Products from several smartphone vendors and processors from the likes of Nvidia are helping drive down the cost of LTE-enabled devices. LTE smartphone shipments will grow from about 90 million units last year to 275 million in 2013, ...
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In recent years, the global market share of the Japanese television industry fell significantly, while Korean and Chinese enterprises were achieving a catch-up. In 2012, China's color TV industry surpassed Japan. South Korea's Samsung ...
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The company expects its sales in the wireless segment to increase by19% per year to $20bn by 2016. Swiss semiconductor firm, STMicroelectronics, expects that demand from Apple and Samsung Electronics will give a $1.4bn boost in ...
The patent trial in Australia between Apple and Samsung Electronics has become so complex that a second judge has been assigned to the case. It's the first time in Australian federal court history that two judges will hear a case at the ...
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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 ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
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Visa and Samsung yesterday announced a global alliance that they said has the potential to significantly accelerate the availability of mobile payments globally. According to the agreement, financial institutions that are planning to ...
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Samsung Electronics has introduced the Android-based HomeSync media center, which can be used to watch movies, play games and also provide private and shared storage. The HomeSync is Samsung's latest big bet, according to the company. The ...
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Mobile risk management company Fixmo today announced a strategic partnership with Samsung that will see the global leader in smartphones embed Fixmo’s patented Sentinel Integrity Services technology on its smartphones and tablets. ...
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Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen. The Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an 8-inch screen, putting it very close in size to the Apple's tablet, ...
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LG Electronics has launched the Optimus F5 and Optimus F7 smartphones, which will bring LTE to a "mass audience." Global LTE smartphone shipments are expected to triple this year, allowing the technology to take off on a grander scale and ...
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For full-year 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $112.6m, down 26.3% on 2011’s $152.8m. However, although down 16.5% on $36.5m a ...
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Tizen, the open-source project backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, has released to software developers and device makers the software development kit and source code for a new version of its operating system. The Tizen 2.0 release ...
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While first day sales for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet attracted a long line in Beijing back in October, demand for the device in China has been low, as shipments reached only 30,000 units during the fourth quarter, according to research ...
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Chipmaker LSI is taking ARM-based processors to new frontiers with its upcoming AXM5500 family, which will be used in mobile base stations of all sizes. From today's smartphones, tablets and thin clients to tomorrow's servers, ARM-based ...
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