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Orange has announced a new version of its SPV smartphone, called the SPV E200, which will become available next month. The new phone features Bluetooth support and an integrated digital camera. According to the company, it will be the first handset to ship with the Smartphone 2003 version of Microso...
Sierra Wireless has announced a new line of phones that will use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The first of the Voq line of phones, which will include a flip-open computer-style thumbpad for text entry, is expected to become available in 2004, providing "compelling voice and data func...
Sierra Wireless has announced a new line of phones that will use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The first of the Voq line of phones, which will include a flip-open computer-style thumbpad for text entry, is expected to become available in 2004, providing "compelling voice and data func...
Adding value to the original Zire handheld while still keeping its $99 price steady, Palm has introduced the Palm Zire 21, which has more software and a faster processor than the first version of the PDA. With four times more memory than the original Zire, the Zire 21 handheld's 8 MB of RAM adds roo...
Hoping to hook manufacturers and shippers beholden to modest radio frequency identification (RFID) implementation requirements from companies like Wal-Mart, IBM has announced new service and software offerings to help roll out the wireless tag-tracking technology. Wal-Mart is putting manufacturers u...
Leveraging new wireless network technology that will more than double data rates in mobile phones, Intel has developed a single-chip processor for the next generation of mobile networks, called Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). The chip, the Intel PXA800EF processor, is the industry's fi...
By decreasing space requirements and boosting power efficiency, Broadcom said its new, single-chip wireless solution marks a revolutionary breakthrough for the wireless industry and will make wireless LANs less expensive and easier to build. Touting as much as 87 percent space savings and extended b...
Wireless startup Airgo -- a company that consists of some of the wireless industry's most prominent pioneers -- announced it is sampling a new WiFi chipset that promises to double the range and data rates of wireless local area networks. Airgo said its AGN100 WiFi chipset, for use in 802.11 wireless...
In an effort to provide businesspeople with an affordable, all-in-one mobile device, T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion have introduced the triband BlackBerry 7230 wireless handheld. For many business travelers, the ability to use the same device for wireless voice and e-mail connectivity while tra...
In the film "The Recruit," Colin Farrell portrays a CIA agent who escapes a double agent by removing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag placed on him and surreptitiously placing it on the collar of a dog he stops to pet on the street. Alhough most of its uses are not as dramatic as those sh...
Garmin International has released its iQue 3600 PDA -- the first PDA on the market to integrate GPS technology off the shelf. The device will be available through electronics retailers and traditional Garmin dealers within the United States at a suggested retail price of $589. "GPS can now help us g...
Sprint has unveiled a Windows Mobile-based PCS phone -- developed by Hitachi -- that touts the familiarity of the Microsoft Windows computing environment and the ability to communicate and connect to the Internet in a single, converged device. The Hitachi G1000 combines the Pocket PC Phone Edition o...
Transmeta has announced it is on track to release its newest processor, the TM8000, this fall. The company is aiming the new processor, codenamed "Astro," at mainstream notebook computers and a wide range of portable power- and heat-sensitive form factors. The new chip represents a dramatic change i...
Complementing its recent wireless push -- spearheaded by the company's new Centrino mobile chips -- Intel has announced it is developing fixed wireless silicon products designed to extend the reach of mobile networking. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said that the wireless broadband eq...