TTPCom expects first GPRS mobile product from its technology this yearRichard WilsonTTPCom has announced details of its platform for the design of GPRS high speed data mobile handsets and terminals.The UK design firm already has nine manufacturers licensing the GPRS design and it anticipates first commercial products to appear by the middle of the year.The SMG#31-compliant protocol stack is designed ...

ARC extends real-time partnership with Wind RiverRichard Wilson ARC Cores has announced that Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) and Tornado integrated development environment (IDE) are available for its user-configurable microprocessor core.ARC Cores has also joined Wind River’s value-added reseller (VAR) program, allowing ARC Cores to bundle the run-time license for the market-share leading VxWorks RTOS with the ARC ...

Symbian unaffected by Psion, Motorola splitRichard WilsonPsion and Motorola are ending their joint development of wireless information devices but the decision will not affect either company’s involvement in the Symbian wireless Internet venture.Affected is joint project work at Psion’s computers division including the work on a Communicator product based on Symbian’s Quartz platform. According to Psion, work on this, which ...

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ARM stretches Imagination for 3D mobile phone displayRichard WilsonImagination Technologies has partnered with low power processor firm ARM to develop media processors which will support for the first time 3D graphics in mobile phones, set-top boxes and other Internet appliances.The UK firms have signed a long-term joint development agreement for the integration of Imagination’s PowerVR graphics accelerator cores alongside ARM9 ...

Mobile mast planning just got harderMelanie Reynolds Planning permission for mobile phone masts could be more difficult to get under the recently enacted Human Rights Act.The Act requires planning authorities to give a fair and impartial hearing to any objections to something that poses a threat to private and family life. This is seen as giving the anti-mast lobbying groups ...

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Enhanced Quartus-II finds Altera ‘in front’Richard Ball Altera is releasing a much improved version of its FPGA development software, fixing problems with performance and compile times.Quartus-II has completely new place and route software algorithms developed in Canada and integrated into the toolset by engineers in High Wycombe.System performance of chips developed using the new software is said to be 2.5 ...