Motorola Mobility has announced three new Droid Razr smartphones with 4G LTE capabilities and reiterated its commitment to the Android operating system as the company forges ahead with its smartphone strategy. The three new Droid Razrs ...
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Apple yesterday sent out press invitations to a media event on Wednesday, Sept. 12, in San Francisco, with a clear hint that iPhone 5 will be announced then. The tagline on the document is short and suggestive: "It's almost here." ...
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Are the nation's LTE wireless carriers prepared for the video chat data crunch expected to come with the next-generation iPhone and other devices that are expected to launch this fall? The answer: It depends on whom you ask. Both AT&T ...
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Intel is working on LTE network support for its Medfield system-on-chips, which may finally open the door for Intel-powered smartphones in the United States. Sumeet Syal, Intel’s director of product marketing, told TechCrunch that ...
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AT&T added six more cities to its 4G LTE network on Monday,bringing the total offering the service to 47 markets. The newest cities are Buffalo,NY;Burlington,NC;Corpus Christi,TX;Gainesville,GA;Greensboro-Winston Salem,NC;and ...
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Google and LG are reportedly preparing to launch a Nexus smartphone modelled on the Optimus G. Like the Optimus G, the still-to-be-named new Nexus handset will be one of the first quad-core smartphones on the U.S. market when it ...
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Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to sell its business support systems (BSS) unit to focus on its mobile broadband network equipment division. According to several reports – including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal – ...
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In third-quarter 2012,global mobile phone market shipments were 444.5 million mobile phones,up 2.4%on 434.1 million units in Q3/2011,according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of market research firm International Data ...
Mobile communications equipment revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11% over the next five years until 2016 Factory revenue of original equipment manufacturers making mobile communications equipment is expected ...
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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) ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has received its first single order valued at more than £1m for advanced laser wafers, to enable a new generation of fiber-optic communications devices. The order is ...
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PC World-AT&T held onto its last place position in Consumer Reports ranking of the four major U.S.cellphone carriers.But the company can point to one bright spot in the annual ratings published by Consumer Reports Thursday:AT&Ts 4G service ...
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A plan by a satellite carrier to make better use of its spectrum could open up an extra channel for Wi-Fi in the U.S.,though how and when consumers would get to use it isn't yet clear. The proposal that satellite operator Globalstar ...
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Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has launched a range of 50V gallium nitride(GaN)high-electron-mobility transistor(HEMT)devices that,it is claimed,enable a significant reduction in the energy needed to power cellular networks. The world's ...
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IDG News Service-Sprint Nextel's deployment of its ambitious Network Vision infrastructure,which includes the gradual rollout of 4G LTE technology,is about three months behind schedule due to several factors,the company said during its ...
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