But Informix has made a commendable recovery that has enabled it to make the acquisitions of Red Brick and more recently the Cloudscape small form factor database - the first DBMS written in 100 per cent pure Java.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires operators provide technology to locate users in emergency situations with accuracies of 100 metres 67 per cent of the time, or 300 metres 95 per cent of the time.
While developers will welcome any model which gives them an incentive to provide compelling content - as operators should - Qualcomm has cited figures from Korean operator KTF which shows ARPU (average revenue per user) increasing as subscribers...
But Qualcomm is starting to gain some ground with its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) software, having recently signed up a sixth carrier to launch a download service using the technology.
In the past, the Chinese company has used Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) software to deliver over-the-air downloads to subscribers. As a major carrier, it has been one of the largest feathers in the cap of BREW creator and licenser...
The Preminet system excludes BREW applications, instead favoring ones based on Sun Microsystems' J2ME programming language. Preminet, a distribution and transaction service, is similar to Qualcomm's BREW, which is now used by about three dozen...