Devices

The telecommunications industry saw a few employment changes this week, including talent being welcomed to the management team at Multi-Tech Systems, a chief executive office appointment at FiberLight and a new chief financial officer at Inmarsat.

Several companies, including LG, Nokia and Sony, have recently announced new smartphones and tablets.

Two leading makers of radio frequency solutions announced plans to merge operations in a deal expected to create a $2 billion powerhouse in the device RF space. RF Micro Devices (RFMD) and Triquint (TQNT) announced their merger yesterday at the …

Verizon received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a converged health management software platform.

Berg Insight reported that alarm systems and vehicle tracking applications have helped spur the market for wireless M2M modules in European nations.

Softbank, majority owner of Sprint, is moving $3 billion in annual revenue into Brightstar, its other major American holding. Brighstar is a leading distributor of mobile devices and components, and last year Softbank agreed to buy 57% of Brightstar for …

HTC says it will challenge industry standards by launching HTC Advantage, a program that allows customers in the United States to receive bonus assets after a smartphone purchase. Benefits of the HTC Advantage program will include one free cracked-screen replacement, …

Telecoms and government institutions frequently find their paths crossing one another, as a bevy of networking issues often requires the oversight or intervention of a federal institution. This week saw many such instances, ranging from federal officials investigating complaints lodged …

IBM and AT&T recently announced a global partnership to develop support systems and solutions for the Internet of Things.

Motorola Mobility’s red ink will soon be history, according to China’s Lenovo Group, which recently agreed to buy the struggling smartphone maker from Google for $2.9 billion. Today the company’s CEO told Bloomberg that it expects to achieve what Google …

HTC says lower-cost offerings will reverse its sliding smartphone market share. The Taiwanese company that once ranked as one of the top five smartphone makers now has less than 2% of the market, and sales have been on the decline …

Apple and Google are usually archrivals, but they agree wholeheartedly that patent lawsuits can be a waste of time and money. The two Silicon Valley leaders are joining forces in asking the Supreme Court to consider the impact of frivolous …

Visitors to the Winter Olympics in Sochi have been warned to exercise extreme caution with the use of their mobile devices.

Samsung Electronics America announced that beginning Feb. 13, U.S. customers will be able to purchase the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and the Tab Pro 10.1 and 8.4.

Apple said yesterday that it sold 51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2013, which is the company’s first fiscal quarter. Quarterly revenue was a record $57.6 billion, while net income was flat versus the …

A new report from JDSU examines data use across more than 150 devices as well as generational technologies, and has found that “use of mobile data and consumer behavior is becoming more extreme.” “For the past three years we’ve seen …

Samsung remains the world’s leading smartphone maker, but growth is slowing for the Korean industrial giant as its mobile unit finds itself pressured by Apple on the high end and by Chinese rivals on the lower end of the market. …

Analysts and executives identified a number of emerging device trends during RCR Wireless News’ Inside Devices program. Key takeaways include: growing demand for devices that can move from carrier to carrier, the emergence of very low-cost smartphone manufacturers, and carrier …

A new report from Actix found that different devices interact with wireless networks in different ways, resulting in the customers experience varying across a carrier’s handset portfolio. The report, which included information from more than 4.2 million data sessions, 85,452 …