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Sony Develops Its Own Version of UWB
Sony, Philips To Develop New Near-Field Wireless Technology
Royal Philips and Sony today announced that they will jointly develop a new near field wireless technology, dubbed "Near Field Communication" (NFC). The technology enables short-range (20cm) wireless communication ... read
Samsung to Bring Wireless USB to Phones
Samsung announced a new system-on-a-chip that will allow wireless USB to be added to devices such as mobile phones. This form of short-distance wireless transfer technology would permit users ... read
New Technology Could Increase PAN Data Speeds
Motorola today announced a joint venture to develop chips with a company called Phiar. Using Phiar's technology, the companies could develop radio chips for short range and millimeter wave ... read
Lucent Announces 19 Megabit 3G Technology
Lucent Technologies yesterday announced prototype chips for mobile devices that implement its multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) wireless technology, called Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (BLAST). In initial lab testing, the ... read
KDDI Boosts Infrared Transfer Speeds
KDDI's research lab has improved infrared transfer speeds from a theoretical limit of 4 Mbps to 1 Gbps. The gains were achieved by using a new kind of semi-conductor ... read
IBM Technology to Permit Smaller Phones
IBM's researchers have developed a new technique to graft microscopic frequency tuners and other devices onto processing chips. Within a few years, these hybrid chips could be used to ... read
Bluetooth 3.0 Is Ready for Prime Time
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is set to announce the Bluetooth 3.0 specification later this month. Bluetooth 3.0 will feature dramatically increased speeds, allowing for the transfer of large ... read
Samsung Plans Digital Wallet Phones
Philips yesterday announced a deal with Samsung to put Philips Near Field Communication (NFC) chips in certain future Samsung mobile phones. NFC is a very-short-range wireless (contactless) technology designed ... read
Intel Reports Wireless Charging Breakthrough
Intel recently demonstrated technology that would allow people to recharge electronic devices, such as cell phones, wirelessly. The technology makes use of electric coils that are set to resonate ... read
Nokia Enables World's First NFC Phone
Nokia today announced the Nokia NFC Shell for the Nokia 3220. This new accessory enables to the Nokia 3220 to perform "digital wallet" functions via NFC. NFC is a ... read
DoCoMo Speeds Up Infrafred
NTT DoCoMo, Sharp and Waseda University have developed a new standard that can speed up Infrared (IR) communication 4 to 10 times. IR Simple is a new protocol that ... read
New Wi-Fi Spec to Permit Direct Device-to-Device Linking
Today the Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new specification for Wi-Fi technology, called Wi-Fi Direct. Once implemented, Wi-Fi Direct will let devices such as mobile phones, cameras, printers, laptops, keyboards ... read
Nokia Introduces Mac Syncing Client
Nokia Media Transfer 1.0 is a beta program that Nokia is offering to users of Apple computers that lets them transfer music, photos, and videos from their computers to ... read
New Chemical Coating Could Waterproof All Mobile Phones
Technology developed by England's Ministry of Defence can protect mobile phones from water damage. Called Ion-Mask, the technology is an invisible plasma that chemically bonds to the surface of ... read
WiMedia Alliance, Pusher of UWB, to Disband
The WiMedia Alliance has announced that it is selling off pieces of its organization to other groups that promote ultrawideband technology and will close its doors. UWB is a ... read
Bluetooth SIG Announces Bluetooth 3.0+HS Standard
Today, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group officially adopted the new Bluetooth 3.0+High Speed specification. The 3.0+HS spec's largest feature is vastly increased data speeds. In devices that have both ... read
InterDigital Shrinks Smart Antennas To Fit In Phones
InterDigital last week introduced a new smart antenna technology for mobile devices called AIM (Adaptive Interference
Management), that can essentially "aim" the antenna toward signals - and away from interference ... read
Qualcomm Gives Up On UMB, Switches to LTE
Today Qualcomm announced that it is halting any further development of its CDMA-based ultra mobile broadband technology and will focus instead on Long Term Evolution. UMB would have been ... read
New Antenna Technology Shrinks Size, Improves Performance
Antenna specialist Antenova Ltd. has revealed further details of its directional antenna technology, and claims products based on its innovative design will start appearing in devices including mobile handsets ... read
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