Bob Liu

Just one year ago, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) was the talk of the town. Entrepreneurs and software innovators talked about turning to the open-source standard for wireless Web applications in light of the downturn in “pure-play” Internet start-ups. And their business plans were met with warm receptions from venture capitalists. But over the last 12 […]

As the Internet matures, the focus of technology will shift away from innovation and towards implementation as businesses lick the wounds inflicted by the billions of dollars worth off losses stemming from experimenting with unproven Internet software, according to a new report. As such, the focus will now be the integrators of proven software services […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. will acquire privately-held Sirius Communications NV, a developer of CDMA application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the 3G wireless and satellite communications market, for an undisclosed amount. Sirius will be folded into Agilent’s Semiconductor Products Group. Agilent plans to invest and expand Sirius into a design center dedicated to creating key components for […]

Members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) this week adjourned their meeting without reaching a consensus on specifications to be used on chipsets for all next-generation 802.11g products—which are capable of transmitting data at 20 Mbps. Industry observers have been keenly watching the outcome of the Orlando, Fla., meeting for specifications that […]

Members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Thursday have adjourned their meeting without reaching a consensus on specifications to be used on chipsets for all next-generation 802.11g products — which will transmit data at rates at 20+ megabits per second (Mbps). Industry observers have been keenly watching the outcome of the […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Wednesday voted for a specification proposed by Intersil to transmit data at twice the current rate over wireless local area networks (WLANs), eliminating a competing specification proposed by Texas Instruments. Of the total, 58 percent voted in favor of Intersil’s Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Wednesday will determine key specifications that would essentially double the current data transmission rates over the much-ballyhooed wireless local area network (WLAN) environment, enabling true wire-free multimedia content streaming. The vote by the IEEE’s 802.11 Working Group, which is currently convened in Orlando, Fla., pits Texas […]

Afilias, the registry consortium formed by about 20 domain name registries, has entered into an exclusive agreement with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to help resolve any disputes arising from the newly assigned .INFO top-level domain (TLD) during the early stages of its upcoming rollout. Afilias last week finished up negotiations with the Internet […]

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Thanks to political support from both the Bush Administration as well as Capitol Hill, the Federal Communications Commission has gained political clout inside the Beltway and is no longer being thought of as a politically charged bureaucracy. For this reason, corporate boards may have put more weight in the stock of former commissioners in hopes […]

SAP AG has tapped Yahoo! Inc. to help the European software giant establish a new Palo Alto, Calif.-based subsidiary, SAP Portals, in an attempt to broaden its distribution of enterprise resource planning software throughout workplace desktops. Under the agreement, the companies will work together to develop a joint enterprise portal and market it directly to […]

In its continuing efforts to help recession-weary business hold down their routine costs, EDS Tuesday announced details of its high-availability web hosting service in collaboration with computing heavyweights: Microsoft, Compaq and Intel. Using the backdrop of the Comdex show in Chicago, the Plano, Texas-based data services provider detailed its hosting initiative, EDS Managed Web Hosting […]