The world’s love affair with smartphones continues to blaze. Between April and June, worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 52.3 percent compared to the same period in 2012, according to a new report by market research firm IDC. ...
Tags: Smartphone Market, Android-iOS
With the efficiency and total lumen output for LEDs on the rise, lighting in 2013 will surpass handsets as the biggest application for LED driver ICs, with revenue rising by more than 50% annually, and then more than doubling by 2018, ...
Tags: LED Driver, IC Segment
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected claims of an Apple patent that figures prominently in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, according to documents filed by the South Korean company in a U.S. federal ...
Tags: Apple, pinch to Zoom
The global smartphone market showed healthy growth in the second quarter, but Apple's iPhone was squeezed by competition from Samsung and other Asian manufacturers, surveys showed Friday. Apple's share of the global smartphone market fell ...
Tags: Apple, Smartphone, Smartphone Market
Apple's share of the smartphone market dropped in the second quarter to its lowest level in three years, research firm Strategy Analytics said. The share of the iPhone slipped to 13.6 percent in the quarter from 16.6 percent in the same ...
Tags: Smartphone Market, Apple
Tech earnings this week highlighted the importance of mobile communications to IT, as companies including Apple, Samsung, Facebook, AT&T and Texas Instruments reported mixed results for the quarter ending in June. Apple and Samsung ...
Tags: Tech earnings, Samsung
After making scratchproof glass for smartphones and tablets in past years, Corning is now working on making its famous Gorilla Glass resistant to germs and glare as well, a tech site reported. Mashable said Corning is adding ...
Tags: Smartphone Glass, Glass
In a trading update for first-half 201, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says it expects first-half performance to be ahead of market expectations, with revenue approaching £63m, EBITDA (earnings ...
Tags: IQE, Electrical
Smartphones are set to become the main device for enterprise users in the future, taking over from desktops and laptops. That's the result of a recent Computing poll, which also placed wearable technology such as the imminent Google Glass ...
Tags: Smartphones, Wearables
Smartphone and tablet chip vendor MediaTek has unveiled an octo-core processor it says can run all eight cores simultaneously when active. The Taiwan-based company plans to launch the chip in the fourth quarter, MediaTek spokeswoman ...
Tags: 8-Core Chip, Mediatek, Smartphone
Strengthening its product portfolio further in India, ZTE Corporation has launched six new smartphone and four new data card devices for its Indian customers. Xu Dejun, CEO, ZTE India, said, "Each smartphone device has been introduced ...
Tags: Smartphone, Computer Products
RF Micro Devices, Inc. , a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, reported financial results for the Company's fiscal 2014 first quarter, ended June 29, 2013. Quarterly revenue increased ...
Tags: RF Micro Devices, Textile
Augmented reality, image recognition and other multimedia features could be standard in future smartphones and tablets, and Nvidia's upcoming Tegra 5 mobile chip will have features to handle such demanding graphics capabilities. Nvidia on ...
Tags: Nvidia, High-End Graphics, Tegra 5
SnoopWall has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.gov). This utility patent has been filed under the international patent countries treaty (PCT) for worldwide protection of the SnoopWall technology. ...
As the retail industry discusses the topic of tracking shoppers' location via WiFi signals on their smartphones, an independent study commissioned by Swirl reveals that women are willing to share personal information with retailers as long ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics