Nortel deal leaves assets on table

Despite Nortel exiting the UMTS market, GSM radio access and switching remains a big business for the struggling vendor, reports TelephonyOnline.

Though Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire both Nortel Networks' biggest wireless business unit and its 4G technology for its $650 million bid, a substantial amount of Nortel's wireless assets would not be included in the deal.

Nortel's GSM radio and core switching business would remain on the table.

Boingo Wireless, the world's largest WiFi network, has been issued a patent covering the method and apparatus for accessing networks by a mobile device by the US patent and trademark office, reports Sys-Con Media.

The patent advances the company's client technology for detection, association and logging into wireless networks, on any device.

The methods covered by the patent include accessing wireless carrier networks by mobile computing devices, where a client software application hosted by the device accesses carrier networks using wireless access points.

In order to crack the smartphone market it covets - but has failed thus far to crack - the world's largest computer chip maker Intel realised it needed a partner in the cellphone business, writes CNNMoney. It ended up snagging the world's largest handset maker, Nokia.

The two companies announced a long-term technology collaboration to develop a new class of "mobile computing devices" based on Intel's microprocessor technology.

The partnership comprises three key areas: developing mobile chipsets based on Intel's x86 chip architecture; furthering the development of open source Linux software for smartphones and other mobile gadgets; and for Intel, getting a licence to put Nokia's latest 3G modem in future products.