Nancy Gohring

A Washington state organization sued Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Panasonic Corp. of North America and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Ltd. for making and selling Bluetooth products that infringe on at least one patent

An open source wireless tracking system for following people around buildings got its first public use last week at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.

Nokia Corp. and smart card specialist Giesecke & Devrient GmbH have finalized their new near-field communication (NFC) joint venture, naming it Venyon.

IBM "illegally" uses Amazon.com technology in WebSphere, a widely deployed application server, as well as in IBM information management services and products, Amazon.com claims in is countersuit.

The planned merger of network infrastructure units at Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG won't close by the end of this year as expected because the companies will execute a compliance review of Siemens, spurred by the corruption investigation currently shaking the German technology company.

The European Commission's Radio Spectrum Committee gave the green light to UWB (ultrawideband), paving the way for the technology to be used in Europe as early as February.

Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.

Advanced Micro Devices and Hynix Semiconductor have made it into the top ten ranking of semiconductor companies for the first time, according to preliminary forecasts for 2006 revenue from research company iSuppli Corp.