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A pair of wireless silicon manufacturers are working to solve one of the headaches facing the Bluetooth technology. At issue is the radio frequency on which Bluetooth operates—its the same one used by wireless LANs based on the 802.11 specification. When an 802.11 connection collides with a Bluetooth connection, transmission errors often occur. Intersil Corp., […]

The annual Palm developers show used to be about companies clamoring to build applications for the Palm OS platform. Now, Palm Inc. is growing up and realizing that developers need to support other technologies such as Bluetooth and Java as well. For starters, that means keeping the industry updated on plans for the Palm OS […]

Lucent Technologies Inc. last week announced a USB client for its Orinoco line of wireless networking products. With the device, which is basically a radio transceiver plug-in, users can connect a desktop or laptop PC to a wireless LAN by plugging the device into a spare Universal Serial Bus connector and installing the software drivers. […]

NTT DoCoMos $9.8 billion investment in AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will give the Tokyo company a foothold in the United States and should help the Redmond, Wash., company create global services. With the deal announced last week, DoCoMo bounces back from its failed attempt earlier this year to break into the U.S. market when the […]

Motorola Inc. and Lutris Technologies Inc. are teaming up to jump-start development of wireless business applications for Motorolas forthcoming iDEN handset. The two companies this week will announce a deal to bundle Lutris open-source Enhydra application server with Motorolas Software Developers Kit for iDEN (integrated Digital Enhanced Network) handset. Developers will then be able to […]