Palm plans to add more wireless connectivity options to its popular handheld devices, including the emerging Bluetooth personal area network technology and a new high-speed mobile network technology currently being deployed by many operators of GSM (global system for mobile communications) networks.
BARCELONA, SPAIN (07/11/2000) - AlterEgo Networks Inc. in September will launch
the first European node of its new network service for adapting existing Web
content for delivery on wireless devices, Richard Ling, the startup company's
president and chief executive officer, said Monday here at the Go Mobile Europe
2000 conference.
STOCKHOLM (07/06/2000) - U.S.-based home appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. and
Finnish mobile phone vendor Nokia Corp. have signed a letter of intent to
cooperate in the development of Internet-enabled, networked home products, the
companies announced Thursday.
Cable & Wireless (C&W) and Nokia yesterday announced plans to jointly deliver global hosting for mobile internet applications and services.
Telecommunications equipment supplier LM Ericsson Telephone, venture capital firm B-Business Partners, and Swedish bank Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) yesterday announced the formation of the Nordic Commerce Exchange (NCE), an online marketplace for buying and selling non-production goods and services in the Nordic region.
STOCKHOLM (07/04/2000) - Telia Mobile AB, the mobile communications service
provider unit of Swedish telecommunications carrier Telia AB, said Tuesday it
plans to later this year roll out mobile portals under the Speedy Tomato brand
aimed at consumers throughout Europe.
Business graphics software vendor Micrografx Inc. Monday announced that it has laid off 74 of its 187 employees, primarily in the U.S., as part of an ongoing global restructuring effort aimed at restoring profitability at the financially troubled company.
STOCKHOLM (07/04/2000) - Motorola Inc. announced Friday that it has won an
expansion contract valued at US$21 million to broaden the reach of
Intercellular Nigeria Ltd.'s fixed wireless local loop (WLL) networks in
Nigeria.
STOCKHOLM (06/28/2000) - As elsewhere in Europe, mobile phone operators in the
Nordic region are scrambling to find merger partners to create economies of
scale. Often, the resulting frenzy pits Nordic operators against each other in
bidding wars over the relatively few takeover targets in the region.
Dell Computer on Monday became the latest major computer vendor to announce the establishment of a wireless business unit, aimed at tapping into the emerging global market for wireless network access.
STOCKHOLM (06/27/2000) - Startupfactory AB announced Tuesday that a group of
investors, including Softbank Corp., have agreed to inject 500 million krona
(US$56.3 million) into the Stockholm-based venture capital company specializing
in nurturing wireless startups in the Nordic region.
STOCKHOLM (06/22/2000) - Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products Inc. (L&H) announced
Wednesday that its Dictaphone Corp. unit has filed suit in a U.S. Federal Court
against Israel-based Nice Systems Ltd. and its U.S.-based Nice Systems Inc.
subsidiary over an alleged patent infringement.
Internet, networking and telecommunications companies used the Voice on the Net (VON) Europe 2000 trade show here this week to rally around SIP (session initiation protocol) as a key building block for deploying voice, video, conferencing and other multimedia communications services over the Internet.
STOCKHOLM (06/21/2000) - Internet, networking and telecommunications companies
used the Voice on the Net (VON) Europe 2000 trade show here this week to rally
around SIP (session initiation protocol) as a key building block for deploying
voice, video, conferencing and other multimedia communications services over
the Internet.
Despite its relatively slow start in the PC-based
Internet era, Japan has a good chance of becoming a leader in the next phase of
the Internet, due to its first-mover advantage in mobility, Fujitsu Ltd.
Chairman Tadashi Sekizawa said Tuesday in a speech here at the World Congress
on Information Technology.