Qualcomm
Inc has posted net income of $43.8m for the second quarter to March
31, down from $109.7m on revenue of $696.1m, down from $717.1m. At the
mid-term stage net income was $183.2m, up from a loss of $309.5m on
revenue up 1.6% at $1.39bn.
It
said it expects rising sales of chipsets for mobile phones, boosted
by the roll-out of 3G networks, to give it revenue growth of 4% to 8%
this year. The CDMA technology vendor said that after a slow first half,
third-quarter revenue will rise 3% to 6% as shipments of its mobile
station modem (MTM) phone chips rise from 14 million in the second quarter
to 15 to 16 million in the current three months.
In
sharp contrast to the gloom surrounding mobile operators in Europe,
chairman Dr Irwin Jacobs was optimistic about the immediate future,
and said he expects further positive momentum in the second half as
additional 3G CDMA networks are deployed with a wide variety of color
screen handsets, many utilizing multimedia and position location capabilities
as well as new Binary Run-time Environment for wireless (Brew)-enabled
applications.
The
San Diego, California-based company attributes lower second-quarter
revenue to lower royalties and unit shipments of MTM chips although
this was partly offset by higher software development and services revenue
related to the Brew platform and higher average selling prices of its
3G phone chips.
Tribune
Interactive announced that five of its newspaper Web sites are providing
news headlines and full-length news stories to AT&T Wireless mMode(SM)
users via 2.5G wireless platform.
Starbase
Corporation , the leading provider of end-to-end collaborative products
for both the development and management of content and code for enterprise
and eBusiness applications
NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will begin licensing patents for
its proprietary W-CDMA technology, on which , the world's first third-generation
(3G) wireless service, is based.
Faster
than a speeding bullet, able to stream video in a single bound, the technology
known as 3G is supposed to be just super for cell phones and other wireless
devices.
RADCOM
Ltd. announced that one of Italy's leading mobile telephone operators
has selected RADCOM's protocol analyzers for testing and monitoring their
existing GPRS and future UMTS networks.
The
new mobile phone data service GPRS launched commercially by dozens of
wireless telecoms operators has been slow to take off, with just one million
Europeans using it at the end of 2001
If
you are a 3G wireless operator and you don't deliver the right news, entertainment,
and education content, you risk losing the battle for high-margin subscribers.
ARM,
announced it has delivered a port of the Symbian OS (operating system)
for ARM Powered(R) 2.5 and 3G Smartphone devices to Motorola, Inc.'s Semiconductor
Products Sector (SPS).
Intec
announced the launch of Inter-activatE™, a carrier-grade application
for flow-through provisioning and activation of multiple communications
services over mobile, fixed, 3G and IP networks from a single platform.
Next-generation
wireless data access technology that will offer mobile subscribers connectivity
at speeds up to 16 times faster than today's wireless connection rates
is now available for customer field trials from CommWorks
Digital
Bridges Ltd., a global pioneer of wireless entertainment services, today
announced that it is providing a suite of its most advanced games to AT&T
Wireless as part of the carrier's mMode(SM) wireless service.
The
SCH-X590 has all the standard features of a high-end mobile phone. These
include a 40-chord progression polyphonic ring tone and support for online
multimedia services
The new capability allows operators to launch highly personalized advanced
mobile data services that exploit the full capabilities of 2.5G and 3G
mobile devices
Tenzing
Communications, Inc., the leading inflight connectivity provider, today
announced the first successful live demonstration of airborne two-way
short messaging service to mobile phones worldwide.
Alcatel
today announced it has set up a cooperation with Orange Romania, with
the objective to develop 3G/UMTS mobile communications business in Romania.
The
alliance makes Moviso and Xing the de facto leading mobile media providers
in Japan and the U.S., and is the first international provision of 16-voice
ringtones for U.S. mobile phones.
Pelephone,
Israel's second largest wireless operator, has selected Nortel Networks
to build the country's first CDMA2000 1X third generation (3G) digital
wireless network, the companies announced today.
Samsung
Electronics has completed development of the world’s first CDMA2000
1X mobile phone (model: SCH-X590) with color display and embedded charge-coupled
device (CCD) camera.
Moving
to speed the development of next-generation (2.5G and 3G) smart
phones, Motorola's DragonBall microprocessor will port to all versions
of the Symbian operating system (OS).
The
global market for wireless operations support systems (OSSes)--the IT
infrastructure that performs customer care, provisioning, and management
functions in wireless networks--will exceed $12.4 billion this year.
Picsel
Technologies and Samsung Electronics announced today that Samsung has
licensed Picsel's Interactive File Viewer (IFV) based on its innovative
ePAGE(TM) architecture to deliver next generation/multimedia
Dutchtone,
the Orange SA subsidiary in The Netherlands, has selected Nortel Networks
to upgrade its wireless network with GSM and GPRS equipment and services,
extending an existing relationship.
As
mobile station manufacturers seek easy-to-implement and cost effective
paths to upgrade from GSM/GPRS to EDGE networks, Comsys' EDGEware(TM)
software based platform offers the answer.
Responding
to the increasing demand for higher quality multimedia-rich applications,
Symbian and Texas Instruments announced the availability of a Hardware
Accelerator API (HWA) in Symbian's OS.
The
MMS push delivery manager is designed to enable mobile operators to create
push based MMS service packages and generate immediate MMS revenue from
launch
Japan
may be the birthplace of the new generation mobile phones, but the carriers
that offer the service are having teething pains. For years, Japan's three
largest cellular phone carriers DoCoMo, KDDI and J-Phone had double-digit
sales growth.
