Despite the usual industry hype over NFC (near field communication) at MWC this year, SAP's SVP of mobile solution management, Nick Brown, still believes the touch data technology is overhyped. "I think NFC is interesting, but it's just ...
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ARM's big.LITTLE processing combo, which pairs a Cortex A-15 with an A-7, has been adopted by five users - Renesas, Samsung, CSR, Fujitsu and MediaTek, ARM announced at MWC today. ARM says the technology saves up to 70% of processor ...
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A partnership between Austria-based semiconductor company ams and US start-up Mobeam is designed to make it possible for barcodes to be scanned from a mobile phone screen. The companies claim they have technology which will enable laser ...
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Huawei yesterday bolstered its worldwide consumer offerings with the introduction of the Ascend P2, which it dubbed the world’s fastest smartphone. The smartphone was announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the ...
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Samsung Canada today announced Samsung KNOX. Providing a unique and differentiated solution that allows consumers to use one device for both work and play, KNOX addresses the growing trend of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in Canadian ...
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BARCELONA -- Hewlett Packard on Sunday unveiled the HP Slate7, a 7-in. tablet that will go on sale in April in the U.S. starting at the bargain price of $169. The HP Slate7 is a 7-in. tablet that will go on sale in April for $169. ...
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Intel will start shipping its high-performance Atom smartphone chip with 3D transistors to device makers later this year, who will then test the chip for use in handsets. The Atom chip, code-named Merrifield, will improve performance and ...
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Helping IT shops deal with the security and management of consumer smartphones and tablets in the workplace will be a big theme at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week. Samsung and Red Bend Software jointly announced Monday that they ...
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Mobile phone operators will make more revenue from data use than voice calls by 2018, according to a new report from mobile operator body GSMA. The report comes as Mobile World Congress (MWC), The GSMA's annual mobile device convention, ...
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Mozilla has revealed that LG, ZTE, Huawei and TCL will all be producing handsets for its Firefox OS for mobiles. In an event at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, it also said that 18 operators, including Deutsche Telekom and ...
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Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg took centre stage as Mobile World Congress got underway this morning by serving the tradition of giving his telecoms predictions for the year ahead. Vestberg also presented a full picture of new products, ...
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Aeroflex says its 7100 digital radio test set now has support for carrier aggregation as used in wideband LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) mobile networks. Carrier aggregation allows multiple radio carriers to be added together, allowing wider ...
Rohde & Schwarz has tuned its mid-range measuring instruments to handle WLAN signals in line with IEEE 802.11ac. New options extend the baseband of the SMBV100A vector signal generator to 160MHz, supporting high-speed modes for WLAN IEEE ...
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ARM has signed 75 licenses for its Mali GPU which are now in 70% of graphics-enabled digital TVs, 50% of Android tablets and 20% of Android smartphones, said ARM at Mobile World Congress this morning. Mali GPU volumes have grown from less ...
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ST-Ericsson’s Thor M7450 LTE-Advanced modem, currently being sampled, uses a single radio for carrier aggregation. Called M7450, it supports all relevant 3GPP specified frequency bands having 10 flexible RF ports enabling 17 ...