Apple Leverages Broadcom's 'Bluetonium' Solution

Apple has selected Broadcom's Blutonium BCM2040 single-chip solution, with 'adaptive frequency hopping,' features for its new wireless keyboard and mouse. Read more ...

Starbucks Serving Up Wireless Web Access

Starbucks customers can now order up email and Web surfing along with their lattes in many Starbucks coffee houses. Helping fire up the wireless system: T-Mobile and HP. Read more ...

Air Force Fashion Statement: Protection

The next market for wearable-computing could be the battlefield – and the computer itself could be something as mobile, and comfortable, as a mesh undershirt. Read more ...

Breaking Down the Barriers for Mobile Mail

The calling walls are falling down. Sort of. As of April 1, Sprint will join Cingular and AT&T in the move to allow U.S. mobile subscribers to send text messages between carriers. Sprint's "intercarrier messaging" update will take effect April 1 for users of its "Short Mail," as the carrier dubs text-messaging service. Read more ...

Astronauts Only a Heartbeat Away

Off-the-shelf heart-monitoring technology kept tabs on the health of the seven astronauts aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia. The use of commercially developed telemedicine products was a first for NASA – "civilian" patients are already using them. Read more ...

Qualcomm Adds Web Services to Fleet Management Offerings

Qualcomm has added a Web interface to its fleet management communications systems, OmniTRACS and OmniExpress. The update, called QTRACS/Web, provides two-way communications maintained in-house or hosted by Qualcomm via the Internet. Both solutions track current and historical vehicle locations and display them on a scalable, street-level map. Read on ...

Toyota: Telematics Makes Cars Smart – and Fun

Telematics will make cars of the future not only safer and cleaner, but more fun to drive, according to Toyota president Fujio Cho. 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 ...

AirIQ Keeps Dunkin' Donuts Rollin'

Donuts, those flaky fried pieces of dough that fell out of favor in the 80s because of their hefty proportions of sugar and fat, are back in favor again. Racing to keep up with increased consumer demand: Dunkin' Donuts via a wireless solution from AirIQ. Read on ...

Xybernaut Retools for Law and Order

Xybernaut is strengthening its line of wearable computing technologies to fit the increasing demands of the law enforcement and public safety sectors. Read on ...

Toshiba Gives Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Top Billing

Mobile Computing – Toshiba has sprinted ahead of the pack with the release this week of two notebooks combining both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networking capabilities.

Due on the shelves Thursday and aimed at the lucrative mobile-worker market, the notebooks – the new Tecra 9000 Series and Portege 4000 Series (pictured here) – come equipped with built-in antennas that allow for the short- and long-range wireless networking connections.

The antennas are embedded on the lids of the notebooks to increase signal strength. The Wi-Fi link provides 128-bit encryption and LAN connectivity via Cisco Aironet 350 Series or Agere Wi-Fi technology.

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 ...

Intel's New Wi-Fi Products Aimed at Consumers

Industry – Available now for a room near you: Intel's new wireless networking products designed specifically for home and small office use and based on a standard Intel recently embraced, 802.11b (Wi-Fi). Read on ...

Big Future for the Little i-Bean?

Millennial Net is aiming to prove that good wireless connectivity does come in small – and energy-efficient – packages. Read on ...

Door Opens for Bluetooth Networking

Intersil, a developer of silicon technology for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), has teamed with Quanta Computer to help develop wirelessly enabled notebook computers, PDAs and other small handheld computing devices. Read on ...

Bridget Jones Goes Mobile in Asia

For Asia mobile users who are as obsessed with calorie-counting, dating and self-help as Bridget Jones – the pop heroine of Helen Fielding's best-selling novel – Riot Entertainment is offering daily dairy updates. Read on ...

Bell Canada: Xybernaut Wearables Are Perfect Fit

Bell Canada is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to wearable computers. As a result of a successful field trial, Bell Canada plans to purchase Xybernaut Mobile Assitant V – the latest version of the company's wearable computer– for 300 of its field staff. Read on ...

Wireless Help for the Help Desk

MobileSys and Remedy have joined forces to give the help desk a wireless push. Read on ...

Oracle and Ford Behind the Wheel

Oracle and Ford are jumping into the telematics market with a new partnership aimed at creating voice-activated services for in-car Internet communications. Read on ...

BT Cellnet Taps Motorola for GSM Expansion

BT Cellnet, the UK arm of BT Wireless, has tapped Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector to provide network infrastructure for its planned GSM expansion. The contract, which runs through March 2003, is valued at $150 million. Read more ...

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 ...

OnStar's Virtual Advisor Gets New SpeechWorks Voice

OnStar is making its in-car "virtual advisor" solution more vocal with technology from SpeechWorks. Read more ...

Hitachi's Tiny New Chip Packs Powerful Punch

Hitachi is on the way to creating more powerful ways to authenticate and track currency, legal documents, and other products with its new micro radio-frequency identification chip. Called Meu, the chip – the size of a "speck" – can be embedded in paper, transmit data over the 2.45 GHz band and may be a solution that helps foil counterfeiters. 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 ...

E-911 to the Rescue, If Time Permits

Cell phones are providing a safety net for people in trouble. According to the latest figures, more than 51 million emergency service calls were made from mobile phones in 2000. Still to be determined: Can U.S. carriers meet the deadline for enhanced E-911 services? Read more ...

Wireless Technology Goes on Trial at Stanford

Wireless technology is going on trial at Stanford University's Law School during the next six months. The trial program, part of an initiative sponsored by Palm and legal solutions firm West Group, will allow law students to communicate, do research and manage their studies remotely. Read more ...

FileMaker Rolls Out Mobile Database

FileMaker bolstered its mobile database offerings with FileMaker Pro 5.5, a new line of database software that will support operating systems like Palm, Windows 2000, and Mac OS X. Read more ...

Wireless ASP: Unleashing a New Business Model

Applications service providers can come up winners in the wireless marketplace if they properly position their offerings, according to findings from International Data Corp. Read more ...

Microsoft Bolsters .Net and Mobile Strategies

Microsoft is extending the reach of its .Net strategy through the release of a new mobile server to its manufacturing partners and an announcement that it will launch the newest version of its Windows computer operating system later this year. Read more ...

Speaking Up: HomeRF Gets Its Voice

Siemens and Proxim helped move HomeRF into first position in the race to combine voice and data in one wireless network. Read more ...

Aeris.net Seeks to Help Zap Energy Woes

As California and other areas struggle to come to grips with escalating energy woes, Aeris.net is rolling out a wireless telemetry solution designed to help businesses manage and reduce power consumption. Read more ...

iConverse Targets the Enterprise

iConverse is speeding up the race to unwire the enterprise with an upgraded version of its iConverse Mobility Platform Read more ...

Hot Connection: the Wireless LAN

What's hot in a tepid market? Wireless local area networks. According to IDC, WLAN equipment-sales revenue jumped an "incredible" 80 percent in 2000, breaking the $1 billion mark. Read more ...

Microsoft Offers Windows CE Development Tool

Microsoft is offering developers a tool to streamline the building of mobile applications using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE. Read more ...

Red-M Gets $35 Million in Funding

Bluetooth networking solutions firm Red-M has secured up to $35 million second-round funding. An associate company of Madge Networks N.V., Red-M received the funding from Apax Partners Funds and Amadeus Capital Partners. Read more ...

HP Expands Mobile e-Services Bazaar

Hewlett-Packard is extending its reach into the mobile arena through expansion of its HP Mobile e-Services Bazaar program. Announced this week: a new bazaar center in Toronto and the addition of 38 new members. Read more ...

Drive-It Pushes 'Car-Sharing' System

Vehicle telecoms solutions developer Drive-IT is pushing a new computerized system for car sharing at this week's CeBIT technology show in Hannover. Read more ...

Office Depot Equips Truck Fleet with M-Solution

Office Depot is enhancing customer service with a wireless mobile computing delivery tracking system utilizing solutions from Aether Systems and Symbol Technologies. Read more ...

Toshiba Presents 'Bluetooth Data Projector Kit'

Electronic presentation equipment soon will be easier to connect and synchronize – thanks to new Bluetooth connectivity software kit from Toshiba. Read more ...

Volkswagen Gears Up With Psion Teklogix Solutions

Volkswagen is extending its SAP logistics system via wireless Psion Teklogix solutions. Volkwagen's new wireless supply chain solution, featuring Psion Teklogix radio frequency data terminals and TekRF interface software, allows real-time communications across the company's warehouses in Germany. Read more ...

Allscripts, Microsoft Team for Medical Solution

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and Microsoft are aligning to promote the Pocket PC and TouchWorks software as a solution for the healthcare industry. Read more ...

Dell, etrieve Court SMBs with Email Solution

Dell and etrieve are aiming a new email product at American small businesses. The solution: Dell Mobile Office Server with factory-installed etrieve Microsoft Exchange Server Edition software, a system that allows customers to hear or read email, calendar and contacts from cell phones and respond with voice or text messages. Read more ...

InfoWave, Novatel Target the Enterprise

InfoWave and Novatel Wireless are teaming up to make it easier for the enterprise to go wireless. The two companies Monday said they would jointly market and sell wireless "behind the firewall" solutions. The idea: to provide their wireless know-how to companies struggling to connect mobile workers with internal data. Read more ...

Ford Motor Co. Drives Smart Cars to Market

A Baby Jag with safety-first antennas and an award-winning Aston Martin outfitted with smart tires are giving telematics a luxury-level headstart at Ford Motor Co. Read more ...

Ericsson Bets on BLIP

Ericsson is betting that mobile phone and handheld device users soon will be "blipping" as well as wapping for mobile data. Enabling the "blipping" process: the company's new product called BLIP that allows electronic equipment to access location-sensitive information via Bluetooth technology. Read more ...

3Com Scales Down for Profitability

The networking equipment maker will lay off about 10 percent of its workforce, or about 900 full-time employees. Blaming the slump on the overall downturn in technology spending, 3Com said it will also lay off 300 contract workers. Read more ...

Webraska Strengthens Location-Based Services Stake

Webraska is strengthening its position in the location-based services market with a pair of new partnership deals. The Paris-based navigation software firm announced a pair of deals – one with IBM and another with Nortel Networks – at last week's GSM Conference in Cannes, France. Read more ...