STOCKHOLM (07/31/2000) - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC),
the world's largest dedicated contract manufacturer of chips, Monday reported
sharp increases in both net income and revenue for its second fiscal quarter.
While the first mobile phones and notebook PCs featuring Bluetooth are due later this year, the wireless technology will not really sink its teeth into the market until next year, according to a new market research report released Wednesday.
STOCKHOLM (07/27/2000) - Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. Thursday
reported second fiscal quarter earnings in line with analysts' expectations,
but its share price took a dive as the company warned that third quarter per
share earnings will come in below the second-quarter figure. The news had an
immediate impact on other mobile phone vendors in Europe and the U.S., dragging
down share prices in the sector.
STOCKHOLM (07/26/2000) - Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALI) is sampling four new chip
sets designed to support an emerging high-performance memory technology in
desktop and notebook PCs powered by processors from both Advanced Micro Devices
Inc. (AMD) and Intel Corp., the Taipei-based company said Wednesday.
Networking vendor Cisco Systems said yesterday it plans to expand an existing software development and testing center in India, as well as later this year set up new such facilities in China and Ireland.
STOCKHOLM (07/24/2000) - Networking vendor Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it
plans to expand an existing software development and testing center in India,
as well as later this year set up new such facilities in China and Ireland.
STOCKHOLM (07/20/2000) - Sprint Corp. executives in a teleconference call
Thursday detailing the company's second-quarter results reiterated that they
are optimistic about Sprint's future as an independent telecommunications
operator.
STOCKHOLM (07/19/2000) - The chips are up again. Riding a global wave of
increasing semiconductor demand amid tight supplies, leading European chip
companies are experiencing rapid profit and revenue growth.
STOCKHOLM (07/18/2000) - Fresh off a surprise, broad-ranging licensing deal
with Rambus Inc., Toshiba Corp. announced Monday that it is sampling three
different flavors of next-generation 256M-bit memory chips. Only one of the
three versions, however, is based on Rambus' proprietary high-speed memory
interface technology.
Cable & Wireless (C&W) and Nokia has announced plans to jointly deliver global hosting for mobile Internet applications and services.
STOCKHOLM (07/17/2000) - Maxtor Corp. Monday introduced three new hard drives,
including an 80G-byte addition to its DiamondMax series, billed by the storage
vendor as the industry's highest-capacity hard drive to date.
STOCKHOLM (07/17/2000) - Mobile data synchronization initiative SyncML on
Monday added Japan's Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Ltd. to its core
sponsor roster, which now counts nine members.
BARCELONA (07/13/2000) - Far too often, attending a conference with
back-to-back presentations and/or panel discussions is an inherently passive
experience -- and unless the speakers have something interesting to say, it can
be downright boring.
BARCELONA (07/12/2000) - Global notebook demand is growing at a much faster
rate than market researchers had predicted, according to chip giant Intel
Corp., which now expects as many as 30 million notebooks to ship in 2000.
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.