SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. has paid $3 billion to developers using its BREW platform, CEO Paul Jacobs told a crowd of about 3,000 during yesterday's keynote speech at the company's first Uplinq conference. That $3 billion amounts to an average selling price of...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' May Special Edition, "Enabling the Mobile Revolution – Mobile Chips, Devices and Accessories." The 80-page special edition is available here.Long Term Evolution or LTE, a next-generation 3G technology that uses ODFMA (Orthogonal Frequency...
Spectrum Bridge Inc. said it is working with a California utility to use white-spaces technology to deploy a smart-grid network in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and offer wireless broadband service to area residents.Spectrum Bridge is working with the Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative to manage...
Editor's Note:Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The Qualcomm Snapdragon platform continues to generate robust industry attention to accompany its steadily expanding customer...
WiMAX operator Clearwire Corp. said it plans to start offering laptops with embedded modems at Best Buy locations and online at bestbuy.com. The devices, which include chips from Intel Corp., include the Dell Inspiron 14, Dell Inspiron 15, Dell Mini 10 and Toshiba Satellite...
A revolution is afoot in the mobile industry. A revolution being led by device makers that finally appear to have all of the tools at their disposal to produce mobile devices that consumers not only want to buy, but in some cases, it appears...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Smartphone sales have been a high profit area for handset makers and wireless network operators, but like...
Capital Semiconductor Ltd. and InterDigital Inc. entered a strategic relationship for third-generation technology transfer and a mutually beneficial licensing agreement. The deal calls for InterDigital's SlimChip modem core to be integrated into CapiSemi's chips for 3G mobile devices.Indonesian operator XL...
HONOLULU – As WiMAX networks roll out across the globe, device manufacturers and operators are hoping to move beyond the dongle and computer modem to more innovative products, according to panelists at the Global WiMAX Business Development Forum. Even as Sprint Nextel Corp. gets...
In a first quarter earnings call, NVIDIA executives patted themselves on the back for achieving “a major milestone,” in terms of completing and qualifying the firm’s first commercially available smartphone and for making history by being “the first PC technology company […]to cross the chasm from computing to mobile computing.”
QuickPlay Media Inc.’s premium mobile TV service PrimeTime2Go is now available on Motorola Inc. Android-powered smart phones, said the company. The service allows customers to watch TV shows from major networks and cable providers on their phone. The service costs $10 per...
Mobile video optimization company Vantrix said it completed a $14 million series C investment round that was led by Tudor Ventures. Other investors in the round include Summerhill Venture Partners, JK&B Capital, BDC Venture Capital, Innovacom Venture Capital and Entrepia Ventures. The company said...
Mobile video optimization company Vantrix said it completed a $14 million series C investment round that was led by Tudor Ventures. Other investors in the round include Summerhill Venture Partners, JK&B Capital, BDC Venture Capital, Innovacom Venture Capital and Entrepia Ventures. The company said...
It's a good time to be a niche chip maker and Cavium Networks is spring boarding off its recent major growth spurt by releasing a new line of embedded multi core processors – the OCTEON II CN68XX line - for the next generation of routers, as Internet data skyrockets.
It's a good time to be a niche chip maker and Cavium Networks is spring boarding off its recent major growth spurt by releasing a new line of embedded multi core processors – the OCTEON II CN68XX line - for the next generation of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—“It’s not fair to call that a phone,” commented Craig Miller, VP of marketing and business development at chip maker Sequans, referring to the HTC EVO 4G WiMAX smartphone, set to be commercially introduced this summer by Sprint Nextel Corp. Miller ...
Speaking at the IEF conference in Germany’s the Technische Universitat in Dresden, Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone chair professor told his audience he believed 100 billion cellular devices would be connected using LTE in less than a decade.According to UK based site TechEye, Fettweis’ predictions depend...
Clearwire Corp. posted robust first quarter financial results highlighted by company record customer growth, but more importantly the company used its quarterly conference call to intriguing insight into its future network and device plans. Of significant importance was Clearwire’s statement that the...
The BWA auction that is scheduled to start two days after conclusion of the 3G auction under way in India, has sparked an intense debate over whether WiMAX or TD-LTE might be best positioned to serve the country's wireless broadband needs. At the center...
According to widespread reports, Research In Motion, maker of the famed Blackberry smartphone has decided to delay plans to introduce its own tablet.RIM's plans to delay its Blackberry branded tablet came to light after Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar told Thestreet.com that "everyone is...
Chip giant Intel Corp. yesterday announced a new version of its Atom processor platform – the 45nm Z6xx – which the company claims consumes so little power that it will push the company into the smartphone and tablet game. Critics, however, say the move is too little, far too late.
Chip giant Intel Corp. yesterday announced a new version of its Atom processor platform – the 45nm Z6xx – which the company claims consumes so little power that it will push the company into the smartphone and tablet game. Critics, however, say the move...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.For years, service providers have both discussed and offered triple-play and quad-play services as ways...
