San Francisco based social gaming firm Zynga has snapped up Canadian app developer Five Mobile with plans to extend its reach beyond the confines of Facebook. Five Mobile’s team will be integrated into Zynga’s new Toronto office, which doubles as …
Motorola Xoom owners may be in for an updated Android treat, with rumors version 3.2 may be on its way to them very shortly. The Xoom, which was officially launched with version 3.0 back in March this year got its …
Recently, RCR caught up with Qualcomm in Taipei to take a look at the firm’s latest developer offerings and tasty treats to lure mobile engineers into the Qualcomm ecosystem.
Let it not be said that the RCR team is not dare deviling and adventurous, dear readers! This past week our team climbed the world’s fourth largest telecom tower – and the second tallest freestanding tower in the world – …
With all the buzz (pun intended) around Google+ and people vying for invites left right and center, Google has had to close the flood gates, for one night at least, as it attempts to keep up with the “insane” demand …
As markets go from 2G to 3G, smartphones are driving the need for in-building coverage and capacity. The smartphone craze has hyper accelerated the whole notion of consumerization of IT, whereby people have become ever more reliant on their devices …
SINGAPORE—This island nation may house the largest Distributed Antenna System in all of Asia, according to Consistel Founder and CEO Masoud Bassiri. The DAS network at the Marina Bay Sands, where CommunicAsia2011 is taking place this week, consists of 4,500 …
Chip firm Marvell has been dealt a significant blow after losing its lucrative BlackBerry contract to Texas Instruments.
Singapore may be home to the famous Singapore Sling cocktail, but when it comes to sling shots, no one does it better than Rovio’s Angry Birds.
RCR Wireless got a rare hands-on with Huawei’s 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb MediaPad, running on Qualcomm’s dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor.
SINGAPORE – Nokia Siemens Networks says it has given its Liquid Radio architecture a boost by launching a higher power radio module for its Flexi Multiradio Base Station family at CommunicAsia. In mobile networks, the radio module is the part …
Nokia will be debuting Angry Birds’ Mighty Eagle level clearer before rival Google’s Android will get its hands on it, RCR discovered on Monday.
NVIDIA’s Icera acquisition was not about integration was not about integrating baseband onto the processor chipbut about doubling the firm’s opportunity market wise, according to Mike Rayfield, the firm’s general manager of mobile. Speaking to RCR at Computex in Taipei, …
While Taiwan is clearly an important country to chip and device makers, US carriers look to the island for innovation too, with AT&T scouting the computex show in Taipei earlier this month for new phones to add to its network. …
While Taiwan is clearly an important country to chip and device makers, US carriers look to the island for innovation too, with AT&T scouting the computex show in Taipei earlier this month for new phones to add to its network. …
Microsoft’s business model for next generation Windows may be better suited to the mobile industry than Google’s strategy for Android, according to Glen Burchers, director of Freescale’s global consumer industrial segment marketing.
While antiquity is something many museums strive to preserve, there’s no reason to do so when it comes to guiding equipment, according to Irish startup ZolkC.
A clear trend for improved audio appears to be emerging in the mobile space, with a plethora of companies from chip makers to speaker manufacturers trying to bring their own brand of harmony to the handset. Is the smartphone space …
Samsung Electronics has chosen Cavium Networks’ (NASDAQ: CAVM) Octeon processors for its 3G/4G systems, according to the firm. Samsung has increasingly been dipping its toes into building out network solutions, and says it sees Octeon processors as “ideal” when it …
While Apple’s iPad might be fogging up everyone’s view, a smaller silicon valley firm by the name of Funambol has unveiled its own cloud-based digital locker by the name of MediaHub – accessible from any Internet connected device. Redwood City …
When the Vietnamese state owned telco Viettel officially became the majority owner of Haitian national telecommunication company TELECO, it likely had no idea what kind of trouble it was in for.
A new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. ad has tipped up on YouTube for the Galaxy S II dual-core smartphone, with the clear message that single core is for loser nerds, while the cool suave kids go for dual core.
RCR Unplugged has long reported the rumor that the iPad 3 will sport a 3D display, but our friends over at Netbook News seem to be one step closer to furnishing proof, offering an eye opening video from a recent …
Chinese firm Huawei offered the world a sneak peek at its upcoming MediaPad tablet, which the firm says is its “smartest, smallest and lightest tablet ever.” Releasing a video on YouTube, Huawei showed off the slick looking 7-inch device, though next …
The Mobile Entertainment Forum in Asia is hosting its annual board elections during Communicasia in Singapore next week, with hopes that some US based companies might be interested in running, to get their foot into Asia. The MEF, a global …
