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Palm Inc. on Wednesday announced two new handheld computers for the corporate market, one focused on display capability and the other on cost. The Tungsten T3 features a 320-by-480 color transflective display that can switch from landscape to portrait mode with a tap of the screen. It runs a 400MHz XScale processor from Intel Corp. […]

With new products that support voice communication via WLANs, several companies are working toward the goal of having PDAs replace desktop phones. Symbol Technologies Inc., which caters to vertical customers, has plans for several new devices that marry wireless LAN support with voice capabilities, according to officials at the Holtsville, N.Y., company. The company plans […]

Nokia Corp. on Friday announced plans to restructure its two main business units into four, in an attempt to focus more strongly on mobile phone hardware and software development. The move follows the reorganization of the Espoo, Finland, companys mobile phone division into nine units in the spring of 2002. The restructuring will be in […]

BOSTON—After a well-hyped summer, Handspring Inc.s Treo 600 is about to make its debut into the real world. Sprint PCS Group, Cingular Wireless LLC, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and T-Mobile USA Inc. all plan to start selling the Palm OS-based smart phone, starting in the fall. Sprint PCS will start selling the device for around […]

Chip company Broadcom Corp. on Thursday announced a realignment of its marketing and development activities into four groups, down from six, in an attempt to save money and streamline the business. The Enterprise Computing Group is responsible for all Fast and Gigabit Ethernet controllers for corporate environments, as well as enterprise storage products, said officials […]

IBM and Research In Motion Ltd. have teamed up on a development partnership that gives RIM customers access to corporate applications not previously accessible from RIM BlackBerry devices. IT managers now can connect the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to IBMs WebSphere Everyplace Access (WEA) mobile middleware. This will let BlackBerry devices get to enterprise applications […]

Having acquired four companies in the past year, synchronization software company Pumatech Inc. is done with its shopping spree and ready to integrate. Pumatech, of San Jose, Calif., last week announced plans to buy competitor Synchrologic Inc. for $60 million. Officials said Pumatech will immediately begin porting its enterprise customers from the Pumatech Enterprise Intellisync […]

If the tech sector has slowed, no one told the hardware manufacturers and software developers that came out at the DigitalFocus and MobileFocus events here last week on the eve of the TechXNY conference. Companies ranging from industry stalwarts such as Xerox Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. stood alongside smaller players such as Motion Computing Inc. […]

Following its divestiture from Symbian Ltd., Motorola Inc. last week introduced a high-end phone based on Microsoft Corp.s Windows Mobile software. The Motorola MPx200 will be released next month by Orange S.A. in Europe. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans to release the phone in the United States by the end of the year, according to […]

If the WLAN chip market were the 2004 U.S. presidential race, Intel Corp. would be President Bush and everyone else would be the Democratic candidates. Intels advertising budget for its Centrino chip set dwarfs its competitors budgets. To that end, in separate attacks against Intel, Atheros Communications Inc. and Broadcom Corp. each introduced new wireless […]