Tom Krazit

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) and STMicroelectronics NV (STM) are producing samples of chips that will allow manufacturers to build 3G cell phones based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, the companies announced earlier this month.

Intel Corp. has discovered a flaw in its recently launched chipsets that can preclude a system from starting up normally, and is planning to recall a certain amount of those chipsets from system vendors and channel partners, a spokesperson confirmed Friday.

Members of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards board will meet on Thursday to vote on the final specification for 802.11i, an update to the current standard for Wi-Fi security, the chair of the IEEE 802.11 working group said Wednesday.

Fujitsu Ltd. became the latest chip maker to introduce a 90-nanometer product with the launch of a faster version of its Sparc64 V processor for enterprise servers, the company announced Tuesday.

Two new PC chipsets will be the centrepiece of one of Intel Corp.'s most significant product launches of the year this weekend.

It may be "the oldest new technology," in the words of IDC analyst Christopher Boone, but the combination of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags with electronic product codes could change the way manufacturers and retailers manage their supply chains, according to analysts, vendors and attendees at IDC's RFID Update conference in Boston on Monday.

The popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device does not infringe upon patents held by NTP Inc. for a wireless communications system, lawyers for Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) argued before a U.S. federal appeals court Monday.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) unveiled several new products and partners last week in a move intended to help bring rich digital color into consumers' photographs and small businesses' marketing materials at a lower cost.