A newly expanded experiment using mobile video to streamline care for tuberculosis patients has been shown to cut costs and benefit patients with better, more flexible treatment.
Developed by Dr. Richard Garfein at the University of California, San Diego, the solution involves using a smartphone...
Roughly 6 billion people have access to mobile communications, but fewer than half that number have access to the Internet. Leadering companies from across the mobile ecosystem have joined Facebook in an initiative called internet.org that aims to connect billions more to the Internet....
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Silicon Valley's Cavium is not as well-known as some of its larger rivals in chip design, but the company intends to have an impact in mobile, particularly in supplying chipsets for small cells. At London's Small Cell World Summit, Cavium demonstrated an LTE solution...
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) was created in 1971, and is the agency responsible for the regulation and licensing of almost 200,000 yellow medallion taxicabs and for-hire vehicles, their drivers, and the businesses that operate and support their industries. ...
The battle for KPN's German business is the latest wave in a flood of mergers and acquisitions in the European telecom sector. According to Dealogic, telecom was the most active sector for European M&A during the first half of the year, representing 18% of...
Android has 79% of the smartphone market according to the latest research from Gartner. The firm estimates that in the second quarter of this year, 178 million Android phones were sold to end users, out of a global total of 225 million smartphones. For...
A large, fixed wireless broadband network in several major metropolitan areas has been capitalizing on the flexibility and nimbleness of wireless as a supplement to fiber connectivity for enterprise.
Business Only Broadband, or BOB, acquired a network in 2006 that Chris Craven, COO of the...
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Silicon Valley's CEVA (CEVA) says that China's ZTE Corporation has licensed its CEVA-XC DSP to power its multi-mode base station system-on-chips.
Semiconductor companies designing DSPs (digital signal processors) for wireless base stations are increasingly focused on power management. CEVA said it has focused recent...
Is there money to be made in M2M? Clearly the answer is a resounding yes, given the dedicated corporate departments, products and solutions, business models and partnerships that carriers are committing to this space. Christian Solomine, GM of Digital Services for the...
Novatel Wireless, Inc. reported revenue up 6% and progress toward profitability, driven by machine-to-machine and mobile computing demand.
The company's revenues for the second quarter were $91.1 million, up from $85.9 million a year ago. Net loss was $7.9 million, less than the $9.1 million...
As mobile devices replace personal computers in many homes and workplaces, chip manufacturers are repositioning themselves to focus on wireless technologies. Intel is investing $2 billion in the first foundry built for the production of chips cut from 450mm wafers. The chip giant's goal...
Google is taking direct aim at Facebook and Twitter with its new MixBit video editing app for YouTube. According to The New York Times, MixBit will work the same way Twitter's Vine and Facebook's Instagram videos work, in that users will hold down their...
Qualcomm Atheros partners with Nokia for indoor maps
Qualcomm Atheros and Nokia are teaming up to combine Nokia's map data with Qualcomm's Wi-Fi solutions. Using Nokia's map data, Qualcomm says it will be able to provide location data that will be accurate within 3-5 meters....
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How many cores does a mobile processor need? While Samsung and ARM make a convincing case for the Galaxy S4's octo-core processor, other chipmakers are clearly implying that they think eight cores is not much more than a marketing ploy.
Qualcomm is the latest...
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Qualcomm (QCOM) beat Wall Street's expectations with its third quarter earnings report, and said future growth will be driven by smartphone adoption in emerging markets and by upgrades in the developed world. As the world's leading supplier of applications processors for smartphones, Qualcomm's growth...
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ABI Research says that business and residential femtocells will increase in unit volumes this year and next, due to demand driven by operators such as AT&T, Vodafone, Telefonica, Softbank and Sprint after "lackluster" years in 2011 and 2012.
ABI's latest forecast for the indoor small...
Slowing sales of smartphones and lower selling prices for low-end processors will depress growth rates for the makers of mobile processors during the remainder of this year, according to Strategy Analytics. The firm recently reported that the global smartphone applications processor market grew roughly...
Programmable technologies company Xilinx reported an "exceptional" quarter in which its gross margin was 69%, a new record for the company.
About 44% of Xilinx' revenues come from communications and data center products, with another 37% from industrial, aerospace and defense markets. Communications revenues were...
A Twitter user bemoans AT&T service. A Facebook user mentions wanting to switch from Sprint to Verizon Wireless. A forum poster asks for recommendations on a wireless carrier.
Tapping in to those social media conversations to communicate with customers directly and try to prevent churn...
