Wireless News

Epson and SANYO to Merge Liquid Crystal Businesses

March 26, 2004 September 30, 2023

Seiko Epson Corporation and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. have announced that they would merge their liquid crystal businesses to form a new company. The new company will be known as SANYO EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION and is planned to begin operations in October 2004. Epson will hold 55% of the joint venture, and SANYO 45%. The new entity will aim to become a leading manufacturer of small and medium-sized LCDs for mobile phones, digital cameras, and for use in automobiles.

GoForce Tie-up for 3D Mobile Games

March 26, 2004 September 30, 2023

HI Corporation and NVIDIA Inc. have announced a new agreement for a worldwide alliance on advanced interactive 3D games for mobile phones. The companies will cooperate in the porting and marketing of the Mascot Capsule Engine Micro3D Edition on NVIDIA’s newly-announced GoForce architecture.

New Menu Options on Vodafone live!

March 25, 2004 September 30, 2023

Vodafone K.K. announced today that from April 1, 2004 it will add a new menu option with links to third party portal sites on its Vodafone live! At the time of launch, customers will be able to easily access the portal sites of three major mobile portal operators – “infoseek mobile” (Rakuten Inc.), “excite mobile” (Excite Japan Co.,Ltd.), and “Keitai BIGLOBE” (NEC Corporation) – by following menus from the top page without having to input URLs.

Micro-Browser and Java Module Selected for Panasonic's European i-mode Handset

March 17, 2004 September 30, 2023

ACCESS, a global provider of mobile content delivery and Internet access technologies, today announced that its Compact NetFront Plus micro-browser and JV-LiteTM 2 Wireless Edition, a Sun authorized JVM that complies with the J2METM standard, have been selected by Panasonic for deployment in its first European i-mode(R) handset, the P341i. Panasonic also selected ACCESS’ AVETM-SSL encryption module for this deployment. Panasonic’s decision to use Compact NetFront adds to the millions of i-mode devices that already rely on ACCESS browser technology to power their Internet functionality.

New MPEG4 Decoder for Mobile Phones

March 15, 2004 September 30, 2023

Techno Mathematical Co., Ltd. announced it has successfully developed a H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard video decoding software that applies Digital Media New Algorithm (DMNA). The software will enable video processing on the CPU of the mobile phone alone, and is high-speed and suited to embedded solutions. TMC will begin to license the technology this month

Sony Ericsson Licenses HI Corp's 3D Engine

March 13, 2004 September 30, 2023

HI Corporation has signed a licensing agreement for its 3D rendering engine “Mascot Capsule Engine Micro3D Edition with Sony Ericsson Mobile Comm. The first handsets implemented with Micro 3D Edition in accordance with the agreement are planned for launch in Q2 2004.