The digital phone services used by millions of consumers today are likely to quit when the lights go out, as homeowners found to their dismay in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy last fall. These services, which use a technology called VoIP ...
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Just as the mobile world seems to be finding peace and harmony around LTE, the age-old feud between GSM and CDMA is flaring up again. Now, the battleground is M2M (machine-to-machine) communications, the emerging use of wireless to link ...
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Intel and Etisalat Misr, one of the leading telecom operators in Egypt, have announced the launch of the Middle East's first smartphone with Intel Inside – the new Etisalat E-20 smartphone. The Etisalat E-20 smartphone is said to be ...
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Sigma Designs, a provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, today announced its Z-Wave Next Gen portfolio featuring a new family of 500-Series chips. Building on the ...
Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a new silicon germanium (SiGe) based transceiver family to address the market for wireless data links with data rates of more than 1Gbps between LTE/4G base stations and core networks. ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA has launched two new SFP optical network ...
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The move may lead to 1,600 job cuts. STMicroelectronics and Ericsson have agreed to split their struggling mobile chip joint venture, which was formed in 2008. Both firms failed to seek a buyer for JV, dubbed ST-Ericsson, and decided to ...
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"We feel that the slim modem business is not a long-term fit for Ericsson', says Strategy Analytics. Yesterday Ericsson said it would take over the slim modem business of ST-Ericsson and run it as a separate unit. Ericsson said the ...
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The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia. Researchers Nikita ...
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BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world announced today the new BLU LIFE Series of smartphone devices delivering stunning design and premium build quality with flagship performance. The BLU LIFE ...
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Arduino has gone mobile by offering a GPRS/GSM add-on module to the Arduino motherboard. This will allow the development platform to connect to the internet via GSM mobile phone networks. The module, or shield, was developed in ...
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ST-Ericsson's CEO Didier Lamouche has decided to resign from his post as owner Ericsson looks for a way to ensure its future. The news comes following STMicroelectronics' decision in December to exit the joint-venture which was started in ...
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FreedomPop, America's new free Internet company, today announced the public availability of its new Burst home router device, offering 100 percent free high-speed Internet in the home or small office. FreedomPop's new home broadband device ...
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The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
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The fact that LTE connectivity is becoming ubiquitous in smartphones and tablets isn't lost on Intel, which aims for its baseband processors to be used in more mobile devices and base stations. Intel is optimizing LTE modems to be paired ...
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