Huayu Communications Selects Altera’s Zero-Power CPLDs for Portable Handsets to Be Used During 2008 Summer Games

San Jose, June 23, 2008 — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced today that Shenzhen Huayu Communications Technology Company Limited has selected MAX® IIZ CPLDs for use in its new P1200 portable handsets. Chosen for their ability to quickly and securely implement new features and capabilities while consuming minimal power and board space, Altera’s MAX IIZ CPLDs manage several peripherals in the P1200 handsets, including a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader, an Infrared Data Association (IRDA) sensor, a Bluetooth interface, and LED control. The P1200 handsets made their debut during the Hangzhou public transportation system’s bicycle project in May 2008, and in August, they will be used for ID identification, logistics, and public transportation services for the Beijing Summer Games.    » read more »

First quarter 2008 U.S. revenues from handset sales reached $2.7 billion -- down 7 percent from the previous year

PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, May 20, 2008 – According to The NPD Group, the leader in market research for the wireless industry, mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the U.S. reached nearly 31 million units in the first quarter of 2008, which is a 22 percent decline since the same period a year ago.

NPD estimates total first quarter 2008 consumer sales of nearly $2.7 billion, down from $2.9 billion a year ago.

Motorola W220i: Photo by Muhammad Hamidi (CC)

“For the first time since NPD has tracked handset sales, we’ve noted a decline in sales during the first quarter after the holidays,” said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD. “Cellular phone service has become a practical necessity in modern life; however, with looming economic concerns on the horizon, many consumers may be holding back on new handset purchases.”    » read more »

Photo by Muhammad Hamidi (CC)

Milpitas, Calif., and Santa Clara, Calif. -- May, 2008 -- Kineto Wireless, the key innovator and leading supplier of UMA technology, and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has announced the companies are collaborating on 3G and 2G UMA/GAN handset testing to bring a comprehensive solution to their customers.

The companies will focus on expanding Agilent’s 8960 “real world” UMA/GAN test capabilities to provide a full-featured, non-scripting test solution for mobile operators, handset vendors and platform developers in the UMA/GAN market. The first phase of collaboration will result in a robust 3G/2G UMA/GAN development and engineering validation tool that Kineto will showcase at its UMA Labs in Milpitas, Calif.    » read more »

Stellar line-up of speakers from Coca-Cola, Visa, Walt Disney and Yahoo! attend inaugural Americas event

May 2008, Atlanta: The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced the Top Innovators for the Americas leg of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition, along with additional, high-calibre industry speakers at the Mobile Innovation Marketplace – Americas, which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, 3 – 4 June, 2008.

The Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition was created by the GSMA as part of the Mobile Innovation Market, which encourages breakthrough technology, applications and services in the mobile industry by bringing together smaller companies developing innovative mobile products, industry investors from leading venture capital firms, and senior figures from mobile operators and leading global brands.    » read more »

Two companies join with CSR to deliver a complete environment for development and conformance testing of hybrid positioning system

Cambridge, UK 22 May 2008 – CSR (LSE: CSR) today announced that Agilent Technologies and Spirent Communications are to join CSR and Motorola in the EGPS Forum, the open industry forum for evaluating and fostering enhanced Global Positioning System (EGPS) technologies.

Working with CSR, Agilent and Spirent have created an essential building block of EGPS: a single system that can simulate both GPS and cellular signals.

EGPS Forum

This system provides a development and test platform on which to build EGPS technologies.

CSR and Motorola announced the intention to create the Forum in January this year: http://www.csr.com/pr/pr321.htm. Both Agilent and Spirent are world leaders in test and measurement systems and by joining the Forum have taken the first steps with CSR to ensure that the test equipment is in place for designers to easily and quickly design and test EGPS products.    » read more »

GSM Technologies on Track to Break Half a Billion Subscriptions in the Americas by End of 2008

Bellevue, WA, May 21, 2008 - 3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE, has announced total market share for the GSM family equal to 66% of the entire cellular market in the Western Hemisphere.

This represents a 9% percent increase in market share since the first quarter of 2007, according to Informa Telecoms and Media’s World Cellular Information Service. With nearly 450 million subscriptions at the end of the first quarter of 2008, Informa forecasts that GSM and UMTS/HSPA are on track to break 500 million subscriptions in the Western Hemisphere by the end of this year with a 70% share of market.    » read more »

New Burton Group and Wi-Fi Alliance report addresses 802.11n deployment considerations

AUSTIN, TEXAS - May 2008 - With enterprises increasingly upgrading their wireless networks to 802.11n draft 2.0, the Wi-Fi Alliance today released a new white paper addressing deployment considerations for the new technology in enterprise networks. The report is written by Burton Group, a research firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise technologies, and provides a look at such considerations as frequency band selection, power management, security, and network management solutions for next-generation Wi-Fi deployments.

"The uptake of 802.11n draft 2.0 has been unprecedented. We are pleased to have joined with Burton Group to deliver this report designed to help enterprise decision makers with their next generation Wi-Fi deployments," said Wi-Fi Alliance executive director Edgar Figueroa. "The report addresses 802.11n WLAN migration strategies and can help enterprises get the most benefit out of this high-throughput, high-range, new generation of Wi-Fi."    » read more »

J.D. Power and Associates Reports

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- 22 May 2008 -- Verizon Wireless ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction for wireless data service, effectively meeting customer expectations and requirements of both large enterprise and small/midsize business segments, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Satisfaction Study released today.

Verizon Wireless logo on Apple's iPhone

Now in its fourth year, the study measures customer satisfaction of small and midsize businesses (fewer than 100 employees) and large enterprises (100 employees or more) with their wireless voice and data services across eight key factors. In order of importance, they are: call quality (23%); sales representatives/account executives (16%); company image (12%); customer service (11%); billing (10%); offerings and promotions (10%); cost of service (9%); and performance and reliability (9%).    » read more »