Shelley Solheim

Speech software rivals Scansoft Inc. and Nuance Communications Inc. are teaming up to fight off challenges from enterprise IT heavyweights Microsoft Corp. and IBM. ScanSoft, of Peabody Mass., said last week it will pay $221 million to acquire its Menlo Park, Calif., rival, Nuance. “As the speech business has grown, it has attracted a lot […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week unveiled laser and ink-jet printers aimed at small and midsize businesses, as part of its push to get SMBs to move their printing jobs in-house. HP added to the lower end of its color laser printer lineup with the $399 HP Color LaserJet 2600n, which prints 8 ppm (pages per minute) […]

Microsoft on Tuesday launched the next version of its mobile operating system platform for handhelds and smart phones, Windows Mobile 5.0. “Software is driving the future of these devices, and that for us is a great opportunity,” said Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates, in his keynote speech at the Mobile and […]

In an unlikely pairing last week, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which steers the development of Bluetooth, has teamed up with developers of an emerging rival wireless technology, ultrawideband. UWB, like Bluetooth, is a short-range wireless technology designed for personal area networking. But unlike Bluetooth, UWB allows for high-speed data transfer at low power levels. […]

Research In Motion Ltd. for several years has had the corporate mobile e-mail market virtually all to itself. But the honeymoon is about to end as wireless carriers prepare to ink new deals with RIM competitors and Microsoft Corp. readies its next mobile operating system with push e-mail capabilities. Push e-mail provider Visto Inc., of […]

MontaVista Software will soon start shipping a Linux operating system designed for mobile phones that MontaVista said will increase flexibility and cut costs for handset manufacturers. Mobilinux 4.0, based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, is scalable from lower-end handsets to higher-end smart phones, said Jacob Lehrbaum, product manager for wireless and mobile devices for MontaVista. […]

Research In Motion Ltd. and its development partners last week continued their push to help businesses extend enterprise applications such as CRM to RIMs BlackBerry devices. Among those working with RIM to make this happen is iEnterprises Inc., of Murray Hill, N.J., which launched its CRM on the Go offering for the BlackBerry at RIMs […]

Sprints first-quarter revenue rose to $6.9 billion, from $6.7 billion for the same period a year ago. The company earned $472 million, or 31 cents per share, compared with $225 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago.Sprints growth was driven in large part by its wireless business—which added 1.3 […]

PalmOne this week released a low-end PDA for business users, the Tungsten E2, which replaces the Tungsten E, released in 2003. Among new features in the E2 is nonvolatile flash memory, so that data is preserved if the battery runs out, and Bluetooth wireless technology. Like its predecessor, the E2 has a 320-by-320-pixel color display, […]

PalmOne Inc. Wednesday released a new low-end PDA for business users, the Tungsten E2. Among the new features in the Tungsten E2 is nonvolatile flash memory, so that data is preserved if the battery runs out, and Bluetooth wireless technology. Like its predecessor, the Tungsten E, which was released in October 2003, the Tungsten E2 […]