Sprint Launches Hitachi's Pocket PC/Phone Camera/ Device

Sprint is seeking to snap up some business via the launch of Hitachi's "converged" Pocket PC device that integrates a phone and built-in camera. Read more ...

Nokia Gets Set to Launch N-Gage Gaming Device in October

Nokia is gearing up to bring its N-Gage gaming device to American retail stores in early October. The Finnish mobile phone maker said the N-Gage game deck is expected to be sold for $299, and accompanying game cards will be sold separately ranging from $30 to $40. Based on the Symbian operating system, N-Gage combines mobile phone functionality with MP3 playback capabilities, an FM radio and Internet connectivity through GPRS. Read more ...

Sony Details Plans for Handheld 'Entertainment' Device

Sony Computer Entertainment is looking to leverage the popularity of its PlayStation game consoles via a new "all-in-one portable entertainment platform." Called PSP, Sony said the new entertainment device will be equipped with a wide screen and feature the latest mobile technology, including MPEG4, which delivers quality equivalent to DVD video at a low data rate. Read more ...

Vivendi to Bring 'Cat in the Hat' to Handhelds

Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" will be the inspiration for a new theatrical film and adventure game. Bringing it to the small screen: Vivendi Universal Games. Read more ...

Earthlink, Retrieval Dynamics Offer Real Estate Solution

Earthlink and Retrieval Dynamics are targeting real estate professionals with a bundle of wireless solutions running on the BlackBerry from Research in Motion. Read more ...

GameBoy Gets Blued

A Colorado company this week announced that it has developed a Bluetooth solution for turning Ninetendo's GameBoy devices into wireless "edutainment" consoles. Read more ...

Palm Adds Punch With Color

The handheld devices wars are heating up and getting more colorful via two new models from Palm. Read more ...

San Diego Co. Answers SOS for SMS

SMS is getting a boost in the fragmented U.S. network market from a San Diego company that says its solution is aimed at giving users what they're clamoring for – text-talking between carriers. Read more ...

Pogo: Hopping Outside the 3G Box

The Pogo, from Pogo

Pogo Technologies, a U.K.-based company, is betting that its compact wireless device will fill a big gap. The gap? The emergence of 3G technologies. Pogo's solution: an all-in-one hybrid product optimized for GSM.

The Pogo, now available in the U.K., will be considered for a U.S. debut, the company said in a release.

The device is a combo PDA/mobile phone that offers unrestricted Internet access with email, SMS, diary, networked address book, MP3 player and phone capabilities. Read more ...

Cell Phone Use Slowing but Still Growing

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter cut its estimate on wireless subscriber growth in the U.S. Wednesday by 4 million for 2001, but maintained that the sector will continue to see growth overall. Read on ...

Wireless Running of the New York City Marathon

Vicarious thrill-seekers take note: coverage of Sunday's New York City Marathon will be a heart-felt experience. This year's race, titled "United We Run" and dedicated to the victims of the Sept. 11 attack, will feature real-time wireless-to-Internet coverage of two runners using Motorola phones and biotracking products from Massachusetts-based FitSense. Read on ...

A 'Digital Angel' for Troubling Times

Before Sept. 11, Digital Angel was simply an up-and-coming company with an honorable mission: creating cutting-edge location-technology products to help parents and caregivers keep track of both the whereabouts and basic well-being of loved ones.

"We wanted to provide hope to those who need it, something good that could be used for happy endings. We saw our products as tools for bringing peace of mind," said Digital Angel's Chief Technology Officer Keith Bolton. "Today there is a whole other level of awareness." Read on ...

In Vogue: Fancy Faceplates for Your Phone

Hot Products – Motorola is offering up some scary faceplates for their handhelds this Halloween season. But that's par for the course, in terms of what's happening in the realm of faceplate fashion.

Mobile phones these days are as much accessory as necessity, which is why manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia are pushing the faceplate envelope. You can cradle the Dallas Cowboys. You can walk down the street jabbering proudly into your nation's flag – or college colors. You can have a phone that matches the color of your Hard Candy fingernail polish or one with Madonna on the cover.

You can even design your own faceplate, if you own a Motorola phone. Want to learn more about couture phone covers? Then read on ......

Red-M Gives Handspring a Bluetooth Boost

Bluetooth solutions provider Red-M is making it easier for Handspring users to go wireless via a new Bluetooth module. Read on ...

Handspring Hangs Tough

Handspring remains competitive despite operating in a tough environment and uncertain times, says CEO Donna Dubinsky. Read on ...

Microsoft Rallies Support for Pocket PC 2002

Microsoft is looking to its vast array of partners to help push its new Pocket PC 2002 into the hands of corporate users. Among the partners ready to join the cause: HP, Compaq, Casio and Toshiba. Read on ...

From Handheld to Hand Held

In a cross-media twist, Airborne Entertainment – which began life providing games for wireless devices – will now license some of its original titles to a brick-and-mortar board-game company. Read on ...

Palm Courts 'Mid-Level' Consumers with new PDA

Palm is seeking to connect with mid-level personal device consumers via a new model that sells for about $250. Read on ...

Ericsson: When in Doubt, Do It Yourself

Ericsson is hoping to jump-start next-generation mobile communications development with a fast-track licensing strategy. Read on ...

Oregon Co. Gets Patent for Wireless Watermarking

An Oregon company has received a patent for technology that embeds digital watermarking in wireless communications. Read on ...

No GPRS Yet from Tele2

Tele2, Sweden's second-largest mobile phone operator, is postponing the launch of its GPRS services for another month. Read on ...

Nokia WAPs Up U.S. Gamers

Mobile Phones – The Nokia 3395 WAP-enabled GSM handset will hit the U.S. market this fall and comes with what should be a grabber for the youth market: new arcade-style games Read on ...

BlueFactory Finds What Many Are Seeking: Funding

The sky may be falling on a chunk of the technology landscape, but some companies are gaining ground. Like BlueFactory, a Swedish mobile entertainment company, which this week garnered US $7 million in funding to push its wireless games further into the mainstream. Read on ...

Psion Bows Out, Dumps Bluetooth Handheld

Psion, the U.K. pioneer of palm-top computing, announced yesterday that it would abandon plans for next-generation handheld devices – notably a Bluetooth-enabled product – and said it would concentrate instead on the corporate and education markets and its Symbian operating system. Read on ...

Mobile Alerts Aimed at Saving Energy

A new wireless offering from the State of California is giving residents a head's up on possible lights out. Read on ...

Web-Ready Wrist Watches from Timex

In its early days, Timex claimed its wrist watches could "take a licking and keep on ticking." Fifty years later, with the debut of the company's Internet Messenger, Timex can claim its watches are not only tough, they're clever. Read more ...

Mobile Phone Giants Level Games Playing Field

When it comes to games, the world's top phone makers Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and Siemens are leveling the playing field through the launch of the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum, a group working to define a mobile games interoperability specification for network-based servers. Read more ...

Nokia to Uncork Games for Genie

Nokia is teaming with Genie, British Telecom's mobile Internet operations, to provide mobile games for mobile customers. Read more ...

Wireless Up to Bat in All-Star Voting

With three days left to vote for baseball's All-Star Team, Major League Baseball and iConverse have turned to a new-era polling booth to keep the momentum rolling: ballots accessible over wireless devices. Read more ...

OmniSky Flying High with Bluetooth

OmniSky, the San Francisco-based handheld services provider, has committed itself to "aggressive" support for Bluetooth. Among its Blue moves: a co-marketing deal with Ericsson. Read more ...

Palm Delivers Mixed Report to Wall Street

Palm delivered mixed news to Wall Street yesterday, reporting a fiscal fourth-quarter loss but predicting a turnaround by the second quarter of fiscal 2002. Read more ...

Sun, ARM Team for Java Development

Sun Microsystems and ARM, a maker of chips for cell phones and devices, will collaborate to develop new Java technologies for the wireless device market. Read more ...

Jordan Joins the Palm Team

Basketball great Michael Jordan is joining the growing number of celebrities, including model Claudia Schiffer and musician, coming out with signature editions of Palm computing devices. Read more ...

Redmond's Pocket PC Gets Wapped

WinWAP, a popular WAP emulator for the Microsoft desktop, is pushing the WAP envelope with a version for the Pocket PC. Read more ...

Palm Is Getting Playful

Infogrames Interactive and Finland's Springtoys yesterday announced they would team up to provide a series of games for the PalmOS. Read more ...

Symbian Goes to the Opera

Symbian, the U.K. smart-phone OS developer, has dropped Microsoft's Internet Explorer in favor of the Opera 5.0 browser. In related news, Symbian's major shareholder, Psion, has launched a new WLAN services company. Read more ...

Talk About Fast Food

First it was Arby's, then McDonald's. Now Blimpie is serving up wireless technologies. Read more ...

New Venture Flies High on Wireless

In a link up announced yesterday, HP and PwC are targeting the $15 billion aviation industry with a new joint venture called the Aviation Solution Center. Read more ...

Bluetooth: The Doctor Is In

A medical electronics firm in Minnesota is developing Bluetooth solutions for life-saving emergency room and home medical monitoring uses. Read more ...

Pepsi Kicks Off Mobile Football Games

Pepsi is teaming with Small Planet to create a platform where players can compete in "virtual football" games on mobile devices and the Internet. Read more ...