Ubuntu demonstrated its Unity operating system on a Galaxy Nexus at CES 2013, and says the open source operating system will be available on other smartphones this year. Sandwiched between …
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs used his opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show to introduce the company’s newest flagship chipset. The Snapdragon 800 is the successor to the hugely popular …
Nvidia (NVDA) is kicking off its week at the Consumer Electronics Show with a claim that it has the world’s fastest mobile processor. The Tegra 4 combines a quad-core ARM …
40 billion apps, 7 billion dollars and a quarter of a million different apps for iOS — those are the numbers Apple is touting this week. The company says that …
Leap Wireless’ Cricket prepaid operations scored another LTE smartphone with the HTC One SV, scheduled to go on sale Jan. 16 for $350. HTC’s latest flagship phone joins the Samsung …
The world’s largest trade show gets underway next week in Las Vegas, and odds are that wireless technology will permeate everything from cars to cameras on the show floor. In …
2013 could be the year that enterprise apps come into their own. “Enterprise apps today are where consumer apps were three or four years ago,” explained Rajeev Chand of Rutberg …
Research In Motion is selling NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR) for about half of what it paid for the company 14 months ago. Synchronoss will buy the provider of cloud-based …
The Federal Communications Commission has approved the Pebble wristwatch, one of the most prominent products financed on Kickstarter. The Pebble watch uses Bluetooth to connect to smartphones running Apple’s iOS …
The semiconductor market is starting to recover, with smartphone silicon a key driver of growth. According to IDC’s Semiconductor Applications Forecaster, sales of chips for 4G smartphones will increase 140% …
Big data is nothing new for telecom operators, but monetizing it is emerging as a fresh opportunity. Integrating data from voice, data and video services across multiple geographies can be …
Samsung is asking the International Trade Commission to ban U.S. imports of wireless base stations and other telecom equipment manufactured by Ericsson. The Korean electronics giant is responding to a …
Ericsson says it will write down the value of its investment in ST-Ericsson by $1.2 billion, and that its third quarter earnings will be off by the same amount due …
Research In Motion lost less money than expected during the third quarter, but analysts were disappointed once they got a closer look at the company’s earnings report. RIM’s shares started …
Telecom infrastructure spending is projected to bounce back in the year ahead, with investment in North America and Asia driving growth. Infonetics Research is projecting worldwide growth of roughly 4%, …
Samsung is moving forward with plans to invest $3.9 billion in the Texas chip foundry that makes the processors for the iPhone, despite reports that it may be losing Apple’s …
As wireless service providers look for new revenue opportunities, the smart grids being planned by utilities in North America and Europe are receiving more and more attention. Not all power …
Three out of four smartphones shipped last quarter were running Google’s Android operating system, while just 15% ran Apple’s iOS, and yet Google has a problem: those 15% of smartphone …
Chipmakers on both sides of the Pacific are fighting hard for spots inside the millions of smartphones that are being designed, manufactured and sold within China. One of every three …
Saying that companies should compete in the marketplace rather than in court, Samsung today withdrew its requests for sales bans of some Apple (AAPL) products in Europe. The Korean giant …
While designers in Silicon Valley and Helsinki may spend months refining the fit and finish of a new smartphone, Chinese manufacturers are taking mobile devices from concept to consumer in …
Ruckus Wireless (RKUS) has made a name for itself promoting “Wi-Fi for everyone,” and now the newly public company is expanding to small cells with a product that enables carriers …
When British Telecom needed more bandwidth to support the data demands of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the company turned to its customers. Using software developed by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive unit, BT …
Software that can secure the myriad mobile devices coming into the workplace is getting a lot of attention from corporate IT departments, and solutions are coming from all parts of …
Microsoft (MSFT) says the public reaction to its new Surface tablet has been “exciting to see,” and now the world’s largest software company is putting its first tablet into retail …
