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Sprint Corp. is offering corporate customers wireless data service-level agreements that provide performance metrics based on dropped or blocked sessions and network availability. The SLAs, much like those Sprint provides for wireless voice services, offer customers a credit of 10 percent of the monthly recurring charge if service levels are not met. Sprint provides SLA […]

Sybase Inc. has entered several new partnerships to help enterprises extend critical business applications to mobile work forces. The company is joining with Research In Motion Ltd., of Waterloo, Ontario, to bring mobile software from Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc. to RIMs BlackBerry wireless platform for BlackBerry users looking to access business applications. With Atlanta-based […]

Research In Motion Ltd. has agreed to shell out $450 million to Arlington, Va.-based patent holding company NTP Inc. to settle a patent dispute over its BlackBerry wireless technologies. “NTP will grant RIM and its customers an unfettered right to continue its BlackBerry-related wireless business without further interference from NTP or its patents,” RIM, of […]

NEW ORLEANS—Sybase Inc. CEO, Chairman and President John Chen is calling for more cooperation in the mobile industry to help enterprises extend their critical business applications out to their mobile work forces. In his keynote at the CTIA wireless conference here Tuesday, Chen said the next key step for enterprise mobility is to extend to […]

Enterprise wireless network administrators looking for a handle on the management of expanding, mixed-platform systems will see improved efforts from wireless operators and hardware makers at this weeks CTIA Wireless conference. Sprint Corp. will roll out a new offering called Extended Workplace, which gives business users a single-sign-on software client for CDMA (Code Division Multiple […]

Qualcomm co-founder and CEO Irwin Jacobs, a pioneer in developing Code Division Multiple Access wireless technology, is handing the company to his son, Paul Jacobs. Irwin Jacobs will remain chairman of the board, while Paul Jacobs will take a seat on the board. Paul Jacobs, who holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University […]

Charged with leading Hewlett-Packard Co.s combined printing and PC groups, Executive Vice President Vyomesh Joshi is in a key position to set the course for HP in a time of uncertainty. Often mentioned as a possible replacement for ousted CEO Carly Fiorina, Joshi said hes more concerned now with learning the PC business, forming new […]

More than a year after PalmSource Inc. released its Palm OS Cobalt operating system, only one handset manufacturer has announced plans to bring a Cobalt-based device to market. Hong Kong-based Group Sense PDA Ltd. last week said it will ship a Cobalt-based smart phone in the United States by the fourth quarter of this year, […]

Pitney Bowes Inc.s nearly 2,000 field service technicians often found that they lacked critical customer service information at the times when they needed it most—while servicing their customers. Toward that end, the document management provider spent more than $20 million on a system that lets its mobile work force access and manage data. The solution […]

For frequent international business travelers, Sprint this week announced it will offer a handset from Samsung Electronics Co. that works on both its CDMA networks in the United States and on GSM networks in other countries. The Sprint PCS International IP-A790 phone, when used with a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card, lets users make calls […]