprise wireless access, […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will step into an ongoing spectrum saga and decide whether the Federal Communications Commission had the right to revoke and then re-auction spectrum that was originally sold to NextWave Telecom Inc. After NextWave filed for bankruptcy and was unable to pay for the spectrum, the FCC […]

Microsoft Corp. has named a new leader for the companys mobile device division, which has been vacant since Senior Vice President Paul Gross resigned last summer. Corporate Vice President Pieter Knook, 43, will be heading up a newly restructured division, which combines the Network Service Provider group and the Mobile Devices group into a single […]

Research in Motion Ltd. and Cognos Inc. on Monday will announce that Cognos is developing business intelligence software for RIM BlackBerry pagers. RIM is best known for supplying always-on access to corporate e-mail but has been working for the past year to supply access to other applications as well. Competitors plan this year to supply […]

Call it Wintel and Lintel. Microsoft Corp. and Red Hat Inc. at the Intel Developers Conference in San Francisco this week announced plans to support Intels X-Scale architecture with their embedded operating systems. Building on its plans to work with Intel on wireless device support, Microsoft officials said the company is optimizing Microsoft CE.Net for […]

Aiming to attract large corporate customers, AvantGo Inc. announced on Monday teamed with enterprise application server provider BEA Systems Inc. AvantGo, the wireless access software and mobile Internet service provider, announced that its M-Business Server, Mobile Delivery and AvantGo Sales applications now support BEA WebLogic Server. In addition, AvantGo has joined BEAs Star Partner Program. […]

NEW YORK–As Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Mobile Information Server 2002 Enterprise Edition last week, company officials said the company plans to cut the wireless access server from its product line next year. In its place, Microsoft plans to integrate wireless access capabilities into Exchange via the Outlook Mobile Access feature (which is […]

Wintel is going wireless. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes this week, Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. announced that they are teaming up on reference designs for personal digital assistants and advanced mobile phones. The reference designs, due later this year, will include operating system software from Microsoft that supports both cell phones and […]