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Symbian, UIQ, S60 to form open-source Android killer
News Symbian Foundation members that are also involved in the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — the organisation developing the Google-led Android platform — include LG, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola, Samsung and Texas Instruments.
[June 24, 2008, 11:02]
Intel rounds off IDF with news of wireless and 3D
News Ultrawideband was next, with four companies -- Intel, NEC, Texas Instruments and Wisair -- demonstrating different products exchanging data over Wireless USB, the group charged with making the Multi-Band OFDM Alliance's broadband wireless data...
[September 10, 2004, 9:25]
Symbian vs Android: How they square up
News SF: The member companies of SF will be: AT&T, Broadcom, Digia, EA Mobile, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Freescale, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Symbian, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Plusmo, Teleca, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Wipro and...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
Texas Instruments backs mobile Linux
News Texas Instruments (TI) has joined the ranks of major players to throw its weight behind mobile Linux. Other groups devoted to similar purposes include the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, the Mobile Linux Initiative and a still-unnamed alliance...
[July 19, 2006, 11:10]
Sun taps new source for low-end chips
News Server giant, Sun Microsystems, has tapped Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) to build some of its low-end CPUs, currently made by Texas Instruments, but products from the new alliance won't emerge for months.
[May 4, 2001, 10:35]
Standards wrangle threatens Ultrawideband
News The Multiband OFDM Alliance is backed by Intel and Texas Instruments, while its rival group is headed up by Motorola, XtremeSpectrum and ParthusCeva. At an IEEE meeting earlier this month, the 802.15.3a working group failed to back favourite...
[September 26, 2003, 14:15]
Motorola buys wireless chipmaker
News Steve Turner, UWB business development manager at Multiband OFDM Alliance member Texas Instruments, acknowledges that XtremeSpectrum has a head start. The company's sole competition is the MultiBand OFDM Alliance, which is a group of 34 technology...
[November 11, 2003, 11:45]
Google to unveil 'Android' mobile-phone software
News Qualcomm, Broadcom, HTC, Intel, Samsung, Motorola, Sprint and Texas Instruments will also be involved. Wind River Systems, a company that specialises in tailoring Linux for embedded devices such as network equipment and mobile phones, is likely to...
[November 5, 2007, 7:49]
ARM to show Android prototype
News The company designs the processor cores that companies such as Texas Instruments, Samsung and Marvell manufacture into chips that run mobile phones and smartphones. ARM plans to demonstrate prototype phones based on ARM processors and Google's...
[February 8, 2008, 10:19]
Kyocera hops aboard Android bandwagon
News Wind River provides its own "commercial-grade" version of Linux for Android and has partnerships with Texas Instruments, NEC Electronics and STMicroelectronics to provide support for their hardware. Wind River Systems, an embedded-computing...
[October 22, 2008, 12:56]
Google confirms its mobile Linux plans
News Nvidia, eBay and Texas Instruments are also involved, but some major manufacturers such as Nokia are not. The Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo) — an industry consortium aiming to create a standardised implementation of mobile Linux — shares many...
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
ZigBee product flood defies sceptics
News Ember claims its T1430 system, developed with Texas Instruments, is the lowest power ZigBee system. Around 30 companies will show products on Wednesday at a gathering of the ZigBee Alliance, a 180-strong group of ZigBee supporters - which promises...
[September 14, 2005, 14:15]
US takes major step towards patent reform
News Reservations also linger among the Bush administration and groups like the Innovation Alliance, which represents Qualcomm and a number of smaller companies that depend on licensing technology, as well as The Coalition for 21st Century Patent...
[September 10, 2007, 11:43]
Cold water poured on Intel's Symbian deal
News Chipmaker Texas Instruments (TI) has played down the importance to the smartphone market of Symbian's new alliance with Intel. Speaking after Symbian chief executive David Levin had announced that the two companies were teaming up to develop a...
[October 5, 2004, 17:55]
Ultrawideband kicks off at CES
News Intel and Texas Instruments among others, is still pushing its Freescale's major rivals for UWB, the WiMedia Alliance backed by Alliance member Staccato showed off a range of components in its The warring camps in the Ultrawideband (UWB) wireless...
[January 4, 2006, 16:25]
HyperTransport tipped to spread
News IBM, Texas Instruments, EMC and four other companies are joining the HyperTransport consortium this week, a move that is likely to expand the places where the chip-to-chip connection gets used. The new members will essentially pave the way for...
[August 11, 2003, 9:29]
Motorola fights on in ultrawideband battle
News The fight over the ultrawideband (UWB) wireless data standard has been going on for nearly a year, between the group headed by Intel and Texas Instruments - the Multiband OFDM Alliance, or MBOA -- and that by Motorola, which favours Direct...
[March 5, 2004, 9:10]
Ultrawideband tribes square up for standards fight
News Texas Instruments, one of the leading chipmakers with relevant expertise, has joined the Intel-led Multiband Consortium, which now calls itself the Multiband OFDM Alliance (MBOA). The next generation of ultra-fast wireless networking is taking...
[July 15, 2003, 11:58]
Sun and Fujitsu nurture closer alliance
News Among the options, Sun could simply be looking for a second partner besides Texas Instruments to build its processors; the companies could be sharing engineering resources; or they could be moving chip or server lines closer together.
[October 24, 2003, 12:45]
ARM spearheads mobile Linux group
News Members working with ARM include Marvell, MontaVista, Movial, Mozilla, Samsung and Texas Instruments. ARM is already a member of both LiPS and LiMo, MontaVista is a member of the MLI and LiPS, and Movial and Texas Instruments are both members of LiPS.
[October 4, 2007, 15:20]
