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Under the deal, Siemens will pay BenQ America Corp. $307 million and buy $61 million worth of BenQ shares. In total, Siemens said it would take a pretax charge of 350 million euros ($430 million) to unload its failing phone business. The deal will let BenQ expand its business from Asia into Europe and Latin […]

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Thursday it has reached an impasse in its patent settlement with NTP Inc. and asked the courts to intervene. In March it appeared as if the four-year patent dispute had ended when the two companies announced in a statement that RIM had agreed to pay $450 million to […]

Business travelers will soon have a new way to access their itineraries while on the road. Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions will launch a new travel application as part of its free AvantGo mobile content service. AvantGo delivers Web content specially formatted for the small screens on mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs. The […]

Microsoft Corp. is aiming to make it easier for Exchange Server 2003 users to get business data out to their mobile workers. At the Tech Ed conference in Orlando, Fla., this week, Microsoft will release a feature pack for the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system that will enable businesses to push e-mail messages from Microsoft […]

Traq-Wireless Inc., best known for its product that helps enterprises optimize their wireless rate plans, has added another tool to its belt to help ease enterprise procurement and deployment of mobile devices and services. Traqs Mobile Source Web portal allows employees to order their own devices and services based on parameters set in advance by […]

Handheld device maker PalmOne Inc. is paying Palm operating system provider PalmSource Inc. $30 million for the rights to the Palm Inc. moniker. After the two companies split as Palm Inc. in 2001, each held equal shares in the Palm Trademark Holding Company. PalmOne will now hold a 55 percent stake in the company and […]

PalmOne last week launched what it says is the first in a new class of mobile devices. PalmOnes new LifeDrive Mobile Manager is a bit like a mobile suitcase. The LifeDrive is the first PDA on the U.S. market with a 4GB hard drive and is also PalmOnes first mobile device with built-in Wi-Fi 802.11b […]

Four years ago, the MIS team at Schukra of North America, a subsidiary of Leggett & Platt Automotive Group, was charged with the task of streamlining the companys business processes and reducing the manual workload. Leggetts Automotive Group was expanding rapidly at the time, and the MIS team was asked to provide an ERP (enterprise […]

PalmOne Inc. Wednesday launched what it says is the first in a line of a new class of mobile devices. Unlike traditional handhelds, which are more oriented toward calendar and contact organization, and smart phones, geared toward voice and data communication, PalmOnes new LifeDrive Mobile Manager is more like a mobile suitcase. The LifeDrive is […]

Sprint Corp. this week will launch a set of mobility services designed to help enterprises better control their employees in the field through location, presence and messaging technologies. The services are part of the Sprint Business Mobility Framework, a plan Sprint developed with application developers including Microsoft Corp., IBM and Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. […]