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If the wireless LAN 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 the budgets of its competitors. To that end, in separate attacks against Intel, Atheros Communications Corp. and Broadcom Corp. each […]

Startup AirFlow Networks Inc. will introduce a WLAN platform with features designed to ease configuration and set the technology apart from a burgeoning list of similar offerings, officials said. Like its competitors, AirFlows platform centralizes management into the switch, but it also solves interference problems without the need for site surveys, officials said. The AirFlow […]

Acer America Corp. last week introduced a new computer that runs Microsoft Corp.s Tablet PC operating system but looks and costs more like a notebook than a Tablet PC. “Its our first step at commoditizing Tablet [PC] functionality,” said Jeffrey Friederichs, vice president of Acers Notebook Business Unit, in San Jose, Calif. Other than the […]

Motorola Inc. is selling its 20 percent stake in Symbian Ltd., a London-based consortium that makes operating systems for high-end phones, further marking the companys intent to focus on Java- and Linux-based handsets. The Schaumburg, Ill., company said it plans to split its shares between fellow consortium members Psion plc. and Nokia Corp. After the […]

Two wireless chip makers are readying single-chip Wi-Fi offerings designed to lower the cost and power consumption of WLAN clients. Broadcom Corp. is planning this week to unveil its AirForce OneChip, the first single-chip Wi-Fi product. It integrates a 2.4GHz 802.11b radio, power amplifier, base-band processor and media access controller on the same chip. Atheros […]

Acer America Corp. this week will introduce a new computer that runs Microsoft Corp.s Tablet PC operating system but looks and costs more like a notebook than a Tablet. “Its our first step at commoditizing Tablet functionality,” said Jeffrey Friederichs, vice president of Acers Notebook Business Unit in San Jose, Calif. Other than the operating […]

Remote management software maker NetMotion Wireless Inc. is introducing the next version of its NetMotion Mobility software. NetMotion Mobility 5.0 is designed to help manage devices that roam between wired and wireless networks and to keep applications running on the devices without interruption. It runs across Microsoft Corp.s Windows software on the back end, and […]

As the deadline for the federal cell phone number portability mandate draws closer, Verizon Wireless is going out of its way to point out its competitors attempts to avoid it. The Bedminster, N.J., company earlier this month issued a filing to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to reject any attempts from its competitors […]

Handheld computer maker Palm, Inc. announced that the company will change its name to palmOne following the spin-off of its PalmSource operating system division in the fall. palmOne, Inc. will house the companys hardware business, including the brands Zire—focused on consumers, Tungsten—focused on corporate users, and Treo—the smartphone business that the company will own upon […]

Nextel Communications Inc. and RadioFrame Networks Inc. are preparing to launch a set of products and services that improve in-building network coverage for Nextels wireless users. The joint solution, to be announced in the next few weeks, is called Integrated IDEN/WLAN because it lets users deploy a wireless LAN over an infrastructure that supports a […]