BenQ T80 Mobile to Start Field Trial Next Month
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Next month, residents of a Farglory Land Development housing project in Taiwan will be invited to test a new mobile phone from BenQ, the T80, that uses NFC (near field communications) technology to access home security systems and pay for items including subway rides.
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MAIDENHEAD, United KingdomâT-Mobile International said it has deployed a trial of Flarion Technologiesâ FLASH-OFDM system for its mobile broadband services in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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AMSTERDAM: Europe&#39;s second largest mobile carrier T-Mobile said yesterday it had started the continent&#39;s first trial of US-based Flarion&#39;s high-speed wireless internet in the Dutch city of The Hague.
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By Edited by STEVE HAWKES  BRITAIN'S biggest mobile phone firm plans to launch a high-speed internet service for the home.   Vodafone Broadband will be available before the end of the year.
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(InfoWorld) - BenQ Mobile plans to file for bankruptcy protection in Germany after its Taiwanese parent decided to stop investing in the money-losing operation, the mobile phone maker said Thursday. Taiwan's BenQ Corp., which will continue to develop and market BenQ-Siemens brand mobile phones, said it made the decision because it saw no end to the losses after already sinking over â¬600 million ($761.7 million) into the unit. "We made this painful decision after losses continued to pile up despite our best efforts," said K.Y. Lee, chairman of BenQ, at a news conference in Taipei. BenQ said the bankruptcy filing should not affect customers since the parent company will continue to develop, manufacture, and sell BenQ-Siemens handsets from Asia. The decision comes almost a year after BenQÂ took over the mobile phone businessÂ from Siemens, and leaves the fate of 3,000 German workers at BenQ Mobile in doubt. It also highlights the difficulty of turning around a sinking business. Under Siemens, the handset division had been losing market share. The German company even paid BenQ â¬250 million to take the ailing division off its hands. BenQ has posted losses for the three financial quarters that have passed since it acquired BenQ Mobile. Analysts have blamed stiff competition in the mobile phone industry for the troubles many handset makers have faced this year. Industry leaders Nokia and Motorola have both gained market share this year, mainly at the expense of smaller rivals, according to market researcher Gartner. BenQ's share of the handset market dropped to 3.2 percent in the second quarter, from 4.8 percent the same time last year, according to Gartner. Meanwhile, Nokia's share rose to 33.6 percent from 31.6 percent, and Motorola's increased to 21.9 percent from 17.7 percent. If BenQ Mobile can return to financial health as it restructures under the protection of the German government, it could return to the BenQ family of companies, BenQ said. BenQ Mobile's headquarters in Munich, as well as sites in Kamp-Lintfort and Bocholt in North-Rhine-Westphalia will be directly affected by the decision, while operations in Brazil will undergo a financial review. The Taiwanese company had already taken several steps to reduce costs and turn BenQ Mobile around, includingÂ laying offÂ over 500 workers earlier this year in Germany, and announcing a plan toÂ shut down mobile phone productionÂ in Taiwan. The company also announced several measures intended to streamline its operations, including a plan toÂ spin offÂ its non-handset manufacturing business.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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SAN FRANCISCO--Those wanting to get their hands on a Treo 650 this year will need to sign up for service from Sprint PCS. Sprint has cornered the market for this year, scooping up all of PalmOne&#39;s capacity until sometime in 2005.
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Free trial version of browser will be available starting Friday, with a final version slated for March.
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(InfoWorld) - BenQ blamed poor product management for racking up losses of over â¬840 million ($1.07 billion) at its mobile division, BenQ Mobile. The poor management led to cost overruns and launch delays, and the losses prompted BenQ to cut off funding from the mobile division last week. The Taiwanese company said it simply is not big enough to sustain such losses, which stretched from the time itÂ took over the German handset divisionÂ from Siemens last October through to the end of last month. BenQ's stock capitalization is only â¬640 million, it said. The company was in talks with Siemens about possible ways to save BenQ Mobile up to two weeks before the decision was made to stop funding it and let itÂ file for bankruptcy protectionÂ in Germany, a decision announced last Thursday. Siemens paid BenQ â¬250 million last year to take the mobile division off its hands. "There have been some reports that said we 'just walked away.' This was a really tough decision, it wasn't at all easy to walk away," said Eric Lei, chief business strategy officer at BenQ, in a group interview on Tuesday with reporters. On Monday, Siemens announced that it had set up a â¬35 million fund toÂ aid BenQ Mobile workersÂ at risk of losing their jobs, and expressed shock at BenQ's decision to "put its people on the street." The Taiwanese company said it believes there is workers' insurance to protect BenQ Mobile's 3,000 employees, and that it currently has no plans to put money into any kind of worker fund. At the heart of the trouble with BenQ Mobile was an inability to turn around product management problems, BenQ said. The Taiwanese company stopped short of laying blame for the failure on any specific group, saying that some German handset projects went awry, as did some on the Taiwanese side, while poor communication between Taipei and Munich hurt other projects. Without the product management issues, BenQ Mobile could have broken even, said Eric Yu, BenQ's chief financial officer. Some news reports have alleged name calling and legal threats from both sides over the fate of BenQ Mobile workers after the bankruptcy filing. BenQ executives said there has been no official contact between the two companies and that the talk is mere speculation. One point of contention that has been widely reported is that Siemens still owes BenQ money as part of the original deal to take over the handset division. Lei said the figure is over â¬150 million, but would not be more specific. He said that BenQ expects that Siemens will honor the contract and pay the figure, some of which goes to BenQ and some which should go to BenQ Mobile. One news report had said Siemens was looking into ways to pay the entire amount to BenQ Mobile so that it could benefit displaced employees. The German electronics giant said its decision to sell the mobile phone division to BenQ provided the greatest possible benefits to employees at the time of the sale, and that closing the business outright would have been a less expensive option. BenQ had presented a credible plan for operating and expanding the mobile phone division at the time of the sale, and Siemens believed it was sincere, it said. Â
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Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) said Wednesday (Sept. 22) that it has started a short field trial of 3G wireless data service and will more fully launch the service shortly.
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Company says it will come out with 1-gigabit chip for mobile devices next year.
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By Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan  Sep. 10--BenQ Siemens, the innovative mobile communication solutions provider, is gearing up to tap the fast growing cellular phone user base in the UAE with its recently launched range of mobile phones.
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Korean semiconductor company Mtekvision's MV8722 chip has received DivX certification, meaning future handsets, possibly from Samsung and LG, will offer native DivX support.
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Motorola Inc. will conduct an m-commerce field trial of mobile phones enabled with MasterCard PayPass and Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, the company announced Tuesday.
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THE first public trial of third-generation or 3G mobile phones will start in Singapore tomorrow, ahead of a nationwide rollout due by year&#39;s end.
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As part of an effort to boost its presence in North America, the handset maker is planning a family of Windows Mobile devices, starting with a business-oriented device due this summer.
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Advertising-supported video from April Mobile media company (aka: network operator) 3 will start giving away video content in April, paying for it with carefully-placed advertisements from companies such as Microsoft and Unilever.â¦
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Non-memory sale to go ahead next month