Wireless Asia articles from April 2002

Wireless Asia archives from April 2002

Living with le G. (Unwired).
April 1, 2002... The problem is mobile phones have been too successful. They are an icon of the age. They are used everywhere: ringtones are part of the soundtrack of the modern world, according to a recent survey, On the Mobile. Actress Nicole Kidman even...

Malaysia waves 3G stick to force consolidation: the prospect of 3G licenses is forcing an overdue shakeout among Malaysian operators. (News Analysis).
April 1, 2002... In typical hands-on style, the Malaysian government is using the 3G licensing stick to force a shakeout of its mobile players. It's not before time: some operators are still recovering from the Asian financial crisis of half a decade ago. ...

TAC vs TOT. (News Analysis).
April 1, 2002... While Telenor is going with the political wind with its Malaysian vehicle DiGi, its Thai operator, Total Access Communications (TAC) is caught in an unseemly row with the local incumbent. TAC is refusing to pay the flat fee access charge...

Dual-mode GSM-TDMA debuts in the US: AT&T Wireless and Siemens have upped the ante in the billion-dollar roaming market by co-launching the world's first commercially available dual-mode GSM-TDMA handset. (News Analysis).
April 1, 2002... The international wireless roaming business took a potentially groundbreaking turn last month when US cellco AT&T Wireless helped telecoms vendor Siemens launch the world's first GSM/TDMA dual-mode handset. Siemens said that it will...

Mobile data services heading for China: with China Mobile's GPRS service set to be commercialized later this year, competition in China's mobile market will take a step towards mobile data service. (News Analysis).
April 1, 2002... Haunted by the failed introduction of WAP services and lingering fears of inadequate handsets and insufficient provision of quality content, many European and Asian GSM operators are proceeding cautiously with the launch of GPRS services. ...

Huawei W-CDMA solution: evolution towards all IP networks. (advertorial).
April 1, 2002... The world of telecommunications is about to undergo revolutionary changes as we move from 2G to 3G, which will bring a new world of next generation IP services and converged services of voice, data and video. Mobile operators around the world...

AT&T Wireless and Siemens jointly launch the world's first GSM/TDMA dual-mode handset. (Movements).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... AT&T Wireless and Siemens jointly launch the world's first GSM/TDMA dual-mode handset. Siemens' new S46 handset, which will be available only in the US, supports GSM 900 and 1900, as well as 850 MHz and 1900 MHz TDMA, making it possible not...

European Union leaders approve the development of the $2.96 billion Galileo satellite navigation system, a direct rival to the US-backed GPS system. (Movement).
April 1, 2002... European Union leaders approve the development elf the $2.96 billion Galileo satellite navigation system, a direct rival to the US-backed GPS system. The project will involve the launch of 40 satellites in a joint undertaking with the Europe...

Global Crossing CEO John Legere and CFO Dan Cohrs testify before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services on 21 March in Washington, DC. (Movements).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Global Crossing CEO John Legere and CFO Dan Cohrs testify before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services on 21 March in Washington, DC. The healing intends "to...

KPN posts a 7.5 billion euro ($6.6 billion) loss after taking a 12.4 billion euro goodwill writedown for its German E-Plus unit. (Movements).(KPN Group)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... KPN posts a 7.5 billion euro ($6.6 billion) loss after taking a 12.4 billion euro goodwill writedown for its German E-Plus unit. The loss is the biggest reported in Dutch corporate history. The company plans to cut about 5,280 staff this year.

Motorola says it has expanded its wireless third party developer program. (Movements).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Motorola says it has expanded its wireless third party developer program to encourage creation of new applications for the mobile sector.

Global satellite operator Intelsat acquires the World Systems business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation. (Movements).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Global satellite operator Intelsat acquires the World Systems business unit of lockheed Martin Corporation, including existing service contracts with World Systems' customers for Intelsat capacity, earth stations located in Clarksburg, Maryland...

In a separate deal, Intelsat acquires a teleport facility in Fuchsstadt, Germany from Deutsche Telekom AG. (Movements).(Communications Satellite Corp. INTELSAT Satellite Services)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In a separate deal, Intelsat acquires a teleport facility in Fuchsstadt, Germany from Deutsche Telekom AG. Terms of both transactions were not disclosed. Intelsat intends to use its new ground based facilities to launch a hybrid...

Ericsson Mobile Platforms will offer GPRS and 3G mobile reference designs to Texas Instruments. (Movements).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Ericsson Mobile Platforms will offer GPRS and 3G mobile reference designs to Texas Instruments under an agreement announced in mid-March.

Beijing: GSM operator China Mobile and CDMA operator KTF sign an agreement to offer a GSM-CDMA roaming service to their subscribers starting this month. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Beijing: GSM operator China Mobile and CDMA operator KTF sign an agreement to offer a GSM-CDMA roaming service to their subscribers starting this month. Although the service is billed as an "automatic" roaming service, it's the customers' SIM...

Beijing: Qualcomm delivers new toolkit software to China Unicom that can be used to develop value-add applications for the Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM) cards Unicom is using for its CDMA network. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Beijing: Qualcomm delivers new toolkit software to China Unicom that can be used to develop value-add applications for the Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM) cards Unicom is using for its CDMA network. Qualcomm says its R-UIM/UIM Toolkit...

Beijing: Handset and network infrastructure supplier Eastern Communications Co adopts Motorola's i.250 Innovative Convergence platform for 2.5G phones. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Beijing: Handset and network infrastructure supplier Eastern Communications Co adopts Motorolas's i.250 Innovative Convergence platform for 2.5G phones. In addition, Eastcom will offer modules and ODM/OEM product platforms to China Putian...

Shanghai: Smart antenna company Wireless Online announces a strategic collaboration with network architecture vendor Shanghai Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company to distribute Wireless Online's ClearBeam smart antenna systems in China. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Shanghai: Smart antenna company Wireless Online announces a strategic collaboration with network architecture vendor Shanghai Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company to distribute Wireless Online's ClearBeam smart antenna systems in...

Hong Kong: China Mobile Hong Kong reports a 55% increase in net profit for 2001 to $3.38 billion. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hong Kong: China Mobile Hong Kong reports a 55% increase in net profit for 2001 to $3.38 billion, with its subscriber base grew by 24.5 million to 69.6 million last year. Although data subscribers nearly doubled during 2001 to over 21...

Hong Kong: China Unicom says its CDMA subscriber base across 13 listed service areas grew by 2% to 448,000 in February. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hong Kong: China Unicom says its CDMA subscriber base across 13 listed service areas grew by 2% to 448,000 in February. On its GSM network, subscribers totaled 29.21 million at the end of February, a net increase of 2.18 million in the year to...

Hong Kong: PCCW beats analyst forecasts in its 2001 financial results, reporting a 25% increase in operating profit and a net profit of $243 million. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hong Kong: PCCW beats analyst forecast in its 2001 financial results, reporting a 25% increase in operating profit and a net profit of $243 million. Chairman and CEO Richard Li attributes the telco's 2001 performance to several factors, two key...

Hong Kong: Hutchison Whampoa writes off HK$29.8 billion ($3.8 billion) to cover its investment in bankrupt Global Crossing and its subsidiary Asia Global Crossing in its 2001 year-end financial results. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hong Kong: Hutchison Whampoa writes off HK$29.8 billion ($3.8 billion) to cover its investment in bankrupt Global Crossing and its subsidiary Asia Global Crossing in its 2001 year-end financial results. Telecoms revenues were up 14% but...

Hong Kong: SmarTone reports a net loss of HK$39.5 million ($5 million) for the first half of its fiscal 2002 on exceptional write-offs equaling HK$79 million. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Hong Kong: SmarTone reports a net loss of HK$39.5 million ($5 million) for the first half of its fiscal 2002 on exceptional write-offs equaling HK$79 million, including its LMDS assets. Meanwhile, rival Sunday Communications cut it losses by...

Seoul: LG Telecom senior managing executive Lee Sang-min tells a Seoul conference that the cellco has no plans to implement cdma2000 1x EV-DO technology in its network, saying that EV-DO is only at the experimental stage and that handsets that support the technology have yet to be commercialized. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Seoul: LG Telecom senior managing executive Lee Sang-min tells a Seoul conference that the cellco has no plans to implement cdma2000 1x EV-DO technology in its network, saying that EV-DO is only at the experimental stage and that handsets that...

Tokyo: J-Phone unveils new handsets from Toshiba and Panasonic that incorporate a video camera and audio recording capability. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Tokyo: J-Phone unveils new handsets from Toshiba and Panasonic that incorporate a video camera and audio recording capability. The phones, available in mid-April, will allow users to send and receive video messages of about five seconds, or a...

Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo begins building an experimental 4G packet-based wireless network that promises downstream data speeds topping 100 Mbps and upload speeds of around 20 Mbps. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Tokyo: NTT DoCoMo begins building an experimental 4G packet-based wireless network that promises downstream data speeds topping 100 Mbps and upload speeds of around 20 Mbps. DoCoMo hopes to commercially launch the experimental system, which...

Tokyo: KDDI plans to launch commercial 1x services in all major Japanese cities starting April. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Tokyo: KDDI plans to launch commercial 1x services in all major Japanese cities starting April. The new service will be supported by two new handsets, including the first KDDI handset with a built-in digital camera. The cdma2000 1x service,...

Tokyo: Qualcomm and KDDI sign a definitive agreement for the commercial launch of wireless apps based on Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Tokyo: Qualcomm and KDDI sign a definitive agreement for the commercial launch of wireless apps based on Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform. Starting March, KDDI will begin providing Panasonic C3003P handsets...

Sydney: Vodafone Australia outsources its handset distribution function to Brightpoint and Cellnet. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Vodafone Holdings Australia Propietary Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Sydney: Vodafone Australia outsources its handset distribution function to Brightpoint and Cellnet, who will serve as its distribution partners to service Vodafone's network of retail stores and business partners across Australia.

Wellington: CLEC TelstraClear sells the rights for 5 MHz of extra 3G spectrum to Vodafone New Zealand. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Wellington: CLEC TelstraClear sells the rights for 5 MHz of extra 3G spectrum to Vodafone New Zealand. 3G license holders in New Zealand are limited to 15 MHz of new spectrum. However, TelstraClear ended up with 20 MHz after the merger of...

Bangkok: Motorola wins a $253 million contract to provide a GSM 1800 network to Thailand's TA Orange. (News map: around Wireless Asia).
April 1, 2002... Bangkok: Motorola wins a $2.53 million contract to provide a GSM 1800 network to Thailand's TA Orange. The network is scheduled to be rolled out by the end of 2002.

Jakarta: incumbent telco Telkom reports a 42% rise in profits for 2001 to 4.25 trillion rupiah ($427 million) over the previous year. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Jakarta: Incumbent telco Telkom reports a 42% rise in profits for 2001 to 4.25 trillion rupiah ($427 million) over the previous year. The boost is credited to Telkom's acquisition of 77% of cellco Telkomsel in May last year. Telkomsel's...

Kuala Lumpur: Celcom owner Technology Resources industries and DiGi.Com have entered a pact to set up a joint venture company to bid for a 3G license. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Kuala Lumpur: Celcom owner Technology Resources industries and DiGi.Com have entered a pact to set up a joint venture company to bid for a 3G license. As part of the deal, Celcom and DiGi will also establish national roaming between their...

Kuala Lumpur: Celcom is reportedly looking to cut as much as 30% of its workforce to boost its bottom line. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Kuala Lumpur: Celcom is reportedly looking to cut as much as 30% of its workforce to boost its bottom line. Celcom initiates a voluntary separation scheme, offering up to two months salary multiplied by the number of years of service to...

Myanmar: state monopoly telco Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications commercially launches the country's first GSM cellular network--a year after its initial launch in March 2001. (News map: around Wireless Asia).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Myanmar: State monopoly telco Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications commercially launches the country's first GSM cellular network--a year after its initial launch in March 2001. The GSM system, supplied by Siemens and ZTE of China, has been...

Designs on mobile: handsets now are as small as they can get. Now phone-makers must get creative to beat the competition--without forgetting that handsets are mostly used just for voice. (Cover Story).
April 1, 2002... Actors Denzel Washington and Halle Berry not only took home gold-plated statuettes from this year's Academy Awards--they also walked away with a new mobile phone. Each Oscar nominee was handed a new V.70 phone for having those qualities...

3G: a not-so-simple plan: the 3G market may be two years off, but that's no reason to put off network planning--especially for operators not used to CDMA RF or managing high-speed data. (Tech Focus).
April 1, 2002... NTT DoCoMo's FOMA experience to date has demonstrated two things to the wireless world's 3G licensees and licensee hopefuls: 3G can be done, but it isn't easy. That's only to be expected with any new technology, of course, but 3G wireless...

GSM's service economy: with the success of SMS and growing GPRS deployments, the industry is looking forward to next-gen technologies like MMS and even EDGE. However, as Global Mobile Suppliers Association president Alan Hadden tells global technology editor John C. Tanner, what operators really care about isn't the technology, but the services it enables. (1_2_1).(Interview)
April 1, 2002... Wireless Asia: The GSA has just released its mobile portal survey for Asia-Pacific. What did you find, and what differences have you seen between the different regions you've surveyed? Alan Hadden: We studied 12 portals in places like South...

Cellular wars--episode III. (Wheel Of Industry).
April 1, 2002... No doubt about it--2001 was an annus horribilis for the telecoms industry and still the bad news keeps coming. Lucent has had a thoroughly shocking run and Motorola likewise. Lucent does not expect profitability to return this year. Even...

PC cards for KTF's 1x EV-DO service. (deals).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... CDMA access vendor AirPrime will supply PC5230 wireless PC cards to Korean cellco KTF for use with its upcoming cdma2000 1x-EV-DO wireless data service. Customers of the new service, scheduled to launch in May, will be able to use the PC cards...

KDDI offers BREW apps. (deals).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Qualcomm and KDDI have signed a definitive agreement for the commercial launch of wireless apps based on Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform. KDDI is now providing Panasonic C3003P handsets pre-loaded with BREW...

Zi's latest eZiText license deal. (deals).(Viable Korea)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Zi Corporation has licensed its eZiText predictive text input technology to Viable Korea, which specializes in lithium-ion batteries and GSM mobile equipment. Viable has implemented eZiText in its new Toplux VG100 GSM handset, which has been...

Instant messaging OEM agreement. (deals).(Siemens IC Mobile)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Siemens IC Mobile will bundle and integrate Ecrio's "Rich Instant Messaging Platform" with its mobile messaging offering, including the Siemens presence server, thus providing real-time mobile network-based presence for instant messaging. Ecrio...

Bridging IM and MMS. (deals).(Microsoft and Logica)
April 1, 2002... Logica and Microsoft have announced an initiative to create a bridge between Microsoft's instant messaging users and MMS users, allowing mobile users to engage in IM sessions with other PC-based users, with additional multimedia elements such...

Mobile video email. (out now).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... J-Phone has unveiled new handsets from Toshiba and Panasonic that incorporate a video camera and audio recording capability. The phones allow users to send and receive video messages of about five seconds, or a maximum file size of about 15 KB....

Color screen GSM handset. (out now).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Samsung has released a new GSM dual band mobile phone with a 1.5-inch, 4,096-color TFT LCD display. The ColorPro SGH-T108 also features 16-poly ringtone sound capabilities. The phone will be distributed through Global Tech in the Greater China...

Mobile stock trading in Yunnan. (out now).
April 1, 2002... Smart card manufacturer Beijing Aerospace Z-Tone Electronics has launched a mobile stock trading and query system in Yunnan province. The system uses SmartTrust's Delivery Platform solution to deploy applications to mobile handsets containing...

Industrial-strength Bluetooth. (out now).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... ConnectBlue's latest Bluetooth industrial product, the Wireless Information Provider 425, is an enhanced version of its Wireless Information Provider 120. The Wireless Information Provider 425 offers the new feature of high-speed Ethernet...

Wireless Village releases 1.0 specs. (tools).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Wireless Village, an initiative sponsored by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and over 100 other supporters, has released its version 1.0 Wireless Village specifications, designed to enable interoperability between mobile- and fixed-network instant...

Symbian 7.0 apps toolkit. (tools).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Metrowerks has announced the availability of CodeWarrior Development Tools for Symbian OS, Professional Edition, Version 1.0--the first development tools designed to create system software and applications specifically for Symbian OS v7.0. The...

Survey/consultancy packages. (tools).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Nokia has launched two operator service solutions: the Nokia GPRS Extended Network Survey and the Nokia Dynamic WCDMA Simulation Consultancy. The GPRS Network Survey is a modular service package of services, tools and competence development for...

MMS infrastructure solution. (tools).(Openwave Systems)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Openwave Systems has announced its standards-based MMS infrastructure solution, which combines its newly released IP-based Multimedia Messaging Services Center (MMSC) and the latest version of the Openwave Mobile Access Gateway 5.1. The MMS...

PCCW appoints new CFO. (Telecom Career).(Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. appoints Fred Ma)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Pacific Century CyberWorks group chief financial officer David Prince is to leave the company on 31 May to rejoin his family in the UK. Fred Ma, who has been a PCCW executive director since May 2001, will replace him. Prince, who had...

Motorola CFO. (Telecom Career).(David Devonshire)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Motorola has named David Devonshire as its CFO, replacing Carl Koenemann, who is retiring. The company has also named Janilee Johnson, corporate vice president, as chief communications officer. She succeeds Rusty Brashear, a former deputy press...

Ericsson names new Corp. Comm SVP. (Telecom Career).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Ericsson has appointed Henry Stenson as new senior vice president, corporate communications, and a member of the corporate management team, replacing Roland Klein, who has decided to leave the company. Stenson, 46, joins Ericsson from the...

Networking the Nation board reappointments. (Telecom Career).(Australia's Ministry of Communications, Information Technology and the arts reappoints Gerry Anderson)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Australia's Ministry of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts has reappointed Professor Gerry Anderson, Lindsay Macdonald, Johanna Plante, and Eleanor Scholz to the board for the Networking the Nation (NTN) program--the...

Malaysian regulator appoints regional managers. (Telecom Career).(Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has appointed En., Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Noor as manager of its Sabah regional office, and En. Md. Rusli Haji Ahmad as manager of its Sarawak regional office. Muhammad Tahir...

Senior management changes at Nortel Networks. (Telecom Career).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Francois Lancon has been appointed managing director, ASEAN, Nortel Networks to lead its businesses in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Prior to his new role, Lancon led Nortel Networks data products...

Networki2i taps new CEO. (Telecom Career).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Network i2i, a 50-50 joint venture between SingTel and the Bharti Group, has appointed Ng Seng Sum as its new CEO, and as a board member. Ng succeeds Yoong-Sim Hong Siang, who is moving to be director of international network development...

Comverse appointment. (Telecom Career).(Daniel Liew)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Comverse announced Daniel Liew, its former southeast Asia president, would assume a new role as vice president and managing director for Asia South Pacific.

Magic4 Asia head. (Telecom Career).(Gordon Tsang)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... UK-based wireless technology company magic4 has named Gordon Tsang as its regional director for Asia. Prior to joining magic4, Tsang was sales director at Zi Corporation.

Unisphere Networks names regional head. (Telecom Career).(Eric Yu)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... IP infrastructure products supplier Unisphere Networks has named Eric Yu as the company's new regional director for Hong Kong and Taiwan. Yu comes to Unisphere Networks from Cisco Systems Taiwan, where he was regional manager for service...

Radiant Networks CEO. (Telecom Career).(Geoff Butcher )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Geoff Butcher has joined Radiant Networks as chief executive officer, a new position in the company. Previously Butcher was CEO at international software solution provider Protek.

Vignette Corp Greater China MD. (Telecom Career).(Sze Chan)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Content management solutions provider Vignette Corp has appointed Sze Chan as its managing director for Greater China. Prior to joining Vignette, Chan was general manager, Greater China at Baan China Limited.

Operators facing MMS pricing dilemma. (Street Wise).
April 1, 2002... With the phenomenal success of short message services in GSM markets across the world, the industry is pinning its hopes on MMS, or multimedia messaging. MMS will allow users to exchange short messages that incorporate a host of multimedia...

Little people talking big. (Lynch).
April 1, 2002... Regular readers of this column will be aware of my skepticism when it comes to global conferences and symposia of telecom officials. Last year's regulators' conference in Geneva was a beauty, as regulator after regulator climbed the podium to...

Open line. (Short message: around the wireless industry).
April 1, 2002... China Mobile and Xinhua last month offered the Chinese masses a rare direct line to their rulers with an SMS service to National People's Congress deputies. The service enabled some of China's 140 million mobile users to raise complaints and...

The new Big 3. (Short message: around the wireless industry).
April 1, 2002... The Big 3 of the global cellular handset market are now Nokia, Motorola and Siemens, according to the latest rankings from Gartner Dataquest, after Ericsson's market share in 2001 (in units sold, not dollars) dropped a staggering 35%. The...

Next-gen. (Short message: around the wireless industry).
April 1, 2002... It seems NTT DoCoMo, whose 3G service, dubbed FOMA, has clocked up just 70,000 customers in six months, can't wait to get to 4G. The Japanese carrier is planning a pilot of its self-described 4G technologies later this year, using variable...

One.Tell-all. (Short message: around the wireless industry).
April 1, 2002... The hearing into the crash of Australian operator, One.Tel, is underway in Sydney, with inevitably a good deal of finger-pointing. The carrier failed last May, with tyros James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch saying they had been "profoundly misled"...

Fingering the phone. (Short message: around the wireless industry).
April 1, 2002... Fingerprint ID scanners--you've seen them in the movies (or possibly at work). Soon, you may see them on your cell phone. Fujitsu Microelectronics America is preparing to release a fingerprint ID system later this year that combines...