The alliance with Samsung and Foxconn is aimed at creating a design for mobile phones.
A startup backed by Tony Fadell, one of the fathers of the Apple iPod, plans to announce Wednesday it is working with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd and others on a new way for mobile phones to transfer large amounts of data without using wires or WiFi connections.
Chief executive Eric Almgren said his Campbell, Calif.-based company called Keyssa has raised more than US$100mil (RM429mil) from Fadell and the venture arms of Samsung and Intel Corp, among others. The company’s “kiss” technology allows two computing devices to be held near each other and transfer large files such as movies in just a few seconds.
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