There has to be a sea change in how mobile operators build their networks and implement new services, and virtualization will make it possible, carriers and equipment vendors say. Executives from established companies on both sides of the ...
Texas Instruments (TI) announced today it will begin shipping wireless charging chips this year that support multiple protocols, allowing a wider range of mobile devices to be charged using competing standards. The first multi-mode chips ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) is ramping several antenna tuning products with smartphone manufacturers. The devices are meeting the market demand for ...
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Samsung Canada, the leading supplier of mobile phones in the Canadian marketplace, today announced the launch of the world's first 8-inch tablet, the GALAXY Note 8.0. Unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the GALAXY Note ...
Mobile phone operators will make more revenue from data use than voice calls by 2018, according to a new report from mobile operator body GSMA. The report comes as Mobile World Congress (MWC), The GSMA's annual mobile device convention, ...
Tags: voice calls, Mobile phone operators, GSMA
Nujira says the first 4G LTE smartphones to use its power efficient RF technology will be on the market next year. “In the past it was an aspiration to get envelope-tracking (ET) technology designed into volume handsets, now we know ...
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The GSMA today published its first in-depth assessment on the impact of the mobile industry on the Arab States, highlighting the explosive growth of mobile services in the region. Based on research from Deloitte, the report attributes a ...
Tags: GSMA, mobile industry, Arab States, mobile services
The mobile industry might be preparing to show off lots of new gadgets at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but a mergers and acquisitions specialist says the industry should forget about hyping them up and prepare for ...
Social networking app Path settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission today, paying $800,000 for allegedly violating kids' privacy on its site. The FTC also released a new privacy report, with recommendations for protecting consumers ...
Tags: Social networking app, Path, mobile apps
U.S. phone unlocking services face the biggest legal risk from mobile operators keen to enforce a change in copyright law that now makes it illegal to modify a mobile device to work on another network, according to the Electronic Frontier ...
U.K.-based telecoms operator O2 recently urged the mobile industry to cease selling smartphone charges with new handsets, having completed a successful trial. The operator revealed the results of a three-month-long pilot scheme in ...
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Apple may be able to build a cut-rate iPhone for $144, which would let it price the device between $299 and $349, hundreds less than the unsubsidized price tag of its flagship smartphone, an analyst said today. A lower-cost iPhone would ...
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ST-Ericsson has announced its fastest LTE smartphone platform, the NovaThor L8580 ModAp has an eQuad application processor running at up to 2.5GHz. The NovaThor L8580 will be available to sample in Q1 2013. It is built on 28nm ...
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Mobile application developers should minimize privacy surprises for their customers by limiting their data collection and retention and giving users access to the data collected,California Attorney General Kamala Harris has recommended. ...
Tags: Mobile apps, Mobile application developers, privacy policies, Harris
IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
Tags: Google, patent, mobile device, computer information