Wireless News

Panasonic Introduces Networked Home Appliances System

July 16, 2003 September 30, 2023

Matsushita Electric, best known worldwide for its Panasonic brand of consumer electronics and digital communications products, announced today that it will begin marketing of “Kurashi (Japanese for ‘home life’) Net”, a networked home appliances/housekeeping system to enhance the users’ daily living. The system, to be marketed from September 1, will enable the user to control networked home appliances, such as air-conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines and microwave ovens, through wireless control from the central terminal, named “Kurashi Station,” or from a mobile phone. The system also monitors security and other household conditions, alerting the users by sounding an alarm linked to the “Watchdog Safety Sensor” in cases of emergency.

Epson Enhances Line of Color STN Display Control LSI for European Handsets

July 15, 2003 September 30, 2023

Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a color STN display control LSI that is capable of displaying 65,536 colors while consuming very little power. The new driver, named the S1D15G17 and aimed primarily at the European mobile phone market, is already shipping in sample quantities.

Hitachi To Market Combined Solution In Japan

July 14, 2003 September 30, 2023

Hitachi’s BROADNET BOXER is Web-based groupware that provides a suite of e-mail, PIM (personal information management) and messaging capabilities — all geared toward streamlining projects involving several contributors. BROADNET BOXER offers a single source for e-mail, task and meeting management, instant messaging, secure file exchange/storage and more.

NEC designs DTV tuner into 3G cell phone

July 11, 2003 September 30, 2023

NEC Corp. has demonstrated a third-generation cell phone that it claims is the first to incorporate a digital-TV tuner. NEC plans to demonstrate the TV cell phone at Telecom World 2003, the International Telecommunication Union event to be held Oct. 12-18 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sharp and TI to Market with Turnkey Reference Design for GSM/GPRS Camer

July 7, 2003 September 30, 2023

Sharp Corporation and Texas Instruments Inc. announced today they will combine their respective strengths to provide a reference design for GSM/GPRS camera phones, significantly cutting the necessary design time and resources required by manufacturers to introduce new camera handsets into market. This reference design will combine Sharp’s 1 Mega Pixel CCD camera module, flash memory and liquid crystal module (LCD), together with TI’s TCS2100 chipset for GSM/GPRS cell phones and TI’s OMAP-DM270 multimedia processor. The reference design also supports high level video including Nancy Technology from Office NOA and MPEG-4 standards. In addition, TI and Sharp will work together on the development of related software and technical support.

NEC Electronics Develops GPS Chipset for Mobile Applications

July 4, 2003 September 30, 2023

NEC Electronics Corporation today announced that it has developed a new signal processing device (uPD77534) and an RF/IF down converter IC (uPB1009) to enhance Global Positioning System (GPS) functions for cellular phones and other mobile applications. The uPD77534 is an ARM7 TDMI-based System LSI for signal processing, fabricated on 0.15-micron process. As a chipset solution with uPD77534, NEC Electronics has also developed a new RF/IF down converter chip which is connected to the signal processor device and converts the high frequency GPS satellite signal to a low frequency signal used to establish location.