Broadcom thinks it can make NFC a common smartphone feature by offering it in a chip with other wireless technologies, even if making payments with the technology doesn’t catch on for years. On Tuesday, the communications chip ...
Tags: Broadcom, smartphone, wireless technology, WiFi
Taipei, Oct. 11, 2012 (CENS)--Industry executives estimated MediaTek Inc.'s earnings per share (EPS) for the second half of this year at the range of NT$8.06-NT$9.18, citing the better-than-expected 25.73% quarter-on-quarter increase of the ...
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CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, says that it is powering several smartphone platforms that are leveraging Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. With the addition ...
Tags: Skyworks, analog and mixed-signal, semiconductors, smartphone, Windows 8
MediaTek Inc.has recently received notification to send the sample of its MT6589 quad-core processors to be tested at Sony Mobile,likely breaking Qualcomm Inc.'s monopoly in the Sony Mobile supply chain. Although Sony Mobile has not yet ...
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A touchpad tablet and a smartphone have been launched by the Congolese company, VMK, and claim to be the first African designs on the market. The Way-C touchpad and Elikia smartphone, which are manufactured in China, were designed by the ...
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IDG News Service - Texas Instruments will lay off 1,700 employees as it refocuses its efforts away from the wireless sector -- including cellphones and tablets -- and toward embedded systems, the company announced Wednesday. The news ...
Tags: wireless, business, third-straight
Rival smartphone makers Apple and HTC have settled all outstanding disputes over patents. The agreement has seen HTC both losing and winning court battles against Apple in just over two-and-a-half years of legal wrangling. In ...
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It's been a busy,bumpy year for Apple since Steve Jobs died last Oct 5.The company won a massive jury award against Samsung for patent infringement and in April it became arguably the most valuable company in history when its market ...
HARRISONBURG,Va.--Long lines formed for days outside of Apple stores in major cities to buy the iPhone 5 today,but smaller crowds also gathered in college towns like Harrisonburg,Va.,where the longest wait was overnight in front of the AT&T ...
Advance demand for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high,said a research firm today,predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the"iPhone 5." A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave ...
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Mozilla rebranded its mobile operating system -- which it's been working on for more than a year -- as Firefox OS to tie it with its best-known product, the Firefox browser. Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured ...
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